Hornet's Nest
FMS 8th Grade Newsletter: Week of Oct. 14-18
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ELA
Unit Objective:
8.W.2.A: Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience; develop writing with narrative, expository, and argumentative techniques.
a. Narrative: Develop narratives including poems about real or imagined experiences which establish and maintain a consistent point of view and include clearly identified characters, well-structured event sequences, narrative techniques, and relevant descriptive details.
Learning Target: I can...
- Follow a writing process to produce a well-organized and interesting short story.
- Create a plot and a setting for a story..
- Render familiar experiences into scenes fit for literature.
- Develop characters with coherent motives and personalities.
- Utilize tone, descriptive language, and figurative language to paint on the page.
- Deploy twists and surprises in ways that serve thematic development and character development.
8RL1B: Determine the meaning of words and phrases using affixes
Learning Target: I can use prefixes de-, pre-, re-, and non to figure out meanings of words.
This Week in ELA:
Monday- Vocab Post Test/ Rough Draft writing
Tuesday- Rough Draft, Self Edit, Retesting for Post Testing
Wednesday- Rough Draft, Self Edit, Retesting for Post Testing
Thursday- Self/Peer Edit, Corrections.
Friday- Writing Personal Draft.
Students will be working to create their own original short story. They will understand how a story is developed and work to understand the writing process.
Math
GM.A.5s Use the properties of similar figures to solve problems.
Learning Target for the Week:
To use similar figures to write equations of lines.
Monday: Lesson 11 Writing Equations for Line; Week Sheet
Tuesday: Lesson 12 Using Equations for Lines
Wednesday: Lesson 13 The Shadow Knows
Thursday: Unit 2 Test
Friday: Unit 3 PreTest
Unit 2 Week Sheet #3 (Lessons 11-12); due Thursday (10/17)
Advanced Math
Understand how to write and solve equations and inequalities.
Learning Target for the Week:
To use and solve equations and inequalities.
Monday: Review
Tuesday: Topic 1 Test
Wednesday: Topic 2 PreTest
Thursday: Topic 1 Corrections
Friday: Topic 2 Linear Equations
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
This past week students completed their Humpty Dumpty cars in Mrs. Shrout's classes. They all did a great job designing the cars. Mr. Knipe's class started our mini unit of electric and magnetic forces.
Objectives being taught:
6-8ps2B1 Analyne diagrams and collect data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces.
6-8.ps2.b.2 . Create and analyze a graph to use as evidence to support the claim that gravitational interactions depend on the mass of the interacting objects.
6-8ps2B3 Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that electric and magnetic fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
This week students will be completing various activities surrounding electric and magnetic forces. They will be learning about the factors that effect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. We will do a hands on experiment regarding gravitational forces. Lastly, students will be completing in balloon races using static electricity.
Two proud girls. Their egg survived.
Building their Humpty Dumpty car
Building their Humpty Dumpty car
Social Studies
Unit Objective:
6-8.AH.3.GS.E: Apply the principles of rule of law, representation, separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism to explain the purposes and functions of the Constitution.
6-8.AH.3.CC.E Evaluate the responses of early American leaders to the social, political, economic and religious challenges facing the new nation.
This Week in History:
This coming week we will finish the Constitution and start our First President, G. Washington.
Questions? Email your child's social studies teacher:
Lara Brunk - lbrunk@fulton58.org
Chris Crowson - ccrowson@fulton58.org -