The Hornet's Nest
8th grade newsletter
Week of March 18 - 22
Announcements:
Important Dates:
March
13 - 20 Sports Spectacular Sign Ups
22nd: House Day
25th - 29th: Spring Break
April
29th - 8th Grade Celebration Field trip to Sports Fusion
Math
Students need to either have their book or have access to the online book to be able to ensure their understanding of the concepts by doing their independent work.
Students will show their understanding of ELO 8 and 9.
This Week's Objectives:
Students will be able to show their understanding of angles with parallel lines, angles with triangles, and the pythagorean theorem.
Daily Independent Work:
Monday: Review ELO 8 and ELO 9
Tuesday: ELO 8 and ELO 9 Assessment
Wednesday: Corrections and ReTakes on ELO's 6-9
Thursday: Corrections and ReTakes on ELO's 6-9
Friday: House Day
Advanced Math
This week students will be show their knowledge of exponents.
This Week's Objectives:
Students will use and apply their knowledge of the Laws of Exponents.
Daily Independent Work:
Monday: Topic 6 Test
Tuesday: Topic 6 Test
Wednesday: ReTeach/Topic 6 Corrections
Thursday: PreTest for Topic 3 Functions
Friday: House Day
Social Studies
Students have started our next unit over Westward Expansion. Students will be looking at project choice next week to dig deeper in their learning over Manifest Destiny.
Students will be learning:
Students will analyze the concept of Manifest Destiny as a catalyst for change in American history.
Objective 11 Important Vocabulary:
Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Oregon Country, California, Mexican Cession, Alamo, Lone Star Republic
Learning Target for the Week:
Objective #11: The student can describe HOW and WHY the United States gained ALL of the following territories:
Oregon
Texas
California & New Mexico
What does this picture tell you about Westward Expansion?
1990 Oregon Trail game!
Taking notes over our next unit.
ELA
We continue working on our reading of Adventures of Tom Sawyer. We are still assessing daily the our comprehension of the text for our objective (8.RL.3.D). We will be working on writing a story about our themes and selecting our themes in the upcoming weeks (8.W.2.A.c).
Please check in that you are keeping up with the readings.
*You need to bring your charged chrome book everyday to be successful.
READING MAKES US HAPPY!
RELAXING OUR BRAINS!
READING COMPREHENSION CHECK!
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Objective:
Develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures.
Weekly Agenda:
Monday: Learn about chemical formulas and how to make simple models with play-doh
Tuesday: Chemical formulas and simple models practice
Wednesday: Difference between a pure substance and a mixture
Thursday: Assessment over weeks learning
Friday: House Day