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7th Grade News
In English, the seventh graders are continuing to read A Way of Her Own and are learning how to respond in writing to a short answer question. Congratulations are in order for thirteen students, who will have their poems published. They wrote poems based on their three favorite colors. This contest was sponsored by Poetic Power.
In third quarter, students will begin learning how to write a MLA style research paper based on a champion of the wilderness like John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Theodore Roosevelt, among others. Students will learn to write bibliography cards, notecards, an abstract, an outline, a works cited page, as well as how to create parenthetical citations for the text. This will continue throughout third quarter.
Is salt more valuable than gold? In the West African trading societies of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, surprisingly the answer is yes. In Social Studies, our students have been working on essays that ask them to describe and evaluate a unique trading system that developed, the silent barter. This uniquely West African system, dictated West African trade for nearly 400 years and allowed these great societies to flourish.
Our seventh graders have been embarking on a mission through space by learning about the Earth, Moon, and Sun. They also have been studying how the tilt and orbit of the Earth causes our four distinct seasons. They also have been given a moon chart and have been tracking and drawing the phases of the moon on it each evening. We are also planning in the very near future to do some nighttime star gazing with our high powered telescope.
In Math the 7th grade is working with proportions. We are learning about the constant of proportionality and working with the equations and graphs that relate to them.
The students have been working on five winter-themed learning centers in Reading that they rotate through in small groups. Each learning center (or station) is designed to give students engaging and exciting learning experiences to practice, enrich, reteach, and enhance their learning. Students visit each center with a small group and complete tasks and assignments. Students create an interactive flip book to showcase their learning. In addition, they’ll “build” a snowman while their progress through the stations. Working both independently and with their small groups, students have multiple opportunities to develop their reading comprehension skills and learn about the winter season. Students are practicing the following reading skills: Cause and Effect, Summarizing, Context Clues, Point of View, and Finding the Main Idea.