Team Delta

Social Studies:  This week we are practicing geography basics as we get ready to launch into our first unit of the year. Students have been studying continents, oceans, hemispheres, and cardinal directions, as well as planning trips around the world (with human and physical features of each place they go!). Quiz on geography basics on Friday, 9/26. 

Language Arts:  We have launched our Folktales Module! In this unit, students will investigate perspective and characterization by reading domestic folktales.  Additionally, students will refine their abilities to clarify words in context and write organized CERF paragraphs using relevant and specific text evidence.  Students will begin the folktale module close to home, right here in Lake Champlain!   Students will compare and contrast the perspectives told in the Abenaki version of the Lake Champlain creation story to those of the Euro-centric version of the story told on the Spirit of Ethan Allen cruise.  Then, students will read a selection of other domestic, Native American folktales, both in graphic novel format and in prose.  

Science: On Tuesday, we had a successful field trip to Redstone Quarry! In order to make sense of the quarry rocks, we read a text about Vermont's geology on Monday, and we are creating geology timelines on Wednesday.

Here is our Science Daily Agenda if you'd like to see what we're doing each day.

Math: 7th Grade Math -  We are working on how Scale Factors affect the area of a shape and its image.  We have a quiz on Wed. 10/1.

8th Grade Math -   Our focus is on Transformations.  We are focusing on the last phase of the unit and discovering how transforming lines affects angles.  We are understanding how to find angles in a transversal.  There is a paper homework that is due on Wed. 10/1.   We will have our unit test on Next Week.