SEVENTH GRADE

Help your child master the standards necessary to pass the STAR Writing Test and begin developing college writing skills.

7th Grade Literature and Writing Program:
The study of literature is important because it helps students develop critical thinking, reading comprehension, and writing skills while improving analytical abilities to ensure a successful academic future. Reading and studying literature from different time periods improves students?cultural literacy that, in turn, broadens their worldviews and perspectives. These classes will be taught using an interdisciplinary approach. Because many of the works and authors we cover are already in the high school and college curriculum, gaining an understanding of them as well as their historical time frame, will give students an academic advantage that their peers will not have. Furthermore, becoming familiar with several of these literary pieces will greatly benefit students taking New SAT, SAT Subject Tests or other AP exams.

Textbook
Townsend Thematic Reader

7th Grade Vocabulary & Grammar
Vocabulary and Grammar classes include vocabulary and grammar skill building exercises that are designed to help students build profound vocabulary and grammar skills by learning challenging vocabulary words and by learning grammar rules and structures step by step. Students' writing skills become more sophisticated by utilizing the vocabulary and grammar skills learned in this class and applying these skills to their writing.

Textbooks
Improving Vocabulary Skills
Middle School Handbook B

7th Grade Math Program – Pre-Algebra
Pre-Algebra is designed to prepare students for Algebra I and is a more traditional course offering additional practice with operations on integers and rational numbers including fractions, decimals, and percents. Students work on algebraic concepts such as solving equations, inequalities, and proportions, applying these to geometric topics of perimeter, area, volume, and right triangles. Other areas of study include graphing, statistics, probability, and polynomials. This course focuses on the development and strengthening of skills and concepts through regular practice devoted to each topic or concept, which is recurring through subsequent topics.

Textbook
Pre-Algebra Book

7th Grade Book Club
Book Club at CCA is designed to help students develop better reading habits as well as enhance their love of reading. Through discussing the stories, analyzing the characters andplot, studying vocabulary in context, and doing various activities related to story themes, reading becomes an enjoyable aspect of students?lives.
Textbooks will vary weekly.