Middle School
Grades 6-8
Grades 6-8
The Summer Learning Website has information about required summer reading activities as well as optional weekly activities for enrichment.
Literacy and Math Pacing Guides
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Determine an author's point of view or purpose (sometimes including conflicting viewpoints) in a text and analyze how the author develops point of view through different techniques
Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language, to develop believable experiences, events, and/or characters
Utilizes strong literacy skills to comprehend various texts
Even if your child hasn't always loved to read, there are things you can do at home to encourage a love of reading at any age.
Practice your narrative writing skills using the following ideas:
Rewrite the ending to a book, movie or tv show in a way that changes the entire resolution.
Choose a song you enjoy and write a short story based on the setting and themes of the song.
Use a picture prompt to inspire your writing. Choose one and begin!
Sign up for free, choose specific targets, and look for a variety of literature and info text
Have your child go to the Newsela APP on their iPads.
Students can choose targets to focus that align with the common core and find a variety of texts-literature
Apply properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions, including those with rational numbers
Write and solve two step equations in real-world context with rational numbers
Find the surface area or volume of 3D shapes composed of rectangles and/or triangles
Apply properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions, including those with rational numbers
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IXL codes:
Identify equivalent expressions using strip models
Multiply using the distributive property
Add and subtract like terms: with exponents
Identify equivalent expressions I
Find the surface area or volume of 3D shapes composed of rectangles and/or triangles
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IXL codes:
Surface area of cubes and rectangular prisms
Volume of cubes and rectangular prisms
Volume of cubes and rectangular prisms with fractional side lengths
Write and solve two step equations in real-world context with rational numbers
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IXL Codes:
Solve two-step equations without parentheses
Solve two-step equations with parentheses
Solve two-step equations: word problems
Find the surface area of three-dimensional shapes in real-world contexts, including those with fractional sides
Solve multi-step mathematical problems involving angle measures requiring multi-step algebraic equations and rational numbers
Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems, including distance problems
Find the surface area of three-dimensional shapes in real-world contexts, including those with fractional sides
Click HERE for a video tutorial
IXL Codes:
Surface area of cubes and rectangular prisms
Solve multi-step mathematical problems involving angle measures requiring multi-step algebraic equations and rational numbers
IXL Codes:
Identify complementary, supplementary, vertical, adjacent, and congruent angles
Find measures of complementary, supplementary, vertical, and adjacent angles
Transversals of parallel lines: name angle pairs
Transversals of parallel lines: find angle measures
Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems, including distance problems
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IXL Codes:
Pythagorean theorem: find the missing leg length
Pythagorean theorem: word problems
Converse of the Pythagorean theorem: is it a right triangle?
Use and evaluate square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations using both positive and negative solutions
Apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions
Apply formulas to find the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres to solve real world problems
Use and evaluate square root and cube root symbols to represent solutions to equations using both positive and negative solutions
IXL Codes:
Square roots of perfect squares (WRT)
Square roots of perfect squares (9RS)
Positive and negative square roots (8TF)
Relationship between squares and square roots (8W2)
Solve equations using square roots (NNA)
Square roots (7PZ)
Cube roots of positive perfect cubes (RYG)
Cube roots of positive and negative perfect cubes (J7K)
Solve equations using cube roots (TQ5)
Cube roots (RNT)
Apply the properties of integer exponents to generate equivalent numerical expressions
IXL Codes:
Understanding exponents (VFV)
Multiplication with exponents (EQY)
Multiplication with exponents (HQD)
Power rule (AEQ)
Power rule (RWY)
Division with exponents (M2C)
Division with exponents (9SS)
Understanding negative exponents (YBB)
Evaluate negative exponents (WGS)
Negative exponents (SCM)
Apply formulas to find the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres to solve real world problems
IXL Codes:
8th grade T10: Volume of Cylinders (9F3)
8th grade T11: Volume of Cones (YYR)
8th grade T14: Volume of Spheres (QX7)
Solve quadratic equations
Approximate irrational numbers with or without a calculator and rewrite radicals into equivalent forms.
Create exponential equations given a graph, table, or situation. *non-calculator*
IXL Codes:
Solve a quadratic equation using square roots (ERF)
Complete the square (RD2)
Solve a quadratic equation by completing the square (XCL)
Solve a quadratic equation using the zero product property (TNM)
Solve a quadratic equation by factoring (CSS)
Solve a quadratic equation using the quadratic formula (XCF)
Using the discriminant (SMF)
IXL Codes:
Simplify radical expressions (ZFF)
Simplify radical expressions with variables (82V)
Simplify radical expressions involving fractions (VRZ)
Multiply radical expressions (HMX)
Add and subtract radical expressions (DLV)
Simplify radical expressions using the distributive property (28V)
IXL Codes:
X.2 Match exponential functions and graphs (72J)
X.3 Domain and range of exponential functions: graphs (ANC)
X.4 Domain and range of exponential functions: equations (DZE)
CC.1 Identify linear and exponential functions from graphs (UEC)
CC.3 Identify linear and exponential functions from tables (LZF)
CC. Checkpoint: Compare linear and exponential functions (KSL)
X.5 Exponential growth and decay: word problems (UKG)
Find sums of geometric series.
2. Use data from a sample survey to estimate a population mean or proportion; develop an understanding of margin of error through the use of simulation models for random sampling.
3. Apply permutations and combinations to calculate probabilities.