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    The 7th grade newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and class activities for the month of January. Upcoming events include progress reports on January 11th, an exploration of theater through vaudeville on January 15th, and a half day on January 18th. In humanities, students are exploring what makes a hero through ancient Greek mythology and 20th century literature and history. In science, students are learning about the human body systems through a mystery case study. In math, students are modifying shapes by stretching and shrinking dimensions. The newsletter reminds parents of guided study times on Wednesdays for extra help.

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    The 7th grade newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and class activities for the month of January. Upcoming events include progress reports on January 11th, an exploration of theater through vaudeville on January 15th, and a half day on January 18th. In humanities, students are exploring what makes a hero through ancient Greek mythology and 20th century literature and history. In science, students are learning about the human body systems through a mystery case study. In math, students are modifying shapes by stretching and shrinking dimensions. The newsletter reminds parents of guided study times on Wednesdays for extra help.

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    The 7th grade newsletter provides updates on upcoming events and class activities for the month of January. Upcoming events include progress reports on January 11th, an exploration of theater through vaudeville on January 15th, and a half day on January 18th. In humanities, students are exploring what makes a hero through ancient Greek mythology and 20th century literature and history. In science, students are learning about the human body systems through a mystery case study. In math, students are modifying shapes by stretching and shrinking dimensions. The newsletter reminds parents of guided study times on Wednesdays for extra help.

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    ​7th Grade Newsletter 

    January 11, 2019   


     

    Upcoming Events/ Updates 


    January 11 - Progress Reports 
    January 15 - Exploring Theater with Vaudeville 
    January 18 - Half Day 
    January 21 - MLK Day - No School 
      
     
    From the Team:  
     
    Happy New Year! The 7th grade team is looking forward to a positive and productive new year. As a 
    way to have more communication, we are sending home a monthly newsletter to update parents on 
    the happenings in the classroom. Hopefully, we can have the students write some of these updates 
    this year so that you can hear from your child about the topics, activities, and other exciting events 
    that are happening in the 7th grade. 
     
     
    Class Updates 
     
    Humanities:  
     
    What makes a hero? Students in Humanities have spent the first half of the school year considering 
    this question, beginning with the heroes of Ancient Greek Mythology. From there we’ve begun looking 
    at heroes in the 20th century in both literature and history.   
     
    The question of what makes a hero will remain central to our studies as we begin our informational 
    writing unit this month. Students will be reading historic fiction connected to World War II while 
    exploring the historical reality of that time period. They will learn to write literary essays, citing 
    evidence and analyzing how texts reveal meaning. This unit is following a unit where we’ve been 
    asking students to think critically about text and write paragraphs using evidence to support their 
    thinking. These skills will greatly help the students as we move into the next unit and begin to write 
    longer literary and analytical pieces. 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Science:  
     
    We just started a new unit on the human body. Students over the course of the next 6 six weeks are 
    going to be doctors solving a mysterious case of a woman who called the ambulance because she 
    was not feeling well and was unable to move. On the first day of our unit, students were introduced to 
    the woman by reading the ambulance report of her case. By the end of the unit, they will be able to 
    diagnose what is causing her to be sick and how they would treat her. As the class learns new 
    symptoms and clues, they will be learning about the digestive, muscular, respiratory, circulatory, 
    excretory, and nervous systems. Students will be doing many labs and experiments with each system 
    with the possibility of a dissection of a small animal. Throughout the unit there will be one or two 
    guest speakers who are in the medical field that will share their knowledge about the human body 
    and expertise in the medical field. 
     
     
    Math:  
     
    Our current math unit looks at what happens to shapes when we stretch or shrink one or more 
    dimensions. We began by developing personal logos and are modifying them in various ways with a 
    final goal of printing them off as labels. This unit uses lot of math ideas students have studied over 
    the past few years: fractions, decimals, percents, geometric shapes, area, perimeter, ratios and 
    integers. It introduces several ways to stretch and shrink shapes and involves new ideas around 
    drawing to scale, coordinate grids and algebraic rules. Along the way we consider real world 
    applications including animation, video games and graphic and 3D design.    
     
     
    Reminders: 
     
    Wednesday Guided Study from 7:45- 8:25 and again at 2:45-3:45 with the team.​ This is a great time 
    for any or all of the students to work with the team, to get help with any assignments, or to get 
    caught up​. 
     

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