8th Grade Week 18: January 15-19, 2024

This is the last week for Foundations, and we will start Washington State History next week instead.

Math  - Chapter 8 of Elementary Algebra

Please come ask me if you don't understand something she taught you or have other questions.  

Chapter 8, Lesson 3.  Watch Video and do Set 1 and 2.

Chapter 8, Lesson 4.  Watch Video and do Set 1 and set 2 #4 a, c, e, g, I, k, m; #5, #6, #7 e, f, g, h, #8 b, d, f, h, I, j, k, m, n, o, q.

Chapter 8, Lesson 5.  Watch Video and Do set 1 and set 2 #4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, #11 a, c, e, #12 b, d, f, skip 13, #14 a, b skip c

Chapter 8, Lesson 6.  Watch Video and do Set 1 and 2.

Religion & Bible History (None Wednesday) 

• Read Mark 8:11-30 and the corresponding pages in Heaven's Roar.
• Read Bible History Unit 8 part 2: 1-4.  Read only, you can skip the questions this week.
• Read He Leadeth Me Chapters 17 & 18.

Language Arts (None Wednesday)

Literature 

• Read Night pages 47-58.  Discuss with Mom.
• Read Night pages 58-65.  In writing answer - "What is the mood in the camp during and after the bombing?  Support your answer with three specific words and phrases from the text, and explain how these demonstrate mood.
• Read Night 66-84.  Discuss with Mom. 

English From the Roots Up 

• Learn the three new roots for this week - quinque, sex, septem
• List as many extra words that fit the new roots as you can on a piece of paper.
• Study the roots throughout the week.  

Middle School Essay Writing/Windows to the World - (Not Wednesday) 

1. Do the biblical allusions Project on page 34 using the following Bible passages.  I am particularly interested in your examples of how this passage might be used and your explanation of the same (see their example). You can present to me in a chart similar to page 34, or in a paragraph format – whichever you choose. 
1. David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17)
2. Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)
3. Pearls before Swine (Matthew 7:6)
2. Do the Biblical Allusions in Poetry assignment on page 35.  Do not do the one on page 36.
3. Read page 37 and annotate Androcles and the Lion.

Modern World History 

• Watch America, Story of US Episode 10 on World War 2
• Rise of Fascism.  Read A History of US #9, chapter 25 - Twenthieth Century Monsters and then watch this video on Hitler's rise to power
• Italy was also seeing a rise in Fascism.  Watch about Benito Mussolini here.  In 1935, Italy invaded and annexed Ethiopia.  You can watch about that here.  Then in 1939, Italy invaded and annexed Albania.
• Appeasement.  Watch this video on the Appeasement strategy they used with fascism.  Appeasement didn't work and Germany's September 1 1939 invasion of Poland began WW2.   Watch WW2 in 7 minutes here.  We will talk about the other Axis power (Japan) next week.

Foundations (None Wednesday) 

**Read All Creatures Great and Small chapters 49-51 this week.

Lesson 1

1. Begging the Question (or circular argument)
2. Appeal to Nature
3. Anecdotal
4. Come up with an example of each.

Lesson 2

1. Texas Sharp Shooter   The saying goes that you can find a statistic to support anything.
2. Middle Ground   
3. Come up with an example of both of the above fallacies.
4. (*) For review, look over (and print out if you like) this page of all of the fallacies we just quickly went over.

Lesson 3

1. Read this Article on 10 Habits of Effective Students 
2.  Read about plagiarism and then watch both the videos linked on this page.

World Geography

Do Europe Culture and Lifestyles found here