Science: Students are working on Chapter 15. Before break we looked at the Water Budget for York, Pa and compared it to another city in the United States. Students graphed their data using Google Spreadsheet. We are currently looking at the major river systems in the United States, including the Susquehanna River. Students are exploring the Susquehanna and its importance to the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Math:
**Algebra A/B will be enjoying math, not only during first period, but also during ROAR in order to prepare for Keystones coming up on May 12th. We are currently Graphing Inequalities.
**Algebra A is working on Linear Equations and will be doing PSSA review throughout February and March.
**Prealgebra will be working with Slope and Slope-Intercept Form.
Ask them to show you the slope dance!
Academic Literacy: Students are finishing up the Craft and Structure unit by writing their own paragraphs using a variety of sentence structure and sentence types. At the start of the third marking period, we will be starting our argumentative research unit.
Ms. Suppa’s English Class
The record-breaking cold that we experienced on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 inspired some vocabulary building in English. Here is a list of synonyms students found for the word “cold.”
arctic gelid glacial raw
frigid nippy wintry numbing
hyperboreal Siberian piercing three-dog night
Students designed a word search, such as the one below by Emma Brady, using fifteen of the synonyms they found. Pretty “cool” vocab!
Since “cold” is such a boring, overused word, using better adjectives like “arctic” and “bleak” is an easy way to improve your writing. Adding details is another way to make your writing more interesting. Check out the student examples in the slide below:
Social Studies - In December, we finished the Revolutionary War and our first Common Assessment in which students had to write a paragraph defending if they would join the Patriots or remain loyal to King George III. We are now working on the Constitution Unit. We are learning how the Constitution was established and how the Constitution works. We continue to discuss current events through the use of political cartoons. During the third marking period, student will have the option of creating their own cartoons about current events.
In the pictures above students are working on a numbered heads collaborative strategy discussing the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Health-
We have just finished the male and female reproduction systems. As a culminating piece, the students completed a Venn diagram as a way to show their understanding of the parts (shown below). We are now starting lessons on the process of fertilization, pregnancy and birth.
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