Instructional Insight
Null Middle School Core Content Newsletter
October 7th - 11th, 2019
Student Holidays - October 9th - 11th
No Printer...No Problem! If our scholars can't print our the extra credit they can just answer questions on notebook paper or use their google accounts and answer questions in Google Docs.
Enjoy this short week!
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TEKS Standards
Every curriculum unit for our core content subject areas are based on our Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS that the State of Texas requires all schools to teach students. These standards outline the major focus of our lessons and activities. The link below will take you to the Lead4Ward website that has all of the content standards for each one of our core content classes by grade level.
http://www.lead4ward.com/resourcesTUTORIALS
- Mondays - Social Studies
- Tuesdays - Math
- Wednesdays - Science
- Thursdays - English Language Arts
Students can come to tutorials to get extra assistance in concepts from class or make-up assignments they may have missed or need to retake.
6th Grade Math
6th Grade Math - Students will engage in curriculum content associated multiplying and dividing fractions
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.ducksters.com/kidsmath/fractions_multiplying_dividing.php
6th Grade ELA
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/explain-influence-setting-plot-development-literary-textfiction
6th Grade Science
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/matter-and-energy—chemical-reactions
6th Grade World Cultures
Parent and Student Resource - https://bartonhistory.weebly.com/worldcultures-unit-21.html
7th Grade Math
7th Grade Math - Students will continue to engage in curriculum content associated with probability and solving equations.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/615
7th Grade ELA
7th Grade ELA - This week in 7th grade ELA, the students will focus on fiction, poetry, and informational texts.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/analyze-development-plot-through-characters-literary-textsfiction-english-7-reading
7th Grade Science
7th Grade - Students will begin learning about microhabitats and biomes and begin studying for their first DCA that will occur next week.
Parent and Student Resource - https://sites.google.com/a/roundrockisd.org/cevms7thscience/ecosystems
7th Grade Texas History (U.S. History Unit)
7th Grade - Students will learn engage in curriculum concepts related to the Mexican National Era and the Empresario System
Parent and Student Resource - https://bartonhistory.weebly.com/tx-history-unit-4.html
8th Grade Math
8th Grade Math - Students will be engaged in unit concepts related to slope of a line from: tables, graphs, two points, equations and real-world situations. Students will also learn about unit rates.
- Slope Quiz – Tuesday 10/8
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/600
8th Grade Algebra - Slope of a Line from: tables, graphs, two points, equations and real-world situations
Parent and Student Resource - https://mathbitsnotebook.com/Algebra1/LinearEquations/LERefreshSlope.html
8th Grade ELA
8th Grade ELA - This week in 8th grade ELA, the students will focus on fiction, poetry, and informational texts.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/analyze-central-characters-literary-textfiction
8th Grade Science
8th Grade - Students will model and illustrate how the tilted Earth rotates on its axis, causing day and night, and revolves around the Sun causing changes in seasons and review for their first DCA that occurs next week.
Parent and Student Resource - http://velascience.weebly.com/earth.html
8th Grade U.S. History
8th Grade - Students will be introduced to the causes leading up to the American Revolution.
Parent and Student Resource - https://bartonhistory.weebly.com/us-history-unit-3.html
Raechel Broussard, MPA - Dean of Instruction
Email: RaechelBroussard@sheldonisd.com
Website: www.sheldonisd.com
Phone: 281-436-2800
Twitter: @educatorgoals