Today in ELA, we took our own short story and make a claim about our protagonist. We then re-read the story to find evidence and annotated the text to explain our evidence. In Social Studies we are just beginning to explore the essential question: If you were going to build an empire, what advantages might Africa's climate and natural resources offer you? Have your child tell you where they relocated your family to in Africa AND why?

Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem and extra credit and Reading Log due 12/3/18
Math Mr K: R & P 3.2.2 #106-110 pg 143-144

The kids worked SO hard in ELA and Social Studies today, please ask them about their annotations and their Social Studies essential question essay.

Homework:
Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and Extra Credit and Reading Log 12/3/18

Everyone worked so hard on annotating our text about West Africa's Geography. It is a high level text and will take a few more reads to fully understand. See some examples above.

Homework:

Reading: Stem Quiz and Extra Credit due 12/3/18 AND Reading Log due 12/3/18
Mr K Math: 3.2.1 #94-98 pg 139
Science: 1.2 Step #5 Homework
SS: Reread student handout 1.2- OPTIONAL

We will continue look at the essential question above. Today was our first time reading through the text. Students need to read through it one more time for homework as it has high level academic vocabulary. We will continue to annotate tomorrow during class. 

Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and Extra Credit due tomorrow AND Reading Logs due 12/1/18
Social Studies: Read Student Handout 1.2

In Social Studies, we are taking our knowledge of geographic challenges from the Ancient Sumerians and looking at geographical affects on West Africa.

Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and extra credit due 11/27/18 AND reading log due 11/26/18

In ELA, we started reading short stories to help us write a literary essay. Analyzing the stories and focusing on a claim about the protagonist, will be the starting point. 

Homework:

Reading: Stem Quiz and Extra Credit: 11/27/18 AND Reading Log due 12/3/18

MR K Math: R & P 3.1.6 pg 84-88 pg 133 AND math test tomorrow

Science: Science test tomorrow on Metabolism BONUS- 4.1 & 4.2

Reading makes you a stronger writer! We created a list of synonyms for the word "said" yesterday. Today we will will explore how Reading is Financially Rewarding.

Homework:

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and extra credit and Reading Log due 11/19/18
Science: 3.2 step 6
Mr K math: R & P 3.1.5 #73-77 pg 127-128

Today we started to look at reading reason; WHY READING MATTERS. We looked at a lesson that focused on: Reading Builds a Mature Vocabulary. We will continue to look at other reasons. We did a first check of Reading Logs. These are due the first of every month and we need at the minimum a signature from a guardian at the bottom of the log. Ideally, we would like to see a guardian signature at the end of the week on the Reading Log itself.

Students also created a short flipgrid video summarizing or anticipating their parent/teacher conference.
Homework:
Reading: Log due on December 1st and next check will be on 11/19/18, Latin Stems due 11/19/18 and extra credit due 11/19/18

Students have the chance to share their Chapter 19 or envelope for The Boy of the Painted Cave project. We will move into writing Literary Essays in the near future. Thank you for the productive Parent Teacher Conferences, we have a few left and we will be done. If you wanted us to check on information from a teacher outside of our team, we will get back to you within the next couple of days.

Homework: 
Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and Extra credit due 11/19/18  AND Reading Log due tomorrow!
Science: 2.7 Diagnosis Elisa Step 3
Mr K Math: R & P 3.1.4 #62-66 pg 121-122

9Reminder that parent teacher conferences are Monday, November 12th and Tuesday, November 20th. These are student-led so please make sure students come their assigned time.

Homework:
ELA: BOTPC Project due 11/13/18
Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and Extra credit 11/19/18

Homework:

ELA: BOTPC Project due 11/13/18

Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and Extra Credit 11/19/18

Mr K Math: R & P 3.1.2 #31-35 pg 110

The 7th and 8th grade AVID classes are doing a food drive. Please see above for details. Second quarter started today and grades will officially close on Wednesday afternoon.

Homework:
ELA: BOTPC project due 11/13/18
Reading: Latin Stem Quiz on 11/19/18 AND extra credit due 11/19/18
Science: Test tomorrow
Mr K Math: R & P 3.1.1 #18-21 pg 105

Today we were ancient Sumerians and created our own clay tablets. We are also making progress on our BOTPC Projects.

Homework:
ELA: BOTPC project due 11/16/18
Reading: Latin Stem Quiz and Extra credit 11/5/18
Science: Test on Tuesday, November 6th

Ask your child what they are studying in Science and what they know about their condition they are looking into.

Homework: 
ELA: BOTPC project due 11/13/18
Reading: Latin stem quiz and extra credit due 11/5/18
Mr K Math: R & P 3.1.1 #12-16 pg 103-104