1. EE small group trips to Family Harvest Farm: If you are driving this Friday, please be here by 9:40am. We will return to campus by 12pm. Drivers need to have a copy of their 100,000/300,000 liability car insurance on file in the office to drive. Students not attending the farm will do EE assignments at school.
2. San Jose Tech Museum trip on Thursday, January 30th. This trip will be from 7am ~ 5pm.
3. Soccer Tryouts have been moved to Tuesday 1/7 @ ACA and Thursday 1/8 @ ACAII from 4-5:30pm. There will be no tryouts today. Completed athletic packets must be turned in before your student can try out. Contact the office for more details.
4. Next Los Angeles Payment is due January 31st. Thank you to those who have paid in full.
New Unit: Human Centered Design (HCD)…This unit is different!!
1. Students will create a Multimedia project which is based on a “human need” and then come up with a “solution” to address the need. The project will be presented at the end of 6 weeks. Each group will be made up of 4 students. This project will require a mentor for each group. If you are interested in becoming a mentor for a group, please let us know! Students will also be required to create a prototype or model of their solution.
2. In Humanities, students will “design” some of their homework for this unit (see this week’s Current Events assignment for an example).
3. Literature books will be based on people who saw a problem, and worked to come up with a solution (i.e. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind). Students will choose 1 of 4 books being offered. Ask your student tomorrow, which book they chose! RJW assignments will be based on their literature book, or their free choice book from the last unit.
4. This morning’s Guest Speaker: Mrs. Sheard We were thrilled to welcome Mrs. Sheard, founder of a local nonprofit organization (https://www.
Head’s Up: Internships/Job Shadows will take place for 3 days in March (dates TBA). Students will not come to school, but go to their “jobs”. Students will have a packet that will need to be filled out by their “employers” and themselves to receive a grade for this project. 8th grade students should seek out a different place of business, doing a different job then they did last year. See attached documents for details.
This Week’s Assignments/Homework: not an exhaustive list…more assignments may be added by teachers through-out the week. Class assignments not finished during class become homework.
- Membean: Complete 3 training sessions of 15 minutes each; due Friday
- Current Events: Find an article in the newspaper related to our theme on Newsela (Design, Human Centered Design or Types of Design). After you read it, DESIGN a way to summarize and teach the information found in your article to others. Bring this to class on Thursday and be prepared to share/teach it to others.
- Math: CPM, Khan, POD, Desmos, Math Review, etc- pacing guide with due dates, assessments on Fridays
- Science “Engineering”: participation & assignments; due on Science day
- HCD Project: introduction to requirements, choosing roles, start researching