8th grade ELA by Kennedy:
Currently in the 8th grade ELA class, led by Ms. Falcone, we are discussing Elie Wiesel's novel Night. Night is about Elie Wiesel's horrific experience during the Holocaust. Elie begins as a young religious, Jewish boy who cherishes his faith. As the novel progresses it goes into depth about his struggle with finding himself and the importance of bearing witness. When we ended our book we were able to decide what kind of project we wanted to do with a tic-tac-toe board created by Ms. Falcone. This helped us gain a better understanding of the novel.
US History by Pebbles:
In History class, we explored how the U.S. The Constitution serves as the supreme law of our nation, established to create a balanced government and protect individual rights. Our class explored the Preamble, the Bill of Rights, what loose and strict interpretation of the law means, and the differences in power of all the branches of government. During history class in honor of Women's History Month, my class completed a project using note cards to highlight influential women. For our cards, we each chose a woman to research and included a meaningful quote, a summary of her life, and a drawing or picture. I chose to focus on the physicist Lise Meitner, while my classmates selected other inspiring figures like Ada Lovelace, Cher, and Joan Jett. Through this project, we learned about their unique contributions and how their legacies continue to shape our world today.
7th Grade ELA by Ellis:
In ELA we have been learning more about the Holocaust and reading realistic fiction novels, such as The Book Thief, about young kids during WWII. I hope we can read more about how the Holocaust was for some older citizens in WWII. While reading about these young characters' lives, I feel engaged as if I was there with them. I love how even though we are in Language Arts class we still get a bit of his historical aspect while reading, almost merging the two into one super cool class.
7th Grade Science by Magnus:
In Science, we have just finished learning about Photosynthesis, Cellular Respiration, and Fermentation, which was very fun and interesting. This also helped us learn more about cells and their functions more deeply, since we learned a bit about this in our earlier chapters was a great help because we’re now learning about the different organ systems in our body and what their jobs are. We haven't gone very deep into this yet, but so far, it has been very interesting!
8th Grade Science by Adira:
In Mr. O'Connor's 8th grade science class, we are conducting three different experiments in groups. The first experiment is testing the speed of a pendulum based on its height. The second experiment we conducted was seeing how different fruit juices' acid level reacts to anti acid pellets and cabbage juice. The most prominent mixture was the lemon juice. The mixture was separated into three separate colors, white, teal, and baby pink. My group thought it looked like the colors of cotton candy or the colors of a unicorn. The last experiment we conducted was seeing different objects like a bee stinger or a mosquito's mouth under a microscope and comparing the two. My personal favorite was seeing the color change in the acid.
6th Grade Math by Renee Sun:
In math this month, we learned about percentages and dived into how to apply what we learn in the classroom into our everyday problems outside the classroom. We practice our skills on IXL and sometimes Lightning Jam in IXL There are many quizzes and tests this month. We did worksheets related to sale prices.
6th Grade Latin by Kenzie McCready:
In Mr. Pritchett’s sixth grade Latin class, we are learning about geography in ancient Rome and how far away cities are from other cities and we are learning about the geography of major cities in Rome. We recently took a unit test, this test covered declensions, translating words and sentences, and detecting if a word is imperative or indicative (command or statement) we also worked on a Latin poster project recently that covered the topics and definition of the nominative, Genitive, accusative, and ablative. In the poster project, we all got assigned a passage to translate in our Latin book. In , we do fun Latin games to help expand our Latin vocabulary. We are continuing to learn about prayers and memorizing them. We have read in our books and translated all of the sentences in the passage assigned.
7th Grade Latin by Sebastian:
In Latin this past month, our class(es) has/have been learning about the third declension as well as some new vocabulary from the chapter. Mr. Pritchett also subscribed to Latin Tutorial, a great website that makes Latin much easier, clearer, and more enjoyable for middle school students. The new chapter in our textbooks introduces some new vocabulary as well as the new, 3rd declension. Mr. Pritchett teaches us efficiently and well, collaborating with 8th grade one day, then teaching our class individually the next. This teaching strategy helps us connect with the older students and play some games as well as have some more focused, class-independent time as well. Overall, Latin in 7th grade is somewhat interesting (but challenging as well), and helps us understand where our English words come from.
8th Grade Math by Diego and Jayden:
Recently in math we have been moving forward with our Algebra 1 learning, in our new chapter we are learning about exponential distribution, Mr. Pritchett taught us some methods of solving this chapter's problems, one of these methods is called FOIL this stands for First, Outer, Inner Last. We also had a project based on compounding interest and investing, in our project we had to create presentations describing in detail about our Stocks and ETFs and how they compare to different bank accounts with 2, 3 and 5 percent interest rates, at the end we would advise on which Stock or bank account the listener should invest in for the future.
Latin by Lorenzo:
In Latin, Mr. Pritchett has been very invested in teaching us. Recently, he was able to get us an account on Latin tutorial to help us understand vocabulary and declensions. We had our unit test before the trimester ended, and I felt very confident about the topics we were learning. The main topic we were learning about was pronouns and chapter six and seven vocabulary words like currere which means run and solum which means alone. Overall, I have seen not only myself, but others around me grow from the help Mr. Pritchett provides us with in and out of school.
