Welcome to 7th Grade  

Homeroom Teachers:  Mr. Arman

Curriculum                    
                                                                                        
Religion
(Loyola Press)

  • Read, reflect upon, and apply Scripture. 
  • Understand the historical, sacramental, and liturgical life of the Catholic Church. 
  • Assume a role as an active member of the faith community.
  • Engage in service to the community.
  • Plan and participate in liturgies and other prayer experiences. 
  • Apply Christian principles to interpersonal relations.
  • Attend weekly school Mass.
  • Study family life.  (Family Life- Benziger)

Math (Holt Publishing)

Develop problem solving strategies.

  • Instructional program using Reasoning and Proof fundamentals.
  • Express mathematical ideas precisely.
  • Use connections among mathematical ideas. 
  • Algebra
  • Geometry and Measurement
  • Comparing ratio and solving proportions.
  • Work with positive and negative integer exponents and signed numbers. 
  • Conduct simple experiments to determine probabilities

Literature  and Spelling (Pearson)

  • Read with fluency,expression, correct pronunciation and inflection.  
  • Use a variety of strategies to expand reading, listening and speaking vocabularies.  
  • Demonstrate literal, inferential, and evaluative comprehension.
  • Actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate a wide variety of fiction, poetic, and nonfiction texts. 
  • Weekly spelling tests.

 Writing (Thea Holtan)

  • Create informative, expressive and persuasive writing.  
  • Effective keyboarding skills. 

Social Studies (McDougal Littell)           

  • Analyze current events and news.
  • Focus on Ancient World History and World Geography.
  • Create an economic portfolio

Science  (Holt Science & Technology)

  • Learn how living and non-living systems interact to shape the world around us. 
  • Learn how non-living systems that include weathering, erosion and deposition work to shape the earth's surface.
  • Learn about the sturctures, functions, origins and classification of living organisms.
  • Explore the basic necessities of all living things and the biological kingdoms of bacteria, protists, fungi, and plants.
  • Explore the characteristics and relationships found within the animal kingdom.

Art

  • Combine the elements and principles of art to make creative two and three dimensional art.
  • Understanding of theme, style, and art technique.
  • Understand/appreciate the cultural and historical context of art. 

Other
Students attend weekly classes in Spanish, Music, PhyEd, Technology and Media Center. 

Homework Expectations
Seventh grade students are expected to complete 60 minutes of daily homework.  

Resource links
Coming soon!

 

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