Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of Oct 29 - Nov 2
Announcements
Important Dates
26 - No School
November
7 - P/T Conferences
14 - P/T Conferences
18 - Midquarter grades
20 - House Day
21-25 Thanksgiving Break
Classroom Notes
ELA
We have had a very productive week in ELA! We finished “The Tell Tale Heart” shared reading, introduced our media techniques, and continued to practice with our literary techniques. Next week, we look forward to diving deeper into our “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” shared reading!
Week at a Glance:
Monday - Continue Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Writing session #3, guided reading
Tuesday - Continue Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Finish writing session #3
Wednesday - Continue Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Writing session #4, guided reading
Thursday - Finish Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Finish writing session #4, post-assessment: RL3A
Friday - Introduction to close read, Writing session #5
Learning Targets for the Week:
RL3A: Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing how the techniques unique to each medium contribute to meaning.
Important Vocabulary:
literary devices or techniques
narrative
Special effects
Actors/Actresses
Scenes/Pictures
Setting/Set
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Symbolism
Power Standards for the Quarter: ***If you click on this title, it is linked to the 7th grade ELA objectives in your eBinder.
RL3A: Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing how the techniques unique to each medium contribute to meaning.
RI2A: Analyze how a text’s organization or overall structure contributes to meaning
Writing: Use a given process to create clear narrative writing that is developed, and organized for the task; including style, voice, purpose, and audience.
Speaking and Listening: Present in a clear and audible voice while remaining on-topic, focused, and maintain voice level and pace.
Sorting Time!
Rate that Example!
Collaboration
Math
Announcements: To see what we are doing in class, ask your child to show you their daily agenda on the Hyperdoc attached to Google Classroom. Here you can see the agenda as it is updated daily to reflect what students are doing each day. Our objective rubrics for the first quarter are linked to the Power Standards below. Additional notes for conversions and proportions are also available on Google Classroom.
Learning Targets for the Week:
- I can solve problems involving percent of change, sales tax, tips, markups, discounts, and simple interest.
Important Vocabulary: ratio, percent, simple interest, tax, markup, percent error
Power Standards for the Quarter:
Solve problems involving ratios rates, percentages, and proportional relationships 7.RP.A.3
Workin' Hard in AC Lab
Students Using HyperDoc
Prodigy!
Life Science
Week at a Glance:
We will begin the week with a "Spirit Animal" project to finish up our unicellular and multicellular ELO. By the end of the week, we will explore the functions of organelles in eukaryotic cells.
Learning Target for the Week:
I can identify the different organelles in a eukaryotic cell and begin to describe their functions.
Important Vocabulary:
Cells
Prokaryote
Eukaryote
Nucleus
Archea
Bacteria
Eubacteria
Archaeabacteria
Eukarya
Protists
Animalia
Plantae
Organelles
Power Standards for the Quarter:
Provide evidence that living things are made up of one or many varied cells
Explain that cells must carry out all of the basic functions of life. Understand the functions of the nucleus, chloroplasts, mitochondria, cell membrane, and cell wall and all organelles work together to make a cell function.
Use evidence to argue that multicellular organisms are organized by varying levels of complexity.
Describe the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of matter and flow of energy in and out of organisms
Social Studies
Week at a Glance:
This week we learned more about explorers from Spain, France, Portugal and England focusing on their feats and failures, and comparing their motivations for traveling to the new world. We also spent time learning more about the relationships the French built with the natives through fur trading. Next week we will beging to prepare for our Unit 2 assessment by focusing on how to write persuasively and using the facts that we've learned to support our claims.
Learning Target for the Week:
- Compare the reasons Europeans wanted to explore and settle in the New World and how they affected the Native American population in their area.
Vocabulary: Key Terms:
Columbian Exchange, slavery, colony, missionaries, domesticate, convert, conquistadors,
fur traders, profit, impact
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Heather Yates - hyates@fulton58.org
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org