7th Grade News: October 1-5, 2018

General news: Binder checks

Shout out to all of our students who earned enough binder check points for the month of September to receive a dress down day last week! Monday will begin October binder checks. Please make sure your child has received their new score card. It is each student's responsibility to keep up with their binder, supplies, and score card. (We teachers promise to make sure we are being more consistent with our checks each week!)

General news: Last week of Quarter 1

This is the last week of quarter 1. All assignments and makeup work must be turned in by this Friday, October 5. If you have questions or concerns about your student's grade, use the email addresses below to get in touch with your student's teacher(s).

ELA News

Monday, October 1: Reading = “Dark They were and Golden Eyed”
Tuesday, October 2: Complete questions for “Dark They were and Golden Eyed”
Wednesday, October 3: Brainstorming for Mini Project for Dark They were and Golden Eyed
Thursday, October 4: Work on Project for Dark They were and Golden Eyed

Friday, October 5: Work on Project for Dark They were and Golden Eyed

*Mrs. Bevis' classes: (1) Parents, please join Class Dojo and (2) bring a composition book to class

***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

The next unit in your child's mathematics class this year is Stretching and Shrinking: Understanding Similarity. Its focus is geometry. It teaches students to understand and use the idea of similarity. In this unit, students will find relationships among figures that have been stretched or shrunk. They will analyze the resulting changes in properties of the figures, such as area and perimeter. Similarity will also be used to find the heights of real objects (such as buildings and flagpoles).

Homework is given on Monday, due on Friday

Monday: What does it mean for figures to be similar?

Tuesday: How does Scale Factor affect the measurements of a new figure?

Wednesday: How do equivalent ratios describe scaled copies of shapes?

Thursday: How do I use a table to determine proportional relationships?
Friday: How do I use a table to find the constant of proportionality?

Science News

Monday-Thursday = Food Chains, Food Webs, & Energy Flow Within Ecosystems (including the Owl Pellet Dissection Lab on Monday and Wednesday)

Friday = Big 10 Quiz #9

Science classes desperately need donations of disposable gloves. Each time we conduct a lab that requires gloves, we need 270 pairs of gloves! If you can donate gloves, please send them in to either Mrs. Dalton or Ms. Hughes

Social Studies News

Students are studying the modern history of the Middle East. This week they are reading a short story about the Arab-Israeli conflict, learning about the Iraq-Iran War (1980s), Operations Desert Storm (1991), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003).

You can support their hard work by (1) asking details about what they are reading and (2) re-reading some of the material with them. This is a great way for students to read the required 20-30 minutes for ELA each night.

Upcoming dates:
Thursday, October 4 - students will receive a study guide for the next test
Wednesday, October 10 - study guide due in class (it needs at least one parent/guardian signature!)
Friday, October 12 - Unit 2 test