7th Grade News: October 15-19, 2018

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Happy Fall!  Time to make plans to Trick or Treat for UNICEF!

Parent-Teacher Conferences are THIS WEEK

Conferences are this week on Wednesday-Friday, October 17-19. Most conferences are with homeroom teachers. If you need to know your conference time, contact your student's homeroom teachers. We hope to see every parent/guardian this week!


Monday: College/Career shirt day

Our monthly College/Career T-Shirt Day will be this Monday, October 15th. Students are encouraged to wear a t-shirt representing a college (or career) with uniform bottoms. Please make sure the college/career is visible on the shirt, as solid colors are not permitted. Students who do not wish to participate must wear regular uniforms.

General news: Community Health Night


ELA News

Monday, October 15: Essay on "The Eclipse"
Tuesday, October 16: Reading "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.
Wednesday, October 17: Reading "The Fun They Had" by Isaac Asimov
Thursday, October 18: Unit 1 Test: Multiple Choice
Friday, October 19: Unit 1 Test: Essay

Students in Mrs. Bevis's class will continue revising their short stories as they study literary elements in fiction. All hand outs and instructions for Mrs. Bevis's classes are also available on Class Dojo. 

***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

Food Web & Biome Project:  Grassland
Monday-Thursday = Food Chains, Food Webs, & Energy Flow Within Ecosystems 
Friday = Big 10 Quiz #11 + Food Web & Biome Projects due

2nd 9 Weeks Project:
Food Web & Biome Projects are due by Friday, October 19
Instructions can be viewed here:  Food Web & Biome Project Instructions 


Science Fair:
Students that are interested in participating in the Science Fair should see Mrs. Fassbender or Mrs. Maxey for information and guidance.  Mrs. Fassbender and Mrs. Maxey are our school's gifted collaborators.  Any student can participate in the Science Fair.


Social Studies News

Students are beginning unit 3 this week, which focuses on the governments and economies in the Middle East. This is a short unit and will last about 2 1/2 weeks. You can support students by reviewing these vocabulary terms with them.
Government vocabulary and Economy Vocabulary


Spanish News

7th grade Spanish 
We are in unit 3 La escuela (the school) 
Introduction to vocabulary about school supplies, ordinal numbers and classes 
Review nouns and articles 
Introduction to grammar concepts such as to have and to need verbs.  
Mini project My backpack.

Modern Language Standards: 
MLC.P2B Demonstrate comprehension of rehearsed material.
MLC.INT1A Identify the main ideas and some details when reading and listening.
MLC.IP2C Demonstrate Novice-Low proficiency in oral and written exchanges.


7th Grade Faculty

Math
Michael Barton, bartonm@clarke.k12.ga.us
Levita Benson, bensonl@clarke.k12.ga.us
Randy Garner, garnerr@clarke.k12.ga.us

ELA
Julie Hubbard, hubbardj@clarke.k12.ga.us
Kaitlyn Bevis, bevisk@clarke.k12.ga.us

Science
Maxine Dalton, daltonm@clarke.k12.ga.us
Audrey Hughes, hughesa@clarke.k12.ga.us
Quinnesha Turner, turnerq@clarke.k12.ga.us

Social Studies

Spanish
Marcus Mundy, mundym@clarke.k12.ga.us
Summer Willingham, willinghams@clarke.k12.ga.us

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