What you can expect your child to learn this month:
English: We will complete our unit study on annotating, analyzing, and writing poetry on Monday, November 8, with a timed writing test. The students have studied Shakespeare, Frost, Wordsworth, and many others! This unit aligned with state and national standards and aligned with the Advanced Placement requirements which prepares students to compete in college level courses during high school.
Coming up this month, students will read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. We will discuss the metaphorical components, similes, theme, purpose, and more while annotating and analyzing this classic piece of literature. Students will also write a memoir this month. We will work on personal voice in writing and we will work on quality writing to draw in an audience. Students will continue their quest towards punctuation accuracy and they will review parts of speech. This unit aligned with state and national standards and aligned with the Advanced Placement requirements which prepares students to compete in college level courses during high school.
Science: Students recently finished studying our solar system. Students were exposed to Newton's Third Law and its relationship to the sun, moon, and earth tide relationships; they learned about nuclear fusion, a star's life cycle, the sun's chemical and physical make-up (including solar flares, sunspots, prominence, and more), craters, and so much more. We finished our unit with a 6-page test reviewing all information learned! This unit aligned with both state and national standards.Coming up this month, we are beginning a unit study on plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, and the rock cycle. Students will learn about divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries; subduction zones and what occurs when plates meet; life cycle of a volcano including the ring of fire; the birth place of the ocean floor and the largest mountain range in the world (which is located in the Atlantic Ocean); earthquakes, and the rock cycle. Students will conduct experiments, watch video footage, take notes, and read and answer questions. They will also have a big project assigned to them to finish off our unit. This unit aligns with both state and national standards.
History: We are continuing to visit the world through the 5-themes of geography (location, place, region, movement, and human environment interaction). Specifically, we are traveling around the African continent learning about religions, languages, physical characteristics, culture, and so much more. We will continue to visit Africa and then we will travel to the Asian Continent. We will review longitude and latitude in relationship to absolute location, map reading, and more. We will learn about the many diverse cultures of the people of the Asian Continent. Students will research a chosen Asian country and then take their classmates on a detailed tour of that particular country through a powerpoint presentation.
Spanish: Student are continuing to build and review their vocabulary through listening, speaking, and writing in Spanish. We are currently working on telling time in Spanish and soon we will move into the months of the year, weather, seasons, and more. We review vocabulary daily which is key to learning any second language. We will continue to have weekly quizzes as a way to test knowledge. Aligns with state standards for foreign language integration.
Fine Arts: Students are currently working on completing a mosaic masterpiece. And, they are masterpieces! We will then embark on print design and designs will be used to make Christmas greeting cards.
Algebra 1: We are finishing up word problems related to motion and mixture. We will then move into inequalities and graphing.
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