ELA: Unit 1 Discovering Your Voice 

• Collaborate and Compare 

Students will be reading two stories: 

• Better Than Words: Say It With a Selfie

• OMG, Not Another Selfie! 

• Both of these stories are found on HMH.

Math:  Unit 2 - Ratios

On 9/5 We took our unit test on calculating the area of triangles, polygons, and polyhedra - we will finish that up on Monday and then begin our new unit on Tuesday, starting our discussion on ratios. 

Please check the list of math links I've created so you and your child can keep up to date! 

If your gator could use more math practice at home, please consider checking out Khan Academy. Students can make an account and have additional practice that follows grade-level standards! The lessons offer step-by-step feedback to support complete understanding!

Science: August 15-22
Students will begin the week (Tuesday) by completing their first quiz covering Energy, Types of Energy, and Energy Transfer to assess understanding of our recent unit. After the quiz, students will start an independent webquest package focused on Energy Resources, where they will research different renewable and nonrenewable resources, their benefits, challenges, and future potential. This webquest will allow students to apply their knowledge of energy concepts while practicing research and note-taking skills.

Social Studies:

•  Students will learn about Ancient Mesopotamia and How the key features of it's geography and development of technology influenced the daily lives and culture of its people. 

• Graded Assignments: Hexagonal Thinking (10 pts) & Ancient Mesopotamia Map (10 pts). There may additional assignments that go into the gradebook. 

• Assessment: 10 question quiz on Ancient Mesopotamia. 

 Math : 

Unit 2 Proportional Relationships 

Sub-Unit 3: Proportional Relationships in Graphs (Lessons 8–10)

• Use graphs to recognize proportional relationships.

• Determine a constant of proportionality from a graph.

• Describe relationships represented with graphs using terms such as proportional, non-proportional, and constant of proportionality.

Sub-Unit 4: Using Proportional Relationships (Lessons 11–13 + Practice Day)

• Use proportional relationships to solve real-world and mathematical problems.

• Interpret different representations of a proportional relationship to make sense of a situation in context.

Additional Resources and Support for Unit 2:

Caregiver Guide for Lessons

Additional Practice Problems 

Khan Academy

Free online Math Tutoring through U of A: https://crr.math.arizona.edu/zoom-tutors

Science:  

-This week we will be moving on to begin our next unit, working with Systems of the Body

-Students will explore the fundamentals of the Respiratory System and the Circulatory System of the Human Body and how they work together to provide critical support for the body.

ELA:  Q1 information

Unit 1

• Selection 1: Mirror Image

  • Focus Skills: Analyze Plot and Flashback & Analyze Character Traits

• Selection 2: Not Everything it Seems

  • Focus Skills: Determine Author's Purpose & Cite Evidence 

Upcoming Assessments:

• MAP Growth Measurement Aug. 7th

Social Studies:

• Enlightenment Thinkers

  • Create memes to show Enlightenment Thinkers' main arguments

• DBQ Pretest

  • The Soviet Union: What should textbooks emphasize? (This is our Quarter 4 DBQ assessment that we will take as a pretest in Quarter 1, and again as a post-test in Quarter 4)

• Intro to the French Revolution

Math : 

Unit 2 Dilations

Sub-Unit 1: Dilations (Lessons 1–5 + Practice Day + Quiz)

• Dilate figures on and off a coordinate grid.

• Identify the scale factor and the center of dilation.

• Describe dilations precisely using terms such as pre-image, center of dilation, and scale factor.

Sub-Unit 2: Similarity (Lessons 6–8)

• Use transformations to determine whether two figures are similar.

• Justify whether two figures are similar using terms such as translation, reflection, rotation, dilation, pre-image, and image.

Sub-Unit 3: Slope (Lessons 9–10 + Practice Day)

• Make connections between the slope of a line and similar triangles created by that line.

• Determine the slopes of lines.

• Explain how to calculate the slope of a line using vocabulary from this unit.

Unit 2 Dilations Test Tuesday, September 16 

Additional Resources and Support for Unit 2:

Caregiver Guide for Lessons

Additional Practice Problems 

Khan Academy 

Free online Math Tutoring through U of A: https://crr.math.arizona.edu/zoom-tutors

Science:

This week we are: 

• learning MORE about Habits of Systems Thinkers.  Students will be applying those thinking models/strategies throughout the year. 

• Continuing: Unit 3 - Nature via Nurture: How can we use environmental and genetic factors to explain changes in organisms?

  • • Task 1: We learned about weather and the environmental factors that can affect living organisms and habitats. 

    • Task 2: We created our own experimental procedures and identified independent, dependent, and control variables to test growing conditions for plants and made observations. 

    • Task 3 (finishing): We learned to analyze & interpret data when considering genetic or environmental conditions that can cause changes in organisms and/or habitats. 

    • Task 4 (moving into): We are learning about reproduction and genetics, and environmental factors that can cause adaptations for survival in living things. 

ELA:  Q1 Information

Unit 1: Gadgets and Glitches

• Selection 1: The Brave Little Toaster

  • Focus Skills: Analyze Plot & Analyze Science Fiction

• Selection 2: Are Bionic Superhumans on the Horizon?

  • Focus Skills: Identify Central Ideas and details & Analyze Organization

Upcoming Assessments:

• MAP Growth Measurement Aug. 7th

Social Studies:

• Quarter 1 DBQ: "The Ideals of the Declaration: Which Is Most Important?"

• We have connected to our Social Studies Google classroom.  If you received invites via email to join please accept so you can follow up your child's work and progress.

• We will be watching CNN 10 for daily news headlines and connecting them to historical ideals.  I highly encourage you to preview these each day and then discuss them with your child.  Engaging with your young adult about the news and bigger world around them is an important part of helping your teen grow into a thoughtful and engaged young adult.

• We will be writing, editing and revising our DBQ essay's this week.  The final essay is due in both Google Classroom and DBQ online on Friday, September 19th

• We will begin work on learning about the constitution

• We will be covering our district digital citizenship lessons.

• Please check your email for more information!

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