SHOJ - English Language Arts

8th graders,  Here's the info that I said I would post. As you're finding a good website to cite for your essay, remember to use the format in your notebook on pages 38-39.  } Collect as much of the following information as possible, but sometimes website do not list it all: ◦ Author and/or editor names (if available) ◦ Article name in quotation marks (if applicable) ◦ Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Print publications have Web publications with slightly different names. They may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names [e.g. .com or .net ].) ◦ Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date . ◦ Medium of publication. ◦ Date you accessed the material. ◦ URL (if required, or for your own personal reference; MLA does not require a URL). } If there is  no author, start with the title of the webpage . } If  there is no sponso...

Next week, the week of 9/30-10/4 7th Grade: Tuesday- Math Celebration part 1: review of +,-,x,/, comparing/ ordering fractions Wednesday English Quest- simple sentences and figurative language Thursday-Math Celebration part 2:  review of +,-,x,/, comparing/ ordering decimals *Math is review from last year and is broken down into two days for 7th grade 8th Grade: Wednesday Math Celebration- laws of exponents

8th graders will be going to see the KC Rep. Theater put on A Christmas Carol on Dec. 5 .  Please try not to make appointments for that day so they can all go! Thanks.

We are half way through the quarter!  If you forgot to bring your yellow Progress Report home to get signed, please print this link, go over your grades with your parents, and turn it in on Monday. First Quarter Progress Report

8th grade Lab Day http://www.softschools.com/quiz_time/math/exponents/theme6.html *Show Miss Vyhanek your score! This is a grade. http://www.math-play.com/exponent-game.html http://www.math-play.com/rational-and-irrational-numbers-game/rational-and-irrational-numbers-game.html

Middle School Curriculum Update:  Grade Cards From Mrs. Engen and the Middle School team We have entered the realm of formative verses summative grades, and this transition has brought some questioning.  The predominant inquiries seem to be centered around two topics:  1.   Student and parent understanding of which grades on the school portal count for the final grade.  2.  How homework will be reflected on grades. It is important to the Sacred Heart staff that students and parents have full knowledge of how grades are determined.  We realize that it can be confusing to see formative and summative grades on the school portal and try to figure out how a final grade will be determined.  From now on, the only grades entered onto the school portal will be those that factor into a student’s final grade.  Therefore, teachers will only enter summative grades on the portal.  This practice has been done in the past years, there...

The 8th grade will have a vocabulary test in Religion on Thursday, September 19,  covering Old Testament words and definitions.