Independent Study Assignments

Due March 23Trimester 3 Week 3

Instructor: Mrs. Darci Syfert-Busk

8:15-8:30-History Ch. 16 Testing 8:30-Housekeeping 8:45-Language Arts 9:15-Math 9:30-10-Math Test/Conferencing/Work Turn in

Schedule

Graphing (Language Goal) Be able to discuss

the difference between perimeter and area

Be able to identify elements of geometic figures

Be able to divide exponents

Math Objectives:

Linear Equations Design a ski hill that would be

appropriate for a downhill olympic race.

Requirements Graph Equation Slope Paragraph Analyzing what this

slope/equation is the best Scale drawing Picture of ski hill?? Skier?? Standard: AF 3.3 Graph linear

functions

Quadratic Function Design a half-pipe skateboard

ramp Requirements Graph Quadratic Equation (Try…

y=1/4x ) Paragraph analyzing why the

quadratic equation you chose is best

Scale Drawing Picture of half

pipe/snowboarder?? Standard: AF 3.1 Graph

quadratic functions

Olympics Project (Test Grade!)

8.1 PPT

8.2 PPT

Grade

Algebra Module Subtract!

Negative Exponents Change into a fraction

Dividing Exponents

8.3 8.4

New Lessons-Geometry

P.E. ____5 PE Credits

June 1

____PE Log

Grade______ TW________

Math NEW BOOK ____Green Book Lesson 8.5-Odd ____Green Book Lesson 8.6-Odd ____Workbook 8-5 and 8.6 ____Benchmark Review Packet ____go.hrw.com Lessons 8-5 and 8-6

Parent_________________

____Algebra Module (Exp. X) Day_______ Pg. _________

____CST Questions 11-20 Study for Benchmark Test

Grade__________ TW____________

8th Grade I.S. Name:___________T3 Week 3 Due: March 23 Total Work Completed=_______%

CST Packets File

PE-5 Credits by June 1 Swimming meets Hike Friday

Picnic…Food? Done at 12 (change)

Community Service Last Trimester?

PE paper due Today Math Olympics Project

Due Today

Grade Work Assignment Sheet

In folder Headings

PE Parent Sign Date Min….total?

Stamped Work T2 Week 1 3% 12/01/09

Math Science LA History

Housekeeping

Teacher Edit Portfolio

Essay: Write an essay telling

how Charlie (Flowers) and ____ (Patsy) both took a chance. Compare/Contrast these 2 decisions and conclude with your opinion on each’s decision.

Compare Contrast Essay “Taking a Chance”

Packet

Daily Language Practice

Video Pg. 648-759 Standards: Sub Plot

Story…”Diary of Anne Frank”

The eternal optomist! Loved the little annex

“The ‘Secret Annex’ is an ideal hiding place.

Essay: Tell what your “ideal hiding place” would be. Tell what 3 things you would take with you. (4 Paragraphs…Intro/Hiding Place/3things/Concl.)

Anne

Good Characterization

Staging Scenery Costumes Actors directions

Reading a Play

Pg. 582-586 Standards: Theme

Hike Friday!

New Reading…”Medicine Bag”

Picture of an ancestor

1. What tribe was Grandpa from?_____

2. Describe Grandpa. 3. How did they know he

was coming? ________________

4. Why didn’t Martin’s mom hug grandpa?

A. she was embarrassed B. It was not the Sioux way C. He was too frail

5. What did it mean when he brought the “medicine bag.”

Medicine Bag

Objectives This Week: (Language Objective) Be able to

appropriately read a play out loud. Understand how an author’s

background effects a story Know what a sub plot is and how an

author uses it in a story Be able to identify a “theme” of a

story

Language Arts

Language Arts

Assignments: _____Read “Diary of Anne Frank” Act II-Scene 2.

Summarize what happens to Anne and Peter’s relationship in Scene 2.

_____Finish reading “Medicine Bag” Pgs. 586-end. Answer questions at end of story.

Review and Assess Q’s Pg. _____ _____Medicine Bag Project _____Selection Support Pgs. ____ _____Benchmark Review Packet _____DLP Week 13 _____CST Questions 20-34 _____Medicine Bag Typed Essay (If you did not go to

Field Trip) Study for Benchmark Test

Grade_____ TW______

T3 Week 3

P.E.

