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7th Grade Lessons.

Each one opens straight away. The reading is read aloud with the words highlighted, and the questions send your student back into the text to find the answer rather than guess it.

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Roman Republic, Empire, and Early Christianity is on the 6th Grade shelf, because it is ancient rather than medieval history.

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Science · Life Science · U1-L1 What Makes Something Alive The characteristics every living thing shares, and what that complexity might point to.
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Science · Life Science · U1-L2 Life Only Comes From Life Two experiments across two hundred years, and the question neither of them could reach.
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Science · Life Science · U1-L3 How We Know What We Know Science is a method, not a pile of facts. What the method can settle, and what it cannot.
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Science · Life Science · U1-L4 Science You Use Every Day What the method has already done to your ordinary morning, and the choices it hands you.
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Science · Life Science · U1-L5 Unit 1 Review: Life, Science, and How We Know Four lessons back in one place, built around one question: how do you know that is why it happened?
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Science · Life Science · U2-L1 Cells: The Building Blocks of Life Cells were inside every living thing long before anyone knew. This is the story of the tool that let us look.
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Science · Life Science · U2-L2 Inside a Cell, Part by Part Walk into a warehouse and you can read everyone's job in thirty seconds. A cell is the same building, shrunk to the size of a pin head.
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Science · Life Science · U2-L3 From Cells to Tissues to Organs Cells are not all alike, and the shape of one usually tells you what it is for. Then how they stack up into a whole body.
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Science · Life Science · U2-L4 Organ Transplants, and the Questions They Raise A kidney from one person can save the life of another, and sometimes the body refuses it. Why that happens, and what to do about how few organs there are.
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Science · Life Science · U2-L5 Unit 2 Review: Inside the Cell The whole unit in one pass: the cell theory, the parts inside a cell, how cells team up into a body, and what happens when an organ moves from one person to another.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L1 A Plan for Problem Solving Four steps that work on any problem, including the ones nobody sets you.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L2 Estimation Strategy: Using Rounding Rounding turns a messy sum into a fast, close-enough answer you can trust.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L3 Estimation Strategy: Using Patterns One easy multiplication or division fact, stretched into an estimate for a much bigger one.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L4 Problem-Solving Strategy: Determine Reasonable Answers A calculator can be wrong. Estimating first is how you catch it.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L5 Problem-Solving Strategy: Choose the Method of Computation Two questions to ask before you touch the numbers, and why the same problem can need two different answers.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L6 Problem-Solving Strategy: Classify Information A word problem is a pile of facts in a paragraph. Sort them first, and one of them usually turns out not to matter.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L7 Order of Operations Two students, one problem, two different answers. The order of operations is what settles the argument.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L8 Variables and Expressions A babysitter who can't quote a price until the night is over, and the letter that lets her write one anyway.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L9 Powers and Exponents Why a number times itself is called squared, found on a bathroom floor, and the small raised number that saves you writing it out.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L10 Solving Equations Mentally Tammy has $14 in an envelope and no idea how many hours it was for. An equation, a few good guesses, and one fact she already knew.
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Math · Math 7 · U1-L11 Unit 1 Review: Tools for Problem Solving Ten lessons, one plan. Every tool from the unit, filed under the step of the four-step plan where you actually use it.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L1 Comparing and Ordering Decimals An Olympic medal decided in the thousandths, a tie for bronze, and the one habit that tells you which decimal is bigger.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L2 Rounding Decimals A roller coaster clocked at 64.77 mph, a sign that says 65, and the one digit that decides which way a number rounds.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L3 Estimating with Decimals A self-checkout total that's off by more than twenty dollars, and the ten-second estimate that catches it.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L4 Multiplying Decimals Every key on a piano is the one below it times about 1.06. Multiplying decimals, and two ways to know where the point goes.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L5 Powers of Ten The moon is 2.39 times ten to the fifth miles away. How to turn that into a number you can say, in your head, in one move.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L6 Scientific Notation Mercury is 36,000,000 miles from the sun, and nobody wants to count those zeros. Scientific notation, and back again.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L7 Dividing Decimals A painting's area and width are known and its height isn't. Dividing by a decimal, and why moving both points keeps the answer the same.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L8 Rounding Quotients Four friends split a pizza and the calculator shows four decimal places. Rounding a quotient, and why money gets rounded up.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L9 The Metric System A runner's day is measured in meters, liters and grams, and each one comes in sizes that differ by 10, 100 and 1,000. Changing between them.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L10 Determine Reasonable Answers Marcus has $70, thinks he'll have $15 left after shopping, and a quick round-and-add says otherwise. Using an estimate to catch an answer that can't be right.
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Math · Math 7 · U2-L11 Unit 2 Review: Applications with Decimals Ten lessons, one habit. Every decimal tool from the unit, filed under the moment you use it: before you calculate, while you calculate, and after.
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Math · Math 7 · U3-L1 Use a Graph Bar graphs, double bar graphs, line graphs and circle graphs, and what to check before you trust any of them. The numbers are made up for practice.
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Math · Math 7 · U3-L2 Make a Table Twenty answers to one survey question arrive in no order at all. How to tally them, count them and read them in a frequency table.
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Math · Math 7 · U3-L3 Range and Scales Eleven students report the hours they spend on the phone. How far apart the numbers are, and how to draw a number line that fits every one of them.
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English · Literature · U1-L1 What Conflict Is A mongoose, a cobra and a garden with room for only one of them: how to tell who is fighting whom.
