7th Grade Curriculum

Benziger - By My Disciples

• Forms of Prayer
• New Testament and the Early Church
• Scripture passages to deepen students’ understanding of the biblical message
• Seasonal lessons to celebrate seasonal feasts and the seasons of the Church’s liturgical year
• Doctrine of the Church is reinforced from the Catechism of the Catholic Church
• Weekly attendance at Mass with emphasis on full, alive, and conscious participation
• Stewardship projects
• Reenactment of the Stations of the Cross

Prentice Hall Literature

• Literary forms – essays, poetry, short stories, drama, and folk tales
• Identify literary elements in poetry including similes, metaphors, hyperbole, rhythm, rhyme, figurative language
• Characterization and theme in drama
• Understanding plot, characterization, setting and theme in short stories
• Point of view
• Vocabulary in context - developing strategies for decoding and comprehension
• Comprehension and Critical Thinking
• Accelerated Reader - requires 5 novels per trimester

Grammar

• Parts of Speech
• Complements
• Sentence Structure
• Agreement
• Using Verbs correctly
• Verb Tense
• The Clause

• Literature Responses
• Paragraph writing
• Essay writing - argumentative, narrative, and expository
• Creative writing
• Poetry writing

 

Mathematics

• Decimals and Integers
• Algebra: Equations and Inequalities
• Exponents, Factors, and Fractions
• Operations with Fractions
• Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
• Percent
• Geometry
• Geometry and Measurement
• Algebra: Patterns and Rules
• Algebra: Graphing the Coordinate Plane
• Displaying and Analyzing Data
• Using Probability

Social Studies

Prentice Hall - Medieval and Early Modern Times

• The Roman Empire
• The Byzantine Empire
• Islamic Civilization
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Civilizations in the Americas
• Civilizations in East Asia
• Europe in the Middle Ages
• Early Modern Europe

 

Discovery Education - Next Generation Science

• Seventh graders will begin their study of scientific inquiry and gain hands on learning experience of the scientific method through laboratory investigation.
• Students will discover aspects of life science by studying the simplest forms of life from bacteria and viruses, to cells and heredity, genetics, DNA/RNA, meiosis and mitosis, to larger organisms of the animal kingdom.
• Classifying objects, making observations, forming hypotheses and valid experiments, collecting and interpreting data, and forming conclusions based o experiments are all skills introduced in seventh grade and carried forward into eighth grade.
• Throughout the year, students are expected to maintain a formal science journal where they will record class notes, vocabulary, and lab experiments.
• Each quarter seventh graders will have a formal lab write-up and at least one science diagram or hands-on project to complete.
• Current events are also very important with regards to scientific discovery. Student’s will read and discuss articles found in Jr. Scholastics, Science World magazine to help keep them informed of currents theories and trends in science and technology.