Language Arts: 

• ELA:  Now that we are done with the WWII novels, each student will write an informative essay about the techniques and goals the author of their book used with textual evidence to support their claims.  In addition, we have a vocabulary/ grammar quiz this Friday.   

• Advanced: Now that we have officially finished our novel unit, students are going to be drafting their final essay of the year. This will be an informative essay, and students will be learning how to create their own outline to organize their information for their essay. We are also continuing vocabulary and grammar weekly, so students should be utilizing the resources posted in Google Classroom to review. 

Math:

• General Math:  We are concluding our study of functions and volumes this week.  Students will review this unit on Friday and Monday with the unit assessment to follow in Tuesday.  Students are allowed to use the various resources that they created during the unit including their notes.   

• Algebra:  Students wrapped up their study of functions with absolute value functions. They graphed these functions and worked on describing the graphs using vocabulary from this unit. The Unit 4 Assessment will be on Friday, February 6.

1. • • • Geometry:  This week we began our study of Coordinate Geometry.  The first unit will cover congruency and similarity in transformations, point slope form, parallel and perpendicular lines and other related topics.  The students will be assessed next week.

Science: Now that students have learned the patterns of the Periodic Table, students will begin to organized matter into the three main categories of elements, compounds, and mixtures. This will lead them to reading chemical equations. 

Social Studies: We are finishing our study of World War II this week with an essay on President Truman's decision to use atomic bombs to end the war in the Pacific. Later this week, we will begin our study of the Cold War, which will take us all the way to the end of February and the end of Trimester Two.