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8th Grade Academic Quarter 1 Newsletter
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ELA General and Honors: In Quarter 1, students will
Cite evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
Determine one or more themes and analyze the development and relationships to character, setting, and plot over the course of a text; provide an objective summary.
Use context clues to determine meanings of words and phrases.
Cite evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Provide an objective summary of a text with two or more central ideas; cite key supporting details to analyze their development.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, well chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
When writing show knowledge of the function of gerunds, participles, and infinitives and their functions in particular sentences.
Develop a range of questions to frame inquiry for new learning and deeper understanding.
Develop a plan of action by using appropriate discipline-specific strategies.
Participate in discussions; share evidence that supports the topic, text, or issue; connect the ideas of several speakers and respond with relevant ideas, evidence and observations.
Apply effective communication techniques based on a variety of contexts and tasks.
English I: In Quarter 1, students will
Purposefully annotate the text to determine the central idea and its supporting details
Determine an author’s explicit meaning
Infer implicit meaning
Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown words and phrases
Determine stated and implied central ideas
Analyze how the central idea reveals the author’s purpose
Synthesize texts to find a central idea
Cite textual evidence in the form of direct quotes and paraphrasing
Use text-based evidence to support individual inferences about central idea and style
use parallel structure in writing
use commas to separate adjunct, parallel structures
use colons to introduce a list or quotation.
Social Studies: In Quarter 1, students will (Standards & Skills)
Demonstrate an understanding of the development of South Carolina during the settlement and colonization of North America in the period of 1500–1756.
Analyze the geographic and human factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system and the subsequent impacts on different populations within the colony.
Summarize major events in the development of South Carolina which impacted the economic, political, and social structure of the colony, including mercantilist policies and agricultural development.
Contextualize the development of South Carolina’s political institutions during the colonization of British North America, from the development of Charles Towne under English control to the movement toward self-rule.
Analyze the changes and continuities of the Native Americans’ experiences prior to and as a result of settlement and colonization.
Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to examine multiple perspectives and influences of the economic, political, and social effects of South Carolina’s settlement and colonization on the development of various forms of government across the colonies.
Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
Demonstrate an understanding of how South Carolinians and Americans created a revolutionary form of government during the period of 1757–1815.
Compare the economic, political, and social motives and demographics of loyalists and patriots within South Carolina and the colonies.
Explain the economic, political, and social factors surrounding the American Revolution.
Analyze significant founding principles that led to the development of federalism in South Carolina and the United States.
Contextualize the roles of various groups of South Carolinians as the colonies moved toward becoming an independent nation.
Analyze the continuities and changes of how different groups immigrated to and migrated within South Carolina, including their economic, political, and social power to do so.
Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives on the development of democracy in South Carolina and the United States.
Science: In Quarter 1, students will
apply Newton’s third law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.
plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.
Construct and present arguments using evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions are attractive and depend on the masses of interacting objects and the distance between them.
Analyze and interpret data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.
Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
In Math General and Honors, students will:
understand and use the terms “reflection,” “rotation,” “translation.”
recognize what determines each type of transformation.
understand and use the terms “transformation” and “rigid transformation.”
identify and describe translations, rotations, and reflections, and sequences of these, using the terms “corresponding sides” and “corresponding angles.”
recognize that lengths and angle measures are preserved.
draw images of figures under rigid transformations on and off square grids and the coordinate plane.
use rigid transformations to generate shapes and to reason about measurements of figures.
understand congruence of plane figures in terms of rigid transformations.
recognize when one plane figure is congruent or not congruent to another.
use the definition of “congruent” and properties of congruent figures to justify claims of congruence or non-congruence.
understand and use the term “dilation.”
recognize that a dilation is determined by a point called the “center” and a number called the “scale factor.”
learn that under a dilation, the image of a circle is a circle and the image of a line is a line parallel to the original.
draw images of figures under dilations on and off the coordinate plane.
In Algebra, students will:
Create and solve equations and inequalities in one variable that model real-world problems involving simple rational relationships. Interpret the solutions and make sure they are reasonable.
Understand and justify that the steps taken when solving simple equations in one variable create new equations that have the same solution as the original.
Solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable, including the equations with coefficients represented by letters
Explain why the sum or product of rational numbers is rational; that the sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational; and that the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is irrational.
Explain and use the properties of addition, multiplication, and equality
Form algebraic proofs to justify answers/solutions using the properties of addition, multiplication, and equality
Questions? Please contact your child's teacher(s) or the instructional coach, Sonja Raines at sonja_raines@charleston.k12.sc.us or 843-406-2105.
8TH GRADE TEACHERS
Core Subjects:
Mrs: Olmsted: Social Studies and grade level chair
Mr. Franey: Social Studies
Mr. Carney: Social Studies
Mrs. Eichelman : ELA (English Language Arts)
Mrs. Shaddrix: ELA (English Language Arts)
Mrs Vitali: ELA (English Language Arts) and English I
Mrs. Kaasa: Math
Ms. Boulton: Math
Mrs. Guardino: Math and Algebra I
Mrs. Rheaume: Science
Mrs. Lavarnway: Science
Ms. Yingling: Science
Special Education Teachers:
Ms. Vicary
Mr. Moore
Ms. Blakely
Mrs. Billings
Mr. Stoyles
Intervention:
Mrs. Johnson: Reading
Mrs. Greene-Cummings: Math
Ms. Bagley: Academics/Organization
Related Arts:
PE/Health: Coach Duffy and Coach Siegel
Art: Mr. Brown
PLTW: Ms. Israel
Fundamentals of Computing Part II: Ms. Fissel
Financial Literacy: Ms. Fissel and Mr. Hastings
Journalism: Mr. Carney
French: Mrs. Ready
Spanish: Mrs. Spain
Band: Ms. Spitzer
Strings: Ms. Lynch
Chorus: Mrs. Downs
Support:
Media Specialist: Mrs. Bouton
Media Clerk: Ms. Bailey
Guidance Counselor: Mrs. Ciucci
Administrator: Mr. Glover