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Category Archives: 7th Grade
YAWP
by Mrs. De Leon BTU 7th graders Anne Jean, Jasmine Perez, and Juaquin Cruz participated in last month’s Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP) at the Grub Street Creative Writing Center in Boston, a FREE program held one Saturday a month (12-4 PM). Anne, Jasmine, and Juaquin attended the fiction workshop and read their work in … Continue reading
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7th Grade Math
Seventh Graders have been finishing their Pre-Algebra units this winter getting prepared to move into some real Algebra work! Working through Ratios and Proportions, Geometry, Data Analysis, and Probability, seventh graders are now prepped for Algebra for the rest of the school year — Linear Equations, Symbolic Method (Solving for X), Problem-Solving, and Graphing Equations. … Continue reading
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Diversity of Life
From September to December, 7th and 8th grade scholars embark on the study of Life Science. In the 7th grade unit, Diversity of Life, we take a close look at what it means to be living and how that is different from a living organism. We establish that there are in fact eight characteristics that … Continue reading
Seventh Graders Study Ancient Greek Drama
Seventh Graders Study Ancient Greek Drama by Mrs. Allen In English class, the seventh graders are reading the ancient greek tragedy of Agamemnon. At our desks (which are now arranged in a formation to mimic the Theater of Dionysus) we read and analyze the text one day, and perform it aloud the next. Students who … Continue reading
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Weather, Force and Motion, and a new partnership for 6th and 7th Grade Scientists
Sixth grade science is having a good time studying weather with all the recent snowstorms. Topics of water vapor and dew point have been tackled of late as we try to understand condensation, evaporation and the ever-present precipitation that has been occurring on a weekly basis in the form of . . ., well let’s not … Continue reading
In math class we do a lot of decimals
From Daeshawn McLaughlin, a student in Mr. Weinstein’s math class: In math class we do a lot of decimals. We add them, subract them, multiply them and we also divide them. For example: .25 X .45 = 1/50 – 1.40 = 1.25 X .7 = 7.38/.3 = After vacation we will start another unit … Continue reading
