The Hornet's Nest
8th grade newsletter
Week of October 29 - November 2
Announcements:
Important Dates:
October
26 No School
November
7 Student-Led Conferences
9 FMS Dance @ 7
14 Student-Led Conferences
GRADE INFORMATION
We've received several inquiries about students' grades this year. Mostly, you've been asking, "Where are their scores?" You may not be seeing many scores in your child's gradebook. That's because with our move to standards referenced grading, we don't enter grades as frequently. Rather than grading many individual assignments and then averaging them, we are scoring only major assessments that test your child's overall mastery of a standard. But we are tracking your child's progress! Please ask them to show you their data binder in Google Classroom. In the documents you'll find there, your child will be able to show you their progress towards meeting the standards we are working on in class.
Please reach out to your teachers with questions, and we appreciate your patience as we implement our updated gradebook.
Best,
The 8th grade team
Midterm Grades Update:
Math
Students will be working on understanding graphing with slope-intercept form and an introduction to systems of equations. Please ensure that your child is keeping up with their Independent Work.
This Week's Objectives:
Identify slope and y-intercept in equations and graph the equations.
Daily Independent Work:
Monday: 3-4 Slope-Intercept (manipulating equations and graphing); Worksheet
Tuesday: 3-6 Writing Linear Equations; pg 225 1-6 even/odd
Wednesday: 3-6 Activity
Thursday: 3-7 Solving Systems by Graphing; Worksheet
Friday: Lesson 3-7; pg 239 1-6
Advanced Math
This week students will complete showing their understanding of inequalities.
This Week's Objectives:
Solve inequalities in one variable.
Daily Independent Work:
Monday: Finish Test
Tuesday: Intro to Topic 2 and ReTeach
Wednesday: Corrections
Thursday: Review Worksheet
Friday: No School
Social Studies
Students are looking at the landmark Supreme court case ruling over Marbury v Madison and the impact of Judicial Review. Ask your child to tell you all about it!
Students will also be working on citing textual evidence by comparing and contrasting two midterm election candidates.
Important Vocabulary:
- Judicial Review
- Midnight judges
- William Marbury
- James Madison
- Writ of Mandamus
- Thomas Jefferson
Learning Target for the Week:
"Students can summarize the Marbury v. Madison case and the significance of judicial review."
"Students can cite evidence from text to summarize its meaning and draw conclusions"
ELA
This week and early next week we will conclude our study of Flowers for Algernon. Please ask your student their thoughts on the reading, we have all had amazing class discussion regarding the short story and complimentary movie. As we finish the story we will be taking a post assessment over objective 8.RL.1.A.. We will also pre-assess where students are at to determine class content to teach 8.RL.1.B.-using pre-fixes to determine the meaning of words.
Monday: Finish Flowers for Algernon & Pre-Test 8.RL.1.B.
Tuesday: Post Test over 8.RL.1.A
Wednesday: Halloween Surprise Teacher Lesson
Thursday: Re-teach/ Re-test Flowers for Algernon
Friday: Re-teach/ Re-test Flowers for Algernon
REFLECTING ON THE STORY.
ANNOTATING FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.
PLAYING QUIZLET FOR REVIEW.
SCIENCE
This Week's Objectives:
PS2A2--Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object's motion depends on the sum of forces on the object and the mass of the object.
Daily Activities:
Monday:Review for types along with net force.
Tuesday: Discuss Marble bashing experiments
Wednesday: Learn about sum of forces.
Thursday: Conduct investigation about sum of forces
Friday: Debrief about sum of forces investigation