Week 27

March 12th - March 16th

Class 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.

Follow this link for further details.

Math

Ms. Knippen

jknippen@foxbay.org

Hours 1 and 8 - Algebra:

Students are finishing up with Ch. 7. We will have the chapter test on Friday. There will be a quiz on section 7.1 Monday. 

Hours 3 and 7 - General 8th:

We are now studying scientific notation-converting between scientific and standard notation and then adding and multiplying them. We will have a quiz and the chapter test next week.

Science

Ms. Waller

twaller@foxbay.org

This week in science the students will be analyzing what cells need to do in order to divide and making a model that illustrates the steps of mitosis. Then students will construct a model of meiosis showing the recombination of genes that occurs during crossing over and illustrating how gametes get only half the number of chromosomes. They will use their two models to compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis. We will do a quick concept check-in at the end of the week so students can evaluate their week's learning.

English

Mr. Heimerl

zheimerl@foxbay.org

This week in English, students will continue the prewriting process for their research essay. Moving beyond the outline and the general argument established in their thesis and sub-claims, students will explore how to incorporate and punctuate quotations and how to paraphrase.

Reading

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

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

This week we will be working on the elements of debate, focusing on opening statements, counterarguments, rebuttals and closing statements. Students will be choosing partners and topics for Lincoln-Douglas debates that will happen the week following Spring Break.

Root word this week is tang/tact, meaning "touch".

Social Studies

Mr. Blahnik

bblahnik@foxbay.org

United States History is finishing up Chapter 20 Divided Nation. The essential question is Which events of the mid-1800s kept the nation together and which events pulled it apart?

The students are also starting a project where students will choose a major event that led to the Civil War that they want to learn more in-depth. Students will be presenting these projects next week Thursday. Then we will be starting Chapter 21 the Civil War. The essential question of this chapter is What factors and events influenced the outcome of the Civil War?