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7th Grade Geese Team
1st Quarter
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English Language Arts: Reed |
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Week of
October 29th:
Students will do
vocabulary at the beginning of each core with the culmination of a test on
Friday. In grammar, students will begin work on the verb and its tenses.
They will also learn about regular and irregular verbs. In literature,
students will be learning the skill of making predictions and continue their
work with character traits. The short story featured this week is "Seventh
Grade" by Gary Soto.
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| Week of November 5th: |
| Students are working on
the novel Journey to Jo'burg. There are nightly readings,
vocabulary, and discussion in class. |
| Week of November 12th: |
| Journey to Jo''Jurg
continues this week. Students have completed the reading of the book
and the written questions. For their end projects and test grades
students will be choosing five characters to complete
Character Trading Cards. The Character Trading Cards include an
illustration that reflects the character's personality, their name,
gender, age, physical description, relationship to the other
characters, personality traits, how their character traits have
changed from the beginning of the book to the end o f the book.
Their last statistic is to explain the significance of the character
to the book. |
| Week of November 19th: |
| Students will be studying
"who reads the writing tests?" and how important it is to make the
author want interested in the writing. In addition we will
demonstrate how verbs make strong engines. |
| Week of November 26th: |
| Students will being
writing for the problem solution paper. They will be introduced to
unique sentences which will led to creative text structures.
Students will make a "social security" card for support and
elaboration to ensure that their writing includes enough detail for
the state test. |
| Week of December 3rd: |
| Transitions will be added
during this week to help students papers read more smoothly and to
help build bridges to the reader's mind. It is the hope of our time
that our students will not just become proficient writers, but
writers that carry their own voice and humor. |
| Week of December 10th: |
| Students will continue to
use thinking maps and the kinesthetic movements to help them
remember the organization patterns they have learned. As a class
we will continue with the parts of speech and continue to stress the
use of strong, precise verbs and words. At this point , the use of
sentence combining will help students vary their sentence
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| Week of December 17th: |
| Using the different
versions of Cinderella, students will have to evaluation which of
the fairy god persons gives the best advice. After making that
choice, student s will be writing advice columns to the questions to
that character from the book send into the. |
| Week of December 24th: |
| Students will learn about
counter argument and will be given advertisements in which they will
have to produce counterargument. They will then use ii in a given
prompt. |
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General Math: Baker |
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Week of
October 29th:
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Students will write and simplify expressions
by combining like terms.
Wednesday is an Early Release Day.
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| Week of November 5th: |
| Students will review for a
test on Patterns, exponents, writing and simplifying expressions
with a Jeopardy game on Monday and a practice test on Tuesday. The
test is on Wednesday. Students will reinforce concepts of
integers and combining like terms by completing a RAFT activity.
We will begin balancing addition equations on Friday. |
| Week of November 12th: |
| Monday is Veteran's Day
Holiday. Students will solve
multiplication and division equations. Students will practice
balancing equations by simplifying and solving multi-step equations. |
| Week of November 19th: |
| Test on Tuesday. Wednesday
is EARLY RELEASE. Happy
Thanksgiving! |
| Week of November 26th: |
| Students will solve and graph
inequalities . Students will use equations, tables and graphs to
represent functions. |
| Week of December 3rd: |
| We will continue our study of
functions and inequalities. Test on Friday. |
| Week of December 10th: |
| We will use this week as a
review of all concepts completed so far: Graphs and statistics,
Integers, Expressions, Equations, Inequalities, Functions, Decimals,
Fractions, and Measurement. |
| Week of December 17th: |
| Early Release December
19th. Merry Christmas! |
| Week of December 24th: |
| Christmas Break |
| Week of December 31st: |
| School resumes January
3rd. |
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Pre-Algebra: Baker |
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Week of
October 29th:
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Students will write and
simplify expressions and solve addition and subtraction equations.
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| Week of November 5th: |
| Students will solve
multiplication and division equations. Students will practice
balancing equations by simplifying and solving multi-step equations. |
| Week of November 12th: |
| Monday is Veteran's Day
Holiday. Students will solve inequalities and review for a
test on order of operations, writing and simplifying expressions,
solving equations and inequalities. |
| Week of November 19th: |
| Test on Tuesday. Happy
Thanksgiving! |
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Science: Ross |
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Week of
October 29th:
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This week, students will
evaluate their hurricane presentations, learn how to determine heat index
and wind chill and learn how tornadoes, thunderstorms, lightning and thunder
are produced.
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| Week of November 5th: |
| This week student will being a study of
climates. Student will learn how elevation, latitude, and
proximity to large bodies of water influence climate. Part of
this study will include using a database of climate data. |
| Week of November 12th: |
| This wee students will
complete their study of climate and learn about biomes. Part
of the study of biomes is how organisms have adaptations which help
them to survive in their environment and how an adaptation which is
helpful in one environment is detrimental in a different
environment. |
| Week of November 19th: |
| Students will finish their
study of climate. Part of this study will be making trading of
the three climate zones. |
| Week of November 26th: |
| Students will begin a
study of motion and forces this week. Specifically, this week
examine matter and motion. This week will focus on average
speed. Students will do a lab activity Tuesday, Wednesday and
Friday dealing with average speed. |
| Week of December 3rd: |
| Students will continue
their study of matter in motion this week. The focus this will
acceleration. Students will do several lab activities dealing
with acceleration. |
| Week of December 10th: |
| This week students will
continue their study of matter in motion. This week students
will learn about Newton's laws of motion and do lab activities to
investigate inertia, applied and resistance forces and static and
kinetic friction. |
| Week of December 17th: |
| Planning guide can seen on
Mr. Ross' class web. Link to Mr. Ross'
Newport Middle School Class Website |
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| Newport Middle School
Class Website |
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Social Studies: Swinger |
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Week of
October 29th:
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Ch. 4-Exploring North
Africa; Islam in Africa
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English
Language Arts: Flake
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Week of
October 29th:
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Homework every
night-complete reading log
Vocabulary for the
week: authority, aware, baffle,
bigoted, blend, boast, bountiful, brilliant, capillary,
career, cargo,
catastrophe
This week we focus on
grammar and work on our writing skills.
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Social
Studies: Flake
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Week of
October 29th:
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Using
World Geography and You, The Republic of South
Africa; Reading a Population Map
Appreciating
Freedom: An End to Apartheid in South Africa; Read The Day GIGO Went to Vote and discuss Nelson Mandela
Review and Test Central
and Southern Africa
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