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English · Literature · U1-L2 Conflicts and the Hero Three fights, one small mongoose, and the question of which one was hardest.
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English · Literature · U1-L3 The Story Arc A story builds like a triangle, and Rikki-tikki's fights fit on it one block at a time.
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English · Literature · U1-L4 What a Symbol Is A frightened colt in the first snow, and the question of what else he might be.
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English · Literature · U1-L5 Finding the Theme A duckling the whole farmyard says is wrong, and the three clues that tell you what the story is really about.
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English · Literature · U1-L6 Thinking About Your Reading A boy the village tells to go to bed, a bear, and five steps for reading a story so you don't lose the thread.
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English · Literature · U1-L7 Suspense and Foreshadowing A dried-up paw, three wishes, and the clues that tell you what it's going to cost.
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English · Literature · U1-L8 Reading a Character A dollar and eighty-seven cents, a head of hair, and what a character's choices tell you without anyone saying it.
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English · Literature · U1-L9 Writing a Short Story: Plan and Draft Pick a character, give him something to fight, and build the plan before you write a word of the story.
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English · Literature · U1-L10 Writing a Short Story: Revise Read your draft like a stranger, then find the pieces of sentences that never finished and fix them.
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English · Literature · U1-L11 Unit 1 Review: The Short Story One short story you haven't read and twelve questions on everything in the unit: conflict, plot, symbol, theme, clues, and character.
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English · Literature · U2-L1 Fact and Opinion in Autobiography The day a deaf and blind girl found out that everything has a name, told by her, and a test for telling what's true from what's felt.
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English · Literature · U2-L2 Kinds of Nonfiction A seventeen-year-old with three rolls of bread, told by himself, told by a biographer, and told as plain facts. Five kinds of nonfiction, and the difference between facts and feelings.
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English · Literature · U2-L3 Comparing and Contrasting Two sisters get ready for the same morning and end up in very different places. How to compare and contrast, the words that signal it, and the diagram that sorts it.
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English · Literature · U2-L4 Description and Word Choice A sleeping river town wakes up when a steamboat appears, told by a boy who wanted to be a steamboatman. How writers use the senses and the exact word to make you see and hear it.
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English · Literature · U2-L5 Main Idea, Stated or Implied A boy starts school with no cap and only one name, and his mother and his own quick thinking solve both. How to find the main idea, whether the writer says it or you have to.
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Science · Life Science · U3-L1 What Living Things Are Made Of Everything you're made of is built from a small handful of pieces. Start with the atom and climb to the four kinds of molecules that make up every living thing.
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Science · Life Science · U3-L2 How Things Get In and Out of a Cell A cell has to let food in and push waste out without letting in everything else. How it chooses, and what it costs.
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Science · Life Science · U3-L3 Where a Cell Gets Its Energy Every bit of energy in your body was sunlight first. The steps in between, and what each one is called.
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Science · Life Science · U3-L4 What We Throw Away, and Where It Goes Some things rot away and some things do not. Which is which, why it matters, and what you think should be done about it.
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Science · Life Science · U3-L5 Unit 3 Review: How Cells Work The whole unit in one pass: what a living thing is built from, how things get into a cell, where its energy comes from, and what happens to what we throw away.
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Science · Life Science · U4-L1 How a Cell Grows and Divides Right now, while you read this, parts of you are splitting in two. How one cell becomes two, and why both get exactly the same instructions.
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Science · Life Science · U4-L2 Two Parents, and How Traits Combine Every cell in you has 46 chromosomes, and you started from two cells. So why don't you have 92? Meiosis, and the halving that makes a new life possible.
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Science · Life Science · U4-L3 DNA: The Instructions Inside A photograph nobody asked permission to show, a spiral staircase, and the four-letter code that tells every cell in you what to build.
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Science · Life Science · U4-L4 Engineering Living Things, and Where the Line Is Scientists can move a gene from one living thing into another, and in 1988 someone patented the result. What that means, and a question you'll have to answer yourself.
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Science · Life Science · U4-L5 Unit 4 Review: How Cells Make More Cells The whole unit in one pass: how a cell divides, how two parents each pass on half a set, how DNA holds the instructions, and how genes get moved on purpose.
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Science · Life Science · U5-L1 Why You Look Like Your Parents A monk with a pea garden, a trait that vanishes and comes back at exactly three to one, and the grid that explains it.
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Science · Life Science · U5-L2 What We Learned After Mendel A red flower and a white flower make a pink one, a blood type has three possible alleles, and nobody's height is simply tall or short. Three patterns Mendel's peas didn't show.
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Science · Life Science · U5-L3 Traits, Disorders, and Human Genetics Who decides whether a baby's a boy or a girl, why color blindness shows up more in boys, and how two healthy parents can pass on a disorder without having done anything wrong.
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Science · Life Science · U5-L4 Mapping the Human Genome Scientists set out to find and read every gene a person has. What the map is, what it's good for, who might misuse it, and a question you'll have to answer in writing.
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Science · Life Science · U5-L5 Unit 5 Review: How Traits Pass Down The whole unit in one pass: how alleles pass down, the patterns Mendel didn't see, how sex and some disorders are inherited, and what the genome map means.
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Science · Life Science · U6-L1 What Evolution Claims, and What It Rests On Seventy seeds turn into nearly two hundred million, a young man sails to the Galapagos, and a question nobody watched. What can be seen happening, and what is a claim about the beginning.
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Math · Integers · U7-L4 Adding Integers Two rules cover every case. Which one you use depends on whether the signs match.
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Math · Integers · U7-L5 Subtracting Integers No new arithmetic. Turn it into an addition, then use the rules you already have.
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The Year at a Glance

