Social Studies: Make sure that you have written the intro paragraph for your feature story. This should start with a hook which can be a question or a statement about the person. It can also begin with a description of the person. Make sure that your intro paragraph has one quote from one of your first two interviews. We will edit intro paragraphs tomorrow.
Does your feature story have a title? Use the "Against the Odds" example to brainstorm ideas.
Complete Interview 3 (Period 2 and 3) and anyone else who is doing more than 2 by Thursday.
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Work 20 minutes in IXL; suggestions below
W.13 Solve equations: word problems
4th & 5th - Algebra 2 IXL B.6 (80 or 15 minutes)
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Social Studies: Conduct Interview 2. Bring data to class tomorrow. You should have quotes to use from this interview and enough data to write your feature story. One word or one sentence responses are not enough!
Buy a posterboard.
Science: Finish the handout from class today on Evidence for Biological Evolution.
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - work for 20 minutes in IXL. Choose a topic you think you need to review or choose from the following
Buy a posterboard.
Science: Finish the handout from class today on Evidence for Biological Evolution.
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - work for 20 minutes in IXL. Choose a topic you think you need to review or choose from the following
4th & 5th - finish front side of classwork Worksheet
ELA: Book club tomorrow! Make sure you've done your reading and notes.
ELA: Book club tomorrow! Make sure you've done your reading and notes.
Friday, April 26, 2019
Friday, April 26, 2019
Science:
Ice Core Videos
ELA: Book club work (reading and notes). Next meeting is Tuesday.
Social Studies: Data from Interview 1 is due on Monday. Data from interview 2 is due on Tuesday.
Ice Core Videos
ELA: Book club work (reading and notes). Next meeting is Tuesday.
Social Studies: Data from Interview 1 is due on Monday. Data from interview 2 is due on Tuesday.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Social Studies: Conduct Interview #1. There is a homework check for this interview on Monday. Be prepared!
Science: Finish today's classwork if you did not finish during class.
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th (to stay caught up, IXL's from this week are G.1, G.2, and G.3)
4th & 5th - Review due Friday
ELA: Finish your book club work--you meet tomorrow!
Science: Finish today's classwork if you did not finish during class.
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th (to stay caught up, IXL's from this week are G.1, G.2, and G.3)
4th & 5th - Review due Friday
ELA: Finish your book club work--you meet tomorrow!
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Links for Science:
Fossils and Geologic Time
Quizizz - Evolution: 100777
Quizizz - Relative Age of Rocks - 088683
Quizizz - Geologic Time - 504587
ELA: Book club reading and notes due Friday. Remember: In this new round of book clubs, you'll be meeting twice a week (Tuesdays & Fridays) for eight sessions. You'll need to plan your reading accordingly.
Social Studies: Come to class tomorrow with 7-10 questions for INTERVIEW #1!
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th (to stay caught up, IXL's from this week are G.1 and G.2)
4th & 5th - finish 8th grade IXL's N.1, N.2 & N.3 from class and Review due Friday
Fossils and Geologic Time
Quizizz - Evolution: 100777
Quizizz - Relative Age of Rocks - 088683
Quizizz - Geologic Time - 504587
ELA: Book club reading and notes due Friday. Remember: In this new round of book clubs, you'll be meeting twice a week (Tuesdays & Fridays) for eight sessions. You'll need to plan your reading accordingly.
Social Studies: Come to class tomorrow with 7-10 questions for INTERVIEW #1!
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th (to stay caught up, IXL's from this week are G.1 and G.2)
4th & 5th - finish 8th grade IXL's N.1, N.2 & N.3 from class and Review due Friday
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Links for Science:
Stated Clearly - What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly - What is Natural Selection?
Science: Finish any incomplete assignments from class today (both Stated Clearly segments and the Flocabulary - Evolution assignments).
Social Studies: Select a person from your warm up today for your legacy project. Project kick-off tomorrow.
Review your Civil Rights unit vocabulary.'
