7th Grade News: October 23-30, 2017

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Happy Fall!


Fright Fest = Thursday,   October 26
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Trick or Treat for UNICEF = October 25-November 3
Help kids in need all over the world!  See a Social Studies teacher or a Science teacher to get an orange box to help!

Fall Break for Students = Friday, October 27 & Monday, October 30

ELA News

Monday: Argumentative Essay Planning
Tuesday: Work on Argumentative Essays
Wednesday: Argumentative Essay Planning
Thursday: Guided Reading
Friday: Fall Break
***Students have a 30 minute per night reading log. 
RL1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
RL2: Determine a theme and/or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
L2: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.

Science News

This is the first week of Unit 2!
Monday:  Unit 2 PreTest & Introduction
Tuesday:  Levels of Biological Organization
Wednesday:  Skeletal System
Thursday:  Big 10 Quiz #12 & Literacy Lesson - ScienceWorld Magazine
Friday:  Fall Break

Food Web & Biome Project:  due on Tuesday, October 17
Instructions linked here:  Food Web & Biome Project
*Students may still turn these projects in late.

Math News
We are all looking forward to our Fall Break. We will spend this week wrapping up our study in Unit 2. Our week will look similar to past weeks, as we will spend one day per lesson, each leading up to our Unit 2 Test next week. Each student (Aqui and Spinks classes) will be given a homework assignment on Tuesday and will be expected to turn the assignment in on Thursday.

Our learning schedule this week:
Monday: Unit 2 Lesson 10 - Graphing Proportional Relationships
Tuesday: Unit 2 Lesson 11 - Graphing Proportions Continued...
Wednesday: Rates and Ratios
Thursday: Taxes and Interest
Friday: FALL BREAK - NO SCHOOL!!!

Homework for Ms. Destefani's math students will be to complete their Unit 1 lessons in the Math icon on Moby Max. These lessons review adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.

As always, please feel free to email your child's respective math teacher if you have any questions.


Social Studies News

Students will be concluding the study of Africa by reading the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. The novel tells the two stories of people in Sudan, one set in the 1980s and one in the present day. Topics in the book include environmental issues, access to water, and governments and conflict.

 Students will have a unit 3 test on Friday, November 3.

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