Week 3 8th Grade 1/27/25-1/31/25

 

8th Week 31/27/20251/28/20251/29/20251/30/20251/31/2025Co-Teacher Notes
EnglishSession 1: Villanelle work (Due Thursday); Session 2: Merchant of Venice reading; Common Topic text due on Wednesday!Villanelle work (due Thursday); Vocab Quiz tomorrow: Study; Bring "Common Topic" book tomorrowVocab Quiz 21-25; Intro to Common TopicVillanelle packet WITH separate latest typed version due uploaded to GC by 2:00.Villanelle feedback; Merchant of Venice readingOver weekend; review the rubric for the narration of Villanelle Poem (2nd period Mondy, 2/3) Practice at least FIVE times: how do you intend to present this poem?
US HistoryNo Class SR 277-282 - Complete assignment Discussion - Pragmatism; SangerLesson 20 - SR 285-top half of 292 -Complete assignment and Lesson 19 Take-home test Pragmatism; Sanger
Earth ScienceIn Class: Chapter 6: Plate Tectonics and Mountain BuildingSection 6.3Seafloor Spreading Textbook pages 144-151. At home: Chapter 6: Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Read Chapter 6, Textbook pages 144-151. Work on Learning Checks 6.3 and 6.4 base your answers on Textbook reading. In Class: Chapter 6: Plate Tectonics and Mountain BuildingSection 6.3Seafloor Spreading Textbook pages 144-151. Conference with Students regarding Science Fair ExperimentsAt home: Chapter 6: Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Read Chapter 6, Textbook pages 144-151. Complete Learning Checks 6.3 and 6.4 base your answers on Textbook reading. In Class: Chapter 6: Plate Tectonics and Mountain BuildingSection 6.4Plate Tectonics Textbook pages 144-151.  Due today: Science Notebooks for Classwork and Homework**Quarter 3-4 ProjectScience Fair Projects Students will research and select a topic/problem and design an experiment for the Fortis Academy Logic Science Fair 24-25. The Science Fair will take place 31st, March through 4th April, 2025. They may begin work on the Experiment once the project is approved by the teacher. Project Experimental Design due Jan 24, 2025 ***No Haz-Mat Projects allowed
Formal LogicInformal Logic Fallacies Complete GCR assignment Lesson 7.4Lesson 7.4 exercises pgs. 157-160 on GCRReview 7.1-7.4
GeometryEquations of LinesComplete Geometry, Equations of Lines Binder NotesworksheetGraphing Linear EquationsGraphing Linear Equations Level 2Graphing Linear Equation Level 3
LatinChapter 16Conjugate paro, teneo, dico,audio, and capio in perfect active tense. Also, copy the perfect forms of sum andpossum. To turn in Wednesday.Chapter 16Quiz on Chapter 16 vocabulary and perfect stems & endings of all conjugations.Quiz on Ch. 16 perfect stems & endings and vocabulary.
Latin 7Chapter 8WB p. 41, 42 ex. 1-3. Decine fortitudo, fortitudinis/ miles, militis/ timor, timorisDue Wednesday.Chapter 8WB p. 43, Exercise 4. Due Friday.Chapter 8

Week 2 Second Semester 8th Grade 1/20/25-1/24/25

 

8th Week 21/20/20251/21/20251/22/20251/23/20251/24/2025Co-Teacher Notes
EnglishMoV (Act 2; scene 1-7) and Villanelle: Dylon Thomas/Do Not go Gentle ...Translating Shakespeare and Sonnet 18 handoutGrammar issues; Lines 1 and 3 in VillanelleO Captain, My Captain (Whitman) and Paul Revere (Longfellow)MoV: Act 2: scene 8-9; Act 3, Scene 1-2
US HistoryNo Class SR 263-268- Complete assignment-Discussion Lesson 19 - SR 271-276 Complete assignment - Lesson 18 Test FridayLesson 18 Test - Discussion 
Earth ScienceIn Class: Chapter 6:  Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Section  6.1Continental Drift        Textbook pages 134-138. At home: Chapter 6:  Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building  Read Chapter 6, Textbook pages 134-138. Work on Learning Checks 6.1 base your answers on Textbook reading. In Class: Chapter 6:   Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Section 6.2 The Ocean Floor Textbook pages 138-144. At home: Chapter 6:   Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building  Read Chapter 6, Textbook pages 138-144. Work on Learning Checks 6.2 base your answers on Textbook reading. In Class: Chapter 6:  Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Section  6.3 Seafloor Spreading  Textbook pages 144-151. **Quarter 3-4 ProjectScience Fair Projects Students will research and select a topic/problem and design an experiment for the Fortis Academy Logic Science Fair 24-25. The Science Fair will take place 31st, March through 4th April, 2025. They may begin work on the Experiment once the project is approved by the teacher. Project Experimental Design due Jan 24, 2025 ***No Haz-Mat Projects allowed
Formal LogicLesson 7.3 Part 1Lesson 7.3 exercises pgs. 150-151Lesson 7.3 Part 2Lesson 7.3 exercises pgs. 152-153Class Activity
GeometryArtithmetic Sequences IntroductionNth Terms of Arithmetic 
Sequences 
worksheet
Graphing Linear SequencesGraph all sequences in Nth Term of Arithmetic SequencesworksheetComplete Geometry, Slopes of Lines Binder Notesworksheet
Latin 8Chapter 13-15 ReviewAt home review: Complete exercises 1-5 on pp 268-270 in textbook. This assignment will count as a test in place of a test on 15. Due Wednesday.Chapter 16; Perfect tenseCopy the vocabulary list on page 285. Give one derivative of each word given derivatives on p. 295. Due Friday.Chapter 16Weekend HW->Complete WB page 102, 105 and 106. Due Monday.
Latin 7Chapter 8; 3rd conjugation present tense active and passiveOn the conjugation sheets handed out in class, write the present active and passive forms of dicere, intellegere, and vincere. Due Wednesday.Chapter 8; Ablatives- manner, iinstrument, separation, place from which.Title your page "Week 2 Th HW."Do exercises 4 and 5 on pages 132 and 133 in the textbook. Copy the original sentence and skip a line between each exercise. Due Friday.Homework and week 2 class notes due. Ablative of place where; accusative of place to which; review of chapter 8 grammar.

