Team Endeavor


Welcome to Team Endeavor!

The Team Endeavor seventh grade program offers a wide variety of opportunities for students, ranging form participation in laboratory experiments, field studies, and reader's theater to poetry readings and making ice cream. At the same time, basic skills are enhanced as students make their way through the challenging, diversified, and interdisciplinary curriculum. Cooperative learning and the use of technology are components of the program. Units include Latin America, a Young Adult Author Study, Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Pond and Stream.

Guidance Counselor	Mr. Bruce Miller, bmiller@nwr7.org


Social Studies	Mr. Mike DiMartino, mdimartino@nwr7.org

Social Studies examines 3 regions of the world: Africa. East Asia, and Latin America. Each unit explores the geography, history, current events and culture of the region. Each unit also includes interdisciplinary work with the English and reading departments using selected works of young adult literature. Students will be engaged in various projects and simulations designed to foster growth in analytical and evaluative critical thinking skills.


Reading	Mrs. Sue Jeserski, sjeserski@nwr7.org

Reading 7 will focus on developing a student's reading, thinking, and writing skills using a whole language teaching philosophy. Students will read self-selected books as well as assigned material. Response journals provide a means for close interaction with text. Some of the skills to be addressed include comprehension, critical reading skills, and the development of strategies for use in all content areas. Study skills such as organization, discriminative listening, following directions, study and testing strategies and the use of textbooks will also be part of the curriculum.


English	Mrs. Lesley Sullivan, lsullivan@nwr7.org

Seventh grade English is a developmental course that stresses the introduction and use of the writing process. The major types of writing addressed are creative, expository, persuasive, and descriptive. Students write and edit frequent papers using these formats. The skills of spelling, grammar, and usage are integrated into the study of writing as well as being stressed individually. Students study and discuss novels in class and work at developing research skills.


Science	Mr. Fred Silverio, fsilverio@nwr7.org

The focus of studies in seventh and eighth grade science is on the interaction of thinking processes with the content of science. Through the study of the living and nonliving worlds, students learn how to apply observations and intuitions to new situations and problems, they formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and draw conclusions. In seventh grade, topics in biological and physical sciences are addressed through the following content areas: Forces in action, energy at work, and earth materials and resources. In the second year of General Science, students learn about atoms and molecules, introductory chemistry, electricity and aspects of human physiology.


Math	Mrs. Charlene Miller, cmiller@nwr7.org

Grade seven math is the first year of our two year middle school math continuum. In keeping with middle school philosophy, students are heterogeneously grouped. This course offers the students an opportunity to increase their knowledge of fractions, decimals, percents and geometry. Topics such as integers, rational numbers, equations, inequalities, graphing, and ratio proportions are discussed in detail in preparation for eighth grade algebra/geometry. There is an emphasis on conceptual understanding and practical application of the mathematical topics being studied. The course is very carefully structured so that students have many opportunities for success. The calculator will be utilized for problem solving and computation at appropriated times throughout the year.


Special Education	Mrs. Kimbra Pradhan, kpradhan@nwr7.org
	Mrs. Darci Stenson, dstenson@nwr7.org (Paraprofessional)

Special education exists to help students to develop their own exceptional styles of learning and apply them to all of the curricular areas. Support in each academic class is provided, and options exist for separate special education classes.