Grade 7 Curriculum

Students in 7th Grade will:

 

• Explore Salvation History through the Old Testament
• Emphasize the revelation of Jesus Christ as the Word Made Flesh in the New Testament and reflect upon the Gospel message
• Evangelize the student through prayer, worship, and discussion of Catholic doctrine
• Discuss of the Call to Action and Catholic Social Teaching

Students in 7th Grade will:

 

• Examine the elements of literature: novels, short stories, and poetry
• Implement close reading techniques
• Read, discuss, and interpret a variety of genres in fiction (mystery, dystopia, coming of age) and nonfiction (essay, biography, speech)
• Define, establish and reproduce key literary devices/terms and techniques
• Cite textual evidence and annotate
• Write literary analyses
• Incorporate metacognitive strategies for comprehension, vocabulary, and study skills

Students in 7th Grade will:

 

• Practice and emphasize conventions of standard English grammar and usage
• Utilize phrases and clauses to strengthen sentence structure
• Increase sentence interest with the use of transitional, prepositional, gerund, participial, and infinitive phrases
• Refine paraphrasing skills throughout the research process
• Develop vocabulary attack strategies: spelling, incorporation, and context
• Extend sentence diagramming skills
• Employ Modern Language Association (MLA) style in final draft writing

Students in 7th Grade will:

 

• Develop an understanding of operations with rational numbers and describe relationships between sets of rational numbers
• Work with linear expressions to add, subtract, factor, expand and rewrite equivalent expressions.  
• Build off the understanding of linear expressions to solve one and two-step equations 
• Model, write and solve two-step inequalities
• Develop an understanding and application of proportional relationships
• Solve problems involving scale drawings and work with two- and three-dimensional shapes to determine area, surface area, and volume
• Draw inferences about populations based on samples

Students in 7th Grade will:

 

• Identify the ways cells contribute to the function of living organisms
• Compare how a system of living and nonliving things operate to meet the needs of the organisms in an ecosystem
• Explain how living organisms pass traits from one generation to the next
• Differentiate how organisms change over time in response to changes in the environment

Students in 7th Grade will:

 

• Define and elucidate an in-depth historical and anthropological study of six major ancient societies (Mesopotamia, Egypt/Middle East, India, China, Greece, and Rome).
• Explore a survey of major world religions with a focus on their origins and belief systems (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and major mythological systems from the Near East/Mediterranean World)

Students is 7th Grade are enrolled in the following specials classes, one Fine Arts elective, and one Technology elective.

 

 

• Computers
• Physical Education
• Spanish

 

• Vocations Awareness Day, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
• Tree Runner Adventure Park