Friday, April 30, 2021

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85410233143?pwd=UjFraUtJbkl2VnJOME9uc0N3VkZldz09

Meeting ID: 854 1023 3143

Passcode: 773588

ELA:

1. Exit ticket (DUE AT THE END OF YOUR CLASS)

2. Study your L/G roots. Quizlet set on GC.

Core Connections:

Today, we're doing EOG support.  You need your green Biotechnology Learned Notebook from Science.  

Your student code is 16339.  

1.  Pages 4 - 7

2. Page 13

3. Pages 14 - 15.  

Social Studies:

1.  Complete WARM UP #20.

2.  Play jeopardy. (found in GC)

*Please note:  the game that I created this week did not load for me this morning, so....Plan B is to use a game created several years ago.  Do the best that you can with it.  I will create another game this weekend and we will play again on Monday.

Science:
Complete the IXL Chemistry Reviews if you have not finished them yet.
You can also do the Atoms Review links posted in GC.  

Math:

1st period: Make sure the warmup from class is completed (distance between two points in gc)

Make sure your trees are plotted for your geometry mini project

Review Sheet is due Monday

Quiz Tuesday

2nd: Took notes p94 Motion Word Problems

Finish cheesy riddle from class

Systems Mini Project due Monday at 8:30am

3rd: Make sure the warmup from class is completed (distance between two points in gc)

Make sure your trees are plotted and you found the distance between trees 1 & 2 for your geometry mini project

Review Sheet is due Monday

Quiz Tuesday

4th: Finish Geometry Mini Project (may have finished in class)

5th: Finish Geometry Mini Project (may have finished in class)

Thursday, April 29, 2021

 Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #19.

2.  Complete Flocabulary "WWII"  *Remember that directions can be found on the blog post from March 25.

3.  Study for your test using the study guide posted on Monday of this week.  Test next Monday, May 3rd.  BE READY!

Core Connections:

1. Digital Footprint activities

2. Science EOG Enrichment: Biotechnology (Optional)

Science: 

1 - Finish the EdPuzzle assignment if you didn't finish in class.

2 - Complete the Homologous/Analogous Structure practice in GC.

3 - Work on the Chemistry Review assignments in IXL - work until mastery (you'll see a medal at the end).

ELA:

1. Exit ticket (these are due before you leave class).

2. Study L/G roots. Test soooooooooooooooooooooooon.

Math:
1st: finish distance pratice google doc

Quiz Tuesday

2nd: Systems mini project due by the end of the day Friday April 30th

3rd: If you didn't finish in class, finish the distance practice sheet.

4th & 5th: nothing

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Core Connections:

1. Please fill out the Best Foot Forward Google Form by 1:00.  

2. Optional tutoring appointments are available via the Best Foot Forward form.    

Science:

1st period: Answer the attendance question today by 1pm.

All Classes: Complete the Diversity of Life LearnEd notebook assignment. See complete instructions and information in Google Classroom.

Check PowerSchool and complete any missing assignments! Today is a great day to get caught up.

In-Person Students: Be sure you finish your Battle of the Beaks lab from Tuesday. This is due Thursday at the beginning of class.

Math:
1st Period: Complete attendance question by 1pm

Copy notes p93 & 94

2nd Period: Work on Systems Mini Project

3rd Period: Copy notes p93 & 94

4th & 5th Period: Complete Review Sheet

Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #18,

2.  Complete the assignment from yesterday:  New Deal Foldable.  Read America 23.2.  Create a foldable form a piece of notebook paper or copy paper.  Answer these questions on the foldable:

What were the 3 goals of the New Deal?  What were some of the corporations or administrations created to support economic recovery?  How did the New Deal help America recover from the Great Depression?

