Academics

Religion

• New Testament

• Church History

• Morality

• Creed

• Saints

• Family Life

• VIRTUS

• Prayers

• Weekly mass led by students

• Stations of the Cross

• Living Rosary

• 7th Grade Retreat

• 7th Grade Vocations Mass

Language Arts

• Writing: Personal Narrative, Descriptive Essay, Persuasive Essay, Informational, Realistic Fiction, Literary Essay, Memoir

• Reading Skills: Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring & Predicting, Synthesizing, Evaluating

• Writing Conventions: Spelling, Grammar, Capitalization, Punctuation, Paragraphing

• Grammar: Subjects, Predicates & Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Punctuation

• Reading Genres: Poetry, Mysteries, Historical Fiction, Scientific Fiction

• Spelling/Vocabulary

• Accelerated Reading

Math

• 7th-graders study Pre-Algebra

• Real Number and Integer Operations - adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with negative and positive whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.

• Equations and Inequalities -  1- and 2-step equations with integers and real numbers

• Squares and Exponents - positive and negative exponents, scientific notation, perfect and non-perfect squares and square roots

• Collecting, Displaying, and Analyzing Data - surveys, measures of central tendency, variability, tables, bar graphs, line graphs, box-and-whisker plots, stem-and-leaf plots, scatter plots, data, misleading data

• Plane Geometry - parallel and perpendicular lines, angles, triangles, polygons, transformations in the coordinate place, congruence and symmetry

• Perimeter, Area and Volume - rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, circles, prisms, cylinders, cones, spheres, Pythagorean Theorem,

• Ratios and Similarity - ratios, rates, unit rates, proportions,  similar figures, dilations

• Percents - converting between percents, fractions and decimals, percent change, tip, tax, simple and , interest

• Probability - experimental and theoretical probability, Fundamental Counting Principle, permutations and combinations, independent and dependent events, odds

• Algebra Skills - combining like terms, Distributive Property, functions

Science

3 Year Rotating Curriculum:

• Year A: Earth Science - prehistory, plate tectonics, fossils, weather, atmosphere, solar system, water cycle, soil/rock/mineral formation

• Year B: Physical Science - force/motion/energy, waves/sound, atoms/Periodic Table, chemical/physical change, electricity, magnetism

• Year C: Life Science - organism classification, cells, plant life cycle, photosynthesis, reproduction, ecosystems, human body systems

• Hands-on learning through labs, projects

• High school laboratory setting

• Lab report writing

• Group work

• New textbooks with online component

Social Studies

• Eastern Hemisphere: World Geography & History

Standardized Testing

• NWEA