November 18th - November 22nd

All homework, quizzes, tests, projects, and important information will be updated weekly, or daily as needed by your teachers.
  • The PSAT will be taken this Tuesday, November 19th.
  • The 8th grade field trip to Norfolk will be next Monday, November 25th. The bus will be leaving PROMPTLY at 8:15, so make sure you are on time!
  • Yearbooks are on sale now! Yearbooks will be $30, and payment should be made out to St. Clare Walker. 
  • Students need to complete all work that they did not finish in class and/or complete assignments on Google Classroom.
  • Make sure you are selling fundraiser items! NN Popcorn and Java Joes coffee!!
Ashberry (Civics)
  • Review notecards on a nightly basis. Students should have 1-65 copied down.
  • Citizenship - Political Parties Test on November 20.
  • Citizenship - Political Parties Review was due Monday, but if it was not turned in, it must be turned in to me for a late grade.
  • Make up any missed work.
Ashberry (Language Arts Plus)
  • Work on IXL links (due November 22).
  • Cursive Quiz (A-H) will be on November 20.
  • Make up any missed work.

Evans (Environmental Science)
IA Test on Tuesday, November 19th
Students are studying sources of pollution and beginning to write an article for the TOGA Middle School Writing Contest. The deadline is December 15th. The theme is "Consider the Oyster" and the word range is 500-700 words. Please discuss this essay with your child and go over the contest rules with them. They were given a copy on Monday.

Evans (Physical Science)
Unit Test on Thursday - Chemistry
We have been working on a unit that includes elements of the Periodic Table.
Review your binder notes and graphic organizers nightly. Focus on atomic structure and subatomic particles (protons, neutrons, and electrons) this week.
Review States of Matter, compounds and mixtures for the test on Thursday.

Gregory (Geometry)


Morotini (Language Arts)
  • IXL needs to be completed by Friday (get to 80% for each link): QQ.1 & QQ.2, BB.1, FF., HH.1
  • Students started writing their Freak the Mighty essays last week. Rough drafts are due Monday, November 18th. We will also be peer editing this week and completing our final copies.
Hooper (Math 8)
  • Quiz Friday on One and Two Step Equations 
    • Example: 3x+5 = 11, 8 = 2 + x, -4/3x=12, -2 + 4x = 14
  • IXL W.7 (one step) and W.8 (two step) are due by November 27th (Get to 80%)
It is very important to work on IXL as practice for this unit. Combining like terms and distributing is used when solving equations, which will be our next unit! 
    Lucas (Civics)
    • Review notecards on a nightly basis. Students should have 1-45 copied down.
    • Political Parties Mock Election will be on Thursday, November 14.
    • Interactive Notebook #4: Political Parties packet must be completed and pasted before Friday, November 15.
    Lucas (Math 8)
    • Continue work on Combining Like Terms, Distributing...with review of Evaluating Expressions
    • IXL to practice Evaluating Expressions: V.6
    • IXL to practice Combing like terms and Distributing: V.15 and V.13
    • Prodigy is good practice! 

    Short (Technology)

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