Academic Improvement
Weekly Objectives
Week of May 8, 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. 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.
 
 
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.ME.06.05 order rational numbers and place them on the number lines.
-Writing mixed numbers as improper fractions
-Writing improper fractions as mixed numbers
-Comparing and ordering fractions
 
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 outcomes possible for independent and independent events.
 
 
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