Sixth/Seventh Grade Main Lesson Blocks
- Geology
- Astronomy
- Physics
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Human Physiology
- Ancient Rome
- Physical Geography
- Cultural Geography
- Middle Ages in Europe and Asia
- Renaissances in History
- Language Arts: Creative Writing
- Math: Business math, geometry, and perspective drawing
- Class Play
Seventh Grade Language Arts
- Study of many forms of poetry and short stories
- Writing poetry and prose in various styles
- Capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, paragraph formation, parts of speech, conditional and subjunctive modes
- Development of formal paragraphs and composition writing
- Non-fiction writing (personal responses, book report, geography report)
- Vocabulary and spelling skills work
- Speech exercises
- Class readers
Seventh Grade Math
1: Review of Number Theory
Review of all operations with and relations among fractions, decimals, mixed numbers and percents.
Place value and exponential powers of ten.
Review of factors, multiples, and divisibility.
- Prime numbers: using prime factorization to find least common multiples (LCM) and greatest common factors (GCF)
- Integers and signed numbers: opposites; absolute value; adding and subtracting signed numbers;
- multiplication and division of signed numbers; exponents and signed numbers; evaluating powers of negative bases
- Using the order of operations (including powers and roots) and symbols of inclusion to simplify numerical expressions
- Exponents and roots: estimating roots; powers and roots of fractions; exponents and signed numbers; evaluation of exponential expressions and radicals; roots of negative numbers; negative exponents; zero exponents
- Scientific notation and operations with scientific notation.
2: Practical and Consumer Math
- Measurement: convert within and between US Customary and metric measures.
- Ratios, rates and proportions; solving simple and complex proportions.
- Percent increase and decrease.
- Statistics: mean, median, mode, median, and range;
- Basic probability—definition and laws; permutations and the fundamental counting principle.
- Reading and making graphs.
3: Formal Algebra
- Order of operations with signed numbers and symbols of inclusion.
- Variables and their rules: terms, adding like terms, multiplying and dividing
- Equivalent equations: addition/subtraction rule for equations; multiplication/division rule for equations; using reciprocals.
- Equations with fractions and mixed numbers.
- Solving two step equations.
- Fractional part, decimal part, and percentage and percent increase word problems as equations.
- “Translating” English phrases and sentences into expressions and equations.
- The distributive property.
- Introduction to graphing linear equations including coordinates, slope, and table of values