Thursday, April 16, 2026

PARENTS:  An email was sent through School Status on Tuesday with details for the Brain Rot Project Celebration and a form to RSVP. We hope you can join us!

Social Studies

1.  Warm up #14

2.  HW Check Arpillera Planning

3.  Boom questions/discussion

4.  Arpillera Art Week materials distribution and Painting Protocols!!

Core Connections:

Your Brain Rot Campaign is due by Midnight tonight.

Each person should submit a copy of the final project through Google Classroom.

Please check through the rubric.

Clarifying notes:

    Page One: Your Brain Rot Campaign

    Page Two:  Your explanations (refer to rubric)

          1.  Focus area: Bullet Points about how your campaign and strategy addresses your focus area (Digital compulusivity, attention dysregulation, or cognitivie dependency) 
        2. PLE:  Bullet points that explain how your campaign uses Pathos, Ethos, and Logos   
        3. Graphic Design:  Bullet points that explain how you started with and template and changed it to make it better by applying best practices of graphic design.
        4.  References:  Your MLA references.

We'll have a separate reflection form about collaboration on Friday.  

ELA:

1) Classwork: Complete assignment titled "Essay Edits & Revisions" in Google Classroom

2) Final drafts of essays are due in MiWrite by 11:59pm tomorrow. You will have time to ask questions in class tomorrow about your essay, but then we are started on presentation prep. Tomorrow is NOT an essay writing day. Come prepared with any questions you have.

Science:

Great job working hard on your Science Check In today!

Finish the Evidence for Evolution questions (yes, the front & the back!) if you did not finish during class today. 

Math

Math 8: Finish the delta math (distance between 2 points)

Wednesday, April 15th

 ELA:

-In-class: work on the assigned Peer Review. Use the directions in Google Classroom.

-Homework: Finish the peer review (if not finished during class)

-Essay final drafts due Friday

Social Studies

1.  Warm up #13 (classwork)

2.  Peer share/arpillera ideas/feedback editing (classwork)

3.  Final Arpillera Planning form due tomorrow/hw check tomorrow guaranteed

4.  Finish ATSOU #8 Boom-last 18 minutes + questions on handout 3-5 (homework)

Science:

Finish reading and annotating the Evidence for Evolution information you received in class today. Remember to answer the 2 questions on the last page. 

Core Connections:

Your GROUP project - Brain Rot Campaign is due tomorrow (Thursday, 4/16). Each individual still submits it. Please check the rubric.

You are invited to attend the 8th grade semi-formal - see more details:
8th Grade Semi-Formal  
Tickets will go on sale Monday during morning carline.

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

 Social Studies

1.  Warm up #12

2.  Arpillera Planning HW check and peer share (peer share cancelled due to the number of students who did not complete the homework/will try again tomorrow)

3.  New Vocab List in GC for unit "Boom to Bust"/make a study set

4. Watch the first 25 minutes of ATSOU #8 "Boom"/answer the questions on the handout

5.  Submit your product for on-time grading (Legacy Project part 3).  If you have a paper product you must turn it in to me during class or by the end of the day!

ELA:

-Essay rough drafts are due TOMORROW

-Essay final drafts are due Friday

**Note: when I grade it, each MiWrite section (Organization, word Choice, etc.) will get +0.3 points. No final section score will be higher than 5.

Science:

Finish the EdPuzzle: Homologous, Analogous, & Vestigial Structures if you did not finish at school.

Math

Please get a good night's sleep and bring a pencil tomorrow!

Core Connections:

Your public health campaign project is due on Thursday.  This group project is submitted by each person in the group.  Please make sure that you've checked over the rubric.

Monday, April 13, 2026

 Social Studies

1.  Warm up #11- classwork

2.  Legacy Project part 5 Kickoff:  What is an Arpillera? (group classwork)

3.  What is "broken" in our democracy which you would like to fix?  Brainstorming ideas for your Arpillera /worksheet page 2 from classwork(homework)

4.  Project Product for part 3 due tomorrow by 11:59pm

Core Connections:

Today is a project work day for SS.

CC Public Health Campaign Project is Due on Thursday, April 16th.  

Check through your rubric with your group before you submit it. 

Each person submits the CC project.  

Science:

1 - Finish the Comparative Anatomy Interactive Lesson if you did not finish during class today. 

