8th+Grade+Assignment+Sheets

[8th Grade] [8th Grade Assignment Sheets] Language Arts] Math] Science] Social Studies]

Language Arts || Students will use prior experience to recall events in their lives. Students will also develop strategies on how to recall past events using the novel The Lost Garden. || How do you generate a prediction? || Students will write in journals, create a letter and address an envelope. || Students will examine the poem‘O Captain! My Captain! with a partner and share their findings. || Students will read the poem, “The Fall of Slavery” by John Harris and create their own journal log. Students will generate a learning log for an additional short reading from an additional subject. || Math || Write and evaluate variables and expressions. || Translate word phrases into mathematical expressions; take algebraic expressions and write word phrases. || Students will learn new vocabulary; solve equations using addition and subtraction. || Solving equations by means of multiplication and division. || Practice solving and graphing inequalities. || Science || Describe the four spheres of the Earth system and explain how they interact and change. || Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting open and closed systems, and create a visual image of earth as a system. || Produce a cycle organizer and flipbook of the water cycle. || Students will work on the carbon cycle and explain their impact on it. || Solar energy and heating homes. || Social Studies ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Meet and greet a learning partner; share what you know about the event leading up to the Civil War <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">. ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">Who? What? How? Why didn’t the Wilmot Proviso proposal pass? How was the Free-Soil party founded? Why wasn’t the popular sovereignty successful? ||= <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">How did the government attempt to avoid a war? ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why was the Republican Party founded? What are the effects of the Dred Scott decision? ||= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What is the effect of the election of 1860? Identify the confederate states and free states prior to the civil war. ||
 * = [[image:Part_1_of_the_Puzzle.png]] ||
 * =  ||= [[image:Day_1.png]] ||= [[image:Day_2.png]] ||= [[image:Day_3.png]] ||= [[image:Day_4.png]] ||= [[image:Day_5.png]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]

Language Arts || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">View a Power Point on the difference between fiction and nonfiction; and will be able to make a distinction between the two types of literature. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Identify your wishes and dreams and place them accordingly on a concept map. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonfiction Text: Structures compare and contrast various poems. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonfiction Text Structure: Plot specific events in your life on a timeline. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Watch a video on Recycling; then devise a recycling plan; write a letter to the mayor sharing their plans. || Math || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">How combine like terms in a given expression? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Write solutions of equations in two variables as ordered pairs. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Graph points and lines on the coordinate plane. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 111.1%;">Interpret information given in a graph or table and to make a graph to solve problems || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Review Construct study guide || Science || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Students will converse about what it means to be scientist and benefits for his/her work. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">What is a scientist? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your scientist, scientific discovery changed the world how? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who, What, Why and How… Scientific discovery, significance of their scientist’s discovery, necessity of that discovery. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Scientific discovery that changed the world. || Social Studies ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Predicting significant events of the civil war; individual and small group discussion ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Independent Reading on civil war, recalling of events and complete independently a Frayer Model based on vocabulary from the reading. ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A day in the life a soldier…. Whole class discussion using the Socratic seminar method. ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">What was it like to be an American during this era? Complete assigned reading. Think-Pair-Share, whole group discussion ||< <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Chapter 15 review, small group mini – presentations ||
 * [[image:Part_2_of_the_Puzzle.png align="center"]] ||
 * =  ||= [[image:Day_6.png]] ||= [[image:Day_7.png]] ||= [[image:Day_8.png]] ||= [[image:Day_9.png]] ||= [[image:Day_10.png]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]
 * < <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">[[image:tab_spacer.png width="104" height="39"]]