Middle School

Language Arts 5/21-22

Liz Scott — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:42:16 +0000

Today was primarily a work day. We did word study first, and then had the rest of the time to work on portfolios and portfolio essays.

Word study sheet: word study fract

Homework:
Vocab quiz Friday
Final portfolio due Friday

Language Arts 5/18

Liz Scott — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:54:30 +0000

Today we had a vocab quiz, and then had time to read and catch up on work. Happy Friday!

Homework:
Portfolios due May 25

Language Arts 5/16-17

Liz Scott — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:35:18 +0000

We started class today with a poem. We read “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” by Wallace Stevens. We talked about how he could be a rather unlikely author of such a poem, given that he worked for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. We also talked about that feeling of being one with a book, and those moments where everything is “just right.”

Then, we talked about how some common punctuation marks came to be. These are the notes: history of punctuation We even tried out inventing some of our own useful punctuation marks!

The rest of the class was spent working on portfolios, word study, or make up work.

Homework:
Vocab quiz Friday
Portfolio due May 25

May 16/17th – HW – Prepare for Quiz on Friday on Fingerprints

Jon — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:53:41 +0000

Students learned in class about the science behind analyzing fingerprints, especially with the patterns that show up. Arches, loops, and whorls make up the three major categories that each finger can display and each student made prints for each digit and identified them. The notes are in their lab notebook and examples of prints from the homework should be reviewed.

For Friday, students will need to be able to:
1) Recognize fingerprints and correctly identify/match to the three major categories
2) Draw the ridges that identify each category on a sample fingerprint
3) Correctly take a fingerprint

5/14 Early History Artifact & 5/16 Comparing Class Notes

Joe Griffith — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:54:44 +0000

5/14 and 5/15 Homework:
Bring in an artifact to bury on Wednesday or Thursday. It should represent the early history of your country – Mozambique, Zimbabwe or South Africa. Include a description of what it is and how it connects with your country’s history. This description should be at least a paragraph long (5+ sentences).

Here are the notes from each class period:

01 First Hour
02 Second Hour
03 Third Hour
04 Fourth Hour

5/16 and 5/17 Homework:
There are a lot of similarities between the early histories of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. After all, the same people migrated into these areas. Use the class notes above to make 5-10 comparisons between the countries’ early histories.
For example, “Each country traded gold.”
These do not need to be typed.
This is due Friday (5/18).

Language Arts 5/14-15

Liz Scott — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:40:36 +0000

We started class today with finishing up book talks for the mystery fiction novels. Look for their graphic organizers at curriculum celebration.

Then we had word study. This week’s root word is “pos.” You can find the sheet here:word study pos

Finally, we spent the rest of class working on portfolio essays. I had the lab cart reserved. The assignment sheet for the portfolio is here: final portfolio

Homework:
Vocab quiz Friday
Portfolio due May 25

Alg 5/15/12 Review for Test

Cindy Wauer — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:26:37 +0000

DUE: 5/17/12

CLASSWORK/HOMEWORK: Whatever you need to prepare for the test on Thursday
SGR-9 (1-67)
NOTECARDS
ETC.

C3 5/15/12 Review for Test

Cindy Wauer — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:12:35 +0000

DUE: 5/17/12

HOMEWORK: SGR-8 (1-25)

TEST on Thursday

C2 5/14/12 Review for test on Wednesday

Cindy Wauer — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:19:40 +0000

DUE: 5/16/12

HOMEWORK: SGR-9 (1, 2, 11-35 odd)
SGR-10 (1, 2, 9-12, 15-17)

TEST on Wednesday

C1 5/14/12 3-Dimension Reports

Cindy Wauer — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:17:58 +0000

DUE: 5/16/12

HOMEWORK: We will be doing a total of 3 reports: one on a rectangular prism, one triangular prism, and one cylinder. If you did not complete 1.5 do some catch up work at home