ELA:

1. Review the book project materials. Start thinking about what project you might want to do. 

2. Study your L/G roots. 

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Core Connections:

1. A Year in Review:  Spreadsheet work.

2. Digital Portfolio Picks

3.  Enrichment EOG prep/optional (Biotech careers)

ELA:

1. Exit ticket (due at the end of class)

2. Study L/G roots!

Social Studies:

1.  Remote Group...Make sure that you complete warm up #17 (we forgot to do this in class)

2.  Read America Ch. 23 Section 2.  Create a foldable from a piece of notebook paper or copy paper.  Answer the following questions:  What were the 3 goals of the New Deal?  What were some of the corporations or administrations created to support economic recovery?  How did the New Deal help America recover from the Great Depression?

3.  Reminder for all remote students:  you will have asynchronous learning in social studies on Thursday and Friday.  (No zoom calls on those days)

Science:

1 - Everyone: Be sure you have joined the 4th Quarter Flocabulary class.  For 2nd period, the link and code are posted in your Google Classroom.  For other classes, check today's slideshow for the Class Code.  Message me if you are having trouble joining.

2 - 2nd period (Remote students): Finish the "Natural Selection in Action" assignment, including the Peppered Moth simulation game.

In-Person Classes: Finish the Battle of the Beaks lab handout, including the graph and all questions.  This is due on Thursday for a lab grade. 

Math:

1st: Finish Pythagorean Theorem Word Problems 2

Optional Extra Credit: IXL R5 & R6

2nd: Work on Systems Mini Project

3rd: Finish Pythagorean Theorem Word Problems 2

Optional Extra Credit: IXL R5 & R6

4th: Took Notes p93 & p94

Complete EITHER IXL N4 (85+ or 20 active minutes) OR dominoes (turn in Thurs if this is your choice)

5th: Took Notes p93 & 94

IXL N4 (85+ smartscore or 20 active minutes)

Monday, April 26, 2021

 Core Connections:

Thank you for turning in My Story!

1. Work on and complete your group's collective knowledge.

2.  Look through and access your digital portfolio.

ELA:

1. Exit ticket (due at the end of class).

2. L/G roots: dic/dict, cog, gno/kno, reg/rect/reign, cord/cour/cor

Social Studies:

1.  Make sure that trading card #2 is ready for sharing tomorrow.  

2.  Read America Ch. 23 Section 1 p.770-775. (hw check guaranteed)

3.  Take bullet point notes as you read!  (Main ideas and supporting details)

*If you are in my 5th period class, you do not have to complete the America book assignment.  We will complete it in class tomorrow

4.  Test on the Industrial Revolution and Early 20th Century America next Monday, May, 3rd.

STUDY GUIDE

Vocabulary:  technology, monopoly, rural, urban, urbanization, interest, supply and demand, Industrial Revolution, immigration, migration, graded school, normal school, patent, tenement

Flocabulary Industrialization and Urbanization (review read and respond questions)

Primary sources on the Industrial Revolution:  child labor, wages, employee grievances, change

WWI ppt and poster propaganda

America Ch. 23 sections 1 and 2 (Great Depression and New Deal notes)

WWII Flocab 

Jeopardy Review

Math:
1st: Complete notes in class - INB p92 Word Problems

Finish Pythagorean Theorem word problems practice 1

Optional: IXL R5 & R6

2nd: Complete Review Sheet

Quiz Tuesday

3rd: Finish Pythagorean Theorem word problems practice 1

Optional: IXL R5 & R6

4th: Finish Pythagorean Theorem word problems practice 2

Optional: IXL R5 & R6

Quiz Thursday

5th: Finish Pythagorean Theorem word problems practice 2

Optional: IXL R5 & R6

Quiz Thursday

Science:

1.  Finish the Naturally Selected to Survive article & questions if you didn't finish in class today.

2.  Work on the IXL assignments posted this morning during MTSS. 

Friday, April 23, 2021

Core Connections:

1. Please turn in your FINAL My story.

2.  Biotechnology Jobs Enrichment .

Science:

1 - Finish the Ice Cores Video assignment. 

2 - Finish p.15 in your Earth History LearnEd notebook.  Remote students should submit pictures of their work in GC.  In-person students should show me in class on Monday.

ELA:

Exit ticket (due at the end of class).

Social Studies:

1.  Review the WWI powerpoint presentation.

2.  Complete the WWI Propaganda assignment and submit for on time homework credit. (Period 3/Remote only)

Have a great weekend!

