Week #7 Middle Ages – Last Week of Unit
Humanities:
- Current Events Assignments: Museum; students will teach younger grades about their Archive Projects; Monday & Tuesday
- Unit Final – Thursday; final is on Crispin, Middle Ages Projects, and in-class lectures/readings. Students are allowed to bring a 4 x 6 index card with their notes to final.
- Reflections & Golden Lines (based on Literature book) – last chance to turn in for credit; due Thursday
- RJW (based on free choice book – last chance to turn in for credit (#1-6); due Thursday
- Writer’s Workshop – work on portfolio
- Passion Project – researching and working through requirements
- In class instructions & possible additional assignments
- Medieval Banquet this Friday, Oct 4th. THANK YOU to all the parents who signed up! Please send in the items Friday Morning!
- Students need to come prepared to play their role (ask your student what role they are playing)
- Also THANK YOU to Mr. & Mrs. Corrion, Mr. & Mrs. Bordges, and Mr. Isenbarger for volunteering to help with the banquet! Please be here by 9am to help set-up
Math:
- Math Homework (CPM/Other) – every day
- MobyMax and/or Khan: 45 minutes a week, due on Mondays
- Fact Fluency: 20 minutes a week (until tested out), due on Fridays
- Fridays: math quizzes (none this week)
- In class instructions & possible additional assignments
Middle Ages Project: students received their grades last Friday. Grades will also be on report cards
Science: Egg Drop – come prepared on Thursday for the Egg Drop experiment.
EE – Big Break
- No Big Break this week because of Medieval Banquet
- We still need drivers for future dates! Please go to SignUp Genius, look to see which dates your student is attending, and if you see an open spot, please sign up! https://www.signupgenius.
com/go/20f0f45a4aa28a1fe3- bigbreak
Other Important Information:
- 8th Grade Girls “Empowerment Project” on Tuesday, October 15th from 8:30~1:30pm. At CCC Fairgrounds. Lunch included.
- Wednesday, October 16th 8:50~2:30pm study trip to Mondavi Center/UC Davis to hear NASA Astronaut Terry Virts give his presentation, “A View From Above”. Afterwards, we will have a short walk around UC Davis, then eat our sack lunches (send sack lunch). This trip will tie into our next humanities & science units. Thank you to Mrs. MacCallister, Mrs. Kaifi, Mrs. Cruz, Mr. Bordges, Mrs. Carrillo, and Mrs. Moon for driving. Drivers, please be here by 8:40am.
ACA Middle School Team
“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A.A. Milne/Christopher Robin