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ENGLISH
The students continue grammar practice in Unit 8 as they create sentences with compound subjects and compound predicates. They will also use a variety of both simple and compound sentences in their writing, while identifying run-on sentences that need to be corrected.
The focus of 7th grade writing this month will be the short story genre. Students will move through the writing process as they complete their first short story. Last month we spent time gathering our seed ideas and using flipbooks and characterization and setting notes to live in our seed idea. Lessons on revision and editing will help the students improve their first drafts and prepare for publishing their final drafts.
LITERATURE
A Book Summary is required for the first trimester. These novels chosen by the students should reflect well-developed characters, plot structure, conflict, and themes. Guidelines with questions to answer will be made available in the 7th grade documents. The Book Summary is due on November 17th. Digital Literacy and Internet Safety are topics that are important among this generation of learners. We will spend two weeks discussing issues related to technology use, such as internet privacy, cyberbullying, the impact of technology on education, and audience consideration in electronic messages.
Our class will also be reading together some selected short stories from the Literature textbook to emphasize the literary elements of setting and conflict. “Leah and Suzy” is a short story written as a collection of diary entries by two girls set in a post-WWII refugee camp in upstate New York. “A Day’s Wait” by Ernest Hemingway explores the internal conflict of a boy’s struggle with his own fears.
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Classroom Downloads Social Studies
Following the fall of the Western Roman Empire to Germanic invaders in 476, political authority in Western Europe became decentralized. New forms of society and government developed which were based on agricultural economy and on personal loyalty between certain classes of society. This new social structure was called feudalism. This month students will study changes in society that formed the link from the ancient world to the modern world and that led to the development in art, education, politics, and religion.
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Seventh Grade News: Religion
 Praying our experiences and inviting Jesus into them is a great source of strength and healing. The students will be introduced to contemplative meditation and the importance of trust in the journey of faith. They will come to know the ways that Mary prayed and deepen their appreciation for her intercession as we celebrate the month of the Holy Rosary in October.
In Chapter 3, the students will learn how the Gospels came to be written. They will study the characteristics of each Gospel and become more familiar with all the books of Christian Scriptures. They will recognize the Bible’s importance in coming to know Jesus better.
MATH & SCIENCE
The 7th grade will introduced to the concepts of inequalities and will make the connections to the past chapter of multiple-stepped equations. They will develop the skill of graphing these problems on multiple forms of graphs and understand how a problem can have a large solution set rather than one definite answer. In Science, they will be taking an in-depth look at the stages of cell division and will learn about mitosis and meiosis. They will understand how cells duplicate their organelles in the division process and eventually multiply to allow an organism to grow and develop. |