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - IXL G.2; Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th
4th & 5th - IXL F.15 (due tomorrow) and Review due Friday
Stated Clearly - What is Evolution?
Stated Clearly - What is Natural Selection?
Science: Finish any incomplete assignments from class today (both Stated Clearly segments and the Flocabulary - Evolution assignments).
Social Studies: Select a person from your warm up today for your legacy project. Project kick-off tomorrow.
Review your Civil Rights unit vocabulary.'
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - IXL G.2; Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th
4th & 5th - IXL F.15 (due tomorrow) and Review due Friday
YOU'RE INVITED!!
WHAT: VAHS Spring Choral Concert
WHO: featuring the show choirs of VAHS in their final concert of the
school year: Vocal Affinity & Bull City Lights & our HS Band:
Bull City Sound!
WHEN: Thursday, May 2nd @ 7:00pm (Doors open @ 6:30pm)
WHERE: Ridgecrest Baptist Church Gym (1104 Milton Rd, Durham, NC 27712)
**COST: $5 at the door (cash only)
**rising 9th graders admitted FREE (present ticket,
or show ticket image at the door!)
Friday, April 12, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019
Links for Science:
Peppered Moths
Snurfle Island
Natural Selection - Bird Populations
Nowhere to Hide
Have a safe and wonderful Spring Break! 🌼
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Did you finish classwork IXL G.1? If not, complete it.
Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th
Peppered Moths
Snurfle Island
Natural Selection - Bird Populations
Nowhere to Hide
Have a safe and wonderful Spring Break! 🌼
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Did you finish classwork IXL G.1? If not, complete it.
Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Social Studies: Reflect: What do we know to be true about humanity?
(1 to 2 paragraph reflection about "An Unlikely Friendship")
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th
Science; Finish the "How Old is that Fossil?" activity from class today.
(1 to 2 paragraph reflection about "An Unlikely Friendship")
Math: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - Take Home Test Due Friday April 26th
Science; Finish the "How Old is that Fossil?" activity from class today.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Science: Finish the Carbon-14 dating assignment from class today (both pages) if you did not finish in class. Bring a calculator to class tomorrow if you have one.
Social Studies: Complete the 3 part reflection from yesterday's field experience. If you did not attend you have been given an alternate assignment.
Math - 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Take Home Test due Friday April 26th
4th & 5th - IXL KK.10 and KK.11 (90+ or 20 min each)
Social Studies: Complete the 3 part reflection from yesterday's field experience. If you did not attend you have been given an alternate assignment.
Math - 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Take Home Test due Friday April 26th
4th & 5th - IXL KK.10 and KK.11 (90+ or 20 min each)
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
ELA: If you're done with your project, you have NO HOMEWORK! :)
Social Studies: Read 13.4 in the NC book and take notes. Field trip tomorrow. Arrive in the high school parking lot at 7:15.
Bring an umbrella and a raincoat!!
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - IXL F.9, F.10, F.11
4th & 5th - IXL KK.2, KK.4, KK.5
Science: Finish the Flocabulary assignments - Earth History.
The science benchmark will be administered on Wednesday, April 10. Please be on time for school. Bring your device (fully charged!) and your charger.
Social Studies: Read 13.4 in the NC book and take notes. Field trip tomorrow. Arrive in the high school parking lot at 7:15.
Bring an umbrella and a raincoat!!
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - IXL F.9, F.10, F.11
4th & 5th - IXL KK.2, KK.4, KK.5
Science: Finish the Flocabulary assignments - Earth History.
The science benchmark will be administered on Wednesday, April 10. Please be on time for school. Bring your device (fully charged!) and your charger.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Friday April 5, 2019
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - IXL F.7 and F.8 (if you want to get ahead, work on IXL F.9, F.10, F.11)
4th & 5th - Monopoly Data assignment will be collected Monday
ELA: Finish book club project. Due Monday.
ELA: Finish book club project. Due Monday.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Thursday, April 4, 2019
ELA: Book club projects are due MONDAY. You have had and will have every day this week in class to work on it and ask questions.
