7TH GRADE NEWSLETTER
December 7, 2018
LANGUAGE ARTS
Students are finishing the whole class novel The Outsiders and beginning the end of unit project. Students have two options for the project. One, they will choose a character from the book to analyze and represent through a chosen creative piece. Two, students may come together to create a solution for issues of violence in their community.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We have just begun a mini unit to review major religions, such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This will take us up to winter break. These concepts will be important in our future study of Africa, the Middle Ages and the Reformation.
SCIENCE
We are starting our unit on the history of the Earth. We will be looking at when different organisms existed in the past in various periods and eras. We will be practicing reading different diagrams about the past and how things changed.
ADVANCED SCIENCE
We are continuing our work through ecosystems and how organisms have many different interactions within an ecosystem. This week, we will be working on a Claim, Evidence, Reasoning assessment where students will have to make a claim and then support their claim with data. s.
MATH
We are working hard on the very challenging concept of one and two step equations. You all remember asking yourself, “Why are we adding letters into math?!”
ADVANCED MATH
We are cruising right along with transformations. Reflection, rotation, translation...I am sure there is a School House Rock song that I should be playing in class. :)
McKinley Middle School
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Website: http://mckinley.cr.k12.ia.us/
Location: 620 10th Street SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
Phone: 319-558-2348
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