8th grade at Urbana Middle School

 

Homework:Week of

November 17 - November 21

*Mr. Barbour- Social Studies

BIG QUESTION: How did World War One start?

Monday: Pre WWI secret alliances primary source analysis in-class activity

Tuesday: Imperialism quiz

Wednesday: Map of 1914 Europe and chronology of WWI in-class activity

Thursday: The sinking of the Lusitania and Zimmerman telegram primary source analysis

Friday: Trench warfare notes

 

*Mr. Barbour- Reading

Monday: editorial-cartoon match assignment due Friday; project note card on history due today

Tuesday: Nothing But the Truth in-class read aloud

Wednesday: Nothing But the Truth in-class read aloud

Thursday: Nothing But the Truth in-class read aloud,prompt #2 due end of class

Friday: Current Events magazine quiz, work time

* Mrs. Hlinka - Science

BIG QUESTION: What is the Web of Life?
Monday- Biome power point

Tuesday - Biome power point presentations

Wednesday - Biome power point finish presentations

Thursday -Tragedy of the commons

Friday -Tragedy of the commons

http://www.usd116.org/ums/projects/sciencenet/projects.html

* Mrs. Hlinka - Reading


Monday- California Blue

Tuesday - California Blue

Wednesday - California Blue

Thursday - California Blue

Friday - California Blue

http://www.usd116.org/lhlinka/first2008/index.html

* Ms. Lewandowski - English

BIG QUESTION: What are the elements of plot?

Monday:Read Monkey's Paw/Reviewing the Text Questions, a, b, c, d p.198 for homework

Tuesday: Monkey's Paw Creative Writing Prompt (In-class)

Wednesday: Pre-reading activities for Flowers for Algernon

Thursday: Think-Link Testing: Classes meet in the Computer Lab

Friday: Begin reading and discussion of Flowers for Algernon




* Ms. Lewandowski- Reading

Big Question: What is science fiction? Review of prefix -non


Monday: Introduce "non" prefix words/"Non" in-class sentence activity/Giver reading and discussion of chapters 4 and 5

Tuesday: Reading and discussion of Giver, Chapters 4 and 5/Application and Practice of "non" words

Wednesday: Quiz on Giver, Chapters 1-5/Book of Rules Giver activity

Thursday: Review of -non words for Friday quiz/Sharing of Giver Rules and continued reading and discussion

Friday: Quiz on -non words/Library/Silent Reading Day

 

* Mrs. Hurliman - Math

BIG QUESTION: How to identify linear relationships.

Day 1--3.1 Finding pythagorean Theorem
HW:pg. 38 1 and 2
Day 2
-3.3 Finding distances
HW: pg. 38 and 39 5, 6, and 8-11
Day 3
-Pythagorean Theorem
HW: worksheet
Day 4
-Pythagorean Theorem
HW: worksheets
Day 5
-Thinklink review

www.phschool.com (student web code is apk-0099)
http://connectedmath.msu.edu/parents/

* Mrs. Hurliman - Math Literacy

Nothing goes home...they do all their homework in class.

Day 1: -Review for Voc. Quiz
-Newspaper article
Day 2
-Voc. Quiz
-Review for Lemonade War Quiz
Day 3
-Lemonade War Quiz
Day 4
-Read Chapter 8
Day 5
-Read Chapter 9

 

 

 

 

* Mrs. Hurliman- Algebra

BIG QUESTION: The students will be learning how to use different properties for math concepts.

Day 1--5.1 solving add. and subtracting inequalities
HW: pg. 178-179 6-24 even
Day 2
-5.2 solving multi. and div. inequalities
HW: pg. 184 20-32 evens
Day 3
-5.3
HW: pg. 189 12-30 evens
Day 4
-5.6
HW: pg. 197 15-27 all
Day 5
Quiz
HW: practice worksheet

* Mrs. Hurliman- Math Connections

Day 1--Area worksheet
Day 2-none
Day 3-Review quiz and area worksheet
Day 4-Review quiz and area worksheet
Day 5-ISAT review

* Mr. Wherfel - Resource * Ms. Ferchow - Resource