Academic Improvement
Weekly Objectives
Week of June 5, 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.WS.06.05 Apply strategies to construct meaning and identify unknown words.
R.WS.06.07 Use strategies (e.g., connotation, denotation) and authentic content-related resources to determine the meaning of words and phrases in context (e.g., regional idioms, content area vocabulary, technical terms).
R.NT.06.03 Analyze the role of dialogue, plot, characters, themes, major and minor characters, and climax
R.IT.06.02 Analyze organizational patterns.
R.MT.06.01 Independently self-monitor comprehension when reading or listening to text by automatically using and discussing the strategies used by mature readers to increase comprehension and engage in interpretative discussions (e.g., predicting, constructing mental images representing ideas in text, questioning, rereading or listening again if uncertain about meaning, inferring, summarizing).
W.PR.06.05 Edit their writing using proofreaders’ checklists both individually and in peer editing groups.
 
 
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.TR.07.03 Understand that in similar polygons, corresponding angles are congruent and the ratio of corresponding sides are equal; understand the concepts of similar figures and scale factor.
G.TR.07.04 Solve problems about similar figures and scale drawing
 
 
 
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.I.MS.5  Use sources of information in support of scientific investigations.
SCI.II.MS.3  Show how common themes of science, mathematics and technology apply in real-world contexts.
SCI.IV.1.MS.5           Construct simple circuits and explain how they work in terms of the flow of current.
 
7th Grade Binlingual Science
Design strategies for moving objects by application of forces, including the use of simple machines (SCI.IV.3.MS.5).
Use tools and equipment appropriate to scientific investigations. (SCI.I.1.MS.3)
Show how common themes of science, mathematics, and technology apply in real-world contexts. (SCI.II.1.MS.3)
 
8th Grade Bilingual Science
(SCI.III.4.HS.1). Describe what biologists consider to be evidence for human evolutionary relationships to selected animal groups
(SCI.III.4.HS.2). Explain how a new species or variety may originate through the evolutionary process of natural selection