Week 22

February 12th-16th

T-Shirt Design Contest

Is your child an artist? Does he/she like to design and create? Have him/her enter our graduation logo contest!! We are looking for our future graduates to design the Class of 2018 t-shirt and memory book cover.

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Math

Ms. Knippen

jknippen@foxbay.org

Hours 1 and 8 – Algebra: We are finishing up Ch. 6, calculating best fit lines. We will have a check and quiz this week. The test will be early next week.

Hours 3 and 7 – 8th-grade math: We have a quiz on 8B Wednesday and test on Thursday. Many students need to do a supply check. Please help them with pencils, a calculator and a notebook as needed.

Science

Ms. Waller

twaller@foxbay.org

This week students are designing an experiment to answer the question, "how does the amount of sugar affect yeast's respiration rate?"

After the lab, we will have a Socratic Seminar where we will discuss the definition of life and the role that cells and organelles play in living things. Then we will complete the last section of reading in our current unit. In this reading, students will learn about how cells become differentiated in multicellular life forms and develop organs and systems to carry out functions similar to those of organelles in single-celled life forms. Our next lab is a daphnia lab where students will investigate how sugar affects the heart rate in a multi-cellular organism.

English

Mr. Heimerl

zheimerl@foxbay.org

This week in English, we will continue the beginning stages of the research process, gathering sources and writing an annotated bibliography containing a minimum of five sources. Due to the snow day on Friday, the annotated bibliography won't be due until Wednesday, February 14th. Once finished gathering research sources, the next step will be to take notes from those sources. Students will be using NoodleTools online to organize their research, which they will be able to access through their school email. To access from home, students will need to enter their Google Drive, click on the "waffle button" in the top right corner, and scroll all the way down to the NoodleTools app.

Beyond moving through the research process, students will also continue to explore the grammar of the infinitive phrase. The quiz originally scheduled for last week Friday, will take place next week Tuesday, 2/20.

Reading

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

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

We will be finishing up the book Phineas Gage this week. As a wrap-up to this nonfiction unit on the brain, we will be having a guest speaker on Friday to talk about traumatic brain injury and the structure of the brain.

Because of the snow day last week, we will have the root word quiz on Monday and will forgo a new word this week.

Social Studies

Mr. Blahnik

bblahnik@foxbay.org

On Tuesday, we are having a presenter for United States History. The presenter will be bringing in Civil War artifacts and putting on a presentation for the students. We will continue Chapter 19 which is titled "African Americans in the mid-1800s". The essential question of the chapter is How did African Americans face slavery and discrimination in the mid-1800s? Next week, we will have a test on this unit which is Americans in the Mid-1800s which covers chapters 17-19.