ACADEMIC PLANNING FOR SEVENTH GRADE

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ACADEMIC PLANNING FOR SEVENTH GRADE
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• Seventh graders take four core subjects
• English
• Life Science
• American Studies
• Math (teacher will give recommendations at end of
  the year)
• Math 7
• Math 8
• Intensified Algebra I
• All students will take PE/Health

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Choosing Classes

• You will have two elective periods
• They may be filled with
• A language (year long)
• Music (year long)
• Electives (two courses to fill a year or four if
  no language or music is chosen)

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• They may begin their study of a foreign language
  by selecting from the following
• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• Latin
• Spanish

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• Language classes meet daily all year and earn
  high school credit.
• Arabic and Chinese occur during the school day
  and may be offered via distance learning if
  enrollment is not sufficient to staff at school.

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• Seventh graders may begin/ continue their study
  of a musical instrument by selecting one of the
  following
• Beginning Band
• Intermediate Band
• Experienced Band. Tryouts for Wind Ensemble will
  be conducted in February.
• Orchestra
• Chorus

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• Seventh grade exploratory courses meet daily for
  a semester and include
• Visual Art
• Theatre Arts
• Digital Input Technologies
• Inventions and Innovations
• Teen Living
• Chorus

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Exploratory classes continued
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Visual Art

• creative design process
• Typical 2D art projects include the use of
  drawing, pastels, sharpies, mixed media,
  painting, and printmaking.
• 3D art projects include clay tiles and
  paper/cardboard construction.
• Art 1 students will use a sketchbook and
  participate in weekly sketchbook assignments.
  Students will learn how to talk about and write
  about their art.

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Theatre Arts

• Further explore the skills and techniques used in
  6th grade theatre arts.
• Games to build observation, listening and trust.
• Improvised outlines and develop them into
  presentations.
• Technical qualities of the voice.

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Digital Input Technologies

• Input and emerging technologies including
• Typing
• Voice recognition
• Handwriting recognition
• Mobile devices

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Inventions and Innovations

• Investigate famous inventors and the inventions
  that changed the world. 
• "Shark Tank". 
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• Use CAD programs and print some of those things
  in the 3D printer. 
• Other projects include
• mousetrap powered cars
• water rockets. 
• Our final project will be to simulate a toy
  manufacturing company where we will mass-produce
  toys designed by the students. 

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Teen Living
SEVENTH GRADE OVER-VIEW SEMESTER SEVENTH GRADE OVER-VIEW SEMESTER SEVENTH GRADE OVER-VIEW SEMESTER
Clothing Construction Foods and Nutrition Personal Development
Reversible Tote-bag DOUBLE QUILTED PENCIL POUCH FIBER FLYER Safety Sanitation My Plate Guidelines Vegetables (Mexican Fiesta) Cheese Breakfast Homemade Pizza Brownie Comparison Homemade Pie Crust Top Chef Competition Babysitting Unit Modular Laptop Unit Nutrition Newsletter
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Journalism

• The 7th grade Journalism is a year-long class
  that teaches participants the nuts and bolts of
  reporting, such as
• Presentation across multiple platforms
• Print
• Broadcast (TV)
• Online
• Software
• iMovie
• MovieMaker
• PhotoShop
• iPhoto
• GarageBand
• GoogleDocs

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Chorus

• Varied repertoire of music from classics,
  multi-cultural, and modern pop
• Emphasis will be placed on group vocal
  development, basic musicianship, and dealing with
  the vocal change
• Students will perform in a minimum of two
  concerts per year plus the District Assessment
  and the opportunity to audition for the District
  Choir.

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Guitar

• For beginning players
• Guitar will be provided
• Can be taken as a semester or year long class.

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Graduation Requirements(High School)
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High School Courses for Credit

• A high school credit is earned upon completion of
  any high school level class.
• Students may begin earning high school credits in
  7th grade
• High school level courses which may be taken in
  middle school include
• High school languages beginning in 7th grade
• High school level math starting with Algebra
• World Geography (the 8th grade Social Studies
  course)

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• You will have the option at the end of each year
  to not accept the credit OR the grade so that it
  is not included in the High School GPA
• Students looking at an IB Diploma at WL need to
  start a language in 7th (including Latin).
• A verified credit is earned by passing the End of
  Course (EOC) SOL test. EOC SOLs are taken upon
  completion of certain high school credit core
  courses.

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Standard Diploma

• Discipline Area Credits of verified
• English 4 2
• Math 3 1
• Lab Science 3 1
• Social Studies 3 1
• Foreign Language, 2
• Fine Arts or CTE
• PE 2
• Economics 1
• Personal Finance
• Electives 4
• Additional Verified 1
• Total 22 6

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Advanced Studies Diploma

• Discipline Area Credits of verified
• English 4 2
• Lab Science 4 2
• Social Studies 4 2
• Math 4 2
• Foreign Language 3/4
• Health and PE 2
• Economics and 1
• Personal Finance
• Fine Arts or CTE 1
• Electives 3
• Additional verified 1
• Totals 26 9

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English High School Level Classes Grade 9
English 9 Block with World History (Reg. or
Adv.) Grade 10 English 10 (Reg. or
Adv.) Grade 11 English 11 (Reg. or AP) (SOL
for Reading and Writing, not EOC) Grade 12
English 12(Reg. or Adv.)
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Social Studies High School Level Classes Grade 8
World Geography (SOL) Grade 9 World History
Block with English 9 (Reg. or Adv.) (SOL) Grade
10 Up to you??? Grade 11 VA and US History
(SOL) Grade 12 VA and US Government
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Typical Science High School Level Classes Grade
9 Biology or Earth Science (Reg. or Adv.)
(SOL) Grade 10 Chemistry (SOL) Grade 11
Physics Grade 12 ???
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High School SOL Tests
MATH Algebra 1 (EOC) Geometry (EOC) Algebra 2
(EOC) SCIENCE Earth Space Science
(EOC) Biology (EOC) Chemistry (EOC)
SOCIAL STUDIES World Geography (EOC) World
History 1 (EOC) World History 2 (EOC) US VA
History (EOC) ENGLISH Reading 11th grade Writing
11th grade
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