Coy Middle SchoolEighth Grade

GOT WORK???Vacation Work

1. One week notice

2. Signed & dated parent note

3. All provided work due immediately upon return

Make-up Work1. Student responsibility

2. Assignments posted in class and online

3. Allowed time equivalent to length of absence

CONFERENCES Parent-Teacher

conferences requests issued midway through 1st quarter for students

Both day and evening sessions available

Meet with several teachers at the same time

Team conferences available on an as-needed basis

Scheduled during daily team meeting period (3:15-3:45.)

Contact any teacher to request a team conference

PROGRESSBOOK

Online access to your child’s grades, missed assignments, and teacher comments

Password protectedContact the school office

if you do not have a user name and password

IPADS

CLASS WEBSITES Access by teacher

name through the CMS Homepage

http://www.beavercreek.k12.oh.us/Page/4021/

Homework listings Email staff members Course curriculum Class notes Testing information

Supplemental links Podcasts Blogs Online Textbooks Announcements Parent surveys Student polls Printable handouts Parent resources

Encore Classes

COURSE OFFERINGS

Integrated English/Language Arts

ENGLISH•Class focused on developing writing fluency and increasing writing skills

• journaling• frequent essays• daily responses in class• Advanced grammar study (clauses, phrases, sentence

structure)•Class works on improving reading comprehension and analysis

• reading novels, short stories, poems, essays, non-fiction writing

• working on response to literature, especially group discussions

• working with increasingly sophisticated literary devices and topics (allegory, irony, allusion, figurative language,

theme, etc.)

COURSE INFORMATION

MRS. DUKE Kent State University-

Middle Childhood Education 4-9 ~language arts and social studies with reading endorsement

9th year teaching reading or language arts. New to Beavercreek, formally from the Akron area.

Proud to be part of Coy!!

MR. MESSER

MS. OSTERFELD - BIOBowling Green – B.S. in

Elementary Education, minor in English

Master’s in ReadingNational Board Certified16 yrs. at Ferguson/CoyDream since 10 years-old:

Become a teacherLoves teaching!!!

MS. REIDENBACHWright State Graduate

Both Bachelors and MastersReading/LA & Science

3rd Year Teaching SpringfieldCincinnati

Dream was to be either a tiger trainer or a teacher since I was a child

Intervention

MS. CROCKETT

MRS. HICKEY

MS. PENDRYOhio University- B.S. in

Science and Social Studies

Miami University- Master’s degree in Special Education

6th year teaching and 2nd here at Coy. Glad to be back!

MS. PURDY

Math

MATH

COURSE INFORMATION

MR. BUSCH

MRS. WOLF

Science

SCIENCE PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Motion and Forces Newton’s Laws Non-Contact Forces

EARTH SCIENCE Earth’s Interior

Plate Tectonics Geologic Time

LIFE SCIENCE Inherited Traits

Mendelian Genetics Diversity of Species

COURSE INFORMATION

MR. MCALLISTER

MRS. MEYEROhio State – B.S. in

Comprehensive Science Education, Grades 7-12

Wright State – M.Ed. in Classroom Teacher Science

23 years at Coy/FergusonProud to be a Science GeekGo Bucks!

Social Studies

SOCIAL STUDIES – We cover the time periods from the Age of Exploration until Post-Civil War Reconstruction

Emphasis on:

English ColonizationFrench & Indian WarAmerican RevolutionConstitutional GovernmentWashington/JeffersonNational GrowthAge of JacksonManifest DestinyReformersNation Breaks ApartCivil WarReconstruction

COURSE INFORMATION

MRS. DRIVERUniversity of Dayton: B.S. in

Elementary EducationMaster’s in School

Counseling (GO FLYERS!)15th year Ferguson/CoyAvid soccer play and history

junkieBEST job in the world!

MRS. MEISTER Wright State University Master’s in Art of Teaching Love to travel and just returned from

visiting several Civil War Battlefields as well as Virginia’s history triangle (Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown)

Eager to get the year started!

THANKS FOR VISITING!