Tuesday, March 24th, 2026

 ELA:

-Stage 2 is due Thursday

-Recommended progress: Finish adding your 3 sources to the Research Notes app.

Social Studies:

1. Warm up #7

2.  Students will access their graphic organizer from Friday’s primary source lesson lesson and answer this question:

What were the political, social, and economic impacts of the event you studied?   Responses should be in paragraph form.  2-3 paragraphs required.  There is nothing to turn in.  We will review responses on Wednesday. 

3 .  Create a new vocabulary study set: Industrialization

Technology, monopoly, supply, demand, rural, urban, immigrant, urbanization, interest, Industrial Revolution, migration, patent, tenement, industrialist

4. Read in the America test Ch 18.1 “ A New Industrial Revolution pp. 608-613.  Take notes as you go!

Math

Review 5 in Delta math due Friday!!

Science

Finish the "How Fossils are Made" reading passage (underline key terms!) and crossword puzzle if you did not finish during class today.

Complete your missing work, if this applies to you!  Remember to email me when you complete any assignment after the due date. 

Monday 3/23

 Math

Math 8: Scientific Notation Quiz tomorrow. Complete quizizz in google classroom to help you study.

Math 1: Complete study guide for your systems test tomorrow.

Science
1 - Complete pages 6-7 (!!) in your Earth History LearnEd booklet (the new one you got today).  Follow directions given in class; see directions in Google Classroom if you didn't record the fossil types on p.7 during class today.

2- Finish the Layers of Time digital activity if you did not finish in class today. 

3 - Finish the Index Fossils Review if you did not finish this assignment last week.  Remember to email me upon completion of late work! If you have a 0 in Infinite Campus, you need to finish this assignment.

ELA:

-Stage 2 is due Thursday.

-Recommended homework for tonight:

    1) Finish putting your scientific study into the Research Notes app

    2) Put the first HALF of a second source in (up to the essential questions)

**The full recommended timeline and some tips for entering your scientific study are attached to the "Stage 2" assignment in Google Classroom.

Friday March 20th, 2025

 ELA:

-Stage 2 (of your project) is due Thursday next week.

-Recommendation: Have your Literature Search #2 done by Monday.

Core Connections:

Check for Missing Work.

Thursday March 19

 Math

Math 8: Finish the IXLs posted in google classroom.

Science

Finish the Index Fossil Review in Google Classroom if you did not finish during class today.

Spring Picture Day is March 23. Pictures can be ordered at strawbridge.net using these codes:

Individual Pictures - FM493452

8th Grade Group Picture - FM493449 

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

 Spring Picture Day is March 23. Pictures can be ordered at strawbridge.net using these codes:

Individual Pictures - FM493452

8th Grade Group Picture - FM493449 

Science:

1 - Finish reading and annotating the Fossils review passage if you did not finish in class. 

2 - Answer the questions based on the reading (yes, the front and back sides of this). 

3 - Finish the Geologic Time Organizer, if this applies to you.  This was due today. 

ELA:

Period 1: Finish reading and annotating your group's section in the Literature Review of the article.

Period 2: Finish reading the Introduction section of the article. As you read:

• Circle unknown words
• Make 2 annotations for meaning (putting a sentence or phrase into your own words)

Period 3: Read the last sentence in "1. Transformation of Digital Media Consumption Patterns" and write down the meaning in your own words.

Period 4: Read the section of Literature Review that is for your group's focus area. Circle any unknown words.

Core Connections:

Make sure that you have completed and turned in the following:

1.  3rd QuarterGrades/GPA Graph of your 1, 2, and 3rd quarter grades.

2.  BR:  Intro to Public Health. Specifically, I am checking for revised, updated, correct information on slides 3, 4, and 6.  

3.  You should have completed Part ONE of BR: PEL today.  We will continue working on it tomorrow.

Tuesday March 17

 Math

Math 8: Finish Scientific Notation Delta Math. Review #4 in delta math due Friday

Math 1: Review #4 in delta math due Friday. Systems test Friday.

Social Studies:

1.  Create a new warm up doc for Q4/complete warm up #1 and #2

2.  Read in the America Text 16.2 pp. 552-557/review the notes provided in GC

3.  Review the slideshow notes on "Reconstruction in the State" located in GC

4.  Watch the first 20 minutes of ATSOU #6-Heartland and take Graffiti notes!

5.  Study your new vocab: Reconstruction.  We will play Gimkit later this week!

Science:

1 - Complete labeling the "Major Events in Earth's History" if you did not finish in class.

2 - Complete the Geologic Time Organizer. Follow directions. 

3 - Complete the Picture It assignment to sketch a picture of Earth during each of the 4 major time periods.  Pictures should include biological and geological events.

Core Connections

1. Make sure you've completed the graphing activity of your grades and posted it in GC.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

 Spring Picture Day is March 23. Pictures can be ordered at strawbridge.net using these codes:

Individual Pictures - FM493452

8th Grade Group Picture - FM493449

No school for students on Thursday, March 12 and Friday, March 13.  These are teacher workdays. We look forward to seeing you on Monday, March 16. Enjoy your long weekend!

ELA:

I recommend that you get your research notes in for Stage 1 before next week. We will begin Stage 2 then, and all research notes will be checked at the end of Stage 2.

If you're worried about losing your work, use the "export notes" button at the top to save an offline copy of your notes to your computer before you log out or close the tab.