GKMS 7th Grade Weekly Newsletter
Week of October 21st, 2019
Important Dates/Things to Know:
- October 24th - Report Cards Sent Home
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READING
This week, students will participate in anticipatory activities before we begin reading our novel, The Outsiders at the end of the week.
LANGUAGE ARTS
We will be reviewing the different types of figurative language and creating a foldable with examples.
MATH
Course 2 students will be focused on financial literacy with an emphasis on sales tax, tips, markup, discount, and simple interest.
Accelerated 7 students will be completing the Chapter on Rational Numbers. We will have a Boss Battle (review) on Thursday before taking our CSA (test) on Friday.
SOCIAL STUDIES
In Social Studies this week, we will be continuing to learn about the colonies. We will finish our travel brochures from last week about the colonial regions. We will begin learning about similarities and differences between specific colonies at the end of the week.
SCIENCE
We will be finishing up our living systems unit this week with our final summative assessment Thursday, October 24. Study guides will be given out in class Monday. Additional study materials will be posted on Google Classroom. The next several weeks students will be learning about proper terminology and procedures needed for creating/carrying out investigations.