IAR (Illinois Assessment of Readiness) Testing will begin next week. Graduation Picture Day is right around the corner. Wanted to remind just in case you're looking for a special outfit?
Important Upcoming Dates:
3/12/22 - Chicago History Day @ Chicago History Museum In-Person for advancing projects. Good Luck!
3/17/22-3/25/22 - Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) for ELA and Math
3/18-25/22 - Chicago History Day Virtual Fair for advancing project
3/23/22 - Graduation Picture Day
3/28/22 - Chicago History Day Virtual Celebration
Academics
Advisory/SEL - We will continue our Rainbow Revolutionaries reading/research this month as well as 2nd Step lessons topic is Environmental Factors that Contribute to Bullying.
ELA - We have finished reading - Night by Elie Wiesel, and are the better for it. It is much a moving and powerful memoir. As a follow-up to our reading, we will visit the Illinois Holocaust Museum on 4/6/22 for a field trip. 8th Graders will complete a few brief IAR practice passages in reading and look at narrowing down multiple choice answers (vague, distractor, right and best answers). We will also begin a short unit on analyzing poetry in Great Books and students will select our next choice text next week. They will chose between the following texts: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Speak by Laurie Anderson Halse, The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
Writing - We finishing up our poetry collections next week with Sestina and Free Choice. They will be due on Monday, March 21, 2022. Our next unit will be focused on News Literacy and Journalism. Students will be working in online modules in Checkology through the News Literacy Project. It will be important for students to bring headphones or ear buds to use with this program as it is self-paced and includes excellent audio and media integration.
Civics - We are working on Unit 3 in Civics which looks at the common good and unintended consequences. We will be finishing up Civics by the end of March and moving into our Social Studies curriculum for the remainder of the year.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me at [email protected].