7th Grade News: October 2-6, 2017

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Parent Conferences

Fall Parent Conferences will take place October 11, 12, & 13. Look for information this week to schedule your conference. Most seventh grade conferences will take place with students' 1st period (ELT) teacher.

Grade Level Parent Meeting

In an effort to address many of your questions regarding curricula and grades, each grade level has scheduled a Parent Night. Administration will not be on the agenda as this is a time for parents and teachers to converse about what is needed to ensure our students are successful academically as well as behaviorally. The 7th Grade meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 10 beginning at 6:30 pm.



ELA News

Monday: Argumentative Essay Intros
Tuesday: Guided Reading
Wednesday: Philosophical Chairs Debate
Thursday: Guided Reading
Friday: Drafting An Agruement
***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

Monday:  Owl pellet dissection lab
Tuesday:  Owl pellet dissection lab
Wednesday:  Energy flow within food webs
Thursday:  Energy flow within food webs
Friday:  Big 10 Quiz #8

Food Web & Biome Project:  due on Tuesday, October 17
Instructions linked here:  Food Web & Biome Project

Math News
With one more week to end our first 9 weeks, we are looking to finish strong in math classes. We will continue working through Unit 2, learning about scaling images up and down using scale factor and begin our discussion on proportions.
Students will be given a homework assignment on Tuesday and the assignment will be due on Thursday. Students should also plan to have one more quiz this week (their last quiz of the first quarter). This quiz will cover all topics learning thus far in Unit 2 including similar figures and scale factor.

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.

Please feel free to email your child's respective math teacher if you have any questions.


Social Studies News

Students will begin studying a new unit this week on the governments of African countries. Later in the unit we will also study the economies of African countries. This week students will examine the characteristics of autocracies, presidential democracies, and parliamentary democracies, as well as learn about the governments of South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. 

 SS7CG1 Compare and contrast different forms of citizen participation in government.
a. Explain the role of citizen participation in autocratic and democratic governments. b. Describe the two predominant forms of democratic governments: parliamentary and presidential. c. Explain the role of citizens in choosing the leaders of South Africa (parliamentary democracy), Nigeria (presidential democracy), and Kenya (presidential democracy). SS7CG2 Analyze how government instability in Africa impacts standard of living. a. Describe the impact of government instability on access to education and the distribution of medicine and food to combat diseases and famine across Africa.

7th Grade Teachers
Language Arts
Mrs. Kaitlin Bevis - bevisk@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Kong Heu - heukong@clarke.k12.ga.us
Ms. Verne Rucker - ruckerv@clarke.k12.ga.us
Ms. Robin Jones - jonesr2@clarke.k12.ga.us

Mathematics
Mr. Mark Aqui - aquima@clarke.k12.ga.us
Ms. Ashley Destefani - destefania@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Jason Pratt - prattj@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. John Spinks - spinksj@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Tyron Scott - scottt@clarke.k12.ga.us


Science
Mrs. Maxine Dalton - daltonm@clarke.k12.ga.us
Ms. Audrey Hughes - hughesa@clarke.k12.ga.us
Ms. Cynthia Ellison - ellisonc@clarke.k12.ga.us

Social Studies
Mr. Nick Hussain - hussainn@clarke.k12.ga.us
Mr. Rob Olin - olinr@clarke.k12.ga.us
Coach Jim Page - pagej@clarke.k12.ga.us

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