Week 1 Second Semester 8th Grade 1/13/25-1/17/25

 

8th Week 11/13/20251/14/20251/15/20251/16/20251/17/2025Co-Teacher Notes
EnglishKids and Parents: THIS Version of Merchant of Venice is due in class on FRIDAY, 1/17!! Vocabulary Lesson 25 from this hangout (also distributed in class)What's so great about Shakespeare? Sonnets; Plot Summary MoV, Assignment of Parts (handout Aristotle ??s)Aristotle vs. Plato in Poetry: Is beauty a "problem"? Assignment in Google ClassroomMerchant of Venice: Dramatic Read; Act 1Memoria Press Classical Composition "Common Topic" (brown) book due in class Wednesday 1/29
US HistoryNo Class SR 247-256 - Complete assignment Discussion Lesson 18 - SR 257-262 Complete assignment- Lesson 17 Test tomorrow Lesson 17 Test - Discussion 
Earth ScienceIn Class:  Distribution of Science Fair 2025 Packets Chapter 5: Rocks and Rock Cycle Review discussion for  Test on Wednesday At home:    Study for Test Tomorrow!Chapter 5: Rocks and Rock Cycle Study using corrected Learning Checks and Chapter Exercises In Class:      Test today on Chapter 5 following test Introduction to Chapter 6
At home:     Work on Science Fair Project selection and resourcesIn Class: Chapter 6:  Plate Tectonics and Mountain Building Section 6.1 Continental Drift       Textbook pages 134-138. **Quarter 3-4 ProjectScience Fair ProjectsStudents will research and select a topic/problem and design an experiment for the Fortis Academy Logic Science Fair 24-25. The Science Fair will take place 31st, March through 4th April, 2025. They may begin work on the Experiment once the project is approved by the teacher.            Project Approval Form due Jan 17, 2025                    **No Haz-Mat Projects allowed
Formal LogicLesson 7.1Lesson 7.1 exercises (pg 139) and Pg 147 Deduction in Action - Complete Homework on GCRLesson 7.2 Part 1Lesson 7.2 exercises pgs 144-146 - Complete the "Create" and "Answer" sections on GCR. Do not do "Define" or "Figure it Out"Lesson 7.2 Part 2
GeometrySequences IntroductionSequences to Introduce 
Pattern worksheet
Finding the nth term in a sequenceNth Term of Sequences worksheetGraphing Sequences
Graph all sequences in Nth Term of Sequences worksheet

Latin 8Chapter 15; WB exercises.Chapter 15 WB pages 92--96. Due Friday.Chapter 15 in class WB exercisesComplete ch. 15 WB exercises pp. 97-101. Due Friday.Review Chapter 15. Activity. Weekend HW >On conjugation sheets passed out in class, practice the 3rd and 4th conjugation future active and passive forms for mittere, scire, andfacere. To turn in Monday.
Latin 7Chapter 7: Review of 3rd declension nouns, with adjectives; indirect statements, with se, vocab & passive voice review.Title your HW " Latin 7 Week 1 T HW." In the textbook, do exercise 1, p. 116, exercise 8, p. 121 #2,4,6,8; Decline amor pulcher. Due Wednesday.Review for test over Chapter 7.Prepare for Chapter 7 test. Study the review handed out in class.Chapter 7 Test