Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of September 24-28
Announcements
Important Dates
- 28 - Homecoming - Early Release
Midterm Grades Update
Classroom Notes
ELA
We have enjoyed another week in ELA! We practiced the NWEA Test and then took it. We continued with Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie. We have continued to practice and review our power standards.
Week at a Glance:
Monday: Inferencing and Drawing Conclusions Lesson, Guided Reading
Tuesday: Practice Inferencing and Drawing Conclusions, Guided Reading
Wednesday: Practice Inferencing and Drawing Conclusion, Review for post-assessment
Thursday: Post-assessment, Introduce Close Read, Vocab. Practice
Friday: Homecoming House Day! Early Release
Learning Targets for the Week:
Continue with inferencing and drawing conclusions to prepare for post assessment, as well as prefixes, suffixes, and root words. (RI1A, RL1A, & RI1B)
Important Vocabulary:
Inference
Draw Conclusion
Prefix
Suffix
Root word
Power Standards for the Quarter:
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.
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.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative, connotative, and content-specific meanings using context, affixes, or reference materials.
Use a given process to create clear narrative, expository, and argument writing that is developed, and organized for the task; including style, voice, purpose, and audience.
Present in a clear and audible voice while remaining on-topic, focused, and maintain voice level and pace
VFW Essay Contest
Creative Affixes
NWEA Testing
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.
Learning Targets for the Week:
- I can determine if two quantities are proportional from a table of values, determine if two quantities are proportional from a context
- I can compute the constant of proportionality
- I can explain what a point (x,y) on the graph of a proportional relationship means.
Important Vocabulary: rate, unit rate, complex fraction, unit ratio, proportional relationship, constant of proportionality
Power Standards for the Quarter:
Recognize and represent proportional relationships between quantities 7.RP.A.2
Solve problems involving ratios rates, percentages, and proportional relationships 7.RP.A.3
Solve problems involving the four arithmetic operations with rational numbers 7.NS. A. 3
Independent Work
NWEA
Independent Work
Life Science
Week at a Glance:
This week we will continue learning about cell theory, and start learning about the 2 types of cells and the differences between them.
Learning Target for the Week:
I can identify the 3 parts of cell theory
I can compare and contrast the 2 types of cells
Important Vocabulary:
Cells
Prokaryote
Eukaryote
Nucleus
Archea
Bacteria
Eukarea
Power Standards for the Quarter (Objective Rubrics):
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
Announcements: Students are finished testing over objective one. Check SISK12 for an update on their grade in Social Studies.
Students will finish presenting their Native American artifacts this week. Check the FMS Facebook page for some pictures! Our next learning adventure will cover the European explorers. Students will be pre-testing and begin learning activities over this unit over the next couple of weeks.
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 -
Lara Brunk -