Math:
1st: Make sure you submit the Pythagorean Theorem doc in google classroom

2nd: Finish Matching (Remote) or Tarsia (In-person)

Review Sheet due by the end of the day Monday

Quiz on Systems Tuesday

3rd, 4th, 5th: Should have finished practice sheet in class; if not, please finish and turn it in Monday

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Core Connections:

1. Work on your revisions from you second draft to submit a final submission of My Story. 

2.  If you finish, there is an enrichment assignment you can do for Science/Biotechnology.  

I'll continue to post optional enrichment assignments - they do count towards extra credit, but they cannot replace this My Story project.   Please make sure you're on track and working on your final product.

Science:
Review for tomorrow's quiz.  Use the Quizlet word set and Quizizz practice quizzes.  Review your notes in Google Classroom on fossils, geologic time, relative age, absolute age, and ice cores.

ELA: 

1. L/G roots: vac, cess/ced, lev, viv/vit, lat

2. Exit ticket (due at the end of class)

Social Studies:

1.  Review your new unit vocab on the Industrial Revolution.

Math:
1st period: Took notes p90-91 Pythagorean Theorem

Complete IXL R1 & R2 (each to 85+ or 20 min each)

Optional IXL R6 (85+)

2nd period: More Word Problems doc

3rd period: Took notes p90-91 Pythagorean Theorem

Complete IXL R1 & R2 (each to 85+ or 20 min each)

Optional IXL R6

4th period: Took notes p90-91 Pythagorean Theorem

Completed practice worksheet in class (if not, complete and turn in at the beginning of Friday's class)

IXL R3 (65 smartscore) 

5th period: Took notes p90-91 Pythagorean Theorem

Completed practice worksheet in class (if not, complete and turn in at the beginning of Friday's class)

IXL R3 (65 smartscore) 

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Math:

1st: Complete attendance question by 1pm

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: IXL's assigned Monday are due by the end of the day (F15, F17, F18, F21, F24)

Classifying Chart assigned Tuesday is due Thursday

Complete Real Numbers Form (A video of additional examples is posted in google classroom)

2nd: Alg IXL U10 (work until you have 8 correct)

Science:

1st: Answer the attendance question by 1pm today.

All Classes: Complete the "Fossils and Geologic Time Summary" assignment. See complete directions in GC.

Study for Friday's quiz! Use the Quizlet word set and the practice quizzes to help you review. 

Core Connections:

1. Google Form for attendance

2. Journal Prompts.

Please submit any late or missing work from the My Story, Our Story, History activities.  Missing quite a few Second drafts and odds and ends.  Progress reports will go out Friday.  

Social Studies:

1.  Make sure that your Flocab assignment is completed by this evening for on time credit (Urbanization and Industrialization)

2.  Complete the trading card assignment in GC.

ELA:

1. Study your Latin & Greek roots! Who knows when you could have a quiz? <evil laugh>

2. Work on the IXL skills assigned on Tuesday--to a score of 85 or 20 active minutes.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

 ELA:
1. Exit Ticket
2. L/G roots: scrib/script, vis/vid, jur/jus/jud, acu/ac/acr, fin

Core Connections:

1. Review of Story Telling

2. Inclusion and Earth Day

Social Studies:

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/industrial-revolution-in-the-united-states/

Use the website cited above to look at various primary sources from the Industrial Revolution (1870's through the early 1900's)

If you are a REMOTE student you need to finish the activity related to the Primary Source you selected. You will need to discuss your observations, reflections and questions on Thursday.

Math:

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: 

Took Notes p88 Types of Numbers

p89 Real Numbers Chart

Complete Classifying and coloring (may have finished in class)

2nd:
Took Notes p120-121 Word Problems

Complete word problems doc - type two equations and answers (may use desmos.com to solve the problem)

Science: 

1 - Finish the Radioactive Decay lab if I did not see yours in class today.

2 - Finish the 2 EdPuzzle assignments to review radioactive decay.

