Friday, December 28, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences due 1-10-19
Vocab test 1-11-19

Students will be completing their persuasive essays.
Students will be working on song lyric figures of speech projects.


Math:
Students will be studying the Pythagorean Theorem

Monday, December 17, 2018

ELA:
vocab test Thursday 12-20-18
working on persuasive essays
studying figures of speech



Math:
working on solving equations

Sunday, December 9, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test Lesson 5 Friday 12-14-18
Currently writing persuasive essays
Learning about figures of speech

Math:
Learning how to add and subtract with scientific notation
possible quiz at the end of the week

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

ELA:
Vocab lesson 5 sentences due 12-7-2018
Vocab lesson 5 test 12-14-2018

Learning about Figures of Speech

Writing persuasive essays about traveling to Mars


Math:
Currently studying scientific and standard notation
Quiz coming soon

Friday, November 23, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test will be Friday November 30th
The class will be writing persuasive essays.
Currently, the students are learning about direct objects.


Math:
The students will be learning about scientific and standard notation.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences due 11-16-18 Friday
Vocab Test 11-21-18 Wednesday

Working on Warren Vo-Tech essays


Math:
Currently, the students are studying exponents and scientific notation.

Possible quiz Thursday or Friday this week

Sunday, November 4, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences due November 16th
Vocab Test will be November 21st

Currently writing essays for Tech


Math:

Students will begin to study exponents and scientific/standard notation

Saturday, October 27, 2018

ELA:
reading test on "The Outsider" - Monday
vocab test on Friday November 2nd

Scary essays will be completed this week

Math:
adding and subtracting fractions/decimals/mixed number (rational numbers)
possible quiz Thursday or Friday

Saturday, October 20, 2018

ELA:
continuing to read Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
studying adverbs
writing Scary Essays

Vocab Sentences due Friday October 26th
Vocab Test Friday November 2nd

The students will also be reading "The Outsider" - a creepy story
"The Outsider" test will be Monday October 29th or Tuesday October 30th



Math:

The students will be learning how to add and subtract rational numbers (decimals/fractions).

Sunday, October 14, 2018

ELA:

Continuing to read Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
Writing scary narrative essays
Studying adverbs

Vocab Test Friday October 19th


Math:

Studying Rational Numbers
Possible Quiz later this week

Sunday, October 7, 2018

ELA:

Vocab sentences due Friday October 12th
Vocab Test Friday October 19th


Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie test Wednesday October 10th



Math:

Currently studying Order of Operations including integers

Quiz later this week

Saturday, September 29, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test Friday October 5th
Currently reading Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
This week, the students will be studying Prepositional Phrases.


Math:
The students will practice using the order of operations involving several integers.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences for Lesson 2 due Friday 9-28-18
Vocab Test Friday October 5th

The class is currently reading Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie.
There will be a reading comprehension test later this week.

Currently, the students are writing an essay about "The Most Annoying Thing in the World."

Math:
The students are learning how to multiply and divide integers.
Quiz on Friday

Sunday, September 16, 2018

ELA:
The students will begin reading Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie.
Vocab Test - Lesson 1 will be Friday September 21st


Math:
The students will have an integer test Friday September 21st.

Friday, May 25, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test 6-1-18   Friday
working on MARE projects
completing narrative essays


Math:
completing study of transformations

Next week, quiz on rotations

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

ELA:
The students are creating "black out" poetry.
Narrative essays about their first day of high school are being written.
The class will be starting MARE projects.

Vocab sentences/story due May 25, 2018 - Friday
Vocab test June 6, 2018 - Friday


MATH:
The class is continuing to study transformations.
There will be a quiz on rotations, early next week.

***No math class Wednesday and Thursday --- standardized science testing

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

ELA:
writing narrative essays about their first day of high school
performing The Outsiders play

vocab test Friday May 18, 2018


Math:
continuing to study transformations
possible quiz Friday 5-18-18

Friday, May 4, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences/story due Friday 5-11-18
Vocab test Friday 5-18-18

The Outsiders Test will be Monday and Tuesday 5-7-18  /  5-8/18

The students are participating in an Outsiders play.

Math:
There will not be math class on Monday 5-7-18 because of PARCC testing.
Next week, the class will be studying transformations.



Tuesday, May 1, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test Friday 5-4-18
Continuing to read The Outsiders



Math:
The class will not have Math this week because of the PARCC testing schedule.

Saturday, April 21, 2018


ELA:
reading The Outsiders
practicing for PARCC

vocab sentences or story due 4-27-18
vocab test 5-4-18


Math:
The students will be learning how to sketch and interpret graphs.

