Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Grade 7

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE+
    • Beginnings of the great controversy
    • Creation and the fall of man
    • Flood and destruction of the world
    • Apostasy, repentance, reformation of the Hebrew people
    • Life of Jesus from birth to resurrection
    • Early Christian church to Reformation
    • Disappointment of 1844, Three angels’ messages
    • Millennium, New Jerusalem
    • Second coming of Christ
    • Controversy ended

  • ART

    • Watercolor and pastel

    • Sculpture and drawing

    • Graphics

    • Color theory

    • Architecture: history and construction

    • Elements and principles of design

    • Forms in composition

    • Proportion and perspective

    • Still life and scapes: sea, land, city, sky

    • Major individual project

    • Art history and appreciation

  • COMPUTERS

    • Socioeconomic impact

    • Computer types: IBM, Apple

    • Modem, fax, networking, bulletin boards

    • Keyboard: speed, accuracy

    • Database management

    • Columns, tables, graphs

    • Desktop publishing: review and practice

    • Menus

    • Criminal misuse of computer and program

    • Operating systems: review and practice

    • Protection programs for virus

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading and Literature

      • Read independently

      • Word analysis: etymology

      • Comprehension: author’s intent, summarizing paraphrasing, compare content

      • Wide variety of literature

      • Compare literary forms and types

      • Literary elements: rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language

      • Analysis of media: reliability, accuracy, point of view

      • Read in the content area

      • Abstract vocabulary development

      • Words that persuade, dissuade, entertain, enlist

    • Speaking

      • Appropriate vocabulary and use

      • Parliamentary procedure

      • Conduct interviews and surveys

    • Spelling

      • Assigned words

      • Organized study plan

      • Spells correctly written work

    • Listening

      • Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, nonverbal clues, persuasive words

    • Writing

      • Legibility

      • Mechanical writing

      • Composition: writing across the curriculum

      • Parts of Speech: collective, appositive noun, transitive and intransitive, passive and active voice verbs; demonstrative, intensive and relative pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, correlative conjunctions, interjections

      • Sentences: complex, implied subject, direct and indirect objects, diagramming, independent & dependent clauses

      • Capitalization and punctuation

    • Study Skills and Reference

      • References: periodicals, Readers Guide, Bible commentaries

      • Setting goals, priorities, schedules

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Exponents and scientific notation

    • Order of operations

    • Fundamental operations of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and mixed numbers

    • Development and use of formulas

    • Problem solving and application

    • Graphing: ordered pairs and inequalities

    • Geometric concepts: terms, constructions, Pythagorean Theorem

    • Inequalities: introduction

    • Ratio, proportion, and percent

    • Integers

    • Absolute value

    • Statistics: mean, median, mode, range

  • MUSIC

    • Complex rhythmic patterns

    • Minor scales

    • Music and instruments of the romantic period

    • Sight reading, two-part songs

    • Meter changes

    • Simple chord progressions

    • Write simple major key signature

    • Recognize music of Eastern cultures

    • Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • team sports, tumbling stunts, track and individual activities

    • Concepts

      • safety, games strategies, environmental responsibility, sports history

    • Fitness

      • testing, agility, running and jogging, cardiovascular endurance, heart rate monitoring

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, honesty, humility, patience

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, respect

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • God’s universe: galaxies, stars, solar systems

    • Genetics

    • Viruses and bacteria

    • Fungi and protists

    • Invertebrates, insects, anthropoids

    • God’s plan for sexuality

    • Sexual issues and responsibilities

    • Sexually transmitted diseases

    • The immune system and HIV infection

    • Machines

    • Force, motion, and energy

  • SOCIAL STUDIES+

    • Eastern hemispheres

    • Greek and Roman civilizations

    • Civilizations of the Americas: history of Bermuda

    • Medieval societies: Europe, Japan

    • Growth of Islam

    • Renaissance and Reformation

    • Age of Reason: Enlightenment

    • Industrial Age and Scientific Revolution

    • Comparison of political systems

    • Technological progress and implications

    • World trade and resources

    • World geography, environment

    • Contemporary problems and issues

    • Economics: free trade versus central planning

    • Map and globe skills

    • Community service and ADRA

    • Brotherhood

    • Impact of religious differences

  • + Subjects may alternate for grades 5 and 6 and for grades 7 and 8. Materials are adapted to the appropriate grade level.

 

 

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