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Scope & Sequences 25-26

Language Arts: Units 1-4 Level 7

August 18th to 29th: Lessons 1-8

September 2nd to 30th: Lessons 9-25

October 1st to 30th: Lessons 26-43

ART 

• art appreciation 

• nature appreciation 

• artists studied: John Glover and Sidney Richard Percy 

• pastel instruction and practice (Projects=color chart, techniques chart, lighthouse scene, eucalyptus tree, rose, wildflower path, Australian sunrise, free project, and perspective drawing.) 

• perspective, symmetry, breaking down subjects into shapes, layering and underpainting, shading, warm and cool colors 

GEOGRAPHY 

• geography flashcards: oceans, continents, states and capitals, countries 

• geography of Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Thailand, Scotland, United Kingdom, and New England 

• geography terms: climate, compass rose, equator, latitude, loch, longitude, moor, Northern Hemisphere, peninsula, prime meridian, solstice, Southern Hemisphere, topographical map, Tropic of Capricorn 

GRAMMAR, USAGE & PUNCTUATION 

• abbreviations 

• alphabetizing 

• antonyms & synonyms 

• apostrophes: possessive nouns and contractions 

• avoiding double negatives 

• avoiding shifts in verb tense

• capitalization rules: family relationships 

• capitalization rules: proper nouns 

• comma splices 

• commas and coordinating conjunctions 

• commas in a series 

• commas in dates 

• commas with dependent clauses 

• commas with introductory words 

• commonly confused words 

• compound subjects, verb phrases, and direct objects 

• coordinate adjectives 

• correlative conjunctions 

• editing 

• ellipses 

• homophones: ad/add, break/ brake, cent/scent/sent, cheep/ cheap, deer/dear, flour/flower, flu/ flew, heel/heal, in/inn, knew/new, knight/night, pain/pane, principal/ principle, right/write, stair/stare, to/too/two, wait/weight, waste/ waist, weak/week 

• implied subjects in imperative sentences 

• independent and dependent clauses 

• inferred meaning of words 

• irregular plural nouns 

• linking verbs 

• parentheses 

• parts of speech 

• possessive pronouns and adjectives 

• predicate adjectives 

• prepositional phrases and commas

• quotation punctuation 

• restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses 

• run-on sentences 

• sentence diagramming (steps 1–12) 

• sentence structures 

• spelling words and rules 

• subjects and predicates 

• subordinating conjunctions 

• suffixes 

• verb tenses 

• vocabulary

READING, WRITING & LITERATURE 

• appreciating and using sensory language 

• authors and poets studied: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Laura E. Richards, Frances Hodgson Burnett, O.F. Walton, James Lister Cuthbertson 

• challenging reading practice 

• descriptive language 

• headings and subheadings 

• identifying main ideas 

• Latin and Greek roots 

• literary analysis 

• literary devices: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, personification 

• nuances 

• organizing information in logical sequence 

• perspective in literature 

• poetry memorization 

• poetry study and appreciation

• prewriting techniques 

• reading and writing autobiographies 

• recognizing and choosing literature with high moral and literary value 

• revising and rewriting 

• test taking strategies 

• using transitions 

• varying sentence structures 

• writing a how-to essay 

• writing a response paper 

• writing body paragraphs 

• writing conclusions 

• writing fiction 

• writing nonfiction 

• writing opening paragraphs 

• writing outlines 

• writing persuasive essays 

• writing poetry 

• writing summaries 

• writing thesis statements 

• writing topic sentences 

MAJOR WRITING PROJECTS 

• book review 

• collection of autobiographical sketches 

• how-to essay 

• informative essay 

• literature response paper 

• magazine travel article 

• summaries 

• two complete poems

Math: Units 1-4 Level 7

August 18th to 29th: Lessons 1-8

September 2nd to 30th: Lessons 9-25

October 1st to 30th: Lessons 26-43

New Concepts Taught:

• absolute value
• area of a parallelogram
• area of a trapezoid
• distance on a coordinate plane
• division with a three-digit divisor and a six digit dividend
• expanded notation of decimal numbers through the millionths place
• expanded notation with exponents
• greatest common factor of three-digit numbers
• identity and inverse properties
• negative fractions and decimal numbers on a number line
• nets and surface area of a trapezoidal prisms and parallelepipeds
• prime factorization of four-digit numbers
• prime factorization to determine least common multiples
• rational numbers with exponents

Concepts Reviewed and Expanded Upon

• addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimal numbers
• addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fraction
• area of a triangle
• area of irregular figures
• associative, commutative, and distributive properties
• convert between fractions, decimal numbers, and percents
• convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers
• divisibility rules
• equivalent fractions
• fraction comparisons
• fractions in simplest form
• negative numbers
• number patterns and infinite sequences
• order of operations
• triangle classification