Monday, May 22, 2023

Core Connections:

Please do the computer games on bird songs.

Turn in your LearnEd.  

Friday, May 19, 2023

 Core Connections:

1.  Please read through the bird article and thoroughly show off your writing skills.

2.  Check for missing work.  

3.  Turn in your LearnEd's on the corner of my desk.

Monday, May 15, 2023

EOG testing begins tomorrow, May 16. Please be on time for school. Bring your fully charged device, your charger, and a snack.  Dismissal is at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week.  

Core Connections:

I am sorry that I'm out sick. Please use your time wisely today to complete these assignments, which are directly related to Science EOG.  Thank you to those of you who have been working ahead.  Please complete the following:

1. LearnEd pgs. 18 & 19  I will collect these.

2. GMO & Biotech Google Classroom  Assignment

    -Life of Dolly article with Google Form

    -Read through Biotech Ch. 4 Review SlideShow.

    - Biotech Review Google Form

3.  GMO Video and Google Form.

Science:

Use the EOG Review slideshow to help you review for your science EOG.

Practice the Brain Dump strategy to use on your science EOG.

Friday, May 12, 2023

Core Connections:

EXCELLENT jobs on your birds!

You should be finishing up your LearnED Biotech. If you're finished, I've posted two resources with Google Forms for Monday as well. 

Thursday, May, 11, 2023

Core Connections:

Project Celebration from 4:15 until 5:15 today!  Gallery Walk at the Gym.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Core Connections:

Tomorrow is our BIG DAY!  Our Gallery Walk Project Celebration is from 4:14 - 5:15.  

• Make sure you've completed your bird silhouette, poster, and sculpture.  
• Please make sure you've completed your LearnEd Biotech pages 6 & 7,  10 & 11
• Biotech/DNA Games and Google Form.

Science:

Finish pages 18-19 (Ecosystems) in your EOG Review LearnEd notebook if you did not finish this during MTSS today.  Please note: If you were finishing a project with Ms. Sauer during MTSS, you need to complete this LearnEd assignment before your science class tomorrow.  See your MTSS Google Classroom for more details and a link to the slideshow. 

Tuesday, May 9

 Science:

1 - Complete the Energy pages in your EOG Review LearnEd notebook. See details in the GC assignment. 

2 - Use the Quizlet EOG sets posted in Google Classroom to review EOG Vocabulary. Start with a topic that is least familiar to you; then use all of the sets. 

Social Studies:

1.  Workday 2:  Differentiated Civil Rights Unit

2.  Study for your test on Thursday

Monday, May 8, 2023

Core Connections:

1.  Please paint your bird.  Then, clean up!

2.  Check for missing work - I'm printing your bird posters on Monday & Tuesday. 

3.  Sign up for Gallery Walk.

Science:

1 - Complete the Google Form posted in GC today to give your feedback about the 8th grade ceremony. 

2 - Complete the Biotechnology article & questions if you did not finish during class.

3 - Complete the LearnEd assignment if you did not finish during class.  See more details in Google Classroom. 

Social Studies:

1.  Turn in your Q4 warm up doc for grading by the end of class today.

2.  Begin  your research/differentiated civil rights unit (use the template in GC to get organized)

3.  Study for your test on Thursday (vocab plus Ch. 26 sections 1 and 3 in the America text)

Friday, May 5, 2023

Core Connections:

Please make sure you've completed your Clay Sculpture of your specific bird that you've researched for your Bird Poster.  These need to air dry to be painted.  

Our Project Celebration is NEXT THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023.

Science:

Finish pages 8-9 (Hydrosphere) and p.17 (Health) in your EOG Review LearnEd. See more details for this assignment in Google Classroom. This will be checked on Monday morning at the beginning of class. 

Social Studies:

1.  HW Check/26.1 questions

2.  Read 26.3 using the link from yesterday.  Page 15 on the PDF.

3.  Review the slideshow notes on the reading/26.3

4.  Complete the Flocab assignment: Civil Rights!

*Test on the Civil Rights Unit next Thursday

*Warm ups for quarter 4 will be collected for a project grade on Monday, May 8th!

Thursday, May 4, 2023

 Social Studies:

1.  Read Ch. 26 Section 1 in the America Text p. 874-879

2.  Review the slideshow in GC which is about the reading.

3.  Using a piece of notebook paper, answer the 5 questions on the last slide.  Follow the directions!  There is nothing to turn in today.