2 - Remember to complete the Flocabulary: Adaptations lesson (due Friday) if you have not yet completed it. 

Math

Math 8: Complete the applying the PT worksheet from class.Finish PT applications in delta math.

ELA:

1) Essay rough drafts are due Wednesday.

2) Essay final drafts are due Friday

**Essay scoring adjustment: each MiWrite section score will get +0.3 points.

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Bring back your Human Growth & Development permission form, signed by your parent.  Give the signed form to your homeroom teacher.  

Science:

Quiz tomorrow! Study your notes on geologic time, earth history, relative dating, and fossils.  Use the study guide posted in Google Classroom. Study your notes, slideshows, assignments, and completed pages in your Earth History LearnEd (the yellow one).

The Rock Cycle Interactive is not homework. You can work on this after the quiz tomorrow.

Core Connections:

Thank you for submitting any late work from prior to Spring Break using Monday's Reality Check activity.  

Our final CC Project: Brain Rot Campaign is DUE THURSDAY, April 16th.  Please check through the rubric to ensure you understand the expectations.  

Regarding our work schedule:  You will have 1/2 of class on Friday and all of Monday to work on Social Studies projects.  The rest of your time should be spent on the CC Brain Rot Campaign.  

Math

Math 1: Be prepared for your quiz tomorrow. You will need to prove shapes.

ELA:

-Tomorrow you have your Friday graded warm-up

-Essay rough drafts are due Wednesday next week.

-Essay final drafts are due Friday next week.

Social Studies

1.  Gimkit Vocab review: Industrialization

2. America Text Reading 18.4 "The New Immigrants" (classwork)

3.  Review the slideshow notes in GC-quiz tomorrow (classwork and homework)

4.  Product workday (you must also work on your product at home!)

5.  Finish the last 18 minutes of ATSOU#7 Cities and questions 10-15 (homework)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2026

Bring back your Human Growth & Development permission form, signed by your parent.  Give the signed form to your homeroom teacher. 

ELA:

Period 1:

• Research Notes Review/Revision (in Google Classroom)
• Recommendation: sort research notes for the first 3 paragraphs
• Essay rough draft: Due Wednesday next week

Periods 2 & 3:

• sort research notes for the first 3 paragraphs
• Essay rough draft: Due Wednesday next week

Science:

1 - Finish the Starburst Rock Cycle lab if you did not finish in class today. 

2 - Finish the Earth History LearnEd pages (13 & 16) if you did not finish during Viking Time.

3 - Study for Friday's quiz on geologic time, earth history, relative dating, and fossils.  Use the study guide posted in Google Classroom. Study your notes, slideshows, assignments, and completed pages in your Earth History LearnEd.

Social Studies

1.  Warm up Reading:  America Text 18.3 "Cities Grow and Change" pp.620-624

2.  Classwork:  Product Development Project 3 and/or ATSOU #7 "Cities" with handout/questions

3.  Homework:  Finish classwork and study for your Industrialization quiz

Math

Math 1: Brush up on the delta math review sections for your check in.

Math 8: IXL:NV6

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Bring back your Human Growth & Development permission form, signed by your parent.  Give the signed form to your homeroom teacher.

Science:

1 - Finish the rock cycle diagram on the back of today's notes, if you did not finish in class today.  Follow directions.  See today's slideshow for examples of pictures of rocks.

2 - Complete the Flocabulary: Types of Rocks if you did not finish at school today. Remember to access this assignment through Clever.  The quiz will be recorded as a grade, but only if all other parts of the assignment are completed and on time.

3 - Study for Friday's quiz on geologic time, earth history, relative dating, and fossils.  Use the study guide posted in Google Classroom. Study your notes, slideshows, assignments, and completed pages in your Earth History LearnEd (the yellow one).

Social Studies

1.  I.N. Activity #4 Graphic Organizer and Reading "Economic Cycle" (classwork)

2.  America Text Reading 18.2 + notes (classwork)

3.  Project Part 3 Workday- (classwork and homework)  The project is due one week from today!!

4.  Study for your Industrialization Quiz (Friday, April 10)

*vocab, America Ch. 18 notes, ATSOU #7 Cities, I. N. Economic Cycle)

Math

Math 8: Finish delta math from today's class.