Hornet's Nest
FMS 8th Grade Newsletter: Week of Oct. 28-31
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ELA
Unit Objective:
8RL1A: Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Learning Target: I can draw conclusions and infer by using textual evidence while reading the 8th grade text Flowers for Algernon.
8RL1B: Determine the meaning of words and phrases using affixes
Use the prefixes and suffixes over-, bio- un-, and ful to figure out meanings of words.
This Week in ELA:
Monday- Flowers for Algernon audio clip, inferencing, vocabulary
Tuesday- Flowers for Algernon audio clip, inferencing, vocabulary
Wednesday- Flowers for Algernon audio clip, drawing conclusions, vocabulary
Thursday- HOUSE DAY
Friday- NO SCHOOL
Math
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.
Learning Target for the Week:
To use understand and use linear relationships.
Monday: Lesson 6 Describing Transformations; Week Sheet #2
Tuesday: Lesson 7 Representations of Linear Relationships
Wednesday: Lesson 8 Translating to y = mx + b
Thursday: House Day
Friday: No School
Unit 3 Week Sheet #2 (Lessons 6-8); due Tuesday (11/5)
Advanced Math
Understanding linear equations and analyzing data.
Learning Target for the Week:
To use and write linear equations.
Monday: 2-2 Point-Slope Form; WS 2-2 Graphing
Tuesday: Quiz 2-2; WS 2-2
Wednesday: 2-3 Standard Form; pg 73 33-40
Thursday: House Day
Friday: No School
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Last week students learned all about gravitational, electrical and magnetic forces. This week they will being learning about kinetic and potential energy.
Objectives for the unit:
Consturct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of the object.
Develop a model to describe the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of potential energy are stored in the system.
Conduct, use and present arguments to support the claim that when the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
Monday: Introduction activity: What is kinetic and potential energy?
Tuesday: Energy Skate Park online simulation
Wednesday:Kinetic Energy Graphs
Thursday: House Day
Friday: No School
Collecting data to prove there is a force moving objects even if they are not in contact.
Collecting data to prove there is a force moving objects even if they are not in contact.
Students are learning what electrical forces have to do with their cell phones and realizing that other objects besides their fingers will operate their cell phones!
Social Studies
Unit Objective:
6-8.AH.3.CC.F Infer how events of this period led to the development of philosophies, interest groups, and political parties.
This means your student can:
I can explain what led to the development of political parties.
This Week in History:
This coming week we will start looking at the emergence of political parties and the fathers of those parties. (Oh, how would ol' Washington feel about that?) If needed, we will also do reteaching/retesting over the Washington unit.
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org
Chris Crowson - ccrowson@fulton58.org -