Team Paramaribo
Friday, November 7th
English and Language Arts with Mr. Winston
This week, we launched into our second unit of the year titled “The Recipe for Success.” In this unit, we’ll explore nonfiction texts that help us answer the essential question: What does it take to achieve success? Our literary focus will be identifying a passage’s central idea and the most relevant supporting details.
Our first reading, Dedicated to the Goal, highlights the career of U.S. Women’s Soccer player Carli Lloyd and Team USA’s remarkable victory over Japan in the 2015 FIFA World Cup. Admittedly, I don’t follow sports, so I’m grateful for the unexpected and invaluable lessons our scholars taught me about soccer during this reading!
Next Monday, we’ll read The Theory and Power Behind Goal Setting by Gary Latham and Edwin Locke. This text will guide students in setting specific, actionable goals that lead to success. After Veterans Day, we’ll dive into A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which encourages students to embrace challenges and learn from failure. Together, these texts will deepen students' understanding of how perseverance and resilience shape the journey toward success. We’ll close the week with the first Unit Skills Assessment (graded as a Formative Assessment) where students will complete a reading and respond to multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
As always, please encourage your scholar to read for at least 20 minutes each night. All students should have a book they are independently reading outside of class.
Math with Mx. Gomez
6th Grade Accelerated Math
Next week in Math 6, students will continue exploring key concepts related to ratios, unit rates, and measurement conversions. They'll begin the week with how to convert units of distance and mass to reinforce their understanding of measurement. Then move on to analyzing which items offer the better deal, then move on to calculating two-unit rates from a given ratio. Midweek, students will apply unit rates to solve real-world problems. These lessons build essential skills for reasoning with proportional relationships and applying math in everyday contexts.
7th Grade Math
Next week in Math 7, students will continue working with scale, maps, and scale drawings. They’ll explore how scale is used to represent real-world distances and objects in a proportional way, and practice interpreting and creating scale drawings. These lessons help students develop spatial reasoning and understand how math connects to design, architecture, and geography. On Thursday, students will take a formative assessment on scale drawings to demonstrate their understanding of these concepts. Please encourage your child to review their notes, ask questions, and complete any practice problems to prepare.
To support these concepts, students will also complete i-Ready lessons that reinforce and deepen their understanding. Please encourage your child to stay on top of their assignments and reach out if they need support.
World Geography and Cultures with Ms. Wesselhoft
Earth and Space Science with Ms. Sagan
Hi Scientists!
Thank you so much for being so patient with me this week! I had a planned surgery on Monday that ended up being more involved than expected, and I am truly so grateful for all of the well wishes and kindness from students this week!
Next week, students will embark on two very cool labs - the skittles lab and the slope and deposition lab. These labs will help students see the different roles that water play in the process of weathering, erosion, and deposition - both on a small scale and on a larger scale.
Alice Deal Middle School
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