____5 PE Credits Due by June 1

Grade______ TW________

Algebra

____Ch. 6 Lesson 3-Odd ____Ch. 6 Lesson 4-Odd ____go.hrw.com lessons 6-3 and

6-4 Parent Signature_______________

Grade__________ TW____________

Name_____________8th Grade Independent StudyT 3 Week 3 Due: __________

Total Work Completed=_______%

Objectives This Week: (Language Objective) Be able to write an

essay describing the effect the 14th Amendment had on freed African Americans

Understand the challenges before U.S. in “Reconstructing” the South

Know what the Freedmen’s Schools were Know what the 2 main goals of the Ku

Klux Klan were

American History

Dividing Nation

North Vs. South

President Lincoln Dedication of Civil

War Cemetery www.history.com

Argued that slavery should be regulated to certain States

Gettysburg Address (Notes)

Pg. 519 April 9 1865 Appomattox, VA Lee surrenders Grant gives kind

terms Food, keep horses

and belongings

The End of the War

Fords Theatre A night at the

theatre turns terribly wrong

www.pbs.org

Lincoln’s Assassination

The Assassination

A bullet at close range

The Murderer

Fugitive with a broke leg

Today-Slides 1-8 Print… File Print HANDOUT 4 per page Print

At home….9-12

Lincoln Powerpointwww.mrssyfert.wikispaces.com

1. Define: Industrial Revolution Transcendentalism Abolitionists Suffrage Movement Nullification “Liberator”

2. Who was…. James Fenimore

Cooper Susan B. Anthony (not

a coin!) Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Harriet Tubman John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster

Benchmark Review

3.What was important about this place?

A. Appomattox B. Fort Sumter C. Seneca Falls D. Texas (annexation)

4. Describe the results of the following:

A. Fugitive Slave Law B. Compromise of

1850 C. State’s Right

Doctrine D. Invention of the

Cotton Gin E. Emancipation

Proclamation

More Review…

ASSIGNMENTS:

______Read Ch. 18 Lesson 1. Take Cornell Notes. ______Ch. 18 Lesson 1 Review Questions Pg. 537 ______Read Ch. 18 Lesson 2. Take Cornell Notes. ______Ch. 18 Lesson 2 Questions Pg. 544 ______Workbook 18.1/18.2 ______CST Questions 9-18 6 hours Community Service Due June 1

Grade_______ TW_________

History-T3 Week 3

Main Objectives This Week:

-(Language Objective)Be able to paraphrase Newton’s Laws and give examples of each

-Understand the property of inertia-Be able to describe how Newton’s

Third Law is applied to deciding what is a safer car to drive

Science

Science

Assignments:

_____Read Ch. 14 Lesson 1. Take Cornell Notes.

_____Ch. 14 Lesson 1 Questions Pg. 295 _____Newton’s Laws Tree Map _____Questions Pg. 285 _____CST Questions 5-10 Study for test Ch. 13 Benchmark 4/13

Grade_______ TW_________

Physical Science

Tests ?

Conferencing Work turn in Grade Conferencing

Testing/Student Teacher Conferencing

portfo

lio

Add Descriptive Paragraph

Pg. 598 Colin Powell

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New Readings…””

Spelling Selection Support Pg.

156 -sion Incision Passion

Sometime 1, sometimes 2 S’s

Adverb clauses Next Week

Grammar and Spelling

Packets Topic-Read Prompt

Carefully!!!

Planning 1. Define the task

Audience Purpose Voice

2. Decide your position

Research (PE packet) Pros/Cons

3. Brainstorm 4. Outline

Planning a Persuasive Essay

Test Grade Where are they?

Persuasive Essay Final Due

Steps: I. Prewriting II. Rough Draft III. Revise IV. You/Peer/Teacher

Edit Will go back to Revising

after all 3 edits V. Publish Final

The Writing Process

Which one of these sentences is compound?

Compound Sentences Pg. 572

When do you use “who” and when do you use “whom?”

Worksheet

When

Grammar Rules

Mieps Gies

Video

The Savior

Conspicuous Mercurial Unabashed Insufferable Meticulous Fatalist Ostentatiously

Vocabulary Matrix

Diary of Anne Frank Vocabulary

Counting Slope Formula

What if you don’t have the rise or…run?

Slope…Do you remember?