7th Grade Social Studies

Monday, 1/15: No school - MLK Day

Tuesday, 1/16: Africa mapping lab - open-note quiz

• Students will be expected and permitted to use information from their student handout to complete this quiz.
• Africa - Map Lab - Student Handout Collected & Graded

Wednesday, 1/17: Begin reading about daily life in ancient Egypt - introduction and section 1 - and complete interactive notebook activities that correspond.

Thursday, 1/18: Continue daily life in ancient Egypt - sections 2 and 3 - and complete the corresponding activities.

Friday, 1/19: Half day - end of 2nd quarter. Mr. Golich's last day.

Monday, 1/22: Mr. Edwards' first official day! We'll have proper introductions and then continuing learning about daily life in Ancient Egypt - reviewing what we covered last week

Tuesday, 1/23: Continue discussing daily life in Ancient Egypt - sections 3 & 4 - and complete the corresponding sections in your interactive notebook.

• Catch up on the interactive notebook if needed.

Wednesday, 1/24: Finish daily life in Ancient Egypt and complete the interactive notebook. This will be collected for credit as the first grade for the third card marking!

Thursday, 1/25: Move forward with the Africa unit and begin discussing the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt - lecture with notes.

• Finish preview worksheet (front and back) for homework

Friday, 1/26: Continuing with Pharaohs - lecture with notes - and focus on their accomplishments and monuments

Monday, 1/29: Review what the pharaohs accomplished and write postcards about them and their most significant monuments

• Khufu and the Great Pyramid, Senserut and the White Chapel, Hatshepsut and the temple at Dayr Al-Bahri, and Ramses and his temple at Abu Simbel.
• Homework: complete the first two postcards if needed

Tuesday, 1/30: Complete the postcard worksheets. Review for tomorrow's quiz by creating questions and quizzing each other..

• Homework: study!

Wednesday, 1/31: Open-note quiz on ancient Egypt - pharaohs and daily life.

Thursday, 2/1: Continue Africa unit - The Nile River

• Preview, sections 1 & 2, geoterms

Friday, 2/2: (shortened class period due to 2nd quarter reward afternoon) Continue learning about the Nile River

• Finish geoterms
• Create large individual maps of the Nile River for a small project next week. Finish putting it together at home if needed.

Monday. 2/5: Day 1 of Nile River map project using map we put together on Friday 2/2.

Tuesday. 2/6: 8th grade Washington DC trip information with Mrs. Duffey. CNN 10 afterwards.

Wednesday, 2/7: Continue Nile River project (reworked)

Thursday. 2/8: Create one-pager mini-project on Africa using anything covered so far.

Friday. 2/9: Snow day - no school.

Monday, 2/26: Revisit the desert environment. Go over Cornell notes and add to them.

Tuesday, 2/27: Read about desert oases - sections 5 and 6 - and begin to create a Cornell notes packet.

• 5th hour will miss today's class for a 7th grade meeting and be one day behind for the week.

Wednesday, 2/28: Read about the Sahel region - sections 7 and 8 - and add to notes.

Thursday, 3/1: Africa review day - complete study guide together.

Friday, 3/2: Africa Quiz #2 - this will cover Egypt, the Nile River, the Sahara, and the Sahel.