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7th and 8th Grade

Grades 7-8: Week of 10/9/23

In Social Studies, students organized their notebooks to reflect our study of the Constitutional Amendments. We continued through them so that they inform our discussions of current events. We will also revisit these when we debate Supreme Court cases and work our way through history this ye…

Grades 7-8: Week of 10/2/23

In Social Studies, the week started with a study of the Articles of Confederation, which failed as a unifying document for the new country.  We talked about unitary, confederate, and federal models and how the Constitution was borne out of several key compromises, which the students learned…

This Week in Grades 7-8!

1st blog of the school year!

In Social Studies, students each took an aspect of the American Revolution. They created slideshows to teach the class about the Declaration of Independence, battles of the war, and other details before the Treaty of Paris.

In Language Arts, we focused specific…

Last Week for 7 and 8!

On Monday, our students participated in Color Wars! Grades K-8 were split into the Blue Team and Red Team, and the 8th graders led activities for the youngers grades to participate in for points.

On Wednesday, we said goodbye to our 8th grade class and celebrated together at graduation!

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This Week in 7 and 8, 6/9

This week in Algebra I part 2, the students took a final exam, investigated ellipses, and tried out linear and quadratic regression on graphing calculators.

This week we had our music party! We had snacks, and everyone presented their original chord chart songs. I was very impressed with th…