7th Grade Weekly Overview!
March 11-15, 2024
Course | Teacher | Here is what’s happening this week! |
ELA | EQ: How can I be more Media Literate? We continue to read a LOT, watch videos, discuss, and write about topics that affect our own Media Literacy. Scholars now know that Recommendation Algorithms deliver to them exactly what appeals to them, creating a filter bubble. These algorithms use our own cognitive and confirmation biases to reinforce what we already believe. They also use Rhetorical Devices (Ethos, Pathos, Logos) loaded language, misinformation, and fake news. In order to be critical thinking consumers of information we have learned ways to analyze what we see and hear online, including understanding what DIALECTICAL THINKING is and how LATERAL READING (ask about each!) can be an awesome tool to help us separate facts from misinformation. This makes for an awesome “dinner table” discussion! This unit explores how we perceive and interpret the information around us. We will be examining what being media literate means, and how to think critically about what we see and read online and on social media. | |
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Science | We are working on the Earth Systems and Processes and will complete Atmospheric Layers on Wednesday of next week. Here is the link to the work they have been doing. | |
Social Studies | We’ve been learning about the Columbian Exchange and the impact of European exploration and colonization of the Americas. This week we’ll be learning about the Middle Passage and the Atlantic slave trade. | |
Spanish | The phrase of the week: ¡Eso apesta! That stinks! Students will be doing various activities around the much anticipated Señor Wooly song, Billy y las botas 2. | |
PE | Coach Dameron - Track and Field Unit National Parks Group Project Coach Burroughs- We have started our pickleball unit and are working on stress management strategies. | |
AVID | 7th grade AVID has focused on community building and the basics of organization for the first few weeks of school. We’re now moving into the Tutorial process, in which students will form collaborative groups to assist one another with challenging questions and “Points of Confusion” in their academic classes. | |
PLTW Green Energy | We are preparing presentations to share our research on a technology artifact and are excited to see what students have discovered! | |
PLTW Design and Modeling | Check Back Next Week. | |
Art | Self portraits are well under way. Students began by practicing photo realism in drawing either a fork or a marble sculpture as seen in the photo below. Below that are two self portraits that have been completed by 8th graders. | |
Chorus | Please refer to the weekly choral newsletter. | |
Band | We will be sending out a bi-weekly band specific newsletter that will have all necessary reminders and upcoming events for band! If you do not receive it, please email us so we can add you to our list! | |
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