Mt. Healthy JH Newsletter
Week of February 28
Important Dates
March 3: Black History Month Door Decoration Contest Judging
March 3: A/B Honor Roll Luncheon
March 10: End of 3rd Quarter
March 11: No School
March 14-18: Spring Break
Spotlight on Literacy
Mt. Healthy City Schools will empower students to read & write universally, think critically, and communicate effectively.
Reading and Writing Universally
Mr. Howard, Ms. Starline, and Ms. Gilligan teamed up to help prepare their students to write argumentative and informative essays. During this activity, students were asked to read other students' responses to an argumentative writing prompt and evaluate how well they did using a rubric. Students engaged in collaborative discussions about how they would rate each essay and why they assigned each score that they did. While evaluating argumentative essays, they were also engaging in civil discourse of their own by stating their viewpoints and backing those views up with evidence form each response and the rubric. Job well done, 7th grade!
Communicating Effectively
Mr. Reger's 8th grade math students have been working hard on distinguishing between and applying their knowledge of different transformations. Below you see a group of students manipulating their mathematical tools and working together to rotate a triangle across a coordinate plane. By communicating effectively, they were able to share the strategies that they have used independently with their classmates.
Thinking Critically
The 8th grade students in Ms. Wilson's Social Studies class participated in a game of rock, paper, scissors. These 8th graders had to think critically about how the checks and balances among the three branches of our government connect to their game of rock, paper, scissors. Once they explored the presences of checks and balances among different scenarios, the 8th graders had to make and support a claim about which branch has more checking power than others.