Science: Complete all 3 levels in the Layers of Time game. Use the Quizizz codes (posted yesterday). Pick 3 different topics and complete all questions in each quiz. Microbes Take-Home test is due tomorrow. Be sure you have answered every question and be sure your handwriting is legible. Double check: Does your letter on the blank match the answer choice you circled? Proofread carefully!
Social Studies:
Field Trip Reminders: All chaperones need to pay the same amount as the students. This covers transportation and the museum tour fee. All participants need to arrive at the Voyager High School lot on Tuesday morning April 9th at 7:15. Students will need money for lunch out in Greensboro unless they prefer to pack their lunch. Everyone should wear comfortable walking shoes AND phones are allowed on this trip as long as they are used responsibly.
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - IXL F.7, and F.8
4th & 5th - finish Monopoly Data
Science: Complete all 3 levels in the Layers of Time game. Use the Quizizz codes (posted yesterday). Pick 3 different topics and complete all questions in each quiz. Microbes Take-Home test is due tomorrow. Be sure you have answered every question and be sure your handwriting is legible. Double check: Does your letter on the blank match the answer choice you circled? Proofread carefully!
Social Studies:
Field Trip Reminders: All chaperones need to pay the same amount as the students. This covers transportation and the museum tour fee. All participants need to arrive at the Voyager High School lot on Tuesday morning April 9th at 7:15. Students will need money for lunch out in Greensboro unless they prefer to pack their lunch. Everyone should wear comfortable walking shoes AND phones are allowed on this trip as long as they are used responsibly.
4th & 5th - finish Monopoly Data
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Science Benchmark: Wednesday, April 10. This is a comprehensive benchmark. Please be on time for school with a fully charged device.
Science Homework: Finish the crossword puzzle from class today if you did not finish. Use at least three of the Quizizz links below to review for next week's benchmark.
Science Benchmark Review
Go to Quizizz and use these codes:
Science Homework: Finish the crossword puzzle from class today if you did not finish. Use at least three of the Quizizz links below to review for next week's benchmark.
Science Benchmark Review
Go to Quizizz and use these codes:
Metals, Nonmetals, Metalloids: 598726
Chemical Reactions: 775191
Physical & Chemical Changes: 204157
Physical & Chemical Changes / Properties: 788510
Ecosystems: 137032
Symbiosis: 399647
Water Quality & Treatment: 989917
Water Quality: 592705
Food Chains & Food Webs: 687273
Social Studies: Test on Friday.
4th Quarter Extra Credit Opportunities:
Visit the Hugh Mangum Exhibit at the Nasher Museum in Durham.
"Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum
Go to the movies! "The Best of Enemies" the story of Durham residents Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis begins showing on April 5th. The original documentary "An Unlikely Friendship" will be viewed in my class next week.
Pick ONE of the options above and write a 1-2 page reflection about what you learned from the experience. Connect your learning to what you have learned in class about the Jim Crow era in the South and the Civil Rights Movement. Make sure your type is double spaced and use size 12 font.
*All extra credit submissions are due on or before May 17th.
ELA: Book club projects are due Monday. You'll have the rest of the week in class to work on them and ask questions.
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Practice Worksheet
4th & 5th - finish graphing sandwich data and determine the association; IXL KK.8
Food Chains & Food Webs: 687273
Social Studies: Test on Friday.
4th Quarter Extra Credit Opportunities:
Visit the Hugh Mangum Exhibit at the Nasher Museum in Durham.
"Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum
Go to the movies! "The Best of Enemies" the story of Durham residents Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis begins showing on April 5th. The original documentary "An Unlikely Friendship" will be viewed in my class next week.
Pick ONE of the options above and write a 1-2 page reflection about what you learned from the experience. Connect your learning to what you have learned in class about the Jim Crow era in the South and the Civil Rights Movement. Make sure your type is double spaced and use size 12 font.
*All extra credit submissions are due on or before May 17th.
ELA: Book club projects are due Monday. You'll have the rest of the week in class to work on them and ask questions.
