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Seventh Grade Overview

Time4Learning is popular as a Seventh grade homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and as a summer school alternative.

For Seventh graders, Time4Learning provides language arts, math, science, and social studies.

Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school.

Seventh Grade Language Arts and Reading

The seventh grade language arts curriculum is embedded in reading comprehension lessons and writing, focusing heavily on specific skill areas needed for accurate reading and understanding of texts while developing the various applications of writing. Five thematic reading units integrate reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Activities in grammar, spelling, and vocabulary help students to identify and use the rules of syntax, sentence structure, and punctuation with additional resources found via the teaching guides within the parent administration page. See Lesson Plans

Seventh graders will determine word meanings through several vocabulary activities focusing on the use of context clues (signal words and definitions), multiple meaning words (parts of speech, word meanings, dictionary definitions), and figurative language (metaphors, similes hyperbole, and personification), all leading up to vivid writing and active literature response. Students will continue to practice summarization skills through analyzing details in text, identifying main topics, and differentiating between literal statements and implied concepts. Further comprehension skills (author’s purpose, logical conclusions and inferences, fact and opinion, comparing and contrasting, setting, and point-of-view) are highlighted and practiced throughout the seventh grade language arts curriculum. See Lesson Demos

Grammar extensions including lessons on parts of speech, prepositional phrases, conjunctions, capitalization, quotes, comma usage, colons, semicolons, and apostrophes, are strategically taught before the writing component.

Many parents have expressed interest in purchasing the full versions of the authentic literature excerpted in the Language Arts section. They can be purchased at the links below but they DO NOT need to be purchased in order to use Time4Learning.

• The Scarlet Pimpernel by: Baroness Orczy
• Hush by: Jacqueline Woodson
• The Wreckers (High Seas Adventure): by Iain Lawrence
• The Wright Brothers: Powered Flight (the Scientists who Have Changed the World) by: Anna Sproule

Seventh Grade Math

The seventh grade math curriculum mainly focuses on concepts within the topics of: Number Sense, Algebra, Geometry, and Data Analysis and Probability. Through a series of mathematic investigations, students will use computation strategies, graphical data, and formulas to solve and interpret problems. 7th Grade Math Lesson Plans

Seventh graders begin with interactive lessons on classifying numbers by properties, manipulating decimals and fractions, estimating, and converting problems to proportions. Online math activities expand on algebraic equations, solving inequalities, and coordinate graphing of equations. In geometry, students are introduced to surface area and explore the 5-step strategy involved in solving metric conversions. Seventh grade culminates in data analysis. Online Algebra is available upon request.

Seventh Grade Science and Social Studies

The seventh grade social studies curriculum covers a wide range of concepts within the topics of: Exploration, Colonization, United States History, Politics, and Modern America through interactive online lessons. 7th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans

Beginning with the Age of Exploration, students will cover the discovery of America, Colonial Life, and British actions, leading up to the Revolution. Activities on the creation and early years of U.S. government with particular focus on Thomas Jefferson and Jacksonian Democracy allow students to examine issues and philosophies of that era.

Seventh grade social studies ends with a series of lessons concentrating on the United States as a world power, the world wars, roaring twenties, great depression and cold war, with students understanding the progression and history of the Unites States. Lesson Demos

7th Grade Lessons - Time4Learning's Program Structure

Time4Learning provides an interactive student paced curriculum. When the student logs in, they can choose which subject to study. The lessons are organized into units which include multimedia lessons, interactive exercises, printable worksheets for reinforcement, optional parent-teaching guides (with answer keys for the printable worksheets in math) for more indepth work, assessments, a complete printable lesson plan, and online progress reports.

Reports/ Assessments/ Printable Worksheets. Time4Learning understands the importance of tracking student progress.  Seventh grade assessments and quizzes are given throughout the chapters and are automatically graded upon completion.  Parents are able to access the grades and assignments in the reports section by using their own logins and passwords.  The reports section is printable, as are the lessons plans. In addition Time4Learning provides Seventh grade printable worksheets. Parental support is also given through our online parents forum where discussions and questions may be posted amongst experienced users and those that are "just looking".

Help your child succeed with our interactive curriculum. There are thousands of activities, lessons and assessments that will keep your child enthusiastic about learning.