Seventh Grade and Language Arts

Joy Yurk • 1-262-377-4659 x132 • joy.yurk@splgrafton.org

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 I truly enjoyed meeting with so many families on Friday!!  Thank you!!

 

The Lutheran Junior Honor Association is continuing its support of Christmichel and his community in Haiti by raising funds for education, food, and medical supplies. To help meet this goal, LJHA will celebrate “MARCHing out of Winter” by offering hot chocolate to students with a suggested $1 donation. Grades 5-8 will be served Wednesday February 25th and grades 1-4 will be served Thursday February 26th.

Camp Luther once again is offering free weeks at camp for students who have never attended before.  I gave a few out last week, and they are due back on Tuesday, February 24th, as counselors from the camp will be leading chapel here on Wednesday.  

 

The March calendar doesn’t slow down much from the stretch of activities we’ve had:  Interest Day, March Madness, and equally as fun, the end of the trimester.  Keep up the good work!! 🙂

 

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February

  • 23  No school
  • 25  Lenten Service, 4:30 or 6:30:  The Weight of Broken Covenants

 

March

  • 4 Lenten Service, 4:30 or 6:30:   The Weight of Repeated Failure
  • 6  End of Trimester II; Interest Day with early dismissal at 11:40 & Skateland to follow
  • 11 Lenten Service, 4:30 or 6:30: The Weight of Hope Deferred
  • 18 Lenten Service, 4:30 or 6:30:  The Weight of Captivity
  • 20  March Madness
  • 25 Lenten Service, 4:30 or 6:30:  The Weight of a Heart of Stone
  • 27  Last day of classes prior before Spring Break begins!
  • 29  Palm Sunday

 

April

  • 2 Maundy Thursday Service, 4:30 or 6:30:  The Grapes of WRath
  • 3 Good Friday Tenebrae, 1:00 or 6:30:  The Full Weight Falls
  • 5 Easter Sunday, 6:00, 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00:  The Weight Lifted
  • 7  (Tuesday) Classes Resume 

 

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out.  We can find a time to meet.  Blessings on your week!

 

Mrs. Yurk

For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.  Psalm 100:5

 

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Writing

  • Patterns of Power:  We began the next Pattern of Power unit, using coordinate adjectives to deepen our writing.  We especially focused on hints to help us identify which are coordinate:  placing “and” in between and reversing the order.  Like many things in English, those work most of the time. 🙂  Coordinate adjectives can be used to create effective, purposeful emphasis.  Grammar is a TOOL for effective communication. 🙂
  • Writing:  We’ve been working on determining how to take notes from a source, narrowing the focus for research through forming categories, followed by documenting facts and practicing writing effective paraphrases.  Students will need index cards for this project.

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Math

Topics covered this week include: a review on how to factor linear expressions.  Then we will move on to combining operations with linear expressions.  We will start the practice test late in the week.

Music

School-Wide Notes… Details on Ms Bremer's music page Classes singing in Worship… (keep watch for changes) 
  • Sun, Jan 25 - 8am Gr. K-8 students A-K; 9:30 am Gr. K-8 students L-Z
  • Sat., March 21, 5 pm Gr. 6-8 sing in Worship (w/Concert Band)
  • Sun, April 19 - 8am Gr. K-8 students L-Z; 11am Gr. K-8 students A-K
Choir/JuBellate Notes… * Groups & Schedules  ** Extracurricular Handbook
  1. JiVE (Gr. 5-8) - Wed rehearsals - sing for worship, Sun. Oct. 19, meet 9:00am
  2. JuBellate (Gr. 5-8) - Mon rehearsals- first play for worship, Sun. Oct 26, meet 10:30am
Eligibility checked every 2 weeks (Gr. 5-8) for students in extracurricular Music Groups.

PE

Please have your inside shoes, pe uniform shirt, and athletic shorts ready to go.  Also, be sure to review grading for Mr. Fischer's pe class which is available on my webpage links. 

Reading

Projects for our Novels in Verse unit are due Thursday, February 26th.  We’ll be sharing them in class and beginning our next novel shortly thereafter.

Religion

This week we are looking at the 5th and 6th petitions of the Lord's Prayer. Thursday's memory is the Fifth Petition, "And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. What does this mean? We pray in this petition that our Father in heaven would not look at our sins, or deny our prayer because of them. We are neither worthy of the things for which we pray, nor have we deserved them, but we ask that He would give them all to us by grace, for we daily sin much and surely deserve nothing but punishment. So we too will sincerely forgive and gladly do good to those who sin against us." The next sermon note is due March 9. 

Science

7th Science This week in 7th grade science we are learning about Biodiversity.  No major tests or assignments this week!

Social Studies

7th grade is learning about Mexico and Central America again this week.  No quizzes or tests.

Vocab

Unit 8
  • Set B - due Thursday, 2/27; Unit Review - due Monday, 3/2
  • Review Activities to follow; Definition Test - Thursday, 3/5; Spelling Test - Friday, 3/6

Quarter Class

Communications:   This class focuses on Interpersonal Communications, Group Dynamics, Public Speaking, and Digital Citizenship.  Our discussions this week will show us assertive/aggressive/passive responses.  Then we will shift to our second class section which is group dynamics where we will see what that means as well as leader/follower roles.