Language Arts: 

• ELA:  Day by day, we are getting closer to Speech Week.  Students are diligently working on writing a strong argumentative speech.  Please have a conversation about what your child's topic is and what day they need to be prepared to present.  Speeches begin on Friday, May 15th and will continue up to May 26th.            

• Advanced: Students have begun transferring and organizing their information onto note cards and a visual aid to support them during their speech. Speeches will begin this Friday, May 15th; the speech presentation schedule is posted in our Google Classroom. Students are expected to be practicing their speech each night leading up to their presentation. 

Math:

• Core Math:  The student have just started the Associations in Data unit.  The initial material covers frequency tables, dot plots and scatter grams.  The students will compare and contrast these different formats of organizing data and will identify the strengths and weaknesses of each. There will be a quiz next Tuesday (May 19th).  

• Algebra:  Students have been working on multiplying and factoring binomials. They are able to move between factored form and standard form when working with a quadratic equation. This leads them to solving quadratic equations in factored form using the zero-product property. They will have a quiz on Friday, May 15. property and how to use factoring and the zero product property to solve quadratic equations.

1. • • • Geometry:  Next week in the Desmos Conditional Probability unit students will apply the knowledge they previously gained as they calculate geometric probabilities and distinguish between independent and dependent events using tests of independence and conditional probability.  In addition, they will explain the meaning of independence and conditional probability in everyday and mathematical contexts.

Science: Today the students took a quiz about puberty and the male and female reproductive systems. Over the next week, students will learn about pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and prevention methids. The final quiz of the year will be next Thursday, May 21st.

Social Studies: We are finishing our study of the Women's Movement this week.  Next, we will look at the injustices that the LGBT community faced during the 1950s and 1960s.  Then we will look at how the movement was organized and the struggles it faced in overcoming legal and societal injustices.  Our final Social Studies test of the year will be on Thursday, May 21st.