7th Grade

7th grade is a pivotal year with a solid foundation of academics and social skills. Students begin the year with an overnight retreat focused on the theme of balance and their role at leaders within our school community. Students and teachers collaborate on academic, interpersonal, and executive functioning skills. Throughout the year, they are encouraged to step outside their comfort zones with the benefit of teacher support, learn and grow from the choices they make, and to become effective self-advocates.

7th Grade Curriculum

ELA

7th grade English Language Arts focuses on strengthening students' understanding of multiple types of texts. Throughout the year, students will complete units on narratives, informational texts, poetry, and public speaking. Students will engage with a variety of text types like novels, short stories, news articles, poems, and speeches. We will investigate how fiction is used to represent different aspects of our society, and how it can be used to highlight multiple perspectives. Throughout these units, students will complete projects and writing assignments that use argumentative, informational, and narrative writing skills.

Math

7th grade math will focus on four areas; developing understanding of and applying proportional relationships; developing understanding of operations with rational numbers and working with expressions and linear equations; solving problems involving scale drawings and informal geometric constructions, 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.

Science

7th grade science is a focus on Earth science. It is divided into three major themes; earth's history, weather and water, and space. An appreciation of Earth and the sky will be gained through hands-on interactions and experiments that will strengthen scientific techniques needed for the 8th grade.

Social Studies

7th grade social studies focuses on Washington State History. Students investigate civics, economics, geography, and history throughout this unit. Using critical thinking skills, students analyze how different historical events, environmental occurrences, and resources impacted Washington’s development and continue to impact our society today. Students also learn about Europe and the Middle East during the medieval period. During these units, seventh grade looks at how these societies created order and pushed for innovation while making connections to our current world.

Religion

In 7th grade religion the focus is on the life and teachings of Jesus. The Scripture that serves as a theme statement is Jesus’ question to his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Students learn about the historical Jesus and the Christ of their faith. The Gospel of Luke is the primary source because of its focus on inclusion and social justice. The culmination of this study is a dramatization of the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday for the whole school community.