7th Grade News: April 22-26, 2019

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College or Career Shirt Day: Monday 4/22
Students are encouraged to wear a college or career t-shirt with uniform bottoms. Please make sure college or career is visible. Solid colors are not allowed.

 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!

Important Upcoming Dates the 7th graders
Please be advised of the following important upcoming dates for 7th graders over the last quarter:

April 17-24 - Testing (Milestones and MAP)
May 1 - High school science enrollment letter due (if you have questions, contact one of the science teachers or Malenie Maxey at maxeym@clarke.k12.ga.us)
May 14 - 7th grade awards ceremony (it is currently scheduled to take place during the evening at the old/new Hilsman gym)
May 17 - Last Day of School / early dismissal

Upcoming Testing Dates
Please be advised of the following dates scheduled for Georgia Milestone tests and MAP testing (MAP = Measures of Academic Progress; students take the MAP tests three times each year).

4/22 - ELA Make Ups
4/23 - Math Section 1
4/24 - Math Section 2
4/25 - MAP Language test
4/26 - MAP Reading test

4/29 - MAP Math test
4/29-5/2 - Make-ups for all testing

Ag / FFA News
Monday-
Makeup Day in Mrs. Martin's room for any missing work. 7:45-8:10 and 4:00-4:30.
Agriscience Fair Practice 4:00-6:00

Wednesday-
Test Forms Due back for anyone trying to raise their test grade.
Agriscience Fair Practice 4:00-5:00

Thursday-Friday: State FFA Convention and State Agriscience Fair. Macon, Georgia. Leave 5am from Clarke Central.

ELA News
Monday, April 22, 2019 to Friday, April 26, 2019: Students will be determining the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative meanings. Also, we will be analyzing the impact of rhymes and other sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse.

ELAGSE7L1: Demonstrate the command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage. Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
ELAGSE7RL2: 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.
- How can we use figurative language in creating poetry?
- How does poetry help us to express our thoughts, ideas, and feelings?

Math News
We are in 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. Here is a link to a resource that may help family members help their scholar in this unit.

Mon 4/22: Milestones Practice Test #2
Tue 4/23: Going Around in Circles (Circumference)
Wed 4/24: Pricing Pizza (Area of circles)
Thu 4/25: Area of circles
Fri 4/26: Connecting circumference and area

Related Math Standards:
G.4 Given the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle, USE them to SOLVE problems; GIVE an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle.

 Science News
Monday-Wednesday = Natural Selection
Thursday = Spiral Review 
Friday - Big 10 Quiz #34

 Summative Assessments:
Final Exam Test = Tuesday, May 14.
Final Summative Project of the Year due by Monday, May 13.
Click Here to View the Assignment Directions:  View Final Project Directions Here

Social Studies News
Students are studying a unit on the modern history of Africa. There is not a social studies milestones test, and our curriculum will continue until the end of the school year. They will have a unit test at the end of next week (the study guide will be due on Tuesday, April 30).

Monday: Pan-Africanism
Tuesday-Friday: Apartheid

Standards for this unit:
SS7H1 Analyze continuity and change in Africa.
a. Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries in Africa today.
b. Explain how the Pan-African movement and nationalism led to independence in Kenya and Nigeria.
c. Explain the creation and end of apartheid in South Africa and the roles of Nelson Mandela and F.W.de Klerk

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.

* Review for placement exam will be on May 1st and 2nd
 4pm-5:30pm at Sra. Laura's room.

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

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