Every unit in the 7th grade year and the weeks it runs. Open the full week-by-week plan for the daily version.

EEnglish 8 units

  • 1Out Here on My OwnWks 1-5
  • 2Who Am I?Wks 6-10
  • 3Do the Right ThingWks 10-14
  • 4We Rookies Have to Stick TogetherWks 15-18
  • 5Living in the HeartWks 18-23
  • 6This Old EarthWks 23-27
  • 7Our Classic HeritageWks 28-32
  • 8900 CinderellasWks 32-36

HHistory 10 units

  • 1Rome, and the Church That Outlived ItWks 1-4
  • 2The East Endures, and Islam RisesWks 5-9
  • 3Life Under FeudalismWks 9-13
  • 4Plague, War, and the End of the Middle AgesWks 13-17
  • 5The Renaissance, and the Church DividedWks 18-22
  • 6The Kingdoms of West and Southern AfricaWks 22-25
  • 7China, Japan, and the Lands BetweenWks 25-29
  • 8The Civilizations of the AmericasWks 29-31
  • 9New Questions, New Worlds, and the Age of ReasonWks 32-34
  • 10How We Know What HappenedWks 34-36

MMath 14 units

  • 1Tools for Problem SolvingWks 1-4
  • 2Applications with DecimalsWks 4-7
  • 3Statistics and Data AnalysisWks 7-9
  • 4Patterns and Number SenseWks 9-12
  • 5Applications with FractionsWks 12-15
  • 6An Introduction to AlgebraWks 15-17
  • 7IntegersWks 17-20
  • 8Investigations in GeometryWks 20-22
  • 9AreaWks 22-25
  • 10Surface Area and VolumeWks 25-27
  • 11Ratio, Proportion, and PercentWks 27-30
  • 12Applications with PercentWks 30-32
  • 13Discrete Math and ProbabilityWks 33-35
  • 14Functions and GraphsWks 35-36

SScience 28 units

  • 1What Life Is, and How We Study ItWks 1-2
  • 2Inside the CellWks 2-3
  • 3How Cells WorkWks 3-4
  • 4How Cells Make More CellsWks 5-6
  • 5How Traits Pass DownWks 6-7
  • 6Origins: Evolution and Creation, Side by SideWks 7-8
  • 7Sorting and Naming Living ThingsWks 9-10
  • 8The Smallest Living ThingsWks 10-11
  • 9Protists and FungiWks 11-12
  • 10Meet the PlantsWks 12-13
  • 11Seeds, Roots, and FlowersWks 13-14
  • 12How Plants Live and GrowWks 15-16
  • 13Meet the AnimalsWks 16-17
  • 14Animals Without BackbonesWks 17-19
  • 15Fish, Frogs, and ReptilesWks 19-20
  • 16Birds and MammalsWk 21
  • 17Why Animals Do What They DoWk 22
  • 18Bones, Muscles, and SkinWks 23-24
  • 19Food and DigestionWks 24-25
  • 20The Heart and the BloodWks 25-26
  • 21Breathing, and Cleaning the BloodWk 27
  • 22The Brain, the Nerves, and the SensesWks 28-29
  • 23How People Are Made, and How They GrowWks 29-30
  • 24Sickness, and How the Body Defends ItselfWks 30-31
  • 25Drugs, Medicine, and the BodyWk 32
  • 26Living Things and Where They LiveWks 33-34
  • 27The Earth's BiomesWks 34-35
  • 28Caring for What We Were GivenWks 35-36