• 8th Grade Quarter 2

    Teaching & Learning 2023-2024

  • ELA

    In Unit 2, students research GMOs and another topic of choice that brings to light influences on the America's access to healthy food. Throughout the unit, students learn new research and expository writing skills to create an infographic of their learning on the topic.

    **Please encourage your scholars to read for 30–40 minutes on a nightly basis.**

    Math 

     

    Math 8 -At the end of the previous unit on dilations, students learned the terms “slope” and “slope triangle,” used the similarity of slope triangles on the same line to understand that any two distinct points on a line determine the same slope, and found an equation for a line with a positive slope and vertical intercept. In Unit 3, students gain experience with linear relationships and their representations as graphs, tables, and equations through activities designed and sequenced to allow them to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

     

     

    Math I -In the previous unit, students wrote equations and inequalities to express constraints. They focused on algebraic, verbal, and tabular representations of these constraints. In this unit, students add graphical representations as a tool to continue exploring linear relationships. Some of these visual topics will be familiar: students studied slope-intercept form in grade 8 and learned to solve systems of equations by graphing. Other topics, like two-variable inequalities, will be entirely new.

     

    SCIENCE 

    In 8th Grade Science, we will be finishing our Chemistry Unit and beginning our Earth’s History and Evolution Unit. Students will be exploring continental drift and plate tectonics to show how Earth’s continents have changed and moved over time. We will then be learning about evolution and how species change and evolve to adapt to their changing environments.

    SOCIAL STUDIES

    8th Grade Historians are completing Unit 1 on Native Americans and Colonization. The next unit of study will be on the Road to Revolution. In Unit 2, scholars will make connections between colonies declaring independence to form a new nation. Scholars will also understand the steps needed to create change and understand the basis of the government and the democratic ideals it was built on.