Team Sirius Homework Page 

Social Studies

This week we move to China. The book project was due May 14th but late work

will be accepted until May 21st.

Quiz Friday

Students should read, watch, and/or listen to the current news about the world to be prepared to share and discuss in class.

Language Arts

  Science and language arts are teaming up for a Celebration of the Landscape: poetry and habitat.  

Friday, 4/20 - paper on William and Emmanuel due; any items needed for this are on the Africa Resource webpage.  

Tuesday, 5/15 - 8th graders: final speeches are due.  Wednesday starts the presentations.

Thursday, 5/17 - 7th graders: Due date change: hopefully the  3 versions of your landscape ode should be on poster board by the end of class. 

     Ode to Landscape Project guidelines

Upcoming assignments: 

-Ode poetic device interpretation sheets will be due early next week. 

-A poetic device vocabulary quiz will hopefully be Friday of this week or early next week.  

Poetry Webquest sites:

     Poetry Today online for famous poets                            Poetry Foundation                                    Spotlight on Voices and Vision

     PBS poetry site                                                               Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers  

     Poet's.org nature poems                                                The Poets' Corner 

POETRY TERMS POWERPOINT

 Resources:

The Reading Process Steps                                                                 

 Blog/Tech Permission Slip                                         

Blogging Guidelines       

Writing Prompt Ideas                                               

Ancient Civilization Google Site - Link your magazine here

Bibliography Practice and Checklist - reference when making bibliographies

Long Term due Dates: 

• Be reading 15-25 minutes every night or ~2 hours per week to meet your Trimester 3 reading goals of 5 books with either 2 different authors, subjects, or genres.  Complete reading logs after each book.  
• Blog post will now focus on assigned class topics with specific due dates attached.     

Science:  

See Language Arts.

Math 7:

Monday, 5/14 - Revise Graphing and Data worksheet.  Work Inv. 3.1 and 3.2 over the next few days.

Tuesday, 5/15 - Revise Graphing and Data worksheet.  Work Inv. 3.1 and 3.2 over the next few days.

Wednesday, 5/16 - Revise Graphing and Data worksheet.  Work Inv. 3.1 and 3.2 goal is to be complete by tomorrow.

Thursday, 5/17 - 

Friday, 5/18 - Khan Academy workday.  Review Inv. 3.1 and 3.2 to Exit Quiz for Monday.

Math 8:

Week of 4/16 - 5/18: *** All work related to this unit is to be completed by this Friday in class.  

Students will be working with the Pythagorean Theorem Unit and Assessment.

Week of 3/26 - 3/30 - Students will be working on basic math skill storyboards.  Those who have not completed their Stats project, this is your first priority.

          - Statistics Unit and Project: Samples and Populations.  Click the project title to link to all assignments and resources needed for the project.

Algebra:

Friday, 5/18 - Complete handout for this Friday's seminar.

Additional/Archived Algebra Resources - Click here.