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8th grade assignments week of May 5
Updated by on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM

We are hitting the home stretch!  Graduation is on the horizon.  This week we will finish 4th declension nouns in Latin and begin our poetry unit in Literature. The students will be able to reflect creatively about their trip to Big Bend through a power point project.

These plans are subject to change according to students’ needs

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8th Latin 8:55-9:30

3rd Conj. I-stem Verbs

 

Go over Big Bend translation; Check Ex. E p. 137; Write verb tenses

.HOMEWORK

Do Ex. G  p. 137;

Study vocabulary

8thLatin 8:55-9:30

4th Declensions nouns

 

Check Ex. G p. 137; Do Ex. F 1-5.  Label the parts of speech

 

HOMEWORK

Ex. F 6-10; Study vocabulary

Latin: 9:20-9:50

4th Declensions nouns

 

Check Ex F; Do Ex. H

 

 

 

HOMEWORK

Study Vocabulary

Latin 8:55-9:30

4th Declensions nouns

 

Check Ex. H. p. 139

 

 

 

HOMEWORK

Ex. J; Quiz grade

Latin

4th Declensions nouns

 

 

Vocabulary Test

Check J

 

8th Lit. 9:30-10:00

Review: Write definitions for Facts, opinions, faulty opinions, judgment words; compare & contrast, cause & effect; persuasive techniques; rhetorical questions, tone, conjunctions

HOMEWORK

Study chapter terms,

 

8th Lit.  9:30-10:00

Persuasive techniques

 

 

Benchmark Test finally

 

 

 

 

HOMEWORK

none

 

8th Lit.  9:-50-10:20

Poetry

 

Check Benchmark; Read and take notes: pp 586-589

 

 

HOMEWORK

Study chapter terms,

 

8th Lit.  9:30-10:00

Poetry

 

Read: Describe Somebody, A Summer Day pp 590-596 (We’ll do this together.) Selection Test B; open book.

HOMEWORK

Read & take notes pp 598-599

 

8th Lit.  8:55-9:45

Persuasive techniques,

 

Work on power points as needed

 

 

8thEnglish 10:00-10:30

 

Go over Big Bend essays; persuasive essays

 

HOMEWORK

BRING YOUR LAPTOPS TOMORROW!!!

 

8th English 10:00-10:30

 

Work on SSES essays; Discuss Big Bend Power point project

HOMEWORK

Shurley: pattern 2

 

8thEnglish 10:00-10:30

 

Check Shurley; Form groups for power point project

 

 

HOMEWORK

Shurley: pattern 3

 

8thEnglish 10:00-10:30

 

Check Shurley; power point project

 

 

 

HOMEWORK

Shurley as needed

 

8th 9:45-10:30

 

 

Religion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

May 5

10.5 Exponential

Functions

WS 605

6

More on WS

581 1-7

593 1-17odds

600 1, 4, 7, 16-18

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10.6 Growth and Decay

WS p 612

8

10.7 Geometric

Sequences

P 570 #4-15, 17-22, 25-28, 33-38

9

QUIZ

Chapter 10 Test Review p 574

#1-11,13,15,24,

25,29-37odds , 38, 39, 42,44-46
 

 

 History

Monday: Catch up day; Check all assignments, notebook, etc.

Tuesday: Eleanor Roosevelt as First Lady

Wednesday: Tuskegee Airmen

Thursday: Causes of WWII and Important People

Friday: U.S. Involvement, and World Leaders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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