Week 13

December 4th - 8th

Math

Ms. Knippen

jknippen@foxbay.org

8th grade math – Hours 3 and 7  – Our work on slope continues. We are calculating slope from graphic representations, ordered pairs, and situations. We have been writing y=mx+b equations and determining the y and x-intercepts and slope for given situations. Students were able to nicely tie in the work with did we translations (how far a coordinate is slide on the coordinate plane) to slope. It was an awesome connection.

Algebra – Hours 1 and 8 – We finished Ch. 3. Test is Tuesday. Monday we will go over the pattern sheet for Mathcounts. Wednesday we will begin Ch. 4, Systems of Equations.

Science

Ms. Waller

twaller@foxbay.org

On Monday students will be completing the concluding section of their first engineering lab. We will also spend some time going over any questions on the review sheet prior to Tuesday's unit test. On Wednesday we'll begin our next unit Earth's Changing Climate. In this unit students will study weather patterns and principles of heat transfer. We begin our unit with some background reading followed by a Socratic Seminar.

English

Mr. Heimerl

zheimerl@foxbay.org

This week, we will continue to explore the dystopian genre to prepare for our literary analysis essay, this time focussing on the short story “Just Do It.” We will discuss the author’s craft and how it works to create the theme of the story.

Concurrent to the work on dystopia, we will continue to study relative clauses and subordinate clauses, exploring how they may be used to add extra details to sentences. There will be a quiz on Friday, December 8th.

Reading

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

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

We have started our next class novel, Fever. Each week students will have a handful of assigned chapters followed by discussion questions to thoughtfully and thoroughly respond to. Students will have comprehension checks in the form of quizzes every few days. Our focus for this novel is to analyze how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Students visited the library last Friday and learned the independent reading expectations for Trimester 2. They were also given time to check out their first book - “due dates” were provided in order to help the students balance their reading time. A final project for these three books will be due at the end of the trimester.

Greek and Latin vocabulary continues! Per the usual, contextually rich sentences are due Wednesday followed by a quiz Friday.

Social Studies

Mr. Blahnik

bblahnik@foxbay.org

This week we started our new unit in United States History that is examining the expansion of the United States from the early 1800s to the early 1850s.  We are currently learning about Manifest Destiny and the Growing Nation.  The students are also starting a project on Manifest Destiny.  The students can choose either Louisiana Territory, Florida, Texas, Oregon Country, or the Mexican-American War to research and investigate its significance in American History.  The project is scheduled to be due on Friday. Details are included on the class’s Google Classroom page.