Tuesday, February 22, 2022

 Social Studies

1.  Warm up #19 (classwork)

2.  Review your responses to yesterday's reading in GC (classwork)

3.  Watch the conclusion of "The Address" by Ken Burns (classwork)

4.  Answer the multiple choice questions 8-14 on the Gettysburg Address (classwork)

5.  Review your unit vocab and Civil War unit notes.  Test coming next Wednesday, March 2nd! (homework)

Science

1 - Warm Up (classwork)

2 - Which Microbe Are You? (quiz link and question in GC)

3 - Read and annotate the Human Microbiome article.  Use this article to answer the questions posted in GC. 

4 - Study!  Quiz Friday on photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and microbes.  Use the Review Material posted in GC for you.  

Core Connections:

1. Complete the Great Backyard Bird Count Follow Up.  It is a series of activities in Google Slides.  

2. Our next project will be a series of potentially messy art-related activities.  Please try to find the following and bring in:: 

a. Oversized, old t-shirt that you can use like a smock

b.  Cereal Box

c. Shoe Box

Math:
1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

Completed solve by graphing worksheet (posted digitally for those who are absent) in class

Homework: Solve by Graphing google slides posted in google classroom

3rd: Continued taking notes on p93 (added example #5)

Worked on Practice Sheet

Homework: Solve by factoring doc posted in google classroom

Monday, February 21, 2022

8th grade Yearbook Ad information flyer

 

ELA

1. Please open google classroom and complete the commas practice worksheet. All directions on the worksheet document.

2. Review over notes on Animal Farm Propaganda and background to prepare for the start of the book tomorrow

Science

1 - 1st Period: Answer the Attendance Question in Google Classroom by 1 pm today.

2 - Finish your Bacteria Lab Report.  Be sure to follow the directions in the Lab Report Guide posted in GC with the assignment and with today's announcement.  Follow directions carefully and you should write a great report! 

FYI: Quiz this Friday (2/25) on Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis, and Microbes (including Fungi, which we will start this week). 

Core Connections:

Today, you're going to do Citizen/Community Science. 

Step 1:  Wake up. Birds are most active in the mornings, usually before many teenagers are awake.  But birds are active in the late afternoon/early evenings, too. They're not as active during lunchtime. 

Step 2:  Use the Google form for today's assignment.  This must be done TODAY, 2/21/2022.

Step 3:  Last year many people participated in the actual Great Backyard Bird Count.  Here's the registration information.  https://www.birdcount.org/participate/  If you can't do this, just let me know in the Google Form.  

Step 4:  If you need help with bird ID, I've posted the links for you in the Google form.  

Step 5:  (optional) If you take pictures/videos, you can upload files on the form itself.

Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #18.

2.  Finish reading America Ch.15 Section 5 p. 535 - 537.  

Answer questions 1 a and b, 2 a and b and 3 found at the bottom of p. 537.  You may use a piece of notebook paper or a google doc.  Be prepared to share your responses in class tomorrow.

3.  Review your key terms from the Civil War unit.  You will have a test on this unit on Wednesday, March 2nd.

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, & 5th: Complete Linear Functions Google Form

3rd: IXL BB7

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

 Social Studies:

1.  "The Address" by Ken Burns (classwork)

*If you are at home, find a video about the Gettysburg Address and watch it.

2.  Complete 1-7 on the back of the handout that I gave you which has the Gettysburg Address on side 1 (classwork)

Science:

1 - Complete today's Warm Up if you were not in class today. 

2 - Work on your Bacteria Lab Report. Follow the directions posted in GC with the assignment.  By the end of the day, you should be able to view the class data from all 5 classes.  Stay tuned for the due date on this assignment.  We may view your plates again next week when you return. 

Core Connections

Today's assignment include:

1. Watching a short clip about the Great Backyard Bird Count, which we will be doing on on virtual day next Monday.  

2.  Listening or reading the podcast from Deja Perkins, who started the international movement of Black Birders Week.

3. Using internet resources to compile a background on a bird that is specific to North Carolina.  The Google Doc contains 10 quick research points to better understand birds.  Don't forget to look at the GC stream for additional links and resources.

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th: (all of this was intended to be completed during class; if you didn't finish, please finish)

INB p64 Unit 6: Systems table of contents

INB p65 Systems

INB p66 Solve by graphing

Complete Desmos Activity: Intro to Systems

3rd:

INB p92-93 Zero Product Property and Examples

Worked on practice doc and turned in at the end of class

Spanish: Link to Final Test topics

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

 ELA

1. Journal Prompt posted on google classroom

2. Animal Farm Pre - Read Vocabulary on google classroom

3. Begin Propaganda Animal Farm Pre - Read Notes - if you are absent today please email me to have me send you these notes

Science

1 - Complete today's Warm Up if you were not in class for any reason.

