Reading, Language Arts, Social Studies Reading Part of the seventh grade bloc classes. Content includes selections of classical and contemporary youth literature form a literature text. A component of the seventh grade bloc classes. Continues development of students skills in composition, listening and speaking. Emphasis is on sentence structure and paragraph writing.
Spelling is a component of the language arts program.
Instruction is organized around special problems that commonly occur in spelling such as using homonyms correctly, spelling words of foreign origin and doubling or not doubling consonants. Social Studies Part of the seventh grade bloc courses. Areas of study include Europe, Africa and Asia. Math To increase skill and understanding of the four basic whole number operations with special emphasis on multiplication and division. Additional work with simple fractions and decimals is included.