Curricular Highlights: Seventh Grade
Literacy
Reading and Writing Workshops are conducted daily to allow for students to receive personalized learning by engaging with and producing high volumes of both fiction and nonfiction texts of their choosing. Because all lessons begin with explicit, direct teaching points, workshop prioritizes time for students to be immersed in independent reading and writing work, while teachers provide focused, differentiated instruction in smaller groups. As a result, workshop challenges students to develop the habits and dispositions of lifelong readers and writers. Additionally, mentor texts and student writing will be used to teach grammar in context. Many of our grammar lessons will be embedded in Writing Workshop, striking a balance between encouraging creative freedom and promoting correct conventions.
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Mathematics
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Students should engage in problem-based lessons structured around a core idea.
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Guided by a knowledgeable teacher, students should interact in groups to foster mathematical discourse.
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Practice with concepts and procedures should be spaced over time; that is, mastery comes over time.”
Math 2
Math 2 Parent Guide (.pdf opens in a new window)
Upon completion of the Math 2 course, students should be able to:
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Use integers and complete operations with integers and rational numbers, including using the Order of Operations.
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Use diagrams and equal ratios to represent part-whole relationships.
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Use percents and scale factors to determine percent increase or decrease, discounts, and markups.
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Use variable expressions to represent quantities in contextual problems.
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Simplify variable expressions by combining like terms and using the Distributive Property.
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Solve linear equations, including those with fractional coefficients and those with no solutions or infinitely many solutions.
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Solve and graph one-variable inequalities.
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Compare experimental and theoretical probabilities.
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Distinguish between dependent and independent events and calculate the probability of compound independent events.
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Represent probabilities of multiple events using systemic lists, area models, or tree diagrams.
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Design, conduct, and analyze surveys.
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Collect and compare data and describe the distribution of sets of data.
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Solve distance, rate, and time problems.
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Compare ratios and calculate unit rates.
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Recognize and solve problems involving proportional relationships.
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Recognize and use the properties of similar figures and scale factors to solve problems.
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Describe angles, angle pairs, and their measures.
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Compute area and perimeter of standard and compound shapes.
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Compute the volume of a variety of solids
Math 3
Math 3 Parent Guide (.pdf opens in a new window)
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Represent a linear function with a graph, table, rule, and context and create any representation when provided one of the others.
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Solve systems of equations by using tables and graphs.
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Symbolically manipulate expressions to solve problems including those with fractional coefficients.
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Solve contextual word problems using multiple strategies, including making tables, looking for patterns, drawing diagrams, and creating a table of guesses to assist with writing and solving a variable equation.
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Describe various geometric transformations on a coordinate grid.
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Represent data using scatterplots and describe associations.
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Collect and analyze data and make predictions based on the trend of the data.
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Compare ratios and calculate unit rates and slope ratios.
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Analyze the slope of a line graphically, numerically, and contextually.
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Recognize and solve problems involving proportional relationships.
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Graph and analyze non-linear functions.
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Recognize and use the properties of similar figures to solve problems.
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Use the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse to solve problems in two and three dimensions.
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Use square roots and cube roots.
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Represent and simplify expressions using positive and negative exponents.
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Represent and compare large and small numbers using standard and scientific notation.
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Perform operations with numbers represented in scientific notation.Use the relationships between angles created by parallel lines with transversals and the Triangle Angle Sum Theorem to solve problems.
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Compute the volume of a variety of solids.
Algebra I
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Linear equations, applications and graphs
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quadratic equations, operations of polynomials, applications and graphs
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radicals: simplifying, operations, applications
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exponential functions & decay, operations of monomials
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multiple methods to calculate slope & y-intercept, connections to rate and speed
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data collection tables, patterns of growth, notation for sequencing
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two-variable data, correlation coefficients, analyzing residual plots
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parabola sketches, x-intercept, vertex and use of square root
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linear & non-linear inequalities, word problems, graphs and analysis
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speed and accuracy of each above mentioned skill
Science
In 7th grade, our students continue to lean on our core middle school science resource from IQWST, which stands for Investigating and Questioning our World through Science and Technology! The curriculum is based on the very latest research on how people learn, and how students learn science in particular, as it addresses the Next Generation Science Standards. Students will be engaging in many hands-on activities in class, in which they are handling science materials and are experiencing phenomena first-hand. In every lesson, they will be reading about, writing about, talking about, and doing science. Discussion is central to this type of learning. Students will work individually, in pairs, in teams, and as a whole class to “make sense” of how things happen in the world around them or why things happen the way they do.
Social Studies
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How people and their choices affect the earth, and how the geography of the earth affects people will drive discussion.
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Broad based questions concerning these areas will be addressed.
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Current events relating to these regions will also be discussed.