Eighth Grade Week 17: January 8-12, 2024

Math  - Chapter 7 of Elementary Algebra

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

Chapter 7, Summary and Review Set 1.

Chapter 7, Summary and Review Set 2.

Chapter 7 Test

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

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

Religion & Bible History (None Wednesday) 

• Read Faith and Life Chapter 15
• Read Mark 7:24-8:10 and the corresponding pages in Heaven's Roar.
• Read Bible History Unit 8 part 1 and do questions
• Read He Leadeth Me Chapter 16.

Language Arts (None Wednesday)

Literature 

• Read Night pages 11-22.  
• Discuss yesterday's reading with Mom.  Then, on page 12, Wiesel writes, "Night fell." In writing, identify one other place on pages 11-22 where he mentions night.  Considering what is happening in these passages, what might "night" symbolize, based on this section of text? Support your answer with at least two pieces of evidence from these pages.
• Read Night pages 22-34.  End at "Do you remember Mrs. Schacter, in the train?"  Discuss with Mom.
• Read Night pages 34-36.  Discuss with Mom.  

Notes:  Wiesel uses the word "gypsy" on page 37, which is considered to be an offensive slur by many Roma people. The Roma are an ethnic group that lives primarily in Europe. They are a nomadic people, meaning that they generally do not settle in one place, but rather move frequently. They have—and continue to—faced significant discrimination. During the Holocaust, an estimated 250,000 Roma were murdered in Nazi concentration camps because of their perceived racial inferiority. 

When we talk about how the Nazis dehumanized Jews and other prisoners of concentration camps, we must be mindful of the fact that they did these things very deliberately. It was part of a larger plan to exercise complete control over the prisoners.

English From the Roots Up 

• Learn the three new roots for this week - duo, tres, quattuor
• 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 - DO WITH MOM 

• Read and annotate the article from Mortimer Adler on How to Mark a  Book.  Discuss with Mom.
• Talk with Mom about allusions.  Read the student text pages 27-29 on allusions.
• Read pages 29-31 and do the assignment for biblical allusions in The Gift of the Magi, which you have read.
• Read pages 31-33 on allusion in The Most Dangerous Game.

Modern World History 

• Read Story of US book 9 chapters 20-21 on Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Read Story of US book 9 chapters 22-24 on Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Watch FDR 60 second president's.
• Read FDR's Alphabet Soup pages 21-37 and 67-82.
• Read the graphic novel Amelia Earhart, Pioneer of the Sky 
• Due to pressures from the Great Depression, over 1 million Mexicans were forced out of the country and back to Mexico during the 1930s. Of those repatriated, about 60% were U.S.-born American citizens. Several Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans left the U.S. for Mexico with the hope that there they would find not only a refuge from the economic struggles of the Great Depression, but also from the prejudice and discrimination that they had experienced in the U.S. However, most found that Mexico was not the haven they had hoped it would be.  Watch about Mexican Repatriation here and also a video here

Foundations (None Wednesday) 

**Read All Creatures Great and Small chapters 46-48 this week.

Lesson 1

1. The ad hominem fallacy.  Political campaign advertisements are great places to see a lot of these fallacies.
2. The tu quoque fallacy.  These strange words are Latin. There is a strong Latin foundation to what we know as logic and rhetoric, the words we speak.
3. Special pleading
4. Come up with written examples of each.

Lesson 2

1. Loaded question
2. Burden of proof
3. Come up with written examples of each.

Lesson 3

1. Ambiguity
2. The gambler’s fallacy
3. Composition/division
4. Come up with written examples of each.

Lesson 4

1. No True Scotsman
2. Genetic
3. Black or White
4. Come up with an written examples of each.

World Geography

Do the reading/map work for week two of Europe found here