Stuck in the Middle
FMS 7th Grade Newsletter: Week of April 8-12
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Classroom Notes
ELA
We have had a great week back at school! The week included trips to the book fair, reviewing and retesting over our most recent post-test, digging into a close read, and participating in a Socratic Seminar. Next week we will prepare for MAP testing, start learning about an author’s argument, and begin our next paper.
Week at a Glance:
Monday - MAP Prep, Introduce author’s argument
Tuesday - MAP Testing, ELA activities
Wednesday - MAP Testing, ELA activities
Thursday - MAP Testing, ELA activities
Friday - Writing Session One, Continue author’s argument
Learning Targets for the Week:
R.I.2D Evaluate an author's argument, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
W.2.A.c: Develop argumentative writing by introducing and supporting a claim with clear reasons and relevant evidence, acknowledging counterclaims, and establishing relationships between claims and supporting evidence.
Important Vocabulary:
Analyze
Determine
Argument
Reasoning
Gather evidence
Craft argumentative writing
Paraphrasing vs. Quoting
Power Standards for the Quarter: ***If you click on this title, it is linked to the 7th grade ELA objectives in your eBinder.
R.I.2D Evaluate an author's argument, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
RL.1.B.: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings using context affixes, or reference materials.
SL.1.C.: Acknowledge new information expressed by others including those presented in diverse media and, when warranted, modify their own views.
W.2.A.c: Develop argumentative writing by introducing and supporting a claim with clear reasons and relevant evidence, acknowledging counterclaims, and establishing relationships between claims and supporting evidence.
W3.A: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
What is
persuasive
writing?
Math
Announcements:
Our Level up Hyperdocs can be used to help your student know what to practice at home to improve their math grade for Objective 4: Expressions and Objective 5:Equations.
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 quarter are linked to the Power Standards below.
Learning Targets for the Week:
I can find unknown angle measures by reasoning about adjacent angles with known measures.
I can recognize when an angle measures 90∘, 180∘, or 360∘.
Important Vocabulary: adjacent angles, supplementary angles, complementary angles
Power Standards for the Quarter:
7.EEI.B.4: Write and/or solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable
7.GM.B.5: Use angle properties to write and solve equations for an unknown angle
Pattern Blocks
Pattern Blocks
Pattern Blocks
Life Science
Week at a Glance:
This week we will finish up our frog dissections and discuss our findings!
Learning Target for the Week:
I can identify the main functions of the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, nervous, and muscular systems and how it is structured.
I can identify the main organs in the cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, nervous, and muscular systems.
Important Vocabulary
- Cardiovascular System
- Respiratory System
- Digestive System
- Nervous System
- Muscular System
- Understand and define each of the body systems and explain how they interact to keep us alive.
Social Studies
Week at a Glance:
This week we focused on how information can be bias. We learned through studying the Boston Massacre that sometimes stories don't always match up because people want to sway your opinion. We also found that history can be distorted through bias and it is important to look at multiple accounts of an event. Next week, we will learn how protests can have a social, economic and political impact on society.
Learning Target for the Week:
Students will trace the events that lead to the American revolution from a Patriot (or Colonists) and Loyalists (or British Government) point of view.
Vocabulary: rebel, revolution, Patriot, Loyalist, representation, authority, Sons of Liberty, liberty, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington and Concord
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Heather Yates - hyates@fulton58.org
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org