Seventh Grade Summit

Oct. 7: CMS Football vs. Dewitt (home)

Oct. 13: End of the First Quarter

Oct. 14: CMS Football vs. Monticello (home)

Oct. 21: CMS Football vs. Hamburg (away)

Oct. 25: NO SCHOOL/Parent Teacher Conferences 12:00-6:00

Oct. 26: Picture Retakes

Oct. 31: Halloween

Power Focus Areas (PFA) = 21% of a student's grade

Additional Focus Areas (AFA) = 9% of a student's grade

English PFA "Structures in Poetry and Drama"

AR History PFA "Arkansas Beginnings"

October 18

Science PFA "Natural Resources"

October 26

Math PFA "Scale Drawings"

Math AFA "More on Rational Numbers Arithmetic"

English AFA "Mechanics 7"

Science AFA "Energy in Chemical Processes and Life"

History AFA "Where in the World Are We?"

Preparing for Content Assessments (Focus Area Tests)

Students should prepare for these tests during Advisory, SDL classes (once a week in each class), and for homework by doing the following:

1. Define Key Terms
2. Take notes over each objective
3. Take and pass the Diagnostic
4. Read over notes twice each night before bed

Encourage your student to take the Content Assessment WELL before the due date.

This Project will take students from the early people of Arkansas until right before the start of the Civil War. Students will look at ancient Native American tribes of Arkansas and how Arkansas gained statehood.

This unit provides multiple representations of proportional relationships, including tables, equations, and graphs. These representations and terms are offered as students reason about situations that involve constant speed, unit pricing, and measurement conversions.

A new film based off The Hunger Games is coming out next year. The students will use what they learn about how Earth’s ecosystems are formed in order to design a new arena for the film. Thus, their arena should look like an ecosystem one might see on Earth. As a group of Arena Designers, students decide where their arena is located, what is in their arena (geological features, natural resources, living and non-living things) and how the organisms interact. They also design a challenge for the contestants in the arena.

At the end of this Project, groups present their arena design (an Arena Model) to the director for their next film. Students have the option of presenting their arena as a diorama or poster-sized map. As individuals, they then create a Self-Guided Tour of their group’s arena, in the form of a brochure or flyer, so that the director has additional materials to consider as they make their decision about which type of arena to use in the upcoming movie.

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor, students. . .

We jump right into this story of twin brothers competing to be the best at basketball. They are forced to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous basketball player. The story of their lives and the challenges they face is told through poetry. This allows us to feel the ups and downs of life with Joshua Bell.

The rhythm and flow of poetry gives us a lot to explore:

• Structures that make poetry unique and emotional

• Word choice to make the writing bounce off the page, just like basketball.

In this project students will:

• Write a selection of poems to tell their own story (Poem Story)

• Write an analytical paragraph (Poem Analysis)

Math: Elise Cawthon, elise.cawthon@crossettschools.org

English: Emily Hale, emily.hale@crossettschools.org

Math: Kathleen Iverson, kathleen.iverson@crossettschools.org

Science: Kim McFarland, kim.mcfarland@crossettschools.org

Sign up for class reminders by texting the following codes to 81010 on your phone.

Cawthon: @c68hhcc

Hale: @halecms

Iverson: @4k829

McFarland: @4mcfarland