Great work!

Great job on all of your assessments this week - we understand it was challenging and are very proud of you. Please take a well deserved break tonight : )

Humanities

Tomorrow you have your year end assessment. This consists of an essay with a strong thesis statement with meaningful and carefully chosen supporting details. You have been given a planning sheet to bring into the exam.

Tonight I would go over key pieces of each culture you are going to use in your essay. Brainstorm and connect key people, events, etc to the thesis statement you have created.

If you were absent today, here is the planner:

Here is an overview of the ENTIRE year if you want specific page numbers, etc for important dates, people, events and other.

HUM

Today we had a class discussion about different pieces of Aztec society, and how the Aztecs believe in a group mentality over an individual. After making notes on the board, you were asked to respond to the overarching question relating to group vs individual mentality and how was this reflected throughout Aztec society.

Here are the notes:

Awesome job on your responses today.....you are all good Aztec citizens! Get ready to start poetry tomorrow......

Math

Great job on your linear relations assessment! The marks reflected effort and hard work with understanding the concepts. We are very proud. Please continue to push through and work every night on Math concepts learned in class. This will only benefit YOU and your understanding.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Aztec Simulation

We will be starting our Aztec simulation on Monday and it is VERY exciting : )

Please dress colorful, as the Aztecs would! Also, if you are a warrior, please wear clothing you can move in (jumping, running, etc). This will help you complete your missions!

I never thought I would say I can't wait for Monday but I am pretty excited! Hope you are too. Have a good weekend!

Math continued

Please check the blog post below.

If you are having trouble with the concepts in the blog post below, please use either Khan Academy or IXL to practice.

On IXL follow this link:
https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-8

Make sure you are able to complete the majority of problems in the red box area.

Khan Academy follow this link:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-linear-equations-functions

Good luck!

Math

We will have a Math assessment on Thursday.  It will be a unit final (open notebook...please pep up your Math journals so you have all of your notes/foldables etc).

At this point, you should be able to graph:

y = 5x + 2

y = -3x - 4

y = 2x

Create a table of values for x, y values for:

y = 2x + 1

y = 4x

Describe what the graph looks like for:

y = -10x + 2

What can you tell about the line from this equation?