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Language Arts | - Identifying tone, symbolism, and theme in various forms of literature including song lyrics, kids’ books, poems, and dystopian short stories
- continuing to focus on improving reading comprehension and annotating for meaning
- continuing to practice editing with an emphasis on capitalization and sentence structure
- continuing to use context clues to find the meaning of unknown words
Due Dates: - Theme minor summative after Thanksgiving
- Newsela major summative due in January
** Due dates differ in each class/block. Check Schoology/agendas for specific dates. |
Pre- Algebra | - Check Schoology forthe assignment sheet which includes our daily topics as well as the study guide and its answer key.
- 4-6 ALEKS topics are to be completed each week.
- Students will be starting their new unit on Monday 11/20 (A Day) or Tuesday 11/21 (B Day). The new unit will include exponents, squares, square root, scientific notation, and ordering all rational numbers.
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Algebra | - Check Schoology for the assignment sheet which includes our daily topics as well as the study guide and its answer key.
- 4-6 ALEKS topics are to be completed each week.
- Students will be starting their new unit on Monday 11/20 (A Day) or Tuesday 11/21 (B Day). The new unit will include writing equations of lines, including parallel and perpendicular lines, using Slope-Intercept and Point-Slope formulas.
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Science | Student in Physical Science just finished Unit 4: The Periodic Table. Students will have the opportunity to create a project to showcase their knowledge after completing this unit.
Grade Level students will be creating an Element Family Scrapbook, while Honors students will be choosing items to create their own Periodic Table of …
As a reminder your student’s teacher updates Schoology daily to keep students and guardians up to date! Additionally, retakes for a score lower than an 80% can be requested using the “Retake Request Form” in the red folder on Schoology. |
Social Sciences | - We are knee-deep into our study of US Citizenship and students are engaging in powerful discussions/debates about key rights, responsibilities and obligations of citizens
- Coming back from the Thanksgiving Break, we’ll have our last summative for Citizenship and then begin Unit 3 - Federalism.
- Unit 3 will take us to the end of the first semester. More updates on this after the Thanksgiving Break.
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ENCORE CLASSES |
Art | Art 8- We are working on honing our observational skills and technical ability through a photorealistice grid drawing in class. In our sketchbooks VISUAL RESEARCH has take over our pages and we are learning different techniques for exploring topics using our art skills to make our research more engaging!
| 3D Design- We just finished up using recycled magazine pages to create a functioning bowl to start off our paper/cardboard sculpture unit. We will be taking a brief pause in the coming classes to glaze our surrealist vases before Thanksgiving break. In our sketchbooks we have been investigating different careers attached to 3D work in the world. |
Band | - Students are preparing music for the upcoming Stone Bridge football performance on Sept. 30th
- Fight Song, National Anthem, Monster Jams
- Students have completed one summative, with the second occurring on Friday, Sept. 16
- Please continue to ensure your student is practicing regularly (15-30 minutes)
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Chorus | - Students are demonstrating their mastery of the diatonic scale and corresponding hand symbols
- Students are demonstrating their mastery of identifying the parts of the staff and the notes in the rhythmic notation system
- Students are beginning their rhythmic music literacy practice and will start the melodic practice shortly
- Students are working on building vocal technique and a unifying sound
- Students are working on their Winter Concert music
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Guitar and Music lab | - 8th grade guitarists are learning advanced techniques in concert preparation.
- Students are working to improve reading notes in the first position as they explore new material.
- They are learning to differentiate between various right hand techniques such as rest stroke, free stroke, and rasgueado.
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Health/PE | - All students have been issued a lock and locker. All expectations have been reviewed and rotations have begun.
- Students are beginning tabata workouts in the Aux gym and will be followed by other circuits. Frisbee skills are being taught in the Main gym and ultimate frisbee games will follow. In Health, students are learning about the Cardiovascular System
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Computer Science Foundations | CSF students continue their journey in Code.org’s web page development by learning to link multiple pages into a cohesive content delivery experience. They are refining their use of HTML tags with CSS sheets to customize their web pages.
In Codesters students are learning to request and store user input to create an interactive story in Python. Students document and revise their code based on feedback from peers and teachers.
In Carnegie-Mellon University’s CS Academy course students step into a Python developer environment to create drawings and functions using mouse events and shape properties.
Saturday, 12/02/2023 ⇒ Check out NVCC’s NOVA STEM DAY FLYER |
Introduction to Computer Applications (ICA) | - ICS students continue their Codesters journey learning to code in Python (text-based) and Scratch (block-based) programming. The use of both integer and string variables is essential to casting integers as strings and concatenating (joining) variable values. Skills with algorithms, variables, loops and conditionals will be combined with random numbers to generate a random scene or digital artwork.
- Students are learning to review, receive and provide constructive feedback to peers with the use of ‘I Wonder’ statements. They test each other's coding projects and help team members revise and refine their code to achieve maximum efficiency.
