Students have done a good job as we have come back from our long weekend and continued to look at our Middle East Unit. We will spend this week talking about the history of the Middle East region before moving on to the culture of it next week. Please make sure to check assignments and materials in Google Classroom. Please make sure to reach out if there are any questions or concerns.
Seventh grade students will study Earth from a regional perspective, focusing on the continents. Students will study contemporary places and regions to identify how the experiences of people are rooted in places and organized into geographic regions. Students will learn about Earth’s physical conditions (e.g., climate, soils, vegetation) and how these features interact with Earth’s other living features. This course also focuses 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 the movement, settlement patterns, economic systems, and political systems. Students will explore the interactions between environment and society to learn how human activities modify Earth, how resources are used, and how physical systems, such as climate, present risks to humans. We will also, at times, be watching the news program CNN: 10 (Student News), which covers important events going on in our world. While we will not focus on news stories that are of a political nature, we will be using the content during parts of class as a discussion piece.
As teachers, we monitor and adjust as we teach our daily lessons to ensure our students are encouraged to be successful; therefore, these plans are subject to change.