Welcome to my website.  I hope you will use this site frequently to keep up with what we are doing in class, whether it be World Geography, Math 7, or both.    

     This year in World Geography (WG) we will travel around the world and learn about the Earth from a regional perspective, focusing on the continents.  We will study contemporary places and regions to identify how the experiences of people are rooted in places and organized into geographic regions, about Earth’s physical conditions, and how these features interact with Earth’s other living features. We will also focus on human systems and the sum of human activities and characteristics (e.g., culture, ethnicity, gender, language, population, religion) that vary across the Earth’s surface. These systems also include the spatial distribution of population and movement, settlement patterns, economic systems, and political systems.

     In Math 7, we will focus on four critical areas: (1) developing an understanding of and applying proportional relationships; (2) developing an understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; (3) solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, and working with two- and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area, and volume; and (4) drawing inferences about populations based on samples.

     I look forward to working with parents and students this year. Parent involvement is very important to the success of the student. I look forward to working with each of you to help your son/daughter have the best, most successful, learning year.