This morning we had our usual half hour of AR time until 9:30. I've been quite impressed with most of the students in our class with AR this year. Many are well on their way to achieving our class goal as well as our school goal. During ELA we learned about the importance of drafting from none other than Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games. In the video Suzanne explained that it is important to take your time when writing and it often takes numerous drafts before a good copy is finally completed. It took Suzanne 10 months to complete her first draft of The Hunger Games and she ended up writing 5 drafts of the book before she was ready to publish. With this new knowledge fresh in their minds, the students went back to their own stories and began revising their first draft of their ghost story.
In Grade 8 Math, we quickly reviewed how to represent percents before moving on to the first assignment of chapter 4. (The assignment can be found below)
After lunch the students continued to work on their shading assignment in Arts. Ed before Science with Mr. Csada. Unfortunately it was quite nasty out at 2:15 so we had every teachers dream....an indoor recess! (NOT) During Social we began a new unit focusing on Trade. Students were split up into different groups and were assigned a fictitious country that they would now become members of. For the duration of the hour, each group had to study the information for their country and decide what items that had to export and trade with the other 4 countries.
Upcoming Due Dates & Homework:
Math
Grade 8
Pg. 128:
a) 1-4, 6, 8, 9, 12
b) 1-4, 6, 9, 10-15
c) 1-3, 9, 13-16
Grade 7
McCulloch: Pg. 76-77, #1-15 and practice test
Weber:
Social:
"What in the World" map assignment is due tomorrow
Overdue Assignments:
1) Grade 8 Math book homework check
2) Unit 1 French Review
3) Social Studies Tax Handout
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