Instructional Insight
Null Middle School Core Content Newsletter
Week of September 23rd - 27th, 2019
Instructional Insight Newsletter
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TEKS Standards
Every curriculum unit for our core content subject areas are based on our Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS that the State of Texas requires all schools to teach students. These standards outline the major focus of our lessons and activities. The link below will take you to the Lead4Ward website that has all of the content standards for each one of our core content classes by grade level.
http://www.lead4ward.com/resourcesTUTORIALS
- Mondays - Social Studies
- Tuesdays - Math
- Wednesdays - Science
- Thursdays - English Language Arts
Students can come to tutorials to get extra assistance in concepts from class or make-up assignments they may have missed or need to retake.
6th Grade Math
6th Grade Math - Students will engage in curriculum content associated with adding and subtracting integers. Students will review for and take Snapshot #1 this week.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/476
6th Grade ELA
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/explain-influence-setting-plot-development-literary-textfiction
6th Grade Science
Parent and Student Resource - https://sites.google.com/site/michlers6thgradescience/Curriculum/unit-2
6th Grade World Cultures
Parent and Student Resource -
7th Grade Math
7th Grade Math - Students will continue to engage in curriculum content associated operations of rational numbers. Pre-AP students will be focused on experimental and theoretical probability. Students will review for and take Snapshot #1 this week.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/635
7th Grade ELA
7th Grade ELA - This week in 7th grade ELA, the students will focus on fiction and poetry
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/analyze-development-plot-through-characters-literary-textsfiction-english-7-reading
7th Grade Science
7th Grade - Students will diagram the flow of energy through food webs.
Parent and Student Resource - https://sites.google.com/a/roundrockisd.org/cevms7thscience/matter-energy
7th Grade Texas History (U.S. History Unit)
7th Grade - Students will compare the cultures of the Gulf, Plains, Puebloan, and Southeastern American Indians in Texas prior to European colonization.
Parent and Student Resource -
8th Grade Math
8th Grade Math - Students will be engaged in unit concepts related to scientific notation. Students will review for and take Snapshot #1 this week.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/566
8th Grade Algebra - Students will focus on solving literal equations for a specific variable and writing and solving direct variation problems
Parent and Student Resource - https://virtualnerd.com/pre-algebra/inequalities-multi-step-equations/formulas/formula-isolate-variable/literal-equation-definition
8th Grade ELA
8th Grade ELA - This week in 8th grade ELA, the students will focus on fiction and poetry
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/analyze-central-characters-literary-textfiction
8th Grade Science
8th Grade - Students will explore how different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum such as light and radio waves are used to gain information about distances and properties of components on the universe. Students will review for and take Snapshot #1 this week.
Parent and Student Resource - http://velascience.weebly.com/space.html
8th Grade U.S. History
8th Grade - Students will take their first Snapshot this week and will be introduced to the causes leading up to the American Revolution.
Parent and Student Resource - https://bartonhistory.weebly.com/us-history-unit-3.html
Raechel Broussard, MPA - Dean of Instruction
Email: RaechelBroussard@sheldonisd.com
Website: www.sheldonisd.com
Phone: 281-436-2800
Twitter: @educatorgoals