Updates and announcements

As said previously, we hit the ground running after Spring Break. Students are busy at work and enjoying the warmer weather.

Students will be outside for PE until April 29^th due to the Prep AZMerit testing in the gym.

Students will be taking the writing portion of the AZMerit this Friday, March 31^st. Please be sure students are well rested and have a good breakfast.

Our week in learning

In Literature we will continue reading Across Five Aprils. We will have a class debate about fighting in the Civil War and will continue looking at vocabulary in context.

We will be taking the AZMerit writing test on Friday. To continue preparing we will be sharing our practice essays with the class and will look at sample persuasive essays.

We will have a quiz over roots 76-79 on Wednesday and will introduce our new poem, Barbara Frietchie. This is a long poem so students will be reciting this in groups on Wednesday, April 12th.

We are studying the human body. There is a skeleton quiz on Wednesday!

This week, students will take their Westward Expansion Before the Civil War test. The study guide is due Monday, 3/27. The unit test will be on Tuesday, 3/28. Students will also finish learning about US Geography with the West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. A study guide for the 50 states map test will go home on Wednesday, 3/29, due 4/5. The test will be on Wednesday, 4/12. We will start our unit on the Civil War this week. We are discussing slavery throughout the unit, with an emphasis on the life of a Civil War era American slave this week. This may be sensitive content for some students, so please have a discussion at home if needed.

This week the students will learn how to interpret a set of data in many ways- mean, median, mode, histograms, tables, and pie charts. There will be no math groups this week!