Thursday, April 21, 2011

Thursday, April 21 (C-Day)

Science: Started planning the I-Search research project and did several investigations with sound.

Pre-Algebra: Students either took their quarterly assessment or their chapter 6 test. They will take the other one on Monday.

Spanish: Spanish students who missed Spanish or were late because of the fire drill will be finishing or taking the vocab quiz on Tuesday, April 26th

LA - Today we continued with our Historical Fiction unit and read and discussed the Civil War journal by Louisa May Alcott. Students were given the rest of the time to study for their test on Monday as well as get caught up on their novel homework. HW - Study for the rescheduled test on Monday 4/25 and read your novels B-7,8,9 and G- 10,11,12,13

Technology- The "Investigate" section has been checked for accuracy and completion, the next due date is Monday, April 25 - Students should have their "Plan" section completed for checking. This will get us half way through the project! After the students' rough drafts have been checked they will begin on the "Create" section of the design process (simply making a product for presentation). The next due date is for the final project to be presented- May 19th will begin presentations. Please don't forget those EDPs that we printed out from Career Cruising, we are still missing 29! That is 25% of the 8th grade class! Let's get this important document in!

Algebra:  5th hour only...Started chapter 10!  No homework.

Social Studies: Students shared current events and watched a video on the Civil War in class today. No homework. Current events due "C" and "F" days.