Sunday, April 15, 2018


ELA:

Continuing to read The Outsiders- test at the end of the week

Vocab Test Friday 4-20-18

practicing for the PARCC


Math:

Studying Functions

Saturday, April 7, 2018


ELA:
Vocab sentences/story due 4-13-18
Vocab test 4-20-18

The class is currently reading The Outsiders.

Argument essays are due this week.



Math:

 The students will continue to learn about Functions.

Quiz on Thursday 4-12-18  or Friday 4-13-18

Tuesday, April 3, 2018


ELA:
Vocab sentences due 4-5-18 Thursday
Vocab Test 4-6-18 Friday

Math:
Continuing to learn about Functions

Friday, March 30, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences or story due April 5, 2018
Vocab Test April 6, 2018


Math:
The students will continue to learn about Functions, after spring break.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences or story due 4-5-18 Thursday
Vocab Test will be 4-6-18 Friday

Reading The Outsiders and preparing for the PARCC

Writing an Argument Essay


Math:
Learning about Functions
Quiz Wednesday 3-28-18 or Thursday 3-29-18

Sunday, March 18, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test Friday 3-23-18
Currently writing an argument essay
Later in the week, the students will begin to read The Outsiders.


Math:
Unit Rate and Slope Test will be Monday 3-19-18
The next topic will be Functions.

Sunday, March 11, 2018

ELA:
The students will complete their reading comprehension test for "The Boy Who Dared."
Vocab sentences or story due 3-16-18
Vocab Test 3-23-18
The students are working on argument writing.



Math:
The students will have a test on unit rate and slope on Thursday.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test will be Monday 3-5-18
The Boy Who Dared final test will be Tuesday or Wednesday 3-6-18 or 3-7-18
The students will be working on argument writing.


Math:
The students will be learning about unit rate and slope.
Quiz on unit rate-slope later in the week

Saturday, February 24, 2018

ELA:
Vocab Test will be Friday 3-2-18
Final test on The Boy Who Dared will be late this week or early next week
"Mini-Lesson" presentations will begin Tuesday
The students are preparing to write argument essays


Math:
The students will be learning about unit rate.

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

ELA:
Vocab sentences or story due 2-23-18
Vocab Test 3-2-18

Reading The Boy Who Dared

"Mini Lessons" must be completed by Friday 2-23-18/presentations will be next week


Math:
Quiz Thursday or Friday on proportional relationships

Sunday, February 11, 2018

ELA:
Test Tuesday 2-13-18 on The Boy Who Dared
Vocab Test Thursday 2-15-18

The students are working on projects that include them teaching a "mini lesson" on a topic of their choice/with teacher approval.


Math:
The students will be learning how to interpret the unit rate as slope/graph proportional relationships.

Sunday, February 4, 2018

ELA:
The students are continuing to read The Boy Who Dared--test at the end of the week
Vocab sentences due Friday 2-9-18
Vocab test will be Thursday 2- 15-18
The students will be studying "Theme," this week.
Each student will select and design a mini lesson to teach to the class.

Math:
The students will continue to study the topic of slope.
Quiz Friday 2-9-18 or Monday 2-12-18

Saturday, January 27, 2018

ELA:
The students will continue to read The Boy Who Dared.
The different "moods" of verbs will be studied.
Vocab test will be Friday February 2, 2018

Math:
The students will be studying slope.
Possible quiz late next week

Saturday, January 20, 2018

ELA:
The students will be completing their narrative essays, this week. While completing their essays the students are completing parts of speech/figures of speech test using their writing.

The Boy Who Dared is still being read. (The reading test that was supposed to be taken last week will be taken this week.)

Vocab sentences or a story due Friday January 26, 2018
Vocab test will be Friday February 2, 2018

The class will be learning about verb moods.


Math:
This week, the students will begin to learn about slope.

Saturday, January 13, 2018

ELA:
The class is currently reading The Boy Who Dared. ---vocab test will be Tuesday 1-16-18
Reading Comprehension Test will be Friday 1-19-18
The students are writing a narrative essay about a lesson that they have learned from a personal experience.


MATH:
The students will learn how to multiply and divide with scientific notation.
There will be a test on standard/scientific notation and adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing numbers that are in scientific notation towards the end of the week.

Monday, January 8, 2018

ELA:
Weather Changes To Vocab:
vocab sentences/story due by Friday 1 -12-18
vocab test will be Tuesday January 16th

Currently, the students are writing a narrative essay about "A Learning Experience."

This week the students will learn about verbs in the imperative mood.


Math:
The students will continue to study scientific notation and standard notation.
Possible quiz at the end of the week