2 - Write the Purpose, Predictions, and Procedure sections of today's Bacteria Lab.  We will use this tomorrow when we view your plates.  If you missed class today, please review today's slideshow so that you know what we did in class for this lab. 

Core Connections:

1. Complete the reading activity for Christian Cooper's It's a Bird.  There is a Google Form that goes with this graphic novel.

2.  Dr. Drew Lanham:  There is a short video and some information about Dr. Lanham that goes with a Google Form for this, too.

3.  Please check for any missing work.   

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th: Test today in class; no homework (unless you have missing work to complete)

3rd: IXL BB6 (85 smartscore)

Monday, February 14, 2022

Social Studies:

1.  Adam Gault Studios Video: Gettysburg Address (classwork)

2.  Define the language of Lincoln (classwork)

Word list:  four score, testing, prosper, unfinished work, conceived, task, honored, dedicated, perish, under God, devotion, liberty, hallow, detract

3.  Read the Gettysburg Address and plug in definitions which match the context of the speech (classwork and homework) .  If you are working at home, please find a copy online.  

4.  Review your new unit vocab/Quizlet (homework)

Science:

1 - Complete today's Warm Up (classwork). 

2 - Complete the Roles of Bacteria notes using today's slideshow, if you were not in class.

3 - Finish the Microbe of the Month nomination assignment (in GC) if you did not finish in class today. 

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th: TEST Tomorrow on Linear Equations

What to study...homework from Feb 9th, notebook pages 48-62, review done in class today (video of answers & explanations posted in google classroom by 2pm), 8th IXL AA topics

3rd:
INB p90 Simplifying Square Roots

Worked on Simplifying Square Roots and turned in during class

HW: IXL EE1 (go to at least 85 smartscore)

Core Connections

1. Darwin's Finches: Watch the video and answer the Google Form.  This activity is scored on correctness, not completion.  

2.  If you finish, you can get started on the activity "It's a Bird" by Christian Cooper. 

Friday, February 11, 2022

Core Connections

We have a few options today.  Each class may have a different opportunity.  Please check Google Classroom for your specific assignments.  

1.  Darwin's Finches Video with Questions in a Google form.  These questions will be score for correctness.

2.  Bird Bingo: An outside birding adventure - IF students are able to focus and safely do so. 

3.  Birding Basics SlideShow. An intro to the basics of identifying birds using Cornell's Merlin Bird ID.

ELA

1. Finish spoken word poem. These should be finished by the beginning of class on Monday and ready to turn in on google classroom.

2. Practice performing the spoken word for your presentation on Monday

Science

1 - Finish your Warm Up and submit this if you did not submit during class today. 

2 - Complete the Bacteria Basics notes (in GC) using today's slideshow (posted in GC).

3 - Watch the Multiplication Song to see how quickly bacteria divide. If you were present in class today, you saw this during class. 

Social Studies:

1.  Warm up#17  (classwork)

2.  Review the 15.4 slide show in GC (classwork)

3.  Submit your Pt. 3 Constitution Project in GC.  Do not share it with me! (classwork)

4.  Read America Ch. 15 section 5 p. 533-535  (classwork)

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th: Test Tuesday (Homework from Thursday 2/10 was a review); will review more in class Monday

3rd: cpmplete8th grade IXL F1, F3, F4, F7, F10 to 85 smartscore

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #16 (classwork)

2.  Review Emancipation Proclamation lesson from Wednesday (classwork)

3.  Read America Ch. 15 Section 4 p. 528-532 (homework)

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th - INB p62 Write Equations from Two Points (pdf in google classroom)

Classwork - Practice Writing Equations (slides in google classroom)

3rd:

INB p87 New Unit Table of Contents Unit 6: Quadratics

INB p88 Perfect Squares and Perfect Cubes

INB p89 Examples

8th Grade IXL's due by Friday at the end of the day: F1, F3, F4, F7, F10 (go to 85 smartscore on each; will be working on this in class today and Friday)

ELA

1. "Still I Rise" Poetry Analysis - due tonight

2. Continue working on spoken word poem for Monday's presentation

Core Connections

1. Audubon's Art worksheet with a Google Form for responses.