Introduction to the Seventh Grade Year

Description

This overview book provides the teacher with the daily schedule as well as the block rotation for the entire year. There is a section devoted to understanding the adolescent years that the student is now entering, as well as reading lists for independent study and lists of the supplies needed for teaching seventh-grade.

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Table of Contents

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The Block Calendar Rotation

Here is one possibility for teaching the 7th grade in a block rotation style. For 7th grade home schooling, the typical morning main lesson is about 2 hrs.

Sample 7th Grade Block Rotation

Perspective Drawing (3-4 weeks)
European Geography (3-4 weeks)
Physics first Block (Color, Optics, Acoustics) (3 weeks)
Renaissance Biographies (3-4 weeks)

Winter Break

Wish, Wonder, Surprise First Block (3 weeks)
Introduction to Algebra (3-4 weeks)
Reformation Biographies (3 weeks)
The Age of Exploration (3-4 weeks)
along with Astronomy (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo) (1 week)
(Part II of your Astronomy book from 6th grade is 7th grade material)

Spring Break

Wish, Wonder, Surprise Second Block (3-4 weeks)
Physics second block (Electromagnetism; Machines and Energy) (3 weeks)
Hygeia: Physiology and Nutrition (3-4 weeks)
With Nature, Number, Geometry (1 week)
— (the last section of this book from your 6th grade materials is especially suited for 7th grade and can accompany Physiology)