Good Afternoon Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events: Oct. 24th
– Picture Retake Day
Oct.
24th – All School Party (see below)
Important Information:
Bus Passes were due today.
All-School Party
When: October 24
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Cost: $5.00, which includes pizza, DJ, photo booth, and other
activities
How to Attend
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Students may purchase a wristband at
lunch on October 17 - 23.
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Wristbands will be handed out during
7th hour on October 24.
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Students must have a wristband to
attend the party.
Chaperones
Parents who are able to volunteer their time as a chaperone
may sign up by clicking here.
Spiritwear
The deadline for ordering spiritwear has been extended to October 21.
You may find more information about spiritwear by clicking here.
English –
Susan Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
This week in English, student worked on their editor’s
mindset by honing their skills at editing. The following notes are from our
discussion which may also help parents help their students:
• requires
reading intentionally
– S-L-O-W-L-Y
– word
by word
– sentence
by sentence
– line,
by line
– paragraph
by paragraph
• Use
your EARS or use a whisper phone
– Have
a buddy read it to you or use SpeakIt! on Google
• Focus
strategies: Cover with ruler or paper, or Edit backwards from the end
– Use
a checklist to edit one convention (rule) at a time
• Editors
use Resources: grammar book, dictionary, web-based writing resources, such as Purdue OWL
Tuesday, students visited the library and practiced logging
into Destiny Quest the library’s web-based management system.
And finally, the end of our unit on names has arrived with
the reading of two final poems, “The Angst of Hero Naming” and “Jabberwocky.”
Students read and discussed both poems before voting on which poem would move
forward in our Poetry Wars competition.
Discussion grading criteria:
- respond with relevancy
- make eye contact
- ask probing questions
- research unknown words, etc.
- make connections to other texts, self and to the world
- refer to the text
- acknowledge other viewpoints respectfully
- come prepared with documents to participate
Next week, we will revise the name essays and begin a new unit.
Math-
Because this was our first major assessment, I decided not to post grades from the Accentuate the Negative unit this week, because students will have an opportunity to correct missed problems. This week in class students learned the 4 basic one-step equations and some basic geometry concepts. Next week, students will learn 2-step equations and more geometry concepts. All students have an enrichment algebra packet and a geometry packet; they should do a page or two each night for homework.
Because this was our first major assessment, I decided not to post grades from the Accentuate the Negative unit this week, because students will have an opportunity to correct missed problems. This week in class students learned the 4 basic one-step equations and some basic geometry concepts. Next week, students will learn 2-step equations and more geometry concepts. All students have an enrichment algebra packet and a geometry packet; they should do a page or two each night for homework.
Wilma Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
Dynamic Science Course Website
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels - daniels.mark@wgmail.org
Social Studies –
Students have continued to work on the Egypt projects this week. They were given time in class to complete the projects. Some students chose to share their projects with the class and some are sharing them with me alone. I am excited to see what they have learned and how they put it all together. Additionally, students were given two chapters to read and asked to complete the accompanying Reading Notes. Students had access to all of the materials by Tuesday and were allowed to choose what to work on at school and what to work on at home. They should be turning in those activities by Monday. Next week, we will finish up Egypt with a group activity and move on to India.
Dynamic Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
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