• Standard Math:

Standard Math students began Unit 4, Geometry, on February 3.  Students will need their colored pencils for this unit.

This week, teaching and learning will focus on AKS 5a, 5b, and 5c - using a protractor to measure angles; using knowledge of complementary, supplementary, adjacent, and vertical angles to find unknown angle measurements; and writing and solving equations to find the measurements of unknown angles.

Please ensure that students review at home as this is a challenging unit of study.

• Accelerated Math: 

AKS 6 - Writing, Graphing, and Analyzing Linear Functions Using Slope-Intercept, Standard, and Point-Slope Form.  

 The summative assessment is expected on or about February 10.

• Social Studies: This week, students will begin studying the various governments in Africa.

  • • 35.a: Explain the role of citizen participation in autocratic and democratic governments

    • 35.b: Describe the two predominant forms of government; parliamentary and presidential through the use of graphs and diagrams.

    • 35.c: Explain the role of citizens in choosing the leaders of South Africa (parliamentary democracy), Nigeria (presidential democracy), and Kenya (presidential democracy) by analyzing graphs and diagrams and comparing similarities and differences

Students are encouraged to continuously review key vocabulary. 

• Language Arts: 

  • • This week, students will work on the following reading AKS using the argument, "Challenges for Space Exploration":

    • 7LA.B.10: cite several pieces of textual evidence to support inferences or analysis of a text  

    • 7LA.B.13: determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone  

    • 7LA.B.14: analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas  

    • 7LA.B.17: analyze and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, citing specific information from the text in an assessment of whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims

    • In addition, students will work on the following writing AKS in preparation for an upcoming argument essay:

    • 7LA.C.20.c: use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence

    • 7LA.D.31: analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study

    • 7LA.D.32: delineate a speaker's argument and specific claims, evaluating the soundness of the reasoning and the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence

• Life Science: 

  • 4a: Construct an explanation of how genetic variations, adaptations, and environmental factors influence the survival and reproduction of species. (GSE S7L5b)

  • 4b: Develop and use a model to explain how natural selection leads to changes in specific traits of populations over successive generations.

  • 4c: Use mathematical representations to evaluate models of how natural selection drives changes in populations over time. (GSE S7L5a)

Upcoming Assessments:

• Natural Selection Quiz: Friday, Jan. 31

• Unit 3A Test: Natural Selection: Wednesday, Feb. 5

Students are encouraged to review class notes, complete practice problems, and study key concepts related to genetic variation, adaptations, environmental factors, and mathematical models to prepare for these assessments.

Thank you parents for your continued support!