GRADE 7 CURRICULUM *Sample Lesson Request Form at the Bottom of the Page*
Language Arts • Guided reading of children's classics including The Red Pony, biographies, short stories, non-fiction, myths, comprehension and interpretation with daily spelling and vocabulary • Discussion of descriptive, narrative writing and poetry writing, focusing on the planning and outlining of an essay • Discussion of diagramming simple, compound and complex sentences with emphasis on punctuation and a review of the parts of speech
Math • Math skill review with standard form, exponential form, factors, equalities and inequalities, variables and formulas, prime factorization, square roots, estimating, order of operations, decimals, geometry, the metric system and percents.
Science • Focus on the scientific method • Elementary physics • Solids • Liquids • Gases • Heat • Magnetism • Atoms • Electricity • Engines • Inertia • Fire • Weather • Photosynthesis • Composting • Friction • Sound • Environmental issues • Health and personal hygiene
Social Science • The study of maps • Climate • Landforms • Vegetation • Minerals • Rivers • Economies of Europe, the former Soviet Union, Oceania, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, India and Asia
Fine Arts • The art of the theatre • Music appreciation with a look at great musicians including Haydn, Bach, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky • Appreciation of great visual artists, including Michelangelo, Monet, O'Keeffe, Rembrandt, Cassatt , John Singer Sargent, and Leonardo da Vinci