Happy New Year, 7th Graders! Here's what we are studying:

Here's what we have going on this term!

Reading
Students will begin reading Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt. While we read, we will determine ideas for central themes and focus on the development of the two main characters. 

Writing
After reading Orbiting Jupiter, students will write an argumentative essay. They will make a claim and support it through evidence. Students will use phrases, words and clauses to clarify relationships between their claim and the evidence, all while maintaining a formal style.

7th Grade Math
Seventh grade students are continuing their practice with fractions, decimals, percentages and mixed numbers.  As part of this work, they will study probability, statistics, graphing and data analysis.

Social Studies

What makes a human being human? What features of the way of life of modern humans before 10,000 years ago paved the way for the emergence of the complex societies, or civilizations? What makes our species so different? These are some of the questions we will be exploring in social studies this term as we study the time period from when homo sapiens emerged to the beginning of the agricultural revolution.

Science

In this term, students will explore our Solar System and the different planetary bodies that are part of it.  They will then go beyond our Solar System to investigate our galaxy and galaxies in general and finally the Universe as a whole.