7th+Grade+Units

7th Grade Pacing Guide Developed by Teachers during the summer of 2013





Activities to go with Explorers Unit:

Use as notes for unit:

Comic Strip Project:

Explorers Unit Test and Answer Key

Website Resources can be used to create unit: Literary Portrait Project- Historical Fiction Use pictures from this website:
 * Pre-Colonial Africa Unit**





Griot Activity -Two Days



**__Colonialism in America Unit__**  I am using this in my class! Students will work for two days taking notes on the presentation. Each student has a laptop and can work at their own pace. Students will study the notes each night for fifteen minutes, and log their study time. I will then use the Jeopardy game to review with the students before their test.

Using facts from the Colonialism in America Notes and Research Packets: Puppet Project Created by: Jessica Caldwell Rubric: Directions: Examples of Puppets: (Google Images) **Resources to use for notes:**
 * **http://tennessee.gov/tsla/educationoutreach/tah/files/era2.pdf**
 * **http://www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/users/title3/Future%20Grant%20Projects/Projects/colonial%20times/colonial%20times_files/frame.htm**





Use this for Unit Activities: []

Telescoping The Items “Absolute Monarchs in Europe: 1500-1800”

Absolute Monarch Poster Project- I put my students in to groups of two for this project and assigned each group a monarch using the list of monarchs:

Test is based on Funky Notes Presentation:

http://worldhistory.pppst.com/absolutemonarchs.html http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/14 []
 * __Links for teaching Absolute Monarchs of Europe 1500-1800__**

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Slavery-Civil Rights Conceptual and non-linear Unit
We will be teaching about black history and America's role in slavery all the way up to the civil rights movement. Our students will make connections between the time period of slavery, the Civil Rights movement of the 1940's-1960's, apartheid and connect it to Ghandi and his belief in change in the world. This is a very conceptual unit and students will use higher order thinking skills in order to make connections between the different time periods.

YouTube Videos I use during this unit:

Project Idea- [] Good resource Videos: [] Teaching Slavery Printable resources: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/slavery/slavery-us/64343.html