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October News for 7 th Grade
Students in grade seven English have been learning how to use their senses when writing descriptions. They have written descriptive compositions using their senses. This composition was based on their observation journals, and the students have done a great job. We also have been reviewing sentence structure and the writing process. Students are in the process of writing an original poem that describes three of their favorite or least favorite colors. Currently, we are reviewing the characteristics of a narrative and students will be involved with a number of activities based on the narrative of Thoreau’s journal entry about his father’s lost pig. Students will also have a few narratives to compose. A highlight was when American author Henry David Thoreau came as the substitute teacher for Mrs. Przybojewski. Students enjoyed learning about his life as they prepare to read his journal entry.
In social studies the students are wrapping their study of Ancient Greece. They have learned much about the history and how it has affected our own society today. We can thank the Ancient Greeks for gifting us many wonderful things like, art, poetry and even democracy. A favorite activity was the reenactment of the Battle of Thermopylae made famous by the movie 300. We are eager to begin our new unit on Rome and learn even more about classical history.
The seventh grade is finishing up a section in Math that includes combining like terms, factoring and the distributive property. We will be doing a chapter on scale drawings that will be hands on next.
When you feel growing tension and excitement as you read that feeling is called suspense. Sometimes writers build suspense using foreshadowing, hints or clues about events that will happen later as the plot develops. As the seventh grade students read the short story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” they noticed how the author built suspense and used foreshadowing to make them want to keep reading. We are preparing to move into a narrative nonfiction story about the Titanic next. Narrative nonfiction uses literary elements that we have been studying such as plot, setting, and conflict to tell a story.
In Religion we have been focused on how God lived as a real man named Jesus, who learned things, made decisions, suffered, and died. But Jesus, who is God, is perfect and has no evil in him. Jesus never committed sin. Instead, he gave us a model for living. There are many ways to show love and friendship with Jesus. The most important, though, is to love one another as he loves us.