Upper School

Welcome to 7th Grade

Daily

Schedule

Monday
8:45-9:05 Advisory
9:07-9:57 Period 1
10:00-10:52 Period 2
10:55-11:47 Period 3
11:50-12:15 Lunch
12:20-1:10 Period 4
1:13-1:53 CEE Block A
1:56-2:36 CEE Block B
2:39-3:20 WIN/RTI
3:20-3:30 Homeroom/ Dismissal

Course

Curriculum

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study

Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms

Identify theme, point of view, main idea  and support with text evidence

Make inferences and support with text evidence

Analyzing character traits and support with text evidence

Identify plot structure and development

Identify conflict/resolution

Writing

Summarizing

Personal narrative

Argumentative writing

Mathematics

Algebraic Reasoning:

  • Order of Operations
  • Variables and expressions

Integers and rational numbers

Solving equations

Decimal operations and applications

Fraction operations and applications

Science

Life Science:

  • Traits and Reproduction
  • Populations and Resources
  • Matter and Energy in Ecosystems

Social Studies

Review of Ancient History:

  • Map Skills review
  • Landform Skills review
  • Geography skills overview
  • Archeology and Ice Man
  • Mesopotamia
  • Egypt

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study & Short Stories

Identify and explain story elements

Identify types of conflict in a story

Compare and contrast character traits with citing evidence

Analyzing character traits and plot structure

Writing

Argumentative writing

Informative writing

Mathematics

Proportional Relationships

  • Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
  • Proportions in Geometry

Functions, Graphs

Percents

Science

Life Science:

  • Microbiome
  • Metabolism
  • Engineering Internship: Metabolism

 

Social Studies

Greece

Rome – from Republic to Empire 

Emperors

Byzantine Empire

Beginning of Muslim Empire and Conquest

Muslim Inventions

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study & Poetry

Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms

Identify theme, point of view, main idea  and support with text evidence

Make inferences and support with text evidence

Writing

Informative Writing

Poetry and Figurative Language

Mathematics

Geometric Figures:

  • Lines and Angles
  • Congruent Figures

Measurement and Geometry:

  • Perimeter, Circumference, Area, Volume, and Surface Area

Probability, statistics

Science

Life Science:

  • Natural Selection
  • Engineering Internship: Natural Selection
  • Evolutionary History

Social Studies

Middle Ages in Europe

Renaissance and Reformation

Age of Exploration

Settling North America

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Formerly MicroSociety Academy Charter School (MACS)

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