• 7th grade ELA is wrapping up Unit 3 on Drama and finishing reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  Students will be drafting an argumentative paragraph and writing it as a summative as to which ghost had the greatest impact on the change which occurs in Scrooge at the end of the play.  

• Students also took their midterm on December 12 and we will have fun playing A Christmas Carol bingo before heading off to Winter Break.  

• When they return, we will begin Unit 4 which is an Argumentative Essay on space exploration.  Stay tuned for the new year and Semester 2!

My ELA teacher looked my way and said, "Name two pronouns".  I replied, "who, me?"

 7th grade math is working on Scientific Notation, Percent Applications, and Roots/Rational Numbers!

Below are our upcoming assessment dates. Please continue to check Canvas for any updates.

7th Grade Math: 1/23- Percent Applications Test

7th Grade Advanced Math: 1/12- Scientific Notation Quiz

7th Grade Accelerated Math: 1/18- Roots and Rational Numbers Test

“Have you heard the one about the statistician? Probably.”

7th Grade Science will continue with our Genetics unit in January. We will be focusing on Punnett Squares at the beginning of this part of the unit. Here are some upcoming important dates:

• Wednesday, January 10 – Punnett Squares Formative Assessment

• Friday, January 12 – Unit 4B Vocabulary Quiz

A Science Joke: What did Gregor Mendel say when he founded genetics? “Woopea!”

This week we have been reviewing everything we’ve learned so far this year! The students took their Social Studies Midterm this Friday (12/15) which was over Africa and the Middle East. We have had such a great semester and can’t wait to hit the ground running in January with our India Unit! Have a great break!

-We will begin our next unit: Slaying Grammar (nouns, verbs, pronouns and prepositions review)

      -Students will be learning about common, proper, concrete and abstract nouns.

      -Students will take their Posttest over nouns before break

      -Students will begin the first part of their Creative Writing Assignment

-We will continue to work on organization, time management and goal setting skills

Drama

Dear Parents of South Eagle Theatre 7th Grade Students:

I’m excited to announce that we will be using BAND to communicate all important information for our Spring Show The Jungle Book. This will help us stay on the same page and not have to deal with emails and texts cluttering our inboxes. Please access the following link to receive the parent letter and join the group!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12VwodNuNk-GYzFpE8vXLxJdc1RiqhdPXN_myTGBW3dA/edit

PE: 

The students will clean out their pe lockers and turn in their locks before the holiday break. We do a locker clean out to start fresh in the new year. All belongings in your child’s locker should be brought home, even if your child has weight training all year long. Anything left behind will be held for a short time and if not picked up in January, we will send it to goodwill.

Athletics: Information on golf and track tryouts for the 2024 season will be posted on the athletics web page in January. A current physical are required to tryout.  We have basketball games on January 4, 10, & 11. The county tournaments are January 16-20 for 7th grade and January 23-27 for 8th grade.

Healthcare Science(after winter break): 

6th grade will be learning about the CTAE's student led organization HOSA through a scavenger hunt.

7th grade is focusing on CTAE's student led organization HOSA through a competitive event research project.

8th Grade will create a personal leadership plan to participate in a CTAE student led organization like HOSA through their programs, conferences, community service and competitive events on the local, region, state, and national level as they move into high school.

HOSA's chapter meetings will be held on Thursday January 4, 2024 for 8th Grade and January 18, 2024 for 7th and 6th Grade.  SLC qualification for those already signed up to participate will take place January 10-18th.  If you have any questions, please email Mrs. Kauffman at f22003@forsyth.k12.ga.us 

Deca

Georgia DECA has A few things parents can help with😊

Judges- we need LOTS of judges! If you know of someone willing to spend the day with us on Friday, February 2nd, please have them sign up.

We need morning and afternoon judges.

Ask parents, administrators, friends, etc.

We will provide breakfast or lunch (depending on the session), breaks, and parking vouchers.

Judge Sign Up Form: https://forms.gle/5ataXDsxqoBffcYx7

Exhibitors- we will have an opportunity for businesses and organizations to exhibit at the State CDC.

If you know of someone interested, just share the link below with them and the attached exhibitor packet.

Exhibitor Sign Up Form: https://forms.gle/VV6Xj3s3vfVLSqgF9