Hornet's Nest
FMS 8th Grade Newsletter: Week of Dec 16-20
Upcoming Information
ELA
Unit Objective:
8RI1D: Write an objective summary one page summary after listening to a podcast about the middle school experience.
This Week in ELA:
Monday- Middle School Podcast/Presentions
Tuesday- Middle School Podcast/Presentations
Wednesday- Finish Up and Test Retakes
Thursday- Wrap up the Semester
Friday- House Day and Grades DUE!
Math
GM.A.1 Verify experimentally the congruency properties of rigid transformations.
GM.A.5 Use informal arguments to establish facts about the angle sum and exterior angle of triangles and about the angles created when parallel lines are cut by a transversal.
GM.A.4a Understand that two-dimensional figures are similar if a series of transformations (rotations, reflections, translations and dilations) can be
performed to map the pre-image to the image.
EEI.B.6: Apply concepts of slope and y-intercept to graphs, equation, and proportional relationships.
EEI.B.5: Understanding the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.
EEI.C.7: Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable.
Learning for the Week
This week students will be working on analyzing all of their scores for each Essential Learning Outcome (ELO) and work towards improving their scores.
Advanced Math
EEI.C.7: Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable.
EEI.C.8: Analyze and solve systems of linear equations.
DSP.A.3: Investigate patterns of associations in bivariate data.
Monday: Topic 4 Test
Tuesday: Work on ReTesting; Data Project
Wednesday: Corrections; Data Project
Thursday: Work on ReTesting; Data Project
Friday: House Day
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Objective:
* Develop a model to show how particle motion changes when energy is added or taken away.
Monday: What does energy have to do with it?
Tuesday—Study guide--review for test
Wednesday—test
Thursday-test
Friday---House Day
Acting like a gas molecule
Talking a mile a minute about the states of matter.
Acting like a liquid molecule
Social Studies
Unit Objective:
6-8.AH.3.GS.G Examine elections, issues, laws, and events of this time period to explain how the concepts of judicial review, elastic clause, and an amendment process were established or used to meet challenges.
This means your student can:
I can examine elections and issues of this time period to explain how the amendment process was established to solve problems.
This Week in History:
This week we spent time examining court cases in which the Supreme Court used its power of judicial review. We will wrap up the unit and test early next week.
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org
Chris Crowson - ccrowson@fulton58.org -