Friday, December 8, 2023

Core Connections:

Please update your Interactive Notebook.

1. Pages Left 11 Estuarium Journal; Right 11 Estuarium Facts

2. Pages Left 12:  StoryCorps Interview Questions List; Right 12 Interview Planning

If you finish, wrap up your loose ends/review for the tests in Math and ELA today.

Science:

1 - Finish "An Ocean of Plastic" if you did not finish during class / MTSS today. 

2 - Study for your quiz on Wednesday.  Review material for the Oceans & Estuaries Quiz was posted in Google Classroom on Dec. 4. 

 Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Estuary field trip tomorrow, Thursday Dec. 7th. 

Today, Math 1 students are finishing up Lesson 5.2 Too Big, or Not Too Bid today. Friday, I will administer a quiz on graphing systems of inequalities and afterwards, we will begin Lesson 5.3 Some Of One, None Of The Other.   Graphing Systems Of Inequalities Some Of One, None Of The Other.. 

Today, Math 8 students will be identifying the domain of functions on a coordinate plain. Specifically, students will identify where functions are increasing and/or decreasing on a graph AND create linear equations for horizontal and vertical lines on a coordinate plane. Quiz on Friday involving slope, y-intercept, and linear equations, 

Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #18 (classwork)

2.  Read in the America Text Ch. 4 section 3 pp.113-117 and answer the questions assigned on the handout (classwork)

3.  Start the Flocabulary assignment "Slavery in America".  The assignment is due on Friday by 11:59pm.

4.  The warm up doc for Q2 will be collected for a project grade next Wednesday, December 13th.

Core Connections:

Students prepared for their ELA Alien Project Celebration today.  We're on the field trip tomorrow (Thursday).  We'll return to our StoryCorps project on Friday.

Science:

1 - Finish Aquagram #2 if you have not finished it yet. It is due by 11:59 pm tonight.

Reminder: Field trip tomorrow! Be at the high school at 7 am tomorrow morning. We will return in time for you to be picked up during regular afternoon carline.  Bring your lunch, snacks, and your water bottle.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 Tuesday Night Homework:

Math 8 students are working on graphing horizontal and vertical lines on a coordinate plane. The Deltamath homework is called "12/5/23 Graphing Horizontal and Vertical Lines" and the IXL homework is "Math 8 AA.3" 

Math 1 students are working on graphing systems of linear inequalities. Today, we graphed several inequalities and were careful to consider 1) Dotted or solid lines, regions, great than and less than signs, y-intercepts, and slopes. Tomorrow, we will return to Too Big, Or Not Too Big considering the cost and space for dogs and cats. I am altering my statement in class and assigning homework tonight. Students should complete IXL Algebra I O14 and O15. 

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

 Science:

1 - Finish the Ocean Zones - Deep Zone / Oceanic Zone assignment in Google Classroom if you did not finish during class today. 

2 - Work on your Aquagram #2, due Wednesday, Dec. 6 by 11:59 pm. Remember to incorporate the important elements of effective slides. You Aquagram should have appropriate color contrast, legible font, useful images (in the correct places), accurate details, and 8th-grade level information.

3 - Quiz on Oceans & Estuaries next week: Wednesday, December 13.  Study your slideshows on Oceans & Estuaries.  Study the completed pages in your Hydrosphere LearnEd notebook.  Additional review material will be posted in Google Classroom soon. 

4 - Our field trip to the NC Estuarium is on Thursday of this week.  Please be at the high school parking lot at 7 am on Thursday morning.  Bring your lunch, snacks for the bus, and water bottle.  Wear layers and dress comfortably.  Pickup is during normal carline on Thursday afternoon. Thanks for being flexible and for having a positive attitude all day!

Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #17 (classwork)

2.  Take test 2 (classwork)

3.  Create a new vocab study set for the next unit titled "Slavery".  The words are listed in GC.

Español

This week, write your sentences in Padlet using the imperfect tense

Core Connections:

During our class time, students should have been reviewing for their ELA Project Celebration on Wednesday.  Also, students reviewed for their SS test and for their ELA test.  We're going back to our CC project on Wednesday. 

Monday, December 4, 2023

ELA:

1) Presentations of learning ready by tomorrow (tomorrow is a presentation practice day).

2) Final projects due Wednesday at 8am

3) Presentations are Wednesday

4) Unit test Friday

Social Studies:

1. Complete warm up #16 (classwork)

2.  Play Jeopardy Review WESTWARD (classwork)

3.  Study for your test tomorrow (homework)

Play JEOPARDY

Changes/Corrections to Review Game:

Awakening (50 pts)

List 3 objectives of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Answers:  Report on the geography, plants, animals and other features, make contact with Native Americans and find a waterway between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean

It Takes Two (40pts)

Name 2 Native American groups which the Federal government considered civilized.  These groups were found in the southeast region of the United States  

Answers:  Creeks, Seminoles, Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws

Living Constitution (50pts)

A man erects a giant billboard on his lawn even though the city has a law against billboards in residential neighborhoods. He is told to remove the billboard.

 No violation. 10th Amendment

Core Connections:

With so many projects due, please use your workday wisely to complete:

1. Aquagram for Science

2. Constitution Amendment Project for SS

3. ELA Alien Presentation (Project Celebration is Wednesday)

You also have a Test coming up in SS.  

Science:

1 - Finish your Aquagram #1 if you did not finish already. You may want to look at today's slideshow to reference the poor examples of slides. You Aquagram should have appropriate color contrast, legible font, and 8th-grade level information.

2 - Quiz on Oceans & Estuaries next week: Wednesday, December 13.  Study your slideshows on Oceans & Estuaries.  Study the completed pages in your Hydrosphere LearnEd notebook.  Additional review material will be posted in Google Classroom soon. 

3 - Field trip is on Thursday of this week.  Please be at the high school parking lot at 7 am on Thursday morning.  Bring your lunch, snacks for the bus, and water bottle.  Wear layers and dress comfortably.  Pickup is during normal carline on Thursday afternoon. 

Español 

Recuerda hacer tu tarea diaria en Padlet

  

Math I Students have a rare weekend homework assignment. They are to finish the graph of the Pet Sitters Scenario and include labels and units for x and y axis, x and y intercepts for each linear equation, each linear equation changed from standard form to slope-intercept form, shaded regions for the two inequalities. and the solution to the systems of equations. A few students received incompletes for not finishing their assignment.

Friday, December 1, 2023

Core Connections:

1.  Zoom Meeting for StoryCorps information 

ELA:

1. Unfamiliar Vocab Practice Questions (in Edulastic) -- due Monday. Remember: you must complete these before the beginning of class on Monday if you would like to have the ability to retest on your unit test. (If you are getting a warning message when you try to pull up the Edulastic site, use the link posted in Google Classroom.)

2. Presentations for the project must be ready by Tuesday (before class), so that we can practice.

3. Final projects due 8am on Wednesday.

4. Unfamiliar Vocab Unit Test - Friday.

**Parents: I sent a signup Google form via ClassTag on Monday. Please respond to it if you (or another adult in your child's life) would like to attend the alien project presentations next week. 

Social Studies:

Freedom of Speech rights in the news again....check it out!

Violation or No Violation?