Monday, April 19, 2021

Science: 
1. Finish the LearnEd (Earth History) assignment if you did not finish during class.  See directions in Google Classroom.

2. Study!  Quiz on Fossils & Geologic Time on Friday, April 23.

Quizlet Word Set - Fossils & Geologic Time 

ELA:

1. Exit ticket (due at the end of class)

2. L/G roots: prin/prim, mit/mis, ann/enn, cid/cis, son

Social Studies:

1.  Turn in your Arpillera and artist statement (I will tell you how to do this.  Be patient!)

2.  Define your new unit vocab words:  Industrialization

technology, monopoly, urban, rural, urbanization, interest, supply and demand, Industrial Revolution, immigration, migration, graded school, normal school, patent, tenement

3.  Complete Flocabulary:  Urbanization and Industrialization by Wednesday at 11:59pm.

Remember that this can be accessed through your original GC account.  Directions can be found on the blog post from March 25th.

Core Connections:

Separating Fact from Fiction activities.  

1.  Compare and Contrast:  Fiction/Non-fiction/Creative Fiction

2. 1918 and Now

Math:

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: In class, took notes p85, p86, & 87 (copies in google classroom)
Complete IXL F15 (90+), IXL F17 (90+), IXL F18 (85+), IXL F21(90+), IXL F24

Bring colored pencils to class tomorrow (need 4 different colors)

2nd: Finish Elimination Practice

Friday, April 16, 2021

Core Connections:

1. Please turn in your Second Draft of your My Story, Our Story, History.

2. If you finish early, please do the Science enrichment - Sticklebacks.  

Social Studies:

1.  Finish your Arpillera.

2.  Finish your artist statement using the template as your guide.

3.  Directions will be provided on Monday re: submission.

Science:
Finish the Relative Age Practice - Part B if you did not finish during class.

Math:
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: Survey Project due Monday at 3:15pm. If you are remote and turning in a physical product, please attach a picture of your project to the assignment in google classroom and email Mrs. Higdon to let her know when you plan to drop your project off at school.

2nd: Elimination practice (done in class)

Thursday, April 15, 2021

 ELA: 

1. L/G roots: culp, phil, psych, bell, tac/tic

2. Daily read aloud exit ticket (due at the end of class).

3. Essay revisions due tomorrow.

Core Connections:

1.  Check over your rubrics and checklist for your My Story. 

2.  Make sure you have read other people's Peer Reviews of your work AND make sure you have reviewed at least 2 other people's work.

3. Writing Revisions - 2nd Draft due tomorrow. 

4.  If you finish, Aurora Fossils!

Science:

Finish the Relative Age Practice - Part A assignment if you didn't finish in class.  REVIEW your notes on Fossils and Relative Age.

Math:
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: Work on your Survey Project; Project is due Monday April 19th by 3:15pm (If you are remote, please message me if you need to drop off your project and we will work out a time; otherwise, I expect a digital project)

2nd: Complete Word Problems for Substitution 2

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

 Science:

Complete the Earth History LearnEd notebook assignment.  Details are on Google Classroom - read carefully; you are not completing all of every assigned page.  Submit pictures of each completed page for full credit. 

Earth History Slideshow - student passcode 16339

Core Connections

1. Please work on your My Story revisions  for the second draft -  due Friday.  

2. The assignment due today is a Google Form is required for attendance.  It also provides an option to sign up for tutoring at 1:00 today.

Social Studies:

1.  Continue to work on your Arpillera.  Make sure that you follow the rubric to receive a perfect score!

2.  After you finish the art portion of the project, you may begin writing your Artist Statement.  You may use the template provided or free write as long as you follow the rubric.

Math: Complete attendance question by 1pm

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: Work on Survey Project - make sure you have at least 45 responses; start compiling responses in a frequency table and a relative frequency table (decimals should be rounded to the nearest thousandth)

Survey Links - a few people need a few more responses; if you haven't shared your survey with me to have it on the list, you need to ASAP

2nd: Copy INBp116-117 Word Problems for Systems

Complete Word Problems for substitution 1

  

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Core Connections:

1. Today, we'll do a short in-class activity on cliches.  

2. Continue with rewrites/second draft of your "My Story."

ELA:

1. L/G roots: mov/mob/mot, man, geo, plur/plus, morph.

2. Daily read aloud exit ticket (due right at the end of class).

3. Essay revisions are due FRIDAY. See GC for instructions.

Science:

2nd Period - Finish the Index Fossils Review (in GC).