Math: 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Practice Worksheet
4th & 5th - finish graphing sandwich data and determine the association; IXL KK.8
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Social Studies: Test this Friday.
Study Guide
Vocabulary: minimum wage, prohibition, stock market, Great Depression, New Deal, Jim Crow Laws, Great Migration, Blue Ridge Parkway, rationing, paradox
Concepts
Industrial Revolution
Immigration
Women's Rights Movement
Crash of 1929
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
WWII
Material Guides
ATSOU Handouts # 8, 9, and 10
23.1 America notes
12.3 NC notes
Photography of Dorothea Lange Reflections
Flocabulary Great Depression (video, vocab, questions, quiz)
Flocabulary Women's Rights (video and questions)
Notes and reflection on the 2 short answer questions given in class (Economic impact on culture and New Deal impact on change and assistance for Americans)
Science: Finish the fossil diagrams on the back of today's notes. Use pages 320-321 and any of the fossils you saw in class today to help. STUDY your notes on Geologic Time and Fossils.
Science Benchmark: Wednesday, April 10. This is a comprehensive benchmark. Please be on time for school with a fully charged device.
Math- 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Make sure you are caught up with IXL assignments
4th & 5th - IXL T.4 and T.5
Study Guide
Vocabulary: minimum wage, prohibition, stock market, Great Depression, New Deal, Jim Crow Laws, Great Migration, Blue Ridge Parkway, rationing, paradox
Concepts
Industrial Revolution
Immigration
Women's Rights Movement
Crash of 1929
Great Depression
Dust Bowl
WWII
Material Guides
ATSOU Handouts # 8, 9, and 10
23.1 America notes
12.3 NC notes
Photography of Dorothea Lange Reflections
Flocabulary Great Depression (video, vocab, questions, quiz)
Flocabulary Women's Rights (video and questions)
Notes and reflection on the 2 short answer questions given in class (Economic impact on culture and New Deal impact on change and assistance for Americans)
Science: Finish the fossil diagrams on the back of today's notes. Use pages 320-321 and any of the fossils you saw in class today to help. STUDY your notes on Geologic Time and Fossils.
Science Benchmark: Wednesday, April 10. This is a comprehensive benchmark. Please be on time for school with a fully charged device.
Math- 1st, 2nd & 3rd - Make sure you are caught up with IXL assignments
4th & 5th - IXL T.4 and T.5
Monday, April 1, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
Social Studies: Finish your New Deal assignment from class today. You should have three paragraphs highlighting 3 New Deal programs and answering the question: How did the program change and help America?
Science: Finish the Geologic Timeline assignment from today. Arrange the events in the correct order by writing each event in the correct location on the timeline. Microbes take-home test is due Friday, April 5.
ELA: Finish "Cite vs. Sight vs. Site" on No Red Ink, if you didn't in class. Book club packets were due in class today. Book club book analysis assignments are due tonight. Projects are due next Monday. You will have class time all week to work on your project and ask questions.
Math:
1st, 2nd & 3rd - Test Tomorrow on Pythagorean Theorem, Distance, and Area/Volume Formulas; Study your review sheet and notes in notebook (may need to practice more since very few completed the review sheet on your own)
4th & 5th - IXL T.1 & T.3 (85+ or 20 min)
Science: Finish the Geologic Timeline assignment from today. Arrange the events in the correct order by writing each event in the correct location on the timeline. Microbes take-home test is due Friday, April 5.
ELA: Finish "Cite vs. Sight vs. Site" on No Red Ink, if you didn't in class. Book club packets were due in class today. Book club book analysis assignments are due tonight. Projects are due next Monday. You will have class time all week to work on your project and ask questions.
Math:
1st, 2nd & 3rd - Test Tomorrow on Pythagorean Theorem, Distance, and Area/Volume Formulas; Study your review sheet and notes in notebook (may need to practice more since very few completed the review sheet on your own)
4th & 5th - IXL T.1 & T.3 (85+ or 20 min)
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