Course Descriptions 2024-25 - Grade 7 The information provided in this guide has been prepared to assist each student in developing a long-term program of academic preparation and in selecting courses for the 2024-25 school year. Students and their parents should carefully consider the curriculum offerings prior to determining course selection. Counselors and faculty advisors will assist students and parents in pre-enrollment and in planning for the future.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
English 7 #37711R English 7 is a full-year daily course. Seventh graders will examine literary and informational texts through in-depth analysis and frequent writing. They will also develop written pieces across a variety of modes and will demonstrate an understanding of standard English, including usage, mechanics and sentence structure. Students will develop vocabulary skills to help their reading and writing processes, and they will practice independent reading. Advanced English 7 #37711P Advanced English 7 is a daily, full-year course designed to provide a challenging curriculum that is aligned to the Arkansas ELA standards. At the advanced level, students move at an accelerated pace and grapple with literary analysis of more complex texts. Students also complete collaborative and independent writing tasks and project assignments that allow for critical thinking and foster the communication skills needed for higher-level courses.
MATHEMATICS
Math 7 #37731R Math 7 is a daily, full-year course. The focus of Math 7 instruction will include: developing understanding and applying proportional relationships; developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; solving problems involving scale drawings, and working with two and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area and volume and drawing inferences about populations based on samples. Advanced Math 7 #37731P Advanced Math 7 is a daily, full-year course designed to prepare students for Pre-AP Algebra I in the 8th-grade, as well as high school Advanced and AP math courses. All of the 7th-grade Arkansas Math Standards and one-half of the 8th-grade Arkansas Math Standards are included in this course. The other half of the 8th-grade math standards are included in junior high Pre-AP Algebra I. The focus of Advanced Math 7 instruction will include developing an understanding and applying proportional relationships; formulating and reasoning about expressions and equations; solving problems involving scale drawings, and working with two and three-dimensional shapes to solve problems involving area, surface area and volume; drawing inferences about populations based on samples; and analyzing two-dimensional figures using angle, similarity and congruence.
SCIENCE
Science 7 #37721R Science 7 is a full-year course based on Arkansas Science standards. The course utilizes a variety of hands-on, minds-on activities that require students to continually build on and revise their knowledge of the structure and properties of matter, interdependent relationships in ecosystems, matter and energy in organisms and ecosystems, chemical reactions, earth’s systems, the history of earth and human impact. Students will apply the
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