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Week of November 17, 2008

Science 7th and 8th

Monday 17

•  Students read about igneous rocks on Friday
• Today we will learn how to organize our notes and learn more about how igneous rocks are made and how they are classified.

Tuesday 18: We continued our study of igneous rocks today instead.

• MOVE CONTENT TO WEDNESDAY.  Today our topic is sedimentary rocks and learning how they are formed and what they are made of.
• There are a lot of vocabulary words students will need to be familiar with.

Wednesday 19: MOVE CONTENT TO THURSDAY

• Metamorphic rocks are our topic today.  We will learn how they were formed and what makes them change.

ASSIGNMENT:  Read pg 68-70

Thursday 20: MOVE CONTENT TO MONDAY

• We will do a lab that helps us understand the difference between each of these kinds of rocks and how they are formed.

   ASSIGNMENT: Lab report needs to be completed.
Quiz tomorrow over first three lessons.

Friday 21:MOVE to MONDAY also.

• We will summarize the lab and take our rock quiz TUESDAY.

Math 7th and 8th

Monday 17

• 7th:  Finish fraction and decimal worksheet for Tuesday. We will also work on the problem solving activity with the 8th graders.
  
• 8th: Students will do a problem solving activity and correct lesson 41

Tuesday 18

• 7th:  Ratio and simple probability is our topic for today.  
              ASSIGNMENT:  PS 36: (Pg 216) a-j,1-5,19-29 (odd)
              DUE THURSDAY
  
• 8th:  We will learn lesson 42, which challenges students to find the overall average of a set of data.
                 ASSIGNMENT: PS 42: (pg 121) 1-30  Assignment Due Thursday.    Test Thursday

Wednesday 19

• 7th: We will do a review assignment in order to prepare us for the test on Thurday.
  
• 8th: Students will correct their lesson 42 and we will review key concepts.  Students will also be introduced to the extra credit board.
                 ASSIGNMENT:  Prepare for Test tomorrow

Thursday 20

• 7th:  Test today over lessons 1-36
• 8th:  Test today over lessons 1-40

Friday 21

• 7th:  Lesson 37 teaches us more about how to find the area of triangles and rectangles.
  
• 8th: Lesson 43 continues to challenge us with using order of operation and how to convert area from one unit of measure to another.
              ASSIGNMENT:  PS 43 (pg 124) a-d, 1-6, 9-29 (odd)