8th Grade Peek of the Week Week of October 17, 2022

Content Info For The Week

Math (Swindell, Beasley, and Meeks):

Students will start the week reviewing converting repeating decimals to fractions and estimating square roots. Students will work the rest of the week on the integer exponent properties and writing numbers in standard form into scientific notation.

Algebra I (Meeks):

Students will finish up working with system of equations this week. Monday: Solve by elimination; Tuesday: Applying systems to real world problems; Wednesday: Systems review: Graphing, substitution, elimination, and real world application; Thursday: Quiz over systems; Friday: Start on study guide for all of 8th grade standards. Homework is due Friday.

ELA (Styron and Bright):

This week scholars will use content-area vocabulary and generate relevant examples to deepen understanding of a central content-area concept, use active reading, viewing, and listening as they continue working through their individualized and differentiated app segments and continue reading their selected novels, and determine the central idea of an informational text.

ELA (Lee):

This week in Mrs. Lee's class, our student teacher Ms. Rippy will be leading instruction as we begin Unit 2. We will go over the components of argumentative writing, and also begin looking at how authors build tension, suspense and foreshadowing in a text.

9th Grade Lit (Lee):

This week in Mrs. Lee's class, students will analyze the differences between Homer's The Odyssey and its modernized retelling, Oh Brother Where Art Thou? We will then begin Unit 2, in which we will be focusing on argumentative writing and our next in-class text, the classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

Science (Carver and Lewis):

Students will be exploring Physical and Chemical properties of matter. Student will be able to determine real life situations and tell if they are physical or chemical changes.

Social Studies (MacArthur and Lewis):

This week in Mr. MacArthur's class, students will be learning about the Articles of Confederation, and how Georgia contributed to the Constitutional Convention. Additionally, students will get to experience first hand how the lack of a unified currency, and representation can negatively affect our day to day lives. Students will have a quiz on Friday over all of Unit 3.