DATA 8th Grade Newsletter

Week 23: Feb 3 - 7

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ELAR

"Success is not an accident. Success is actually a choice."

- Steph Curry

After wrapping up our learning of rhetorical devices, it's time to spend a day or two practicing with these devices through identification and application. Immediately following this practice, we'll review a couple of literary devices as well as author's language - mood, tone, and voice. We should round out the week assessing all of this glorious learning!

-Mrs. Burciaga

Tutoring

Tuesdays - after school until 4:30

Thursdays - before school beginning at 7:45*

Lunch tutoring available by appointment*

*Requires a pass - see Mrs. Burciaga

Questions or concerns?

Email me: jburci@neisd.net

MATH

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

Week 4 is in the books! Be sure to look at your student's 3-week progress grades, and encourage them to work with their teachers on any subjects of concern.

Algebra 1: Friday we began our Unit 6, on Polynomials, after spending some time the previous two days reviewing for the Unit 5 test. Polynomials will occupy about 3 weeks in February. The Unit 5 test is Monday, February 3, due to some spontaneous changes in schedule that happened with the STAAR Interim Reading test. I'm confident students will do well on it, especially if they have revisited the material through practicing extra problems and reviewing notes the evening before.

Geometry: After some review time, Geometry students took their Unit 6 test on Friday. The class did very well, and is ready to move on to Polygons. We've built a solid foundation on our study of triangles, so that one powerful approach will be to decompose more complex shapes into triangles. We'll be on this topic for most of February.

-Dr. Koepp

Tutoring: I have a regularly-scheduled tutorial time from 3:45 to 4:30 on Thursdays. I also work with students by appointment--just email me at wkoepp@neisd.net and we'll find a time that works for your student!

SCIENCE

EXPERIMENT. FAIL. LEARN. REPEAT.

We have wrapped up our Physics unit and will be moving on to our Space Cycles Unit.

We will begin with reviewing the difference between rotation and revolution and then proceed into seasons. Students will review the concept of rotation causing day and night and that revolution of the Earth around the Sun along with Earth's tilt contributes to Seasons.

Students will spend some time modeling seasons and describing the difference in length of day and night during the different seasons. They will differentiate between solstice and equinox and describe the angle of sunlight and length of day during each of these.

We will continue with our space unit discussing stars and the HR Diagram. Students will learn how to classify and compare stars by temperature and brightness.

Tutoring is offered on Mondays; students can attend from 3:45-4:15.

Students are also welcomed to set up an appointment for a different time, if needed.

If you have any questions, you may email me at egonza10@neisd.net.

U.S. History through 1877

We are Living History!

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Cruising along with our quick Industrialization unit, Students will take their Unit 6 Vocab Quiz this Friday, Feb 7th. The can use their vocab homework on these quizzes! This week student will be crafting their own industrial cities as we play the Urban Game.

Students will take their Unit 6 Test next Wednesday on Feb 12th.

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Tutoring is available Thursdays, 7:45-8:20 am and 3:45-4:15

You can reach me at lvanho@neisd.net

Have a wonderful week!

-Ms. Van Horn

Mrs. Malin's Classes

Greetings DATA Families!
Have a great week!
PLEASE REVIEW WITH YOUR CHILD THE NEISD AND CAMPUS GUIDELINES REGARDING TECHNOLOGY USE, ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY, AND THEIR SAFETY. YOU CAN ACCESS THIS VIA: https://www.neisd.net/Page/10011

Veni, Creavi, Vici. I came. I created. I conquered.

Hello to Our DATA Families!

Graphic Design & Illustration I: Students are beginning their animation unit, where they will complete a series of assignments to develop their skills. They will be animating a selection of stock images as a tutorial, and they will illustrate their own images and animate them in Adobe Animate.
Video Game Design: Students will begin their coding the 3D phase of Video Game Design. They will be exploring programming lessons in Minecraft where they will perform commands, execute variables, in the programming environment.

About Me: My name is Elizabeth Fuentes Malin. I am a technology applications teacher and have been teaching for sixteen years. I am married with one child who is now at DATA with us! I attended OLLU, UIW, Lamar University, and now UNT. I hold degrees in English, Communication Arts, Administration, Educational Technology Leadership, and now am working on my doctorates in Learning Technologies and Machine Learning.

My email is emalin@neisd.net

Tutoring is by appointment only

Mr. Lovett's Classes

Principles of Architecture:

Architecture students have combined rooms ensuring there are no double walls or strange little hallways to nowhere. It sounds a whole lot easier than it is. Next week we begin designing roofs.

Digital Media 2:

February we will be concentrating on harmony and variety. I called it Februiety last year but I'm hoping we can come up with a better name this year. Lots of fun to come

If you ever have any questions or concerns, please feel free to send me an email.

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