Team Update:
Please return your progress report envelopes to your advisor.
Class Updates:
Social Studies: This week we wrapped up our unit on Classical Civilizations. Students investigated what caused the Roman Empire to collapse and what caused the Byzantine Empire to succeed and live on. Students will be assessed on this material Tuesday following a major review on Monday.
Science: This week we figured out five different interactions that organisms have with other populations. We watched video clips to observe these interactions. On Friday we started looking more closely at the predator and prey interaction. Click HERE to see more about what we are doing in class. Next week we will continue looking at different interactions.
Literacy: Students took a serious look at Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech in an effort to unlock the rhetorical devices used by each of the orators, and to learn to analyze the more complex passages to understand the messages delivered. We ended the week with a mastery test on Latin Unit 8. In the week ahead students will be introduced to the research and presentation project based upon the historical fiction book they are reading for the February IRP in English class! We're lucky to have the chrome books in class for most of the week!
English: This week in English we continued working on our persuasive essays. The students finished up their outlines and ended the week by beginning to write their essays. Next week we will continue to work on the essays and workshop them in class. Students should be working on their independent reading projects that are due next week!
English: This week in English we continued working on our persuasive essays. The students finished up their outlines and ended the week by beginning to write their essays. Next week we will continue to work on the essays and workshop them in class. Students should be working on their independent reading projects that are due next week!
Math: Last week we learned how to solve one-step and two-step inequalities. February's Go Figure was handed out and January's was graded and returned. For the upcoming week, we are going to learn how to graph inequalities to wrap up the topic. There will be a quiz on Wednesday, February 14 on inequalities. To end the the week we are going to start our Geometry unit.
