Month: April 2019

Monday- In Quest Humanities on Monday we have been working on the beginning of our projects. One of the projects we are working on is called the spotlight project. In Mr. Greenberg’s class we are all researching a person or a organization that has made a difference in the world, or is making a difference in the world. In Mr. Gornto’s class we have been reading a book called “ The Giver”. The Giver is about a community that is not like ours. Everything is the same in that community, the community lives without conficts, inequality, injustice, and none has any opinions, but one boy named Jonas. He is different from the rest of them.

In Quest science we are working on our S.E.E project. Ms. Bruvik gave every student  two elements from the periodic table. Our first steps were to research and study our two different elements. -Maisah

Tuesday–  In Quest Humanities on Tuesday we continue working on our projects. For our spotlight projects we had a due date. We had to have some of our sources shared to Mr.Greenberg by the 16th of April. Mr.Greenberg wants us to stay on task for our due dates. A lot of us started working on our outlines and rough drafts that day. In Mr. Gornto’s class we were analyzing and annotating the book we were reading in class.( The Giver) This is a great book to talk about. The Giver makes our minds think about how the world isn’t so bad as we think it is. It shows us that we shouldn’t take little things like music, singing, dancing, love, and opinions for granted.

In Quest Science we do some more research about the two elements we were received and start sketching our work on paper. Ms.bruvik wants us to become very familiar with our Elements, so she wanted us to have so many different facts for our Elements. While some people were still researching, some were creating the boxes we need for our Periodic table project.

       -Maisah

Wednesday– In QUEST Science, all sections (X,Y,Z)  continue working on our SEE project. This year, the seventh grade has been working on our periodic table. Ms. Bruvik wants us to have life-sized periodic table features, each seventh grader was either still researching there element, or they start preparing/setting up to start their life-sized periodic table.Some students started preparing their boxes, and covered them with colorful paper, and maybe a 3-D image, among other things.On Thursday,April 25th they will be displayed

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In QUEST Humanities, all sections have been working on our Spotlight essays. These essay were mainly written in Mr.Greenberg’s class. The essays are focused on an event or person. We then write a essay based around how these people changed something about our world in a positive way. On Wednesday Mr.Greenberg made sure we all took notes on our event, person, or organization. He wanted us to make sure we had our outlines in order and that we really dug deep into our information. In Mr. Gornto’s class, we have been reading and annotating The Giver. We have also been talking about a “Utopia” and what that could mean. Also the normal participle classwork and English is incorporated.

-Bella

Thursday– This Thursday on April 18 we have been continuing many activities. We have just started The Giver earlier this week with Mr. Gornto. We have been reading by ourselves at home but when we come to class we participate in very engaging discussions. Mr. Gornto usually starts us off with a question and we discuss that and it leads into another topic. In Mr. Greenberg’s class we have been researching for our Spotlight Project. It is a project where we research a worldwide problem and someone who is doing something about it. Some of the main problems that I have seen among my fellow students are animal abuse or hunting, lung cancer(smoking and vaping), and sports injuries. In Mrs. Bruvik’s science class we have been making a project for our science and engineering expo. We as an entire grade are making a giant periodic table as part of a game. This was a very exciting and productive week for 7th Grade Quest.

     -Nick

proofreaders – Olivia, Laurence,Grace,

No school Monday

Tuesday

Today in Mr. Greenberg‘s class, we got our Asia map and we also got a new project. The Spotlight project. We needed to find one person or a group of people that are solving a problem in the world. I like this project because we get to choose a problem that we feel like is interesting and look into it more. In Mrs. Bruvik’s class, we played periodic table bingo using the elements  in the periodic table. In Mr. Gornto’s class we got book The Giver and started reading it. Those are the things we did during Quest on Tuesday. – Leo

Wednesday

On Wednesday in Mr.Gornto’s class we worked on grammar. We checked a worksheet about participles and participle phrases within individual groups and then went over any questions we had with the whole class.Towards the very end of class we had some silent time to read our newest book “The Giver”. In Mr. Greenberg’s class we started working on our spotlight project. For our spotlight project we need to write an essay about about an issue we feel passionate about or what to learn more about, for example recycling or racism. Also, we need to include someone who has influenced or changed the issue. During class we picked our essay topic and wrote a proposal for it. Finally, we started researching for a person who has affected or is working to change the topic. In Quest science we went over the parts of an atom.

                                         -Marina

        Peer editor- Ava  

Thursday

The whole week in Mr. Greenberg’s class, we had a chance to work on our maps of Asia. We had to label the 50 capitals and states, color the map, and then turn in. With our Science Engineering Expo on its way, as a collective grade, we started to research for our SEE projects. SEE is a chance for grades 5-12 to showcase science projects on a subject the science department in that grade decided on. Every year, the 7th graders get a chance to make a large scale version of the periodic table. Each member in the 7th grade gets two elements to research about. We had to find ‘Who founded the element’, ‘What the element can be found in’, and The physical and chemical properties. We are given an about 24 inch box that we can display our work on. During SEE, we will stack the boxes up according to the periodic table. My two elements are Americium and Sodium. Americium, similar to most elements at the bottom of the periodic table, is explosive. Sodium is found in many household items such as salt and baking soda. In Mr. Gorntos’ class, we had a deep discussion about the book we were going the read. The Giver by Lois Lowry, is a book about the perfect society that was never questioned or looked at twice, until Jonas rebels. The story continues on the follow the main character Jonas, on his journey of questions. – Leo

Friday

In Mrs. Bruviks’ class on friday, we had time to start research on our SEE projects. Most students found the information needed, and did external research over the weekend. In Mr. Gornto’s class, we had a very elaborate discussion about on a worksheet related to the book we are reading. The book is heavily based on an institutional society, the worksheet displayed rules/ commonalities throughout people’s everyday life in the story. Some were reasonable while others were outrageous. The class had to write if we agreed with the statements or not, and over the weekend, we had to write why in our log books. In Mr. Greenberg’s class, we continued our spotlight project, researching more information about our person. Some work on the draft essay was prepared, and thinking about writing the essay, we started to put our information in order.

-Tori

Proofread by Grace