Eighth Grade Week 22: February 12-16, 2024

 I am proud of how hard you are working.  I love you!

Math  - Chapter 9 of Elementary Algebra

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

Chapter 9 Summary Set 1.

Chapter 9 Summary Set 2

Chapter 9 Test

Chapter 10 Lesson 1.  Watch video and then do Set 1 and Set 2 

Chapter 10 Lesson 2.  Watch video and then do Set 1 and Set 2 

Religion & Bible History (None Wednesday) 

• Read Faith & Life Chapter 19
• Read Mark 10:35-52 and the corresponding pages in Heaven's Roar.
• Read Mark 11:1-25 and the corresponding pages in Heaven's Roar.
• Read Mother Teresa's Lessons of Love pages 19-33

Language Arts (None Wednesday)

Literature- How to Kill a Mockingbird

This week we start on my favorite book ever: To Kill a Mockingbird. However, to get the book right, we need to do a bit of background work first.

1. Fill out the anticipation guide worksheet. It deals with some of the themes (messages about life) that we will see in the book.
2. Watch this video on Jim Crow laws. It is 23 minutes long and a bit upsetting but important to set the scene for the book.
3. Take a look at the visuals in this Google Slideshow and write out what each represents. Try to identify overarching meanings, abstract ideas and feelings. When you see a skull, try not to write head but identify ideas like death, dread, danger or malice. Visual symbols can represent abstract thoughts or powerful feelings, but literary symbols can be more complex. Literary symbols can have multiple or even contradictory meanings. Whether you are talking about the story of Adam and Eve or Snow White, an apple might be more than an apple.
4. Create a symbol poster. Present one visual symbol and one literary symbol. The literary symbol can be from a book, poem, song, short story, comic book, film or TV show. You will need to write a brief analysis of both symbols and present to Mom by Friday. Remember that literary symbols often have more than one meaning. For example: The bat in Batman Begins represents the fear Bruce Wayne wants to instill but also (and secretly) his own trauma and fear. It represents his mastery over his fears. Furthermore, bats are mysterious, predatory, nocturnal, and swift.

Windows to the World

1. Read pages 52-53 on organizing the body paragraphs.

2. Using one of the thesis statements you wrote last week, create an outline for a paper on the use of suspense in Night. 

3. Read pages 54-56 on Literary Present Tense and Topic Sentence and Plot Summary.

4. Read pages 56-59 on Quotation Blending and Quotation Punctuation. Follow the elements you used in your thesis for your paragraph outlines.

English From the Roots Up 

• Learn the three new roots for this week - aqua, bonus, helios
• List as many extra words that fit the new roots as you can on a piece of paper.
• Study the roots throughout the week.  TEST NEXT WEEK ON WORDS FROM WEEK 15-22.

Modern World History 

• Read A History of US Chapter 43 - Peace
• Watch The Story of Us Episode 11
• Watch about Jackie Robinson
• Watch about Decolonization after WW2
• Watch about the Cold War

World Geography

Do the work for  South Asia

WA State History

**Read All Creatures Great and Small chapters 61-63 this week.

1.  Study chapters 1-3 as we will have a test on them on Friday.  Make sure you can answer the questions at the end of the chapters (hint).