7th Grade

Week of November 9-13

End of Trimester and 1/2 day Friday!

Language Arts: 

• Learning Targets: Students will spend one day learning about each of the five paragraphs found in an Argument paper. Students will write a cohesive argument about chewing gum. 

Assignments: 

Monday-Hook/Intro

Tuesday-Body paragraphs 

Wednesday-Counterclaim

Thursday-Conclusion

Friday-Rough draft ready for peer review

Bible: 

Learning Targets:

This week, we will continue to look at the Sermon on the Mount.  Next week will focus on the specific sections of the sermon, how those sections apply to our lives, and how those sections correlate to parts of the Old Testament.

 Assessments: 

Science:

Learning Targets: 

This week in science, we will wrap our unit on Heredity and Adaptations. we will finish our final projects,  creating a new superhero or villain based off of parent traits, and present them in class on Tuesday. After all presentations have been completed, we will begin our next unit on Human systems. We will start to dive into 7 different systems of the body (circulatory, excretory, digestive, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, & nervous).

Assignments: 

Finish Project by Tuesday!

Assessments: 

Project due Tuesday, November 10

Social Studies: 

Learning Targets: 

This week we will discuss the rise of Philip II and Macedeon as well as Alexander the Great.  This will lead to us looking at Hellenization and what ramifications it had for the surrounding world.  We will then have a discussion about whether or not Alexander was truly great and why so many people today look up to him. 

Assessments: No longer assessments this week.

Math: 

Learning Targets: 

In the upcoming week  students will continue their new unit on solving algebraic equations and inequalities. We will discover how to solve one-step and two-step equations with addition/subtraction and mulitiplication/division.

Homework: 4.1 Extra Practice/Puzzle - Due Tuesday, November 10

4.2 Extra Practice/Puzzle - Due Wednesday, November 11

Assessments: 4.1 - 4.3 Quiz: Friday, November 13

Specials

Updates and assessments in Spanish, physical education, and art will be listed here.  If it is empty, there are none.

Spanish:

Physical Education:

Art:

Concert Band: