weekly bulletin 1.20.12
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8/3/2019 Weekly Bulletin 1.20.12
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This Week in Grade 8ENGLISH: In both Monroe’sand Shull’s English classes,students watchedbrainpop.com videos and TheMaster Race documentary onthe Holocaust to build uptheir background knowledgeof WWII and the Holocaust.Student’s are now into the
first week of reading theirnovels and are beginningtheir weekly LiteratureCircles to discuss the novels -focusing on literary termssuch as theme, vocabulary,character development, etc.
SOCIAL STUDIES:
This week students watched
a video on the PhilippinesPeople Power revolution.They took notes on thehistory of the Marcos regimewhich led up to the peacefulrevolution of the people inthe mid 1980s. Next week
students will begin to writea persuasive essayanswering the question,‘Was People Power asuccess or a failure?’
SCIENCE:
Students spent the weekexploring various simplemachines - the wedge,
pulleys, inclined plane, andthe lever. The concept of mechanical advantage (MA)was explained and studentslearned the MA formulaand made calculations witheach simple machine. Nextweek students will begintheir performance task -working in a group theywill design and build arescue machine (see Mr.Pasamba’s blog for details).
MATH:
Students began andcompleted, this week, theirStatistics performance taskfor which they createdtheir own scatterplots onthe computer to based onclass measurements onheight and arm span. Theyare now discussing graphs -
how to read a graph, createone, and finally will createdata graphs on theircalculators.
IMPORTANT DATES TO
REMEMBER:
* Jan. 21 - International Family
Fun Day at ISM 1-6pm
* Jan. 23 - No School - Chinese
New Year
UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS &
DUE DATES:
* English - reminder for students
to stay on track with their
group assigned reading sections
IMPORTANT WEBSITES USED IN
CORE CLASSES:
• Google Docs
• brainpop.com
• Noodle tools - research skills &
notecards
WEEKLY BULLETIN: GRADE 8 LEARNING SUPPORT
JANUARY 20, 2012
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL MANILA
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Skill & Strategy Areas of
Focus:
Vocabulary Development:
- Developing strategies to help
determine meaning of new
vocabulary & expanding
student’s vocabulary base
- Using context clues
- Categorizing/Classifying
- Understanding words with
Multiple Meanings
- Prefix & Suffix meanings -
using these to help determine
word meaning
- Root Words/Base words - for
meaning
The Writing Process:
- We are beginning to look at
the structure of a persuasive
paragraph or essay
- how to support your opinion
with valid reasons and
organize them into a strong
persuasive paragraph
Research Strategies:
- using templates to organize
information
- Noodle tools online
- Paraphrasing skill practice
Study Skills:
- Note-taking strategies: we
are using the Cornell
method which is the 2
column notes method
(main ideas on left side;
supporting details on
right)
- difference between facts
and opinions
Time Management:
- chunking long term/
large assignments into
smaller due dates
Strategy Instruction Class
1. Note- Taking Strategies
2. Study Skills
3. Time Management
4. Self - Advocacy
5. Paragraph Writing
6. Summary Writing
7. Editing Strategies
8. Interactive Reading
9. Learning Styles