Week of September 14 - 18

Geography
It has been brought to our attention that some students are still having difficulty accessing the textbook on line. We have contacted the book company and they provided some instructions that may be helpful. We hope this will resolve any issues for accessing the text. But if you continue to have problems, please let us know so that we can address and try to resolve any additional problems.

This week in class the students will have their first map test during the block days. Friday will be the chapter 3 test. Make sure to study and that your study guide is completed! Attached is a review to help students prepare for Friday's test! The guided reading is also due Friday.

English
This week we will be reading Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. We will discuss it and begin work on writing a narrative about our dreams. It was realized that many of the students had difficulty with the first narrative assignment. So we will get some additional instruction and guidance and improve the writing of a narrative.

Science
This week in science we are continuing to learn about experimentation and the scientific process. On Monday we completed the lab that we began last week to help explain and utilize the scientific method. The student also were assigned some questions from the book. They are to answer questions #1-7 on page 11, #2-5 on page 19, #1-4 on page 26, and #1-3, 6-10, 13, 14 on page 28. This will be a part of their science notebook for unit 2.
On the block days, we worked on a lab about controlling variables in which the students had to set up their own experimental procedure.