January-February Newsletter
8th Grade 2017-2018
Happy New Year!
Meet Your Exploratory Team!
Mrs. Hutchins - Drama
Mrs. Pineda-Fuentes - Instrumental Music
Ms. Stanley - Visual Art
Current Units of Inquiry
Language and Literature
Science
Key Concept: Relationships
Related Concepts: Energy and Function
Global Context Exploration: Scale, duration, frequency and variability
Statement of Inquiry: Energy and function can be used to indicate relationships between scale, duration, frequency, and variability.
Summative Assessment: Students will build a mousetrap car to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between function, energy and the motion of an object (scale, duration, frequency, and variability).
Individuals and Societies
Key Concept: Global Interaction
Related Concepts: Resources and Sustainability
Global Context Exploration: Human Impact on the Environment
Statement of Inquiry: Global interaction over resources tests the sustainability of human impact on the environment.
Summative Assessment: Students will research a population that changed as a result of westward expansion. They will have to discuss in a cost-benefit analysis how the population change impacted the environment and whether or not the costs to the environment outweighed the benefits of westward expansion
Math - Level 3
Key Concept: Relationships
Related Concepts: Change and Representation
Global Context Exploration: Natural and human landscapes and resources
Statement of Inquiry: Representing change reveals relationships in natural and human landscapes.
Summative Assessment: Students will learn how to represent the relationship between temperature and wind chill in their own weather forecast.
Algebra
Key Concept: Logic
Related Concepts: Justification ans Systems
Global Context Exploration: the relationship between local and global processes
Statement of Inquiry: Logic and reasoning are employed to justify success in the globalization and sustainability of an organization.
Summative Assessment: Students will be creating a presentation to recruit investors for a non-profit organization.
Design
Key Concept: Global Interaction
Related Concepts: Form and Function
Global Context Exploration: Markets, commodities and commercialization
Statement of Inquiry: Form and Function of our Resources helps us to learn Fiscal Responsibility
Summative Assessment: Students will create a budget based on a fictional life scenario including housing, transportation, and other budget items.
Language Acquisition
Key Concept: Culture
Related Concepts: Audience, and context
Global Context Exploration: History of ideas
Statement of Inquiry: A culture's history of ideas as presented in television and movies provide context for the audience.
Summative Assessment: Students will write a movie review using unit vocabulary, acabar de + infinitive, and gustar and similar verbs as learned in the unit.
Physical and Health Education
Key Concept: Relationships
Related Concepts: Adaptation and Refinement
Global Context Exploration: Identities and Relationships
Statement of Inquiry: When creating a dance students will develop relationships while adapting and refining their personality as well as to be able to cooperate and understand the identity and beliefs and values of their peers in their group.
Summative Assessment: Students will create a dance from the decades using moves that they have learned from previous dances from the internet, school, weddings dance recitals etc..
Drama
Title: Life is Grand!
Key Concept: Change
Related Concepts: Composition and Expression
Global Context Exploration: constraints and adaptation
Statement of Inquiry: Change is experienced and relayed through composition and expression of feelings, emotions, and connections as we move through time, interact with people and experience the world around us.
Summative Assessment:
Goal- Students will create a scripted piece based on their time at Corwin.
Role- You are the author or reporter telling the story.Audience- The audience is your peers 4th -8th grade.
Situation- You are presenting your perspective of an event or several events that developed your memories of Corwin.
Product- Your product is your performance a monologue, a script, a dialogue, a song, a poem or other performance piece.
Instrumental Music
Visual Art
Corwin International Magnet School
Email: corwin@pueblocityschools.us
Website: cims.pueblocityschools.us
Location: 1500 Lakeview Avenue, Pueblo, CO, United States
Phone: 7195497400
School Events!
No Bully Parent Training
Second Step Update
All MYP students will be participating in Lessons 4 and 5 of the Second Step curriculum January 29th and 30th and February 12th and 13th. Below are the learning objectives so that you will be able to ask your student about what they are learning. You can also ask them about the “homework” they should be bringing home after each lesson. Thank you so much for your ongoing support of the No Bully Initiative.
8th Grade Lesson Learning Objectives
Lesson 4: Negotiating and Compromising
Lesson 5: Bullying in Friendships