7th Grade News: October 22-25, 2018

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

Fall Field Day on Wednesday!

7th grade students will be competing in a flag football tournament and kickball tournament on Wednesday. Teams will be created from 4th period classes. Students may dress down, and athletic clothing is recommended. Students will be able to purchase snacks when they are not competing.


No school on Friday, October 26

Enjoy the day off and the long weekend!

 ELA News

Monday, October 22nd: Introducing "The Outsiders" by S. E Hinton
Tuesday, October 23: Reading Chapters 1-2 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton
Wednesday, October 24: 7th Grade Field Day!
Thursday, October 25: Reading Chapters 3-4 of "The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton
Friday, October 26: Holiday (no school)

Students and parents in Mrs. Bevis's class, please join Class Dojo if you haven't already. 

***Students must read 20-30 minutes each night.
ELAGSE7W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.ELAGSE7RL2: 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.ELAGSE7SL4: Present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, details, and examples; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciationELAGSE7L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

Math News
The current 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; this week it is due on Thursday
Monday: Ratios Within Similar Parallelograms
Tuesday: Ratios Within Similar Triangles
Wednesday: Finding Missing Parts
Thursday: Using Shadows to Find Heights: Using Similar Triangles
Friday: Fall Break - No school!


Science News

Food Web & Biome Project:  Grassland
Monday & Tuesday = Review Unit 1 (Interactions within Ecosystems)
Wednesday & Thursday = Unit 1 Test
Friday = No School

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 working in unit 3, which focuses on the governments and economies in the Middle East. This week students are learning about trade barriers (tariffs, quotas, embargoes), OPEC,  and the economies of Israel / Turkey / Saudi Arabia. You can support students by reviewing these vocabulary terms with them: government vocabulary and economy vocabulary. Students will get a study guide this week for their next test, which will be on Wednesday, October 31.

Tuesday, October 23 - Government vocabulary quiz
Monday, October 29 - Unit 3 study guide due
Wednesday, October 31 - Unit 3 Test


Spanish News

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.  

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
Summer Willingham, willinghams@clarke.k12.ga.us

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