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7th and 8th Grade

This Week in 7 and 8, March 25

This week we began our in-depth study of the Age of Jackson, a key component of which was the rise of the common man, as embodied by Jackson himself, the first president not to come from an influential East Coast family.

 

This week in language arts, we focused on three wonderful

femal…

This Week in 7 and 8, March 18

Monday was Pi Day so we worked with circles and  Pi in math class.

This week we continued our exploration of the language of poetry. One of the poems we read was “Guilielmous Rex.”

We had a xylophone performance by Jordan in music, and we worked in depth on music dynamics and details,…

This Week in 7 and 8, March 11

This week in social studies, we are focusing on the great changes that occured in the last 200 years that were brought about by the Industrial Revolution, changes in the production of goods, in trade, transportation and communication. For example, I pointed out to the 7th and 8th graders tha…

This Week in 7 and 8, March 4

This week in math, we are working on solving systems of equations and inequalities. The 8th graders are factoring trinomials by grouping.

This is our last week for Jonah in Judaics. The question we need to ask is whether or not Jonah as a book does the job it’s supposed to.

This week in …

This Week in 7 and 8, Feb. 18

This week we concentrated on several important events of the early 19th Century: The War of 1812, the Missouri Compromise, and the Monroe Doctrine, all of which were extremely important because of their impact on America’s growth as a country and the role the young nation would play on the…