7th Grade Weekly Plan
Week 22: (Jan. 20-24th)
Current Unit: The Renaissance! Renaissance Museum! Research, prepare & share museum exhibits showing off different places and highlights of the Renaissance / Review for test which will be early the next week! Week 21: (Jan. 13-17th) Current Unit: The Renaissance! Discuss/Reflect on the Trade Game / The Renaissance - Stations / Notes: City States, Rulers & Art / Da Vinci's notebook - add your own page! / Share notebooks / Read da Vinci article & reflect / Michelangelo - article, notes/video & Sistine Chapel activity / Legacy discussion & card Week 20: (Jan. 7-10th) Current Unit: The Renaissance! Welcome back / Letter to Me / Catch up on the news / Renaissance Review / How did the Renaissance begin? - discussion, notes, video & trade game Week 19: (Dec. 16-20th) Current Unit: The Renaissance! Work on Renaissance Project on Adobe Spark / Share & Learn from Adobe Spark Projects / Review / 1st Semester Reflection & Survey |
Week 18: (Dec. 9-13th) Current Unit: The Renaissance! The Black Plague -What was it & why was it important? / The Renaissance! - Ch. 28 Vocab due Wednesday / Renaissance project on Adobe Spark (due Tuesday!) Week 17: (Dec. 2nd-6th) Current Unit: The Church Review games over the Crusades / IXL: The Crusades / Review & Test over the influence of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages Week 16: (Nov. 25-26) Current Unit: The Church Finish stations on The Crusades & community service event! Week 15: (Nov. 18th-22nd) Current Unit: The Church Share "1 pagers" while reading and summarizing your section of the chapter / Review the main ideas! / "The Crusades Bring Change" Newspaper activity / The Crusades - Stations: What were they? Why did they happen? What effects did they have? Week 14: (Nov. 11th-Nov. 15th) Current Unit: The Church Create The Church "1 Pagers" to show & share learning of your section of the chapter Week 13: (Nov. 4th-Nov. 8th) Current Unit: The Church Review / Middle Ages Test on Tuesday! (Study using your Quizlet & notes!) / Ch. 25 vocab due Wednesday / Vocab activity / Discussion & notes on the Catholic Church's influence in the late Middle Ages Week 12: (Oct. 28th-Nov. 1st) Current Unit: The Middle Ages Analyze documents & make conclusion about whether the Dark Ages were really "dark" / Prepare essay questions for test & review unit Week 11: (Oct. 21-25th) Current Unit: The Middle Ages Review: Parts of a castle, knights / IXL: Feudal Europe (due Wed.) / Common People (peasants) in the Middle Ages reading & worksheet / Begin Dark Ages inquiry lesson Week 10: (Oct. 14th-18th) Current Unit: The Middle Ages Sec. 3 Notes - Life in a castle / Would you trade your life for the life of a noble? - discussion / Read Sec. 3 for Wednesday! / Sec. 3 Quiz over Knights / Inquiry lesson on knights / Knights - notes, discussions & activity Week 9: (Oct. 7th-11th) Current Unit: The Middle Ages Sec. 2 Notes - Land & Power in the Middle Ages / Nobility of Europe article & questions due Tuesday / Ranking the Nobles activity / Tour a medieval castle! - NearPod virtual tour / Sec. 3 Notes - Castles Week 8: (Sep. 29-Oct. 4th) Current Unit: The Middle Ages Ch. 24 Quizlet due Monday / "Feudalism Comes to Europe" article & questions / Notes & discussion on land & government in the Middle Ages / Middle Ages newspaper / Nobility article, questions, & ranking activity / Watch, summarize & share about CNN 10 on Friday in teams to catch up on news for the week Week 7: (Sep. 23-27) Current Unit: The Middle Ages Ch. 24 Vocab & Chapter preview - Put Ch. 24 Vocab on a Quizlet by Friday!/ Reading & creating timelines using BCE & CE (and BC & AD) / Understanding Roman Numerals / What is feudalism & how did their lives look in the Middle Ages? Week 6: (Sep. 16-20) Current Unit: Geography 101 - What is geography & how do you study it? Latitude & Longitude practice / Make a world map w/ items on it (Tues.) / Review (Quizlet will be in Classroom) / Geography 101 Test on Thursday! / Ch. 24 Middle Ages vocab on Friday Week 5: (Sep. 9-13) Current Unit: Geography 101 - What is geography & how do you study it? Map Skills-Longitude & Latitude, Scale, Continents & Oceans, Compass Rose, Hemispheres & more -> Test Tuesday, 9/17 as of now. 9/11 Lesson on Wednesday! Week 4: (Sep. 3-6) Current Unit: Geography 101 - What is geography & how do you study it? If the World Were a Village of 100 People - What would it look like? / What is culture and how should we learn about it? / Time Zones mini-lesson & practice Week 3: (Aug. 26-30) Current Unit: Geography 101 - What is geography & how do you study it? The 5 Themes of Geography - Discuss, notes & activities / The World We Live In - guided research on basics to know about the world / If The World Were 100 People Week 2: (Aug. 19-23) Weekly Warm-Up / Bellringers this year Survey / Why study history? / Geography 101 Pre-Test (not graded) / The 5 Themes of Geography *No homework, unless students do not finish things in class this week. Week 1: (Aug. 14-16) Welcome to the class / Expectations / Get to know each other |