Instructional Insight
Null Middle School Core Content Newsletter
October 21st - 25th, 2019
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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 Order of Operations, Prime Factorization, and Operations with Rational Numbers.
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/474
6th Grade ELA
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/books-and-reading-guides/parent-guide-to-poetry.html
6th Grade Science
Parent and Student Resource - https://sites.google.com/site/michlers6thgradescience/Curriculum/unit-2
6th Grade World Cultures
Parent and Student Resource - https://bartonhistory.weebly.com/worldcultures-unit-3.html
7th Grade Math
7th Grade Math - Students will engage in curriculum content associated with modeling and solving equations and inequalities
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/641
7th Grade ELA
7th Grade ELA - This week in 7th grade ELA, the students will focus on project based learning activities that associate with "Finding the Message in Poetry."
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/books-and-reading-guides/parent-guide-to-poetry.html
7th Grade Science
7th Grade - Students will review their most missed questions from the DCA on Monday, and then observe and describe how different environments, including micro habitats in schoolyards and Biomes to support various types of organisms.
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 and 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:
- Proportional and Non-Proportional Relationships
- Direct Variation
- Functions
- Mean Absolute Deviation
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.math4texas.org/Page/607
8th Grade Algebra - Students will be engaged in unit concepts related to:
- Independent versus Dependent Variables
- Functions
- Function Notation
- Domain and Range
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.texasgateway.org/resource/determining-domain-and-range-linear-functions
8th Grade ELA
8th Grade ELA - This week in 8th grade ELA, the students will focus on project based learning activities that associate with "Finding the Message in Poetry."
Parent and Student Resource - https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/books-and-reading-guides/parent-guide-to-poetry.html
8th Grade Science
8th Grade - Students will review their most missed questions from their DCA and learn to model and illustrate how the tilted Earth rotates on its axis, causing day and night, and revolves around the Sun causing changes in seasons.
Parent and Student Resource - http://velascience.weebly.com/earth.html
8th Grade U.S. History
8th Grade - Students will complete the Revolutionary Era unit.
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