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.
Sample Lesson
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)
- The Live Education Books for Seventh Grade
- Materials Needed
- Water Color Painting Supplies
- Materials Needed for Physics
- Main Lessons and Block Rotation
- Block Rotation for the Year
- After Main Lesson Practice Periods
- The Four Parts of the Daily Main Lesson
- Suggestions for Opening Activities
- The Review of the Previous Lesson
- The Lesson Presentation
- The Lesson Activity
- Opening and Closing Verses
- Understanding the Seventh Grade Student
- Between Twelve and Fourteen: Pubescence
- The Adolescent Years
- Reading Lists