Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of December 14- December 18
Important Announcements
ELA
This week students will be finishing up with NWEA testing. Also, we have worked hard finishing our argumentative paragraphs. All work for this week can be found on Google Classroom. We look forward to finishing up this quarter strong.
Also, here is the unit site for students to practice the objectives. https://sites.google.com/fulton58.org/7thgradeela/unit-1
Week at a Glance:
Monday - “Is it Time” Inferencing
Tuesday - Inference Test
Wednesday - Prepare for Persuasive Speech
Thursday - Flipgrid Video (Share your Opinion)
Friday - Review Day
Learning Targets for the Week:
RL1A: (fiction) Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI1A: (non-fiction) Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Important Vocabulary:
Inference
Drawing conclusions
Text support
Affix
Prefix
Suffix
Root word
Presentation
Clarity
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO’s) for Unit 2:
RL1A: (fiction) Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RI1A: (non-fiction) Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Speaking & Listening: Present in a clear and audible voice while remaining on-topic, focused, and maintain voice level and pace
WR2A (Writing): Use a given process to create clear argument writing that is developed, and organized for the task; including style, voice, purpose, and audience
WR1A (Writing): Gather relevant information from multiple sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information.
Math
Daily Assignments:
Mon 12/14 Unit 5, Lesson 6 (Lesson Slides and Goformative. Goformative will be turned in.)
Tues 12/15 Unit 5, Lesson 7 (Lesson Slides and Goformative. Goformative will be turned in)
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Wed 12/16 Unit 5 Review (Lesson Slides and Goformative. Goformative will be turned in.)
Thurs 12/17 Unit 5 Test on Goformative (Goformative will be turned in.)
Fri 12/18 Cumulative Review over Units 1-5.
Week at a Glance:
This week, students will continue adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing positive and negative numbers in Unit 5: Rational Numbers. Important vocabulary words and sample problems are available in the Family Newsletter from Open Up Resources.
Students should be using Edmentum ExactPath for 15 minutes per day in math. Please check out this resource for more about Edmentum.
Students who do not have a 3 for one of the units can continue using the Retake Agenda to practice their skills.
Important Vocabulary:
vertical, elevation, absolute value, expression, deposit/withdrawal, difference, factor, rational number, variable, additive inverse, multiplicative inverse
Goformative Feedback over Percentages
Solving Percent Problems with Ratio Tables
Solving Percent Problems
Life Science
Week at a Glance:
This week, we will focus on food webs and food chains. We will end the week by transferring that information to energy pyramids.
Monday/Tuesday: Energy Pyramid Sort + Daily Warm Up
Wednesday/Thursday: Energy Pyramid Virtual Lab + Daily Warm Up
*you can find these virtual assignments in Google Classroom
I can diagram the flow of energy through living systems using an energy pyramid.
Key Vocabulary
- Food Chains
- Food Webs
- Producer
- Primary Consumer
- Organism
- Herbivore
- Carnivore
- Omnivore
- Flow of Energy
- Secondary Consumer
- Tertiary Consumer
- Decomposer
- Scavenger
- Photosynthesis
- Joule
Ms. Dollens: ddollens@fulton58.org
Mrs. Jacobs: cjacobs@fulton58.org
Social Studies
Week at a Glance:
Unit 3: Colonial America
Monday/Tuesday: The Lost Colony of Roanoke - Assignment: Edpuzzle
Wednesday/Thursday: Geography of the Colonies - Assignment: Students will examine 3 pictures and answer the question, "which region would you want to live in and why?".
Friday: Review
Learning Target for the Week:
Compare the People who settled in all three regions and their reason for coming to America.
Key Terms & Events:
Key people: Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, indentured servants, slaves, debtors,
Key terms: joint-stock company, charter, headright, self-governing, dissent, persecuted, tolerance, economy, mercantilism, cash crops
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Heather Yates - hyates@fulton58.org
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org
Christopher Crowson - ccrowson@fulton58.org
Elizabeth Windmann - ewindmann@fulton58.org