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Period - Finish the How Fossils are Made handout from class today. 

* All Classes - You need your Earth History LearnEd notebook for tomorrow's assignment.  If you haven't collected it from school yet, please make arrangements to get it.  Thanks!

Social Studies:

1.  Review the Arpillera Rubric and Artist Statement template in your Hybrid GC account.

2.  Continue to create your arpillera!

Math:

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: If you do not have 45 responses to your survey, ask friends and family to complete it. If you have not added Mrs. Higdon as a collaborator to your survey form, do so ASAP.

Complete Relative Frequency Tables 2

Survey Links (some people need a few more survey responses; I've updated the doc to only the ones who need more responses)

2nd: Complete Solve by Substitution 2

Monday, April 12, 2021

Core Connections:

Welcome Back!  

Today, we'll ease into our new class arrangements and routines and try out a variety of teambuilding and interactive games together.  

1.   At the end of class, please turn in the Google Form Game Survey.  

2.  If you did not complete this before/during break, please make sure you've completed the 2 Peer Reviews and also gotten your own initial draft reviewed for feedback.

3.  Here's our Weekly To-Do List for Core Connections. 

Have a wonderful day!

ELA: 

1. L/G roots: vers/vert, auto, loc, rupt, graph/gram.

2. Read aloud exit ticket.

Science:

Finish the Fossils Review assignment in Google Classroom.  If the document is not loading for you (or making a copy of it), please check it throughout the day - hopefully the issue will be resolved soon! Thanks for your patience.
 

Social Studies:

1.  Per the reminder before break, today was the first day of painting and creating the final draft of the Arpillera.  

2.  If you have not purchased paint and a brush or two, you must arrange for this purchase ASAP

3.  We will work on Arpilleras all week.  The artwork should be completed by the end of class on Friday, April, 16.

Math: A document of links to students' surveys for their math projects is posted here and in the mtss google classroom. Please complete the surveys. Thank you!

1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: Complete Relative Frequency Tables Practice 1

Complete other students' surveys for the project.

2nd: Solve by substitution practice. Show work.

Please complete the math 8 surveys. A document of links in posted in mtss google classroom.

Friday, April 1, 2021

 Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #15.

2.  Finish your rough draft sketch of your arpillera design on paper.  (Use your project design ideas and be specific)

3.  Use a pencil to lightly sketch your design on your CANVAS.

4.  Bring a paint brush, your paints and 3D materials to class on April 12.  We will begin ART DAYS in Social Studies as soon as we return from break.

Have a wonderful break from school!

Science:

1 - Submit your Warm Ups for this week (you should have 3 this week).

2 - Finish the Geologic Time Organizer assignment we started in class today. Use pages 346-349 in your textbook to locate the events. If you were in person at school today, please submit a picture of your completed paper in GC.

3 - Please bring your Earth History LearnEd notebook to school on April 12.  (This one is yellow with a picture of Earth on the cover.)

Have a fantastic spring break! 🌼 I'll miss you! 

Core Connections:

1. Happy (Almost)Spring Break!  Please check for any missing assignments in your Google Classroom. We'll have another shift in schedules when we come back.

2.  Peer Reviews for our COVID Stories today during class.

Math:
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th: In class we created the survey question and google form for the survey project. Make sure your question and link to your google form are in your Survey Project doc.

2nd: Make sure you have INBp110, p111, p112, p113 and p114 in your notebook

Finish Solve Systems by Graphing Google Slides

Have a great break!

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Core Connections:

1. Happy (Almost)Spring Break!  Please check for any missing assignments in your Google Classroom. We'll have another shift in schedules when we come back.

2.  Peer Reviews for our COVID Stories today during class.