This grade level brochure is designed to provide you with an overview of the challenging curriculum we offer our students. It identifies key curriculum concepts for 7th grade but it is not meant to be all-inclusive.
Mission Statement
Epiphany Catholic School provides a student-focused, standards-driven, and secure educational environment, based upon the Gospel values, that promotes the spiritual, emotional, moral, intellectual, and physical development of all students.
Religion & Character Formation
- Foster the virtues of kindness, respect, optimism, generosity, honesty, prudence, patience, responsibility, morality.
- Discuss the lives of the saints.
- Prepare for and participate in religious celebrations (weekly masses, Adoration, Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, Reconciliation, Feast of Corpus Christi, and visits to the Blessed Sacrament).
- Study the mission of Jesus, especially his parables and miracles found in the New Testament.
- Study in more depth the seven sacraments.
Language Arts – Language
- Write a fully developed narrative using focus, organization, elaboration, and coherence.
- Write a strong persuasive essay using professional language and overcome audience objections.
- Research and write informative pieces citing sources correctly.
- Edit and revise students’ own writings for word choice and organization.
- Build a strong foundation in English conventions.
Language Arts – Literature
- Read classic novels, short stories, and poetry in a variety of genres (plays, poetry, and young adult fiction).
- Explain how the plot and setting contribute to the overall effect of a piece of literature.
- Analyze how characters in literature deal with conflict and solve problems; relate these to real life experiences.
- Understand the meaning of stories (moral of the story, theme, and author’s point of view on a topic) by interpreting the story elements.
- Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to comprehend reading selections.
- Introduction of Fairy Tales, Mythology and Poetry.
Pre-Algebra
- Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers.
- Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
- Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations.
- Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
- Explore geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.
- Investigate chance processes and evaluate probability models.
Algebra I
- Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents.
- Use properties of rational and irrational numbers.
- Reason quantitatively and use units to solve problems.
- Interpret the structure of expressions.
- Write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems.
- Perform arithmetic operations on polynomials.
- Create equations that describe numbers or relationships.
- Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning.
- Solve equations and inequalities in one variable.
- Solve systems of equations.
- Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically.
- Understand the concept of a function and use function notation.
- Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume.
- Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context.
- Analyze functions using different representations.
- Build a function that models a relationship between two quantities.
- Build new functions from existing functions.
- Construct and compare linear, quadratic, and exponential models and solve problems.
- Interpret expressions for functions in terms of the situations they model.
- Interpret linear models.
Science
- Logically interpret data from classroom activities to form hypotheses and conclusions.
- Explain how cells and cell structures are alike and different.
- Explore the science of genetics to determine how organisms have different and similar traits.
- Explore the science of taxonomy to determine how organisms are put into groups of similarities.
- Explore the biomes of the world and the organisms specific to each biome.
- Explore the human body systems to relate each to their proper functioning and interdependence.
Social Studies
- Identify major causes, events, and personalities that relate to events in American history after Reconstruction.
- Identify major trends, forces, and effects of national expansion.
- Understand the impact of industry and technology on the population and environment of the United States after Reconstruction.
- Analyze the effects of individuals, groups, and government in shaping the reform movements of the 20th century.
- Identify, describe, and explain the basic principles of government provided for in the U.S. Constitution.
Foreign Language – Spanish
- Continued language acquisition through comprehensible input. Read simple stories, interpret new words in context, retell familiar stories.
- Professions, present tense of verbs, basic commands, body parts, days of the week, food, telling time.
- Universities in Spanish-speaking countries, Bullfighting in Spain, Food in Latin America.
Computer
- Apply an understanding of Digital Citizenship by creating projects that illustrate the concept.
- Use copyrighted materials appropriately and cite sources when using information or graphics.
- Apply guidelines of acceptable use policy for use of technology systems.
- Use Google applications for work across the curriculum.
- Create multimedia presentation, using text, graphics, and animations.
- Use simple search strategies to streamline searches and locate appropriate information more efficiently.
- Evaluate the accuracy and appropriateness of electronic information (research author, date, reliability of information on website).
- Summarize information found during an Internet search.
Fine Arts – Art
- Analyze how the elements and principles (colors, lines, design) can be organized to convey meaning through a variety of media.
- Create two-dimensional and three-dimensional art demonstrating knowledge and skills of elements and principles.
- Analyze historical references involving culturally diverse artists and art history as well as understand how art reflects history, society and everyday life.
Fine Arts – Music Technology
- Use software to compose electronic music and multimedia products.
- Identify, describe, and justify elements used in an original composition.
- Describe how music functions in commercial applications.
Fine Arts – Choir
- Demonstrate good vocal technique.
- Demonstrate proper performance behavior.
- Read traditional music notation.
Fine Arts – Band
- Play traditional band instruments using proper technique.
- Demonstrate and describe the elements of music using (tempo, pitch, dynamics, form and timbre).
- Demonstrate proper performance behavior.
- Read traditional music notation.
- Play major and minor scales and triads.
Physical Education & Health
- Show how conditioning and exercise affects cardio respiratory performance.
- Perform fitness testing based on the health-related components of fitness.
- Study health in relation to personal development, social issues, and drug awareness.
Resource
Epiphany School offers assistance with a variety of skills and in all academic areas for students with a demonstrated need. The Epiphany Resource Program collaborates with Unit 5 to meet the needs of these students. Contact the Epiphany Resource teacher regarding any educational concerns in the following areas: academic evaluations, speech and language development, motor skills, and behavioral, health, vision, hearing, and social/emotional concerns.