Academic Improvement
Weekly Objectives
Week of May 15, 2006

 

Look below to review this week's objectives for 8th Grade.  In order to obtain more information about a specific benchmark for the content areas of Science and Social  Studies, please do the following:

  1. Remember the benchmark number (example: Science BM5).

  2. Then click on this link, Middle School Benchmarks.  Next, click on the subject you would like to view.

  3. Click on the desired benchmark number from the list that comes up on the screen.

This link will provide you with quick and easy access to the MICLiMB (Clarifying the language in Michigan's benchmarks). You will find an enormous amount of useful resources. Each benchmark is clarified with an instructional example, key concepts, real world context, and other web resources.

In order to obtain more information about a specific benchmark for the content areas of Language Arts and Math, please do the following:

  1. Remember the GLCE (example: R.WS.08.01).

  2. Then click on this link, Grade Level Curriculum Expectations. 
  3. Next, select the grade level and content area that you wish to review.
Ms. Vigilante:
8th Grade Language Arts Lab
W.GN.08.03 Formulate research questions that demonstrate critical evaluation of multiple resources and perspectives and arguments/counterarguments that culminate in a presented, final project
7th grade Language Arts Lab and Enrichment
R.WS.07.02 use structural, syntactic, and semantic analysis to recognize unfamiliar words in context
R.WS.07.04 know the meaning of frequently encountered words in written and oral contexts
6th grade Language Arts Lab
W.SP.06.01 spell frequently misspelled words correctly in the context of their own writing
 
 
 
Ms. Arning:
8th grade Special Ed
Language Arts
R.WS.08.01 Use word structure, sentence structure, and prediction to aid in decoding and understanding the meanings of words encountered in context.
R.NT.08.04 Analyze how authors use symbolism, imagery, and consistency to develop credible narrators, rising and falling actions and minor characters.
W.SP.08.01 Use correct spelling conventions in the context of their own writing.
Math
Using the Whole Numbers intervention kit to remediate basic math skills that correlate with the following GLCEs.
D.AN.08.01 Determine which measure of central tendency (mean, median, mode) best represents a data set, e.g., salaries, home prices for answering certain questions; justify the choice made.
D.AN.08.02 Recognize practices of collecting and displaying data that may bias the presentation or analysis. Understand probability concepts for simple and compound events.
 
 
 
Ms. Agemy:
Language Arts / Bilingual
R.CM.06.01 Connect personal knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world to themes and perspectives in the text.
R.AT.06.01   Be enthusiastic about reading and do substantial reading on their own
W.PR.06.02  Apply a variety of pre-writing strategies for both narrative (e.g., graphic organizers such as story maps or webs designed to develop a plot that includes major and minor characters, builds climax, and uses dialogue to enhance a theme) and informational text (e.g., problem/ solution, and sequence).
W.GR.06.01 Use style conventions (e.g., MLA) and a variety of grammatical structures in their writing including indefinite and predicate pronouns, transitive and intransitive verbs, adjective and adverb phrases, adjective and adverb subordinate clauses, comparative adverbs and adjectives, superlatives, conjunctions, compound sentences, appositives, independent and dependent clauses, introductory phrases, periods, commas, quotation marks, and the uses of underlining and italics for specific purposes.
W.SP.06.01 Spell frequently misspelled words correctly (e.g., their, there, they’re) in the context of their own writing.
W.AT.06.01 Be enthusiastic about writing.
 
 
 
Mrs. Sabra
6th grade math bilingual
Number and Operations
Represent rational numbers as Fractions or decimals
N.FL.06.01 Understand division of fractions as the inverse of multiplication
N.FL.06.02 Given an applied situation involving dividing fractions, write a mathematical statement to represent the situation.
 
7th grade math bilingual
Draw and construct Geometric Figures
G.SR.07.01 Use a ruler and other tools to draw geometrical figures
Draw and construct lines, planes, rays, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines
 
8th grade math bilingual
Data & Probability
Understand probability concepts for simple and compound events:
D.PR. 08.03 Compute relative frequencies from a table of experimental results for a repeated event, and be able to answer questions about the result, using relationship of probability to relative frequency.
D.PR.08.04 Apply the Basic Counting principle to find the total numbers of
out comes possible for independent and independent events
 
 
 
Ms. Mihelich
6th Grade Bilingual Science:
SCI.I.MS.3      Use tools and equipment appropriate to scientific investigations.
SCI.1.11.MS.3  Show how common themes of science, mathematics, and technology apply in real-world    contexts.
SCI.V.3.MS.1  Explain patterns of changing weather and how they are measured.
 
7th Grade Binlingual Science
SCI.I.MS.2  Design and conduct scientific investigations.
SCI.I.II. MS.3  Show how common themes of science, mathematics, and technology apply in real-world contexts.
SCI.IV.2.MS.3  Describe common changes in terms of properties of reactants and products.
 
8th Grade Bilingual Science
SCI.I.MS.1  Generate scientific questions about the world based on observation.
SCI.II.MS.5  Develop an awareness of and sensitivity to the natural world.
SCI.III.3.MS.1  Describe how the characteristics of living things are passed on through generations.
SCI.I.II.4.MS.1  Describe how heredity and environment may influence/determine characteristics of an organism.