Check here for all essential information for 7th grade. Updates will be made regularly.
2016-17 School Year
Welcome Back!!!! This website provides an overview for all of our work for the 2016-17 school year. Course materials will be available here or on our Google Classroom page. (Parents: for the time being to access our Classroom page at www.classroom.google.com you will need to use your student's login. This can be found in their agenda).
Please email me at [email protected] if you have any questions.
2015-16 School Year
7th Grade Topic Materials: Cold War
Standards: 7-5.1-7-5.5
Dates: 3/5/16-3/26/16
Cold War Test: 4/5/16
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7th Grade Topic Materials: Holocaust, Zionism, and Middle Eastern Conflicts
Standard: 7-4.6
Dates: 2/24/16 - 3/4/16
Tentative Quiz Date: TBA
Holocaust Notes
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Survivor Testimony Identification Card
Website for Reference: www.iwitness.usc.edu |
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7th Grade Topic Materials: World War II
Standard: 7-4.5
Dates: 2/8/16 - 2/23/16
Tentative Test Date: 2/23/16
Causes of WWII Powerpoint
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Fighting WWII Powerpoint
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Pacific Front & Close of War Powerpoint
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7th Grade Topic Materials: Totalitarian Governments of the 1930s
Standard: 7-4.4
Dates: 2/1/16 - 2/5/16
*Quiz on Friday 2/5/16: Standards 7-4.2 - 7-4.4 will be assessed
Totalitarian Govt. Powerpoint
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Wanted Poster Template
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Writing Assignment
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7th Grade Topic Materials: The Great Depression
Standard: 7-4.3
Dates: 1/26/16 - 2/1/16
Great Depression Powerpoint
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FDR's Fireside Chat Writing Assignment
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7th Grade Topic Materials: Treaty of Versailles
Standard: 7-4.2
Dates: 1/20/16 - 1/25/16
Treaty of Versailles Powerpoint
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Treaty of Versailles vs. 14 Points Newspaper Assignment
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7-3 Test Tentatively Scheduled for 12/16/15
Below are the Study Guides for the Unit test. Students should use their notebooks to answer.
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7-3lapetitpacketpage2.docx | |
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10/30/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Trial of King Louis XVI
HW: Essential Questions
10/29/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Notes 7-3.1 Reign of Terror
2. Trial of King Louis XVI Prep
HW: Picture Dictionary
10/28/15: Early Release
Today's Agenda:
1. Bastille Skits
10/27/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Notes 7-3.1: Storming of the Bastille
2. Timeline
3. Bastille Skits
HW: None
10/23/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. 3rd Estate Protest Posters
10/22/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. 7-3.1: Causes of the French Revolution Notes
2. Sensory Figures
HW: AND1 Test Corrections
10/21/15:
Today's Agenda:
7-2 Test
10/20/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Review Study Guid
2. Review Games
HW: Study
10/19/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Wrap up 7-2.5
2. Study Guide Time
TEST on WEDNESDAY
HW: Study Guide & Study
10/15/15:
Today's Agenda:
Lab time with Guidance
10/14/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Finish English Civil War Comics
2. 7-2.4 EQs, PDs, & HFs
10/12/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. CNN Student News
2. Notes 7-2.4
3. English Civil War Sensory Figures
HW: None
10/1/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Review of Scientific Revolution
2. Notes 7-2.3: The Enlightenment
3. Enlightenment Graphic Organizer
4. Enlightenment Text Convo
HW: Wrap up section 7-2.2 in Notebook (PDs, EQs, HFs)
9/29/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. 7-2.1 Quiz
2. Finish Baseball Cards
9/28/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Review of Types of Government
2. Absolute Monarchs Notes
3. Absolute Monarchs Baseball Cards
HW: EQ #2 pg. 52; Study for Test
9/24/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Review 7-1 Test (Students were given optional corrective assignment called an "And1")
2. Notes 7-2.1
3. Types of Govt. Reading
HW: 7-2.1 PD (pg. 53)
9/23/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. 7-1 Test
HW: None
9/16/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Notes 7-1.5: Colonization in Americas
2. Graphic Organizer
3. Teddy Graham Colonies
4. Wrap Up DBQ
HW: pgs. 34-35 (Due Friday)
9/15/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. African Slave Trade DBQ
HW: None
9/9/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Capitalism vs. Mercantilism
2. 7-1.1-7-1.4 Quiz
3. Adam Smith Facebook page
HW: 7-1.4 Essential Questions (pg. 22)
9/5/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Finish Notes on Capitalism (7-1.5)
2. Capitalism vs. Socialism Reading
3. Pros & Cons of Capitalism Chart
4. Adam Smith Facebook page
HW: 7-1.4 Picture Dictionary (pgs. 22-23)
9/4/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Notes 7-1.4: Capitalism
2. Indiana Jones & Supply and Demand
8/28/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Caravel Challenge!
2. Ship Wreck Assignment
3. 7-1.2 PD/EQ
HW: None
8/27/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Notes 7-1.2
2. Caravel Challenge!
HW: None
8/25/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain Activity
HW: 7-1.1 Historical Figures
8/24/15:
Today's Agenda:
1. Notes 7-1.1-European Exploration
2. Exploration Map Assignment
HW: 7-1.1 Picture Dictionary
8/21/15: Continents & Oceans Quiz
8/20/15: Continents Twister! Students will be reviewing the continents and oceans through the game of twister.
HW: Study for quiz!
Syllabus:
7th_grade_social_studies_with_ms._orchard_(1).pdf | |
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Parent Newsletter:
One of my goals this year is to increase positive communication about the progress of your students. I'd like to invite you all to sign up for our monthly newsletter. My vision is that this will be an update on the successes of your students and upcoming assignment and assessment due dates. I'd like to spotlight student successes and keep parents abreast to the content and activities that we are doing in class. I'm constantly trying to increase my communication with parents, so take advantage of this easy way to keep tabs on our Social Studies class!
To sign up: email me at [email protected] with your student's name & "Parent Newsletter" in the subject of the email.
---Ms. Orchard
To sign up: email me at [email protected] with your student's name & "Parent Newsletter" in the subject of the email.
---Ms. Orchard
2014-15 Information:
howtheycroakedresources.docx | |
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howtheycroakedassignmentdirections.pdf | |
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5/12/15-5/14/15: How They Croaked Research Project
Project sheets & rubrics will be given to students on 5/12/15.
5/10/15-5/11/15: MAP Testing
5/4/15-5/7/15: Preparation for S.S. PASS (May 8th)
4/27/15-5/1/15: PASS Review
4/20/15-4/25/15: PASS Review Packet
Worth a quiz grade, students were given 4 class days to work on it. (Due Monday 4/27/15)
4/16/15 - 4/17/15: Berlin Wall Simulation & Cold War ideologies
HW: pg. 134 Essential Questions & Picture Dictionary---This will be checked Monday
Bring your headphones Tuesday-Friday next week for ipad work
Bring your headphones Tuesday-Friday next week for ipad work
4/14/15-4/15/15: Wrap up of WWII & Zionism Movement
Students are working in their notebooks.
Holocaust Newspaper Assignment: 4/7/15
newspaperturnindirections.pdf | |
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Holocaust Newspaper Assignment Sheet | |
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Newspaper Template | |
File Size: | 5311 kb |
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