Week 7

October 16th - 20th

Science

Ms. Waller

twaller@foxbay.org
We've just started our Polymer Bounce Lab where students will make a polymer and study how changing the proportion of reactants influences the bounciness of the resulting material. I've been very impressed by how quickly the students are becoming independent learners during lab. Towards the end of the week we will have our final concept check (test) for the unit. Look for a study guide to be posted on Google Classroom by Monday

English

Mr. Heimerl

zheimerl@foxbay.org

This week, we will continue working with the memoir. Students should have the bulk of their stories finished by class on Monday. We will work on how to bring the memoir to a resolution and how to incorporate a theme, or a "Big 'T' Truth," as we're calling it. 

I will be checking for a full rough draft (complete with an opening, body, and resolution) on Wednesday, October 18th.

From there, we will move into the editing phase and work on incorporating sensory imagery, dialogue, and some specific grammatical constructions. 

The final draft will be due next Friday, October 27th.

Reading

Ms. Brinnington, Ms. Traska, Ms. Hiir, Ms. Allen

dbrinnington@foxbay.org, straska@foxbay.org, ghiir@foxbay.org, jallen@foxbay.org

We are off to a great start reading James DeVito’s novel, The Silenced! The students continue analyzing this novel at a deeper level through the literary elements irony and foreshadowing. Many outstanding conversations have been had as the suspense is already developing!

As noted before, it is very important that your child find balance with his/her independent reading and the class novel. All students should be onto their second book for the trimester by now. Journaling continues in class each Friday.

This week’s vocabulary root word is -log...meaning “word”, “idea”, “reason”. Contextually rich sentences, with proper grammar and mechanics, are due Wednesday; the quiz follows on Friday.