Eighth Grade

Strongest Evidence - Words Are Powerful bookmark, organizers, & prompts throughout the year - choosing the most powerful words to analyze text (use of figurative language, connotations, character development)

Analogies - The Lions of Little Rock - Chap - “When Pretty Boy Died” - analogy of the rift in the family to the division in the community over desegregation 

Allusions - Bible verses and movie (Wizard of Oz) - The Lions of Little Rock 

Mood -  figurative language from the class text, The Lions of Little Rock, to determine various types of mood

Connotation - character’s word choice that evokes emotions & descriptive words  in Inside Out & Back Again novel 

Integration of ideas/main idea sentences/supporting details - students used three sources for a research project with a civil rights event of their choice to address the question: In what ways did the people of your event use their strengths (courage and perseverance) for social change? This is used to complete a research essay by using the writing process. In text citation is required along

1. Identify # as rational or irrational. Compare and order real numbers. Estimation of square roots. 

2. Power rules for mult, div., power to power.

3. Add./subt. In scientific notation. Mult./div. In scientific notation. Compare and order numbers in scientific notation.

4. One step, two step, multi. Step with dist. Prop. Equations with variables on both sides. 

5. Graph linear equations using table.  Graphing linear equations using intercepts. Graphing linear equations using y=mx+b. Proportional relationships and their graphs. 

6. Solving by graphing, solving using substitution, solving by elimination. 

7. Reflections and reflections in coordinate plane, rotations and rotations in coordinate plane, translations and translations in coordinate plane. Congruence of figures. Angle relationships and congruence. Parallel lines and angle congruence. 

8. Classify triangles, missing angle of triangles, exterior angle of a triangle. 

9. Dilations and dilations on coordinate plane, AA criterion, similar figures (triangles) Indirect measurement using similarity. 

10. Perimeter, area, surface area, volume.

1. Build shelters, friend or foe, Signs and Symbols poster

2. Dissecting seeds, structure of a flower, Build a flower. Plant life cycle book, food factory waste project. 

3. Bath bombs, glow stick lab, balancing equation lab, covalent marshmallows model, photosynthesis lab, why do things get hotter or colder lab, Diet Cola and mentos lab, 

4. Cell model, cell cycle model, meiosis model, pedigree lab, bug builders, punnett square lab, genetic probability candy lab, monster genetics lab, forensics lab,  Double Helix lab, base-pair basics lab, evolution puzzle, butterfly camouflage, natural selection investigation.

5. Water cup lab, water cycle lab, underwater vessels activity, the ocean floor, ocean pollution lab, probing the depths model, when whirls collide activity, up from the depths lab,

6. Atmosphere activity, does air have mass lab, under pressure lab, meeting of the masses, weather station model, rain cloud lab, 

7. Egg drop, catapults, and rocket models

Independence, Constitution

Abolitionism, Expansionism, Reconstruction

World War I, Great Depression, World War II

Cold War, Civil Rights, Cultural Change

Liberalism v Conservatism

Multiple causation, macroeconomics, domestic politics dynamics,