ENGLISH: (BEHAN, FERRANTE, VETTER)
This past week, we listened to and read "Casey at the Bat", a narrative poem, and worked on its poetic elements and theme. We have also been reading our novels for the independent reading assignment which has an essay due January 8th. We expect students to be reading these novels on a regular basis, and time is being provided in class for reading as well. Next week, we will continue working on material in Workshop Two of the Expert 21 book as well as assignments geared toward developing a better understanding of the plot elements of the novel they are reading.
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES: (BERMAN)
This week we officially completed our Careers unit and are moving on to our COOKING UNIT!! The students are all really looking forward to this unit. Next week, the students will be asked to bring in a recipe that represents them and their culture. The students will be compiling all of their recipes to make a team 7-1 Cultural Cookbook.
MATHEMATICS: (FERNANDEZ, REHNBACK, MCWILLIAMS)
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SCIENCE: (CAMACHO, KALNER, TOBIA)
This week students had their analogy projects due which is their assessment for the Cell Unit. From here we are moving into cell division and genetics.
SOCIAL STUDIES: (COOK, HOFFMAN, MARR)
This week we completed our study of the Causes of the American Revolution through primary source document analysis, mind mapping, and Cornell notes. Next week we will be looking at the Causes by completing our first Document Based Question of the year. In Mr. Cook's class, next week, we will be exploring the Revolutionary War Battles and the Declaration of Independence through Socratic Seminar, dialogue, video, map/chart analysis etc.
