2021 Seventh Grade Parents' Night

Trinity Episcopal School September 2021

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2021-2022 | Middle School | Seventh Grade Parents?Night

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Visit trinitynola.org.

Select the myTrinity tab.

- Log in using your parent
login information.

- Choose the Groups tab Seventh/Eighth Grade Core Subject Team
and click on your child?s ...................................................................
grade. This tab includes
the test calendar and Mallory Avin Sean Murphy
schedule. Math Science
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- The Calendar tab
allows you to see Steven Breen Grace Perez
athletics and specials Math Spanish
events happening at [email protected] [email protected]
Trinity.
Adam Hayden Anna Sterne
- The Progress tab Language Arts English
located under your [email protected] [email protected]
child's photo allows you
to see your child's Grace Leyrer Julie Tresca
current grades. French History/Geography
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- Practice - Reinforcement of Welcome to Seventh Grade United States History & that f
content or skills learned in class. Literature! This year we will work to make history come the d
alive as we examine and engage critically with a all su
- Preparation - Front-loading and variety of sources, including fiction, poetry, art and are a
addressing needs in preparation primary documents to build our reading and historical equa
for what is to come. inquiry skills. We will ask questions such as, ?What is roots
the author?s perspective??and ?What do other deter
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history of the past to the present with a focus on inequ
- Entrance or Exit Ticket - Not American current events while we develop our civic polyn
graded. Provides teachers with a online reasoning skills. Our units will be taught through inclu
snapshot of students? integration, tying together literature and historical radic
understanding. Allows teachers to context.
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process. Throughout the year topics to be explored will include
the foundations of the United States and the Stude
- Learning Check - No specific Constitution, narratives by enslaved people, and our on th
work required beyond assigned country?s struggle to become a sovereign nation as ocea
practice or preparation. Low point well as the struggle within our country during the Civil scien
value assigned. War and Reconstruction. We will focus on the Earth
importance of democratic values and becoming civic histo
- Progress Assessment - What is minded citizens. Within each unit we will consider world
typically known as quizzes or overarching concepts such as: ?What is freedom?? includ
individual steps within a larger ?What does it mean to be free??and ?People make tecto
project. Higher point value choices; choices make history.? atmo
assigned. Requires focused
studying. .M..a..t.h...................................................... S...p..a.

- Final Assessment - Major tests Pre-Algebra - A strong foundation for Algebra I is This y
and final projects. Summative. developed through an in-depth study of the real number comm
This is where students prove they system, rational number operations, algebraic expressions We w
have learned the content/skills / equations / inequalities, angle properties, surface area Span
they were taught. and volume of 3-dimensional figures, and probability. The
year will wrap up with students mastering the language A Cul
and tools needed for future success by fine-tuning their chapt
ability to solve for an unknown in a multi-step equation, the devel
use of variables and expressions, operations with real or Ke
numbers, powers, square roots, the order of operations, their c
and simplifying expressions. visua
the fir

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ugh the study of axioms, properties, and definitions
form the foundation of algebra and their application to French students will continue to expand their listening,
development of techniques for solving problems over reading, speaking, and writing skills. Key topics of this
ubsets of real numbers. Specific topics emphasized year include the following: Who am I?, The Weekend,
absolute value, simplifying algebraic expressions / Ordering Food, Leisures, and Pastimes. Students will
ations / inequalities, evaluating exponents and square be encouraged to maintain vocabulary through daily
s, coordinate graphing, identifying linear functions, practice and preparation. In addition, students can use
rmining equations of lines and inequalities, solving Gimkit, Kahoot, Classzone, and Quizlet to support their
ems of linear equations, graphing systems of linear French acquisition. Students will also research and
ualities, naming polynomials, operations with learn about Francophone countries and their culture
nomials, solving quadratics using multiple methods, through short- and long-term projects.
uding the quadratic formula, and operations with
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e..n...c.e................................................. In language arts, we will focus on employing our
understanding of written language and its construction to
ents will study Earth science this year, focusing make rhetorical and stylistic choices as we expand our
he four main branches of Earth science ? geology, knowledge of grammar, usage, and mechanics. In addition
anography, meteorology, and astronomy. In Earth to creating writing projects in class, students will have the
nce, we will explore how the four spheres of the opportunity to workshop and revise their English and social
h interact with each other throughout the course of studies coursework. Finally, we will continue to develop our
ory and how these interactions have shaped our media literacy skills, evaluating the credibility, utility, and
d. Topics from this class that will be covered veracity of published content.
de the composition and history of Earth, plate
onics, weathering and erosion, the oceans, P...h..y..s..ic..a..l..E..d..u..c..a..t.i.o..n...............................
osphere, and space.
Students will continue to work on their skill development in
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and healthy habits to maintain through high school. Grades
year, Spanish students will continue to develop their will be based on class participation, fitness assessments,
munication skills via reading, writing, and speaking. and skills/written assessments.
will also dive into the different cultures of various
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ltural Project of Research (CPR) is assigned for each Students have the opportunity to select from a variety of
ter for the country we are studying. These include electives based on their individual interests for each
loping an oral presentation, creating a Google Slides quarter of the year. These electives change from time to
eynote presentation, writing six sentences shared with time but often include music, religious studies, drama,
classmates in the target language, and making a visual art, CPR/first aid, photography, yearbook, and
al. A detailed sheet was given to each student when service. This fall, options included watercolors, bells, voice,
rst project was assigned. and photography.

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The main roles of Google Classroom are to provide a Anne Bisbano
consistent means of handling the flow of digital paper and Middle School Head
to facilitate communication between teacher and student. [email protected]
As we are all aware, consistency with Middle School
students is vitally important. This tool is not, however, Kayce Stackel
intended to be used as a primary parent information tool. Learning Support
[email protected]
One of the main purposes served by Google Classroom is
to support the student planner where students record Brian Mull
assignments that need to be completed at home each Technology
evening. These postings include all practice and [email protected]
preparation, whether ?analog?or digital, in all classes. This
brings us to some of the confusion you may have as you Caroline Fleiner
look at your child?s assignments in Google Classroom. School Counselor
[email protected]
When you look at an assignment, you may see that it is
marked either as completed or not completed. This stamp
is completely automated. It is not something triggered by a
teacher or student. It is triggered by a digital assignment
being submitted through Google Classroom. However, if
the assignment is a reading, something handwritten,
something printed, or something completed and turned in
any other way, Google Classroom will still show the item as
incomplete. Therefore, using that stamp is not a reliable
way to check and see if your child has completed all of
his/her work.

All of this is to say that if you are checking into Google
Classroom, do so only to gain an understanding of what
has been assigned? not what has been completed. We do
appreciate your help in reviewing assignments with your
child, but we firmly believe that the responsibility of keeping
track of assignments is one we need to develop in our
students. If individual teachers do see an issue that needs
to be discussed, please know that they will reach out to you
directly. We invite you to do the same.

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Due to our current dismissal procedure, we will still offer
extra help after school, but it looks different than in years
past. Seventh and Eighth Grade students and teachers are
all in the gym where they can meet together as needed.

Please be sure to coordinate your pickup time with your
child should s/he need to receive extra help. This will help
to keep our carpool line flowing smoothly.