7th+Grade+Year+At+a+Glance


 * English**
 * 1st - Reading/Writing workshop, personal narrative, sentence construction, plot analysis, and start Greek/Latin roots
 * 2nd – Point of View (1st and 3rd), literature elements, autobiography, fiction, expository, writing process, transitions and parts of speech, homophones, theme, author’s purpose, setting
 * 3rd – poetry and figurative language, sentence structure, drama analysis, speaker’s purpose in speech
 * 4th – expository texts, arguments and counter-arguments, persuasive essays, letter writing, multi-paragraph essays, research
 * 5th – myths, epic tales, legends, review for STAAR, analogies, procedural texts
 * 6th – formal research paper and its components, multimedia presentation, work with a group to perform a task with written or oral

• 1st 6 Weeks – Geography, Native Texans & Exploration • 2nd 6 Weeks – Spanish Settlement & Government • 3rd 6 Weeks – Colonization & Texas Revolution • 4th 6 Weeks – Republic of Texas, Statehood, Civil War/Reconstruction • 5th 6 Weeks – Frontier Wars, Industrialization: Cattle, Cotton, Railroads, Oil • 6th 6 Weeks – Progressivism, WWI, Great Depression, WWII, & Modern Texas
 * History**


 * Science**
 * 1st---Lab Safety/Equipment; Cells & Living Systems
 * 2nd---Cells & Living Systems; Body Systems
 * 3rd---Body Systems; Genetics & Heredity
 * 4th---Genetics & Heredity; Sexual/Asexual Reproduction; Punnett Squares; Ecology
 * 5th---Ecology
 * 6th---Weathering & Erosion; Catastrophic Events; Earth, Sun, & Moon System


 * Math**

1st 6 Weeks 2nd 6 Weeks 3rd 6 Weeks 4th 6 Weeks 5th 6 Weeks 6th 6 Weeks
 * Absolute value, integers, models, algorithms
 * Positive and negative fractions
 * Fractions & mixed numbers with and without common denominators
 * Positive & negative decimals
 * Rational numbers
 * Powers & exponents
 * Square & square root models
 * Square roots without models
 * square roots for irrational numbers
 * Scientific Notation
 * Arithmetic sequence (dn +no = nth) (common difference (d) times
 * the position number (n) + value of the zero term
 * (no) = the value of the term)
 * Algebraic expressions
 * Distributive Property
 * Verbal equations to algebraic equations
 * One step equations with and w/o models
 * One step equations from a problem situation
 * Two step equations with and w/o models
 * Two step equations from a problem situation
 * Ratios, rates, Unit Rates (“best buy”)
 * Proportional & Non-Proportional Relationships
 * Rate of change
 * Solving proportions
 * Similar figures
 * Indirect measurement
 * Scale drawings & Scale factor
 * Unit conversions within the same system (customary and metric)
 * Proportional & Non-Proportional Relationships
 * Indirect measurement
 * Percent proportion, percent equation & percent of change
 * Quadrants, points on the coordinate plane
 * Translations, reflections & dilations
 * Table of values with a graphed line
 * Measures of Central Tendency to include mean, median and mode
 * Biased representation of the data
 * Best representation of the data
 * Measures of Variation to include: Upper quartile
 * Lower quartile, Inter-quartile range & range
 * Box & Whisker Plots
 * Frequency Tables
 * Line Plot, Stem & Leaf Plot
 * Bar Graph & Histogram, circle graph, Venn Diagram
 * Scatter Plots, Misleading/Select appropriate graphs
 * Simple Probability, counting methods, sample space
 * Sampling, composite events
 * Experimental/Theoretical Probability
 * Complementary/Supplementary Angles
 * Classify Triangles/Quadrilaterals
 * Properties of Triangles/Quadrilaterals
 * Perimeter, circumference & area
 * Area to include: squares, rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, & circles
 * Perimeter, circumference, area (squares, rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, & circles)
 * Work backwards to find missing dimensions (perimeter, circumference, and area)
 * Pythagorean Theorem
 * Polyhedron attributes, nets & views
 * Lateral/Total Surface Area to include: prisms, pyramids & cylinders
 * Volume (triangular/rectangular prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones & spheres)
 * Dimensional Change (surface area & volume)
 * Work backwards to find missing dimensions (surface area & volume)
 * One & two step equations
 * Properties
 * Variables on both sides of the equation
 * Equations with fractions by clearing the fractions
 * Two-step equations involving combining like terms
 * Two-step equations involving distributive property
 * Functions, function tables, graph functions
 * Slope & slope intercept form