7th Grade News: November 5-9, 2018

Dress down on MONDAY

Monday, November 5 is the dress down day for binder check from October. Students may be out of uniform if they have 350 points or more on their October binder check sheet. As usual, students who are out of uniform must still adhere to the CCSD/HMS dress codes. The vast majority of our students are doing a wonderful job of staying organized - please continue to support your child by ensuring that they have the materials they need to be successful! If you are in need of supplies, please contact your child's homeroom teacher.

No School on TUESDAY

Just a reminder that schools are closed for students this Tuesday, November 6th (Election Day). Talk to your students about the importance of voting!

Fall Orchestra Concert 11/14 @ 6:30pm

This year, orhestra concerts will be held in the Fine Arts Auditorium at Cedar Shoals High. Students should report at 6:00pm to tune. Please contact Ms. Floyd for more details at floydr@clarke.k12.ga.us.

ELA News

***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 pronunciation.
ELAGSE7L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: We will continue reading "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. We will be discussing, answering critical thinking questions, as well as analyzing the book. Students will be reading alone, in pairs, or in groups depending on their reading level and preference.

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; due on Friday.

Science News

Unit 2: Human Body Systems
Focus Systems: Digestive & Excretory/Urinary Systems
Hughes Science Students: Notebook Check #2: Friday, November 9

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

Last week students began studying Southern and Eastern Asia, with a focus on India, China, Japan, the Koreas, and Vietnam. They will study the geography of this region at their OWN PACE, using several assignments that their teachers choose for them to complete over the next 3 weeks. Each student had their assignments specifically chosen for them from this list: bit.ly/u4geoticket. There is optional homework every night that will help students learn the required material.

Upcoming dates:
Thursday, November 8 - Political Map Quiz
Tuesday, November 13 - Physical Map Quiz
Thursday, November 15 - turn in all Asia geography assignments

Spanish News

Monday: Review vocabulary Actions and classification in Spanish
Tuesday: Grammar- How to conjugate regular -AR verbs?
Wednesday: Reading and writing
Thursday: Identification of the verbs in a sentence
Friday: Music day

Upcoming dates:
Mondays: Binder checks; Tutoring from 4-5:30pm
Wednesday: Vocabulary quiz / Reading comprehension
November 28 - Family Education Series, dinner provided