Seventh Grade August Newsletter

Mrs. Gee - Math

betsy.gee@crossettschools.org

Ms. Hale - English

emily.hale@crossettschools.org

Coach Jones- U.S. History Beginnings

anaya.jones@crossettschools.org

Ms. McFarland - Science

kim.mcfarland@crossettschools.org

Blue: Birthdays

Maroon: Football Games

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In this unit, students learn to understand and use the terms “scaled copy,” “to scale,” “scale factor,” “scale drawing,” and “scale,” and recognize when two pictures or plane figures are or are not scaled copies of each other. They use tables to reason about measurements in scaled copies, and recognize that angle measures are preserved in scaled copies, but lengths are scaled by a scale factor and areas by the square of the scale factor. They make, interpret, and reason about scale drawings. These include maps and floor plans that have scales with and without units.

In Module 1, students are introduced to the daily lives of medieval Europeans. Immersed in the Middle Ages (500–1500 AD), students focus on identity and character and the impact of society on both.

OUR CLASS WILL ASK THESE QUESTIONS:

▪ How does society influence identity and experience?

▪ What do The Canterbury Tales reveal about identity and storytelling?

▪ What elements make for an engaging historical narrative?

During this Unit, our class will discover the answers to the following questions:

• Lesson 1: What evidence supports the continental drift hypothesis?
• Lesson 2: What evidence supports the theory of plate tectonics?
• Lesson 3: How does the movement of tectonic plates form mountains and volcanoes and cause earthquakes?