- Saturday, 12/02/2023 ⇒ Check out NVCC’s NOVA STEM DAY FLYER
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Orchestra | - 8th grade just completed an AMAZING fall concert of movie music! They were pushed hard into difficult music. They rose to the challenge and it paid off!
- Next performance will be for the elementary school students on December 19 ( school day) and then the Trailside holiday performance on December 20 (school day)
- You should hear two new songs being practiced at home
- Required T-shirts for the spring performances need to be ordered by November 21.
Here is the link - T-shirt order - Many students are preparing for All County Orchestra auditions in January! Here is the link to the practice sessions
- Registration form and $5 fee is due by December 1
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Band | - Next performance is on Dec. 19 (this is a during-school assembly)
- District Assessment music will be distributed after that performance
- Don’t forget to order your Band T-Shirts for some spring concerts and Hershey Park! Here’s the link: https://lcps.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/25847/371/False/True All 8th Graders will need a shirt!
- Please continue to ensure that your student is practicing 20 minutes, daily
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Chorus | - Don’t forget to order your Chorus T-Shirts for some spring concerts and Hershey Park! Here’s the link: https://lcps.schoolcashonline.com/Fee/Details/25847/371/False/True All 8th Graders will need a shirt!
- 8th Grade Chorus is busy working on advanced rhythmic and melodic sight reading skills and they are doing such a great job!
- 8th Grade Chorus is working hard on their Winter Concert Music!
- Rehearsals for the Winter Concert are Thursday November 30 and Wednesday December 6 from 3:38 - 4:38.
- The Winter Concert is Wednesday December 13 at 7:00pm at TMS!!!!
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Guitar | - Guitar 8 students are preparing for their concert at Stone Bridge High School on Dec 7th and their rehearsal after school at Trailside on December 4th.
- They are working on advanced techniques such as slide guitar, position playing up to the 15th fret, dotted rhythms, compound meter, and bar chords.L
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Tech Ed | - Students finished the Jack O'Lantern boxes at the end of October. It was neat to see the different themes students chose for their boxes. Students finished the Jump A Peg Game this week and we are starting the mantel clocks soon. The mantel clocks will be made out of 1 and ¾ inch thick solid Mahogany that my dad donated to the students. A special thanks to my dad as it would be difficult sourcing mahogany of this thickness.
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Robotics | - Microcontroller Usage Challenge - Double Elimination Tournament for motivation and skill presentations
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French 1 | Chers Parents, - We are working on Regular -ER verbs.
- We just had Major Summative on Regular -ER verbs.
- Soon, we will start working on Unit 2 B: We will learn vocabulary related to talking about schedules, and the days of the week.
- They will have a Major Summative on Vocabulary Unit 2B
- In order to maintain a comfort level and an opportunity to build up, students should be reviewing the vocabulary list and activities done in class and Conjuguemos
- Encourage your child to check their StudentVue for missing assignments.
- Grades for their Summative Assignments can be found in StudentVue/ParentVue
- If a student scores below 80%, they are eligible for a retake.
- Please make sure your kiddo study, review, and practice regularly. It is the key for a successful year.
- Merci for your trust and support.
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French 2 | Chers Parents, - Please make sure your kiddos submit their project # 2 “French Celebration”, it is due on December 9th.
- Soon, we will start Unit 6 B: “La routine quotidienne”/ Daily Routine.
- They will have a Major Summative on Vocabulary 6 B
- I will also introduce their project #3: “Ma mode” (My fashion style). They will have 5 weeks to complete it and submit it. Please make sure they don’t wait for the last minute.
- Encourage your child to check their StudentVue for missing assignments.
- Grades for their Summative Assignments can be found in StudentVue/ParentVue
- If a student scores below 80%, they are eligible for a retake.
- Please make sure your kiddo study, review, and practice regularly. It is the key for a successful year.
- Merci for your trust and support.
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German 1 | - We are continuing to work through Unit 2: School (Schule). Students will begin discussing their class schedules and likes/dislikes.
- 12/4 - Choice Board: Mein Stundenplan due on Schoology
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German 2 | - We are finishing up Unit 3a: House (Haus). Students are working on a project before we start the second half of the unit on chores.
- 11/28 - Mein deutsches Haus Project due
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Spanish 1 DeLeon | - Students have just finished a unit on likes, dislikes, and the use of adjectives to describe themselves. The next unit will lead to an oral presentation about themselves and their family. We then will start the unit based on the theme of school that will take us to the end of second quarter. The next major summative is the oral presentation, followed by the third major summative just before winter break. Please check the homework/test schedule with your student each night. Learning the vocabulary should take place each school night.
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Spanish 2 DeLeon | Students are finishing up the unit based on daily routines and reflexive verbs. They had a major summative in the form of a unit test and another as an in-class writing. The next unit will be based on the house (La Casa) and an oral presentation by each student will be given before winter break. Right after Thanksgiving break, we will be starting the past tense. Please check the homework/test schedule with your student. |