Thursday August 13, 2020

Core Connections - Thursday's work

1. Warm Up: Jamboard Hero Brainstorm.  (Turn in today)

2. Hero Project: Select two of the Kid Heroes and read their Marvel Comic Books.  Use Cornell notes, one for each of the books.  Marvel website. https://www.marvelhq.com/marvel-s-hero-project  (Due Friday).

3.  Make sure you've completed and submitted your two journals (due Friday).

Thursday reflection

So far this week, class attendance has been stellar.  Please make sure you're on time with your video on and sound off.  

New (to most) tech skills:   Making a pie graph and a line graph in Google Sheets. 

To kick off the week, we completed a Google Form with student self-assessments as a Welcome event.  One of questions was: "Today, my stress level is OK." The 8th grade results were 63.1% said Yes, 33.3% said maybe, and 3.5% said no, their stress levels were not OK.  For each student who said No, I sent a follow up email to check in. We incorporated these results into our tech skills activities.  Please keep thinking about the stress management strategies and how we can support one another.  

Overall, our stress levels are OK!   

Checklist of submissions so far

Monday: Google Form: Welcome to Core Connections (100% submitted).

Tuesday: My hero short answer.  Submitted in Google Docs.

Wednesday: Line graph, shared Jamboard about stress management strategies.

Please make sure everything is turned in.  Now that I'm in PowerSchool, expect a bunch of grades to show up today!

Ms. Sauer

Math:

All classes: 

• IXL Math Diagnostic: complete 75 questions by Friday August 28th
• Parent Assignment due Wednesday Aug 19th

1st, 3rd, 4th & 5th: 

• Finish Classwork IXL N.1 and N.2 (15 active minutes or smartscore of 85 for each)
• complete thatquiz Plot Points 2 (get to thatquiz using mrshigdonmath.weebly.com, select thatquiz tab, select class period, select name, password should be the same as IXL password)

2nd: 

• Finish classwork 4x4 puzzle
• Complete IXL Algebra B.1 and B.2 (15 active minutes or smartscore of 85 for each)

ELA:

Look over any mini-posters that your group did not evaluate together. Compare them to the rubric. Where do they excel? Where do they fall short? You'll be assigned a word and begin your own poster tomorrow.

Social Studies:

Use the Template from classwork today to apply the 5 Themes of Geography to a City, State of your choosing. Be prepared to talk about the geography of your place tomorrow before we begin the 5 Themes of Geography Cube Project (it's just a mini project).

Science:

Review your Notes on Matter from class today.  Fill in any missing blanks using the slideshow.  If we did not finish the "dot diagrams" in your class, we will finish them tomorrow. They are not homework.