4.  Study your new vocab:  Civil Rights

Science:

Finish pages 4-5 in your EOG Review LearnEd notebook. Use Slides 10-35. 

ELA - Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

Dear students (and parents),

As many of you know by now, I received a very welcome (though unexpected!) surprise Monday evening. Agnes Page Coursey was born at 8:59pm at 5lbs, 10oz. We are both healthy and happy, and enjoying getting to know each other. Thank you for all the well wishes!

I have already communicated this to the students, but I want to assure parents as well: I have planned ahead for everyone’s continued learning as classes enter these last few weeks of end-of-year review. All assignments and lesson plans are already prepared and laid out in a binder for your substitute(s). You have everything you need to end this school year successfully, prepared for both your EOG and high school.

A reminder to students: all graded assignments for the remainder of the year are listed in PowerSchool with dates. If you are absent on one of these dates, let the teacher know when you return the ASSIGNMENT NUMBER (posted in PowerSchool) of the assignment you missed. There should be an extra copy you can complete in an orange folder on my desk (the folder will have the assignment number on it, so your sub can find it easily). Complete it, and turn it back in to the sub for grading.

If you missed an online assignment/quiz from BEFORE May 1st  (or, for 3rd period, you need to retake the embedding quotes quiz), let your sub know the name of the assignment when you are ready to work on it—I would recommend one day during MTSS. Instructions for how to turn on/unpause an assignment in Edulastic are in the black binder with all the other materials for the sub. They should be able to make the assignment available for you. Please complete these assignments BEFORE Wednesday next week (5/10), as I will need time to update these grades myself.

While I am a bit disappointed that I did not have enough warning to say an official goodbye to you all, please know how proud I am of how far you all have come this year. When I look back at the beginning of the year, it really is stunning how much you have grown: both in your academics, and in your characters. Continue to work hard during your end-of-year review, and give your substitutes the same attention and respect you would if I were still there with you. I hope you will come back to visit when you are in high school!

Sincerely,

Ms. Coursey

 

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Science

Please work on your assignments in this order:

1 - Warm Up #3 (questions are posted in GC)

2 - Periodic Table Review questions - check your answers with the key posted in GC. Edit/change your answers and resubmit if necessary.

3 - Conservation of Mass Review Lesson - video and document posted in GC. Complete this assignment and submit it today.

4 - Balancing Chemical Equations Coloring handout - please complete the front and the back sides. Keep this. I will check it when I return to school and we will review the answers together.

5 - Anything that is not finished needs to be completed for homework.

6 - Complete the two IXL skills that will be posted in MTSS Google Classroom during MTSS today. 

Social Studies:

1.  Finish ATSOU #10 WWII and review the comprehension questions with your table (Classwork)

2.  Take the Boom to Bust quiz. (classwork)

3.  Complete the Word Wall with Pizazz "Civil Rights" (classwork and homework)

*Today we begin our final unit on Civil Rights.  You will take your final assessment on this unit next Thursday, May 11th!

Core Connections:

1.  Please make sure you've completed your Bird Poster.  Double-check for each of the required points.  

2.  Your clay bird should be completed by Friday to air dry.  Check back for info about next week's clebration. 

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

 Social Studies:

1.  Study for your quiz:

Industrialization, WWI, Roaring Twenties "Boom", Great Depression "Bust", WWII

Materials:  Industrialization notes, WWI slideshow, WWI propaganda poster activity, Boom Questions, BUST questions, New Deal video and foldable, Great Depression Flocabulary, WWII questions

Science:

Finish the Periodic Table Review questions assigned in Google Classroom if you did not finish these in class today.  Use a copy of the periodic table to help you!

Monday, May 1, 2023

Core Connections:
1.  Please complete the bird poster.  You will have SOME time to work on it - but we're beginning sculptures tomorrow!
2.  Also, please make sure that you have completed and turned in your Bird Silhouettes and your graphing activities in the interactive notebooks.

Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #20 (listed in GC today)

2.  Watch the linked video about "The New Deal"

3.  Use Ch.23 section 2 in the America text p.776-781 and online resources to create a foldable which highlights 3 New Deal programs which provided relief, recovery or reform in American society in the 1930s.

4.  Quiz on Boom and Bust this Wednesday

ELA:

Finish the "Apartheid" article questions, if you did not finish today in class.