7th Grade
In seventh grade, the students will move from classroom to classroom as their classes change and experience a variety of teachers and teaching styles. For language arts, the seventh and eighth graders of the same level are taught in the same class in order to accustom them to the mixed age classes in high school. Seventh graders are paired with students in the first grade for Mass and special occasions. The seventh graders act as mentors to their first grade buddies.
Curriculum
- Language Arts
- Vocabulary
- Identify and use the eight parts of speech
- Identify and write a variety of sentences: simple, compound and complex
- Develop reading strategies in order to:
- develop comprehension skills
- form conclusions
- predict outcomes
- determine the author’s purpose, audience and subject
- recognize and evaluate the elements of literature and the various stylistic devices
- Develop reference skills
- Write with clarity in a variety of forms and to a variety of audiences for different purposes using correct grammar and punctuation
- Write stories, reports and research papers using correct grammar and punctuation
- Mathematics
- Solve proportions
- Work with percents greater than 100 or less than 1
- Add/subtract/multiply/divide with integers
- Simplify using order of operations
- Find perimeter/area/volume/surface area of geometric shapes and solids
- Solve fractional part problems and equations with variables on both sides
- Solve equations with variables on both sides
- Science
- Identify cells as the basic structure and function of living things
- Explore cell division and genetics
- Examine reproduction and life cycles
- Describe the main functions of the animal/human body systems
- Classify living things
- Gain an understanding of ecosystems
- Social Studies
- Review U.S. history beginning with Civil War
- Examine the Reconstruction
- Explore the Westward Expansion of the U.S.
- Study the Industrial Age, Gilded Age and U.S. participation in WW I
- Examine effects of WW I on the Great Depression and the U.S. involvement in WW II
- Map skills and identification of geographical features
- Religion
- Gain an understanding of the New Testament
- Gain an understanding and appreciation of the Liturgy
- Understand our challenge to live holy lives and to work for the building of God’s kingdom on earth
- Study Catholic morality
- Enrichment
- Art
- Music
- P.E.
- Library
- Computer
- Spanish
- Special Activities and Celebrations
- 7th grade/1st grade buddy activities
