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7th grade Quarter 1 Academic Newsletter
Dear Families:
At the beginning of every quarter, we will create a newsletter that outlines
the academic topics and concepts to be learned for the following quarter.
Develop and use questions on their interests and/or needs that help them learn about new things.
Make predictions to help them understand and make sense as they read.
Use clues and background knowledge to help them understand what they read.
Take a text apart and study texts in detail to help improve their understanding and make meaning from what they read.
Combine ideas and pull together ideas and information from the text to support their understanding of what they have read.
Study different versions of the same text/story to help them understand and make meaning from what I have read
Identify the theme(s) of a text and how it develops as they read a text.
Summarize the main idea(s) from a text using key details and information that does not include opinions or judgment.
Use context clues to determine meanings of words and phrases in text.
Identify jargon in text.
Develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences when writing.
Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context, a point of view, and by introducing a narrator and/or characters when writing.
Use dialogue, pacing, and manipulation of time to develop experiences, events, and/or characters when writing.
Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another when writing.
Use imagery, precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events and develop characters when writing.
Describe the function of phrases and clauses in specific sentences.
Use simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences when appropriate to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Correct misplaced and dangling modifiers/
Prepare for and engage in conversations to explore complex concepts, ideas, and texts.
Social Studies: In Quarter 1, students will
develop reasons for why something is located in a particular place.
explain how humans are connected to nonliving and other living things on Earth.
describe how places change over time.
explain how civics and economics are connected to geographic questions.
identify, use, interpret, and construct maps.
identify, use, interpret, and construct basic geographic models and other visual representations.
identify, use, and interpret different forms of evidence.
identify and compare the development of conditions, connections, and regions.
identify spatial hierarchies, spatial distributions, patterns, and associations.
ask and answer a geographic question.
acquire and organize geographic information.
identify landform patterns and explain how these patterns influence human activities.
identify climate patterns and explain how these patterns influence human activities.
identify vegetation patterns and explain how these patterns influence human activities.
Science: In Quarter 1, students will
Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the proportional relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
Develop a model to describe that when the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system
Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
Develop a model to describe how food molecules in plants and animals are rearranged through chemical reactions forming new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
In General Math, students will:
learn to understand and use the terms “scaled copy,” “to scale,” “scale factor,” “scale drawing,” and “scale.”
recognize when two pictures or plane figures are or are not scaled copies of each other.
learn that if the scale factor is greater than 1, the copy will be larger, and if the scale factor is less than 1, the copy will be smaller.
use tables to reason about measurements in scaled copies.
recognize that angle measures are preserved in scaled copies, but lengths are scaled by a scale factor and areas by the square of the scale factor.
make, interpret, and reason about scale drawings, including maps and floor plans that have scales with and without units.
study scaled copies of pictures and plane figures, then apply what they have learned to scale drawings, e.g., maps and floor plans.
develop the idea of a proportional relationship out of the grade 6 idea of equivalent ratios.
build on equivalent ratios and their relationship with unit rates (presented in 6th grade unit 3 ),
be introduced to the concept of proportional relationships.
compare rates and consider how each of the representations would change if the independent and dependent variables were switched.
understand that a proportional relationship can be represented by an equation of the form y = kx where k is the constant of proportionality.
understand and use the terms “proportional,” “constant of proportionality,” and “proportional relationship.”
recognize when a relationship is or is not proportional.
represent proportional relationships with tables, equations, and graphs.
use these terms and representations in reasoning about situations that involve constant speed, unit pricing, and measurement conversions.
In Honors Math, students will:
interpret signed numbers in contexts (e.g., temperature, elevation, deposit and withdrawal, position, direction, speed and velocity, percent change) together with their sums, differences, products, and quotients.
use tables and number line diagrams to represent sums and differences of signed numbers or changes in quantities represented by signed numbers
compute sums and differences of signed numbers.
plot points in the plane with signed number coordinates, representing and interpreting sums and differences of coordinates.
view situations in which objects are traveling at constant speed as proportional relationships.
use multiplication equations to represent changes in position on number line diagrams or distance traveled, and interpret positive and negative velocities in context.
solve equations of the forms px + q = r and p(x + q) = r where p ,q , and r are rational numbers.
draw, interpret, and write equations in one variable for balanced “hanger diagrams,”
write expressions for sequences of instructions, e.g., “number puzzles.”
use tape diagrams together with equations to represent situations with one unknown quantity.
learn algebraic methods for solving equations.
solve linear inequalities in one variable and represent their solutions on the number line.
understand and use the terms “less than or equal to” and “greater than or equal to,” and the corresponding symbols.
generate expressions that are equivalent to a given numerical or linear expression.
formulate and solve linear equations and inequalities that represent real-world situations.
Questions? Please contact your child's teacher(s) or the instructional coach, Sonja Raines at sonja_raines@charleston.k12.sc.us or 843-406-2105.
7TH GRADE TEACHERS
Core Subjects:
Ms: Yarborough: Social Studies and grade level chair
Ms. Parkmans: Social Studies
Mrs. Fryga: Social Studies and English Language Arts (ELA)
Ms. Napier : ELA (English Language Arts)
Ms. Lawrence: ELA (English Language Arts)
Ms. Griggs: Math
Ms. Shattles: Math
Mr. Broderick: Math and Science
Mr. Stanford: Science
Ms. Edwards: Science
Special Education Teachers:
Ms. Vicary
Mrs. Smoak
Ms. Blakely
Mrs. Billings
Mr. Stoyles
Intervention:
Mrs. Johnson: Reading
Mrs. Greene-Cummings: Math
Ms. Bagley: Academics/Organization
Related Arts:
PE/Health: Coach Duffy and Coach Siegel
Art: Mr. Brown
PLTW: Ms. Israel
Fundamentals of Computing Part 1 and II: Ms. Fissel
Digital Literacy: Mr. Hastings
Journalism: Mr. Carney
French: Mrs. Ready
Spanish: Mrs. Spain
Band: Ms. Spitzer
Strings: Ms. Lynch
Chorus: Mrs. Downs
Support:
Media Specialist: Mrs. Bouton
Media Clerk: Ms. Bailey
Guidance Counselor: Mrs. Stonecypher
Administrator: Ms. Latto
Important Dates to Remember in Quarter 1
Wednesday, August 31st: MAP Math testing
Thursday, September 1st: MAP ELA testing
Monday, September 5th: NO SCHOOL
Thursday, September 8th: Open House at 6:00 pm
Friday, September 23rd: Early Release at 1:30 pm (Teacher Workday)
Friday, October 7th: Early Release at 1:30 pm (Teacher Workday)
Wednesday, October 19th: End of 1st Quarter
Thursday, October 20th: Half day at 11:30; Clean Agenda Celebration
Friday, October 21st: NO SCHOOL Parent/Teacher Data Conferences