**Please refer to the email from Oasis regarding upcoming Smarter Balanced test dates. We need every student to be present on these days, as making up the tests is very difficult.
Projects:
This week we will learn about the water cycle and the rock cycle. Students will perform rap songs around these concepts early next week. There will also be a vocabulary quiz over water cycle words on Thursday morning. Students have the terms and can study from home as well as at school. After that, we will move into studying the Great Depression in social studies.
8th Grade Reading:
Students continue to read and collect evidence for their final on To Kill a Mockingbird. We will finish the novel next week and take the final and watch movie immediately after. The kids are loving this book and there are some very powerful messages we are all taking from it.
7th Grade Reading:
We finished The Maze Runner and will take the final tomorrow (Wednesday). Students have been working on collecting evidence for this and will probably take 2 days to complete the exam. After that, we will move into doing more independent reading of Good Fit Books and work on some test taking strategies.
Writing:
We have been practicing the performance tasks for Smarter Balanced. These are not easy tests and we have been muddling through them. However, the students are getting the hang of it and are improving their abilities to pull evidence from several sources to support their arguments. We will now move into doing some independent writing (the kids are begging for some time for that), as well as some mini lessons on propaganda and how it's used in things like advertising.
Homework this week is to read for 20 minutes every night and to continue to collect evidence for novel finals.
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