Academic Improvement Weekly Objectives

Academic Improvement
Weekly Objectives
Week of May 1, 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:

Remember the benchmark number (example: Science BM5).
Then click on this link, Middle School Benchmarks. Next, click on the subject you would like to view.
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:

Remember the GLCE (example: R.WS.08.01).
Then click on this link, Grade Level Curriculum Expectations.
Next, select the grade level and content area that you wish to review.

Ms. Brumfield:
ENRICHMENT:
Content Standard 1 Meaning & Communication Benchmark 1
S.DS.07.01 Engage in interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning
R.NT.O7.01 Identify and discuss how the tensions among characters, communities, themes, and issues in contemporary literature recognized for quality and merit are related to their own experiences
LANGUAGE ARTS: (Content Standard 3) Benchmark 1: Use reading for multiple purposes, such as enjoyment, clarifying information and learning complex procedures
R.WS.07.04 Know the meaning of frequently encountered words in written and oral contexts.
(Content Standard 4) Benchmark 4
R.WS.07.01 Use word structure, sentence structure, and prediction to aid in decoding and understanding the meanings of words encountered in context
Content Standard 2:MEANING & COMMUNICATION Benchmark 1 Write fluently for multiple purposes to produce compositions,personal narratives,essays and reports.
W.GN.07.05 Respond to multiple texts when listened to or viewed by speaking, illustrating, and or writing in order to anticipate and answers questions, to determine personal and universal themes, and to offer opinions or solutions.
MATH: Content Standard 2: Representation and Uses of Numbers: Students recognize that numbers are used indifferent ways such as counting, measuring, ordering and estimating, understanding and produce multiple representations of a number, and translate among equivalent representations.
N.MR.07.06 Recognize irrational numbers:- Understand the concept of square root, cube root and estimate using calculators



Ms. Vigilante:
Language Arts Lab
W.PR.06.04 write for a specific purpose by using multiple paragraphs, sentence variety, and voice to meet the needs of the audience.
W.PR.07.01 set a purpose, consider an audience, and replicate authors' styles and patterns when writing narrative or informational text.



s. Arning:
8^th 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.WS.06.01 Use word structure, sentence structure, and prediction to aid in decoding and understanding the meanings of words encountered in context.
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.GN.06.02 Write an essay (e.g., personal, persuasive, or comparative) for authentic audiences that includes organizational patterns that support key ideas.
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.SP.06.01 Spell frequently misspelled words correctly (e.g., their, there, they’re) in the context of their own writing.



Mrs. Sabra
6th grade math bilingual
Number and Operations
Represent rational numbers as Fractions or decimals
N.ME.06.06 Represent rational numbers as fractions.
-Writing Mixed Numbers as Improper Fractions
-Writing Improper Fractions as Mixed Numbers

7th grade math bilingual
Represent Data & interpret:
D.RE.07.01 Represent & interpret data using circle graph, stem and leaf plots, histograms, &box and whisker plots, and select the appropriate representation to address specific questions.
Box and Whisker Plots

8th grade math bilingual
Data & Probability
Draw, Explain, and Justify conclusions based on Data
D. AN. 08.02 Determine which measure of central tendency (mean, median. Mode) best represents a data, e.g., salaries, home process for answering certain questions; justify the choice made.



Ms. Mihelich
6th Grade Bilingual Science:
SCI.I.MS.1 Generate scientific questions about the world based on observation.
SCI.II.MS.4 Describe the advantages and risks of new technologies.
SCI.V.3.MS.1 Describe the composition and characteristics of the atmosphere.

7th Grade Bilingual Science:
SCI.I.MS.5 Use sources of information in support of scientific investigations.
SCI.II.MS.5 Develop an awareness of and sensitivity to the natural world.
SCI.IV.2.MS.3 Explain how elements differ, in terms of the structural parts and electrical charges of atoms.

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