7B - Mrs. Yakawiak  byakawiak@stbenedictohio.com

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Students in seventh grade English have completed their long term project of a formal research paper.  They are continuing to practice writing with written responses to prompts and are reviewing grammar and punctuation skills.  Students are finalizing their observation journals, which were begun the beginning of the school year and are describing with their senses the changes they observe in the seasons.  What is loyalty? Seventh grade students are learning about just how important it is in Social Studies. Loyalty is the basis for the system of feudalism that would hold Europe together for the 1000 years following the fall of the Roman Empire. The Middle Ages are a time of immense social and political change, and the development of the modern nation state in Europe as we know it today.  The seventh graders have been finishing their Life Science unit by studying populations and communities in an ecosystem. They are beginning to build their own ecosystem/biome diorama in which they will be presenting to the class. They then will be combining their physical science knowledge with their artistic abilities by changing regular eggs into brightly, multi-colored crystallized ones. Just in time for Easter holiday!  In 7th grade math the students have worked on expressions, equations, and inequalities for some time. They have been reviewing many things as we prepare for testing including angles and triangles. We have spent some time reading the play, The Monster Are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling. When a sudden and inexplicable force causes everything to stop working on Maple Street, the people there begin to wonder who or what is responsible. As fear begins to invade each person’s mind, complications arise. Accusations and suspicions about one person, then another and another and another, finally lead to violence, and an innocent man is killed. As the teleplay closes we see that people have a tendency to allow suspicion, prejudice, conformity and the desire to blame a scapegoat to guide their actions when inexplicable or emotional situations arise.