7th Grade News: September 17-21, 2018

- September 14, 2018

Progress reports

Students got their first progress report last week on Thursday. Please sign the progress report and return it to homeroom teachers. If you have any questions or concerns about your student's grades, please use the email addresses below to contact to appropriate teacher(s).

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Follow @hilsmanmiddleart to see some of the awesome projects students are making in their art class. You might even see something that your student made!

ELA News

Monday, September 17: Revising Workshop
Tuesday, September 18: Revising Workshop
Wednesday, September 19: Editing Workshop
Thursday, September 20: Editing Workshop

Friday, September 21: Freedom Friday (Student Reading Choice)

Mrs. Bevis's students will need a parent to join Class Dojo for a chance to earn extra house points. Please send students in with a composition notebook for their writing workshops no later than Monday.

***Students must read 20-30 minutes each night.

ELAGSE7W3:Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events
using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.

ELASGSE7RL3: Analyze how particular elements of a story interact.

ELAGSE7L1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar
and usage when writing or speaking.

ELAGSE7SL1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions.

Math News

This week will FINISH Unit 1 - Accentuate the Negative: Positive and Negative Numbers
Students have experienced positive and negative numbers informally in their everyday world - in temperatures, in sports scores, and in game contexts; now they will develop formal ways to work with these numbers.

Students will take the End-Of-Unit Post-Test for Unit 1 on Monday 9/24

Our week will look as follows:

Monday: Order of Operations with Positive and Negative Numbers

Tuesday: Distributive Property with Positive and Negative Numbers

Wednesday: Distributive Property with Positive and Negative Numbers

Thursday: Modeling Real-World Mathematical Problems with Rational Numbers

Friday: Review for Unit 1 Post-Test on Monday 9/24 (Study Guide)
Homework: 6 questions handed-out on Monday, due Friday

GSE Math Standards:
NS.2 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division and of fractions to multiply and divide rational numbers.
NS.3: SOLVE real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.

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

Science News

Monday = Biome Review
Tuesday = Biome & Ecology Review
Wednesday = Biomes & Ecology TEST
Thursday = Classification & Dichotomous Keys
Friday = Dichotomous Keys & Big 10 Quiz #7

Students need a Notebook for Science Work. The Science Notebook can be a spiral notebook or a composition book. Science Notebooks will be checked about once a month. Students in Ms. Hughes and Coach Turner's Science classes had a Notebook Check 2 weeks ago. Grades in Campus have been updated with the Notebook grades included. If you notice a significant drop in your child's grade, ask him or her about the Science Notebook. A Table of Contents for the Notebook is linked here: Notebook Check #1 Table of Contents

Social Studies News

Students are beginning unit 2, which focuses on the modern history of the Middle East (not governments and economies, which is unit 3 -- sorry for any confusion!). Students will read a lot of documents during this unit, many of them being primary sources. You can support them by (1) asking what they are reading and (2) re-reading some of the documents with them. This is a great way for students to read the required nightly 20-30 minutes for ELA. The documents will all be located in Google Classroom and listed in this document.

Spanish News

This week, students will be testing out of unit 2. The "On-Level" class will continue to unit 3 while the "Advanced" classes will begin a cultural project.