Seventh Grade Standards At A Glance 6-08
Literature
Literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension
Compare/contrast, cause/effect
Using resources: dictionaries, encyclopedias,
thesaurus
Writing skills: sentences, paragraphs
Vocabulary: context, figurative language
World analysis: decoding, syllables, compound
words
Speaking and listening skills
Critical thinking skills and Study skills
Foreshadowing, Irony
Comparisons: similes, metaphors
Vocabulary
Developing and enhancing vocabulary resources
Promoting more effective communication in today’s
world
Improving vocabulary skills assessed on standardized
and/or high school admission tests
English
Complete sentence and its two parts (subject and
verb) and kinds of sentences
In depth study of subject and verb, simple and
compound
Recognizing nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the
sentence and being able to use in writing
Defining, identifying and using verbs, adverbs,
prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections in
writing
Defining, identifying and using prepositional and
participial phrases: moving from one word to groups
of words
Recognizing direct and indirect objects and
diagramming and where they are placed in the
sentence
Recognizing predicate nominative and predicate
adjectives and where they are placed in sentence
Classification of sentences according to the kinds of
clauses they contain: simple, compound, complex,
compound-complex
Agreement in number of subjects and verbs
The principal parts and correct tense formation of
regular and irregular verbs and how to use in writing
Conjugation of verbs and consistency in use of
tenses
Recognizing difference between standard and
nonstandard English
Understanding errors in using nominative and
objective forms of personal pronouns
How to correctly use adjectives and adverbs and
avoid double negatives
A review of the basic rules of capitalization and how
to apply to writing
Correct uses of commas in writing
Correct use of semicolons, colons, italics, quotations,
apostrophes, hyphens
Identifying run-ons and fragments and how to
correct them
Writing as a process with brainstorming, prewriting,
editing and publishing and looking at how these
steps are related
Writing completely developed paragraphs
Writing five paragraphs essays
Main ideas and supporting details
Writing topic sentences
Recognizing and writing the different forms of
writing (narrative, descriptive, persuasive,
demonstrative, biography, reviews, etc.)
Recognizing and writing business, friendly and social
letters
Understanding the different types of poetic devises
(alliteration, assonance, rhyme, and using them in a
poem)
Analyzing a poem for different devices and forms
Importance of public speaking
The different ways of public speaking
Math
Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing real
numbers
Number line
Exponents and formulas
Simplifying/evaluating expressions
Solving equations with one variable
Solving inequalities with one variable
Polygons
Scientific notation
Factoring polynomials
Simplifying rational expressions
Ratios/proportions
Graphing ordered pairs
Relations, functions, variation
Graphing systems of linear equations
Radicals
Measurement
Probability/Chance/Odds
Transformations
Social Studies
Effects of the environment on the people of the
Americas as evidenced in the varied cultures and
civilizations
Three great migrations into North America
Understanding interaction of Native American and
European cultures and developing conflicts
Understanding importance of European cultures
especially English influences on development of
American political thought
Cultural diversity in early American colonies
Recognizing values/beliefs of American colonists in
relation to conflict with Great Britain
Recognizing emerging civil rights of colonists but lack
of toward black slaves and Native Americans
Understanding themes of conflict and cooperation in
wars and cooperation in the family
Understanding the problems with creating a
constitution
Civil Rights as written in the Bill of Rights but lack of
to women, blacks, foreigners
New Spirit of Republicanism affecting society and
thought
American idea of free enterprise
Understanding national identity and new spirit of
nationalism/patriotism
Continuing immigration/westward movement
contributing to American cultural diversity: growing
sectionalism
Understanding growing reform movement of 1800s
Improvement and changes in American
manufacturing (Lowell experiment)
Understanding idea of manifest destiny
Understanding life experiences of slaves
The abolitionist movement
Westward expansion
The growing crisis leading to the Civil War
The Civil War
Conflicting values/ideas that dominated
Reconstruction
Extending civil rights of black Americans through
amendments and Civil Rights Act of 1866
Closing the westerner frontier
Movement toward industrialization and urbanization
Stirrings of social reform and changes in political
attitudes
Migration movements: immigrants, Native
Americans
Imperialism
Progressive reform
Science
Matter and Energy
Forms of energy
Heat
Energy Resources
Electricity and Transformations
Magnetism
Force, Motion and Work
Newton’s Law
Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere
Objects and their motions in the solar system
Scientific Inquiry and Problem solving
Technology and Human activity
Religion
To understand and appreciate the identity of Jesus
as God’s son and as a human being born of Mary and
to respond to the question “Who do you say I am?”
To understand and appreciate the trust Jesus had in
himself in God and in others
To understand and appreciate Jesus’ love of friends,
his care for the suffering and his treatment of
strangers and outcasts
To help students become aware of the ways in which
Jesus continues to be present in the world, especially
through the Eucharist and through the
compassionate actions of members of the Body of
Christ
To help the students understand and appreciate the
way Jesus handled temptations, made decisions, and
dealt with the problems of life
Health & Safety
Praesidium Training Safety Program
Family Life
Developing Christian values
Recognizing peer pressure
Emphasizing students have the right to say no
Recognizing students need to get assistance during
stressful and/or confusing times of adolescence and
direct them to appropriate resources
Chastity
Respect for their own bodies and bodies of others
Awareness between love and infatuation
Students have the responsibility to say no
Recognizing consequences of actions
Recognizing subliminal messages in the media and
how to deal with them in a Christian manner
Recognizing the immorality of premarital sex
Music
Melody through listening, moving, playing, singing,
reading
Rhythm through listening, moving, playing, singing,
creating and reading
Harmony through listening, playing, singing, reading
Form through listening, singing and reading
Expression through listening, singing and reading
Style through listening, singing and reading
Skill: singing may reveal approaching voice change
with consequent limitations in individual ranges;
sings with increasingly expressive tone quality and
with good diction; has functional knowledge of all
notational symbols, and some common expressive
markings
Art
Manipulative skills: care of room and materials;
proper clean up; ability to use and control art tools
(scissors, paper, pencils, markers, clay); listening,
following directions, interpreting assignments
Color study: study colors by name
Design: study shapes, line, texture; use to create
symmetrical compositions
Drawing and painting; use of pencil, markers
Sculpture: identify and create 2D and 3D forms
Appreciation: it is important to value what is created
by self and others
Physical Education
Mechanical principles in skill and sport performance
Application of mechanical principles
Concentration of individual team skills
Health, fitness and nutrition of the body
Technology
How computers work
Advanced word processing
Review database
Introduction to using a spreadsheet
Introduction to PowerPoint presentation
Introduction to MSPublisher
Introduction to Internet and e-mail