7th Grade News: March 19-22, 2019

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Family Science Night
Thursday, March 21
5:00-6:30 pm
Please join us!
Parent Conferences this week!
Parent conferences are this week, Wednesday-Friday. These days are also early release days and school ends at 1:30pm. We hope to see each parent/guardian at Hilsman this week to discuss your student's performance and how to ensure they succeed in the last quarter of the year. Most conferences are being held with your student's homeroom teacher. If you need help, contact their homeroom teacher (contact list below) or the front office.

Panther Nation News Blog
Be sure to check Ms. Tolbert's Panther Nation News Blog, as it contains news, announcements, and information for the entire school!

Ag / FFA News
Reminder Ag and FCS swap students after spring break! For example, if you had Mrs. Martin for Agriculture during 2nd period you will now have Ms. Seymour during 2nd period for Family and Consumer Science. These are the only two classes that switch.

Wednesday and Thursday: Agriscience Fair Practice 2:00-4:00 please plan your conferences around this time.

ELA News
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 to Friday, March 22, 2019: Students will be be attending the book fair during various times and class periods based on a book fair schedule. Students as well as parents are welcomed to purchase books from the book fair located in our media center. The book fair will also be open during parent teacher conferences this week. In class, students will be reviewing for the milestone as well as working on finding the main idea and citing sources.

ELAGSE7RI6:Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of
the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
ELAGSE7R1: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well
inferences drawn from the text.
ELAGSE7L3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Math News
We are beginning Unit 5, which focuses on Geometry. Students will recognize, analyze, measure, and reason about the shapes and visual patterns that are important features of our world.
Khan Academy is a good resource for students with internet access.
Homework will be given on Tuesday 3/19 and is due Friday 3/22

Monday 3/18: No School. Teacher work-day.
Tuesday 3/19: Milestone prep
Wednesday 3/20: Drawing figures using angle rulers or protractors
Thursday 3/21: Angle sums of polygons
Friday 3/22: Angle sums of polygons

 Science News
Genetics Unit Georgia Standards of Excellence:
S7L3. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain how organisms reproduce either sexually or asexually and transfer genetic information to determine the traits of their offspring.
a. Construct an explanation supported with scientific evidence of the role of genes and chromosomes in the process of inheriting a specific trait.
b. Develop and use a model to describe how asexual reproduction can result in offspring with identical genetic information while sexual reproduction results in genetic variation. (Clarification statement: Models could include, but are not limited to, the use of monohybrid Punnett squares to demonstrate the heritability of genes and the resulting genetic variation, identification of heterozygous and homozygous, and comparison of genotype vs. phenotype.)
c. Ask questions to gather and synthesize information about the ways humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms through selective breeding. (Clarification statement: The element specifically addresses artificial selection and the ways in which it is fundamentally different from natural selection.)

Tuesday - Non-Mendelian Genetics
Wednesday - Non-Mendelian Genetics
Thursday - Selective Breeding
Friday - Math Lesson & 10 Quiz #29

 Social Studies News
Students finished the last unit with an open-note quiz. Since grades were not as good as the teachers thought they should be, students could earn extra credit by turning in their notes. We will continue to work on the skill of note-taking and have another open-note quiz in the next unit, which began before Spring Break.

This week students are learning about the environment issues in Africa: diseases, unequal access to water, water pollution, deforestation, and desertification.

Upcoming dates:
Tuesday -- Political map quiz
Friday -- Physical map and Biome map quiz
Students completed these maps before spring break. They can study using these interactive maps: Political map, Physical map, Biome map.

Here are the standards we are teaching:
SS7G1 Locate selected features of Africa.
a. Locate on a world and regional political physical map: Sahara, Sahel, savanna, tropical rain forest, Congo River, Niger River, Nile River, Lake Victoria, Great Rift Valley, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Atlas Mountains, and Kalahari Desert.
b. Locate on a world and regional political physical map the countries of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Sudan.
SS7G2 Explain environmental issues across the continent of Africa.
a. Explain how water pollution and unequal access to water impacts irrigation, trade, industry, and drinking water.
b. Explain the relationship between poor soil and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
c. Explain the impact of desertification on the environment of Africa.
SS7G3 Explain the impact of location, climate, and physical characteristics on population distribution in Africa.

Spanish News
The Spanish 1 placement exam will be on May 8. This qualifies students to take high school Spanish 1 as 8th grade students and receive high school credit before beginning high school. All 7th grade students can take the exam.

*Tutoring - Continues next Monday 4pm-5:30pm in Sra. Laura's room
*Tutoring - Tuesdays 4pm-5:30pm in Srta. Summer's room

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