International Night 2025 Is Coming!

January 25th 6pm – 8pm

Families of Deal –

You are invited to join International Night 2025, it is an evening of travelling around the world as you taste incredible savory and sweet samplings of foods made by our own Deal Families! Buy your tickets here: Deal International Night 2025

This event is a great community event, but more importantly – this event raises critical funds to support our Foreign Language Trip Scholar Fund. All money raised during International Night is turned into scholarships for our 8th grade students. Please help us reach our goal of $30,000. We can do this together! If you cannot join the event, please consider a donation here: Deal International Night 2025_Donation

We look forward to seeing you on January 25th and appreciate your support!

Questions: shannonharrisbehm@hotmail.com

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World Languages team will create a weekly newsletter. This will include information for all 3 languages (French, Spanish, Chinese) and all 3 levels (Language & Culture, Level 1 and Level 2) as we have students in multiple grades in each language and at level.

7th Grade Life Science

Last week (1/8 - 1/10) students completed the middle of the year (MOY) MAP assessment.

This week (1/13 - 1/16) students will complete a lab to extract DNA from a strawberry. We will dive deeper into our genetics unit by learning about molecular genetics, creating DNA models out of beads and learning about how genetic mutations occur. Please check in with your student regarding school supplies. An agenda, homework folder, and pencils should be carried to every class. The science room is running low on paper towels. If you can spare a roll, please send a roll of paper towels into school with your student to be dropped off in the science room N1041. I received three rolls last week. Thank you to the families that contributed!

Homework this week (1/13 - 1/16):

Mon: Strawberry DNA Lab - Due Tues. 1/14

Tues: DNA Gizmo- Due Wed. 1/15

Wed/ Thurs: In-class Formative DNA Modeling Lab

margery.law@k12.dc.gov

Individuals and Societies 7

Email: katherine.fiske2@k12.dc.gov

Last week (1/6-1/10): On Wednesday, student will learned about the creation process and ideas in the Bill of Rights. On Thursday and Friday, students researched current events related to the Bill of Rights for a Criteria B formative. This formative is DUE ON MONDAY!

Next week (1/13-16): On Monday students will participate in a Socratic Seminar about the Bill of Rights. This will be a Criteria C formative. On Tuesday and Wednesday students will work on a Criteria B Summative, continuing to research current events, and writing a proposal for a new piece of legislation. On Thursday, students will start a Criteria C Summative, which will be a simulation of a Congressional Debate.

Last week (1/02/2025 – 1/03/2025)

Math 7 scholars concluded their study of Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages material with Lesson 13 and part 1 of their End-of-Unit review work.

Math 8 scholars continued their study of Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems

material and took the "Linear Equations Formative A/C Assessment" during our short week after returning from break.

This week (1/05/2025 – 1/09/2025)

Math 7 scholars will have a structured review of Unit 4: Proportional Relationships and Percentages material and then take the End-of-Unit 4 RCT Assessment.

Math 8 scholars will continue their learning of Unit 4: Linear Equations and Linear Systems material with an emphasis on the topic "Systems of Linear Equations" and the three types of solutions (no solution, one solution, or infinitely many solutions) they can have. Scholars will also take the Linear Equations: Summative A/C Assessment.

MATH ACCELERATION OPPORTUNITIES ALERT!!!

Deal will continue to offer an in-person, Summer Math Acceleration Camp (SMAC) and an Online Asynchronous Math Course (Zearn) for our current 7th graders during July of 2025 (July 7 - July 31; 8:45 am - 12:00 noon).

SMAC Math 8

This intensive course is for 6th or 7th graders currently taking Math 7 who become eligible based on the MOY and EOY iReady Assessment. Students who successfully complete this in-person course and pass the final assessment will be placed in Algebra I in the Fall of the 2025 - 2026 school year.

Zearn 8

This online asynchronous course is for 6th or 7th graders currently taking Math 7. Only students who qualify based on their MOY i-Ready score are eligible. Students who successfully complete the course and pass the final assessment will be placed in Algebra I in the Fall of the 2025 - 2026 school year.

We will host a Virtual SMAC & Zearn information Meeting for families on Teams at 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 9, 2025 - bit.ly/DEALJAN9

ELA 7

nathaniel.mcvey-finney@k12.dc.gov

Last week,(1/6-1/10) students did a practice RACE paragraph writing assignment on Wednesday in preparation for RTC 3 on Thursday. This RTC will count as a formative on Advisory 2.

Homework: Finish reading WDC.

Next week,(1/13-1/17) students will be taking MAP Testing Monday-Thursday. Our next book is Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

1. I hope students had a great, snowy Monday and Tuesday! When they returned for our short week, we focused on finishing the book Warriors Don't Cry. If students have not already finished the book, they need to do so as homework. We also had an assessment, an RCT, this week where students demonstrated their improving reading and writing skills. Our next text will be the classic novel, Animal Farm. We highly encourage parents to buy students their own copy of the text, especially since we are limited in copies and so they have to remain in the classroom.

   
   

​This week, in ELA, we finished term 2 and our full class novel, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. Our new unit starts next week, and we are starting a new book titled Warriors Don't Cry. I would recommend that if you are able to purchase a copy of this book for your student to do so, as being able to access the text at home (they will also have it available on Canvas) can help them stay up-to-date on their assignments in ELA. This is a memoir about the Little Rock Nine; if you are unfamiliar with this time in American history, I would encourage looking up information about it using the link below and discussing it with your student at home to help them gain additional background knowledge on the subject.

Little Rock Nine: The Little Rock Nine | National Museum of African American History and Culture

My name is Mr. Hairston, the Vocal Music Teacher at Alice Deal. If you have any questions, please free to contact me at: antuan.hairston@k12.dc.gov

Greetings Team Acoma Parents,

I hope you are well. We are coming to an end of Team Acoma's first semester with music. Teaching your students has been an amazing experience over the last few months. Together we have worked towards developing and finding our artistic voice, researched the ethnomusicology of Washington, D.C., and have learned the ins-and-outs of DC's Cultural Music: Go-Go. Our class will end with a culminating performance event titled "Dealchella" next week (1/13 - 1/16). Thank you so much for a great semester!

Mr. Hairston

If you are interested in attending, the Jinfan Performance Troupe will give a performance highlighting the rich legacy of Chinese Culture on Friday, Jan. 17th, beginning tentatively at 1pm. A link to their website is attached: https://news.cgtn.com/news/35417a4d32454464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/share_p.html

Best,

Mr. Hairston

Modern Language Information in Smore below.

Students are able to see their current loans by accessing their library accounts through the Clever app called "Destiny Discover". They can follow the process below to see items that they have checked out:

1. Log into Clever (clever.com/in/dcpsk12)

2. Search "Destiny Discover" or navigate to the Library Resources section and click on the icon.

3. Click on the "My Stuff" link at the top of the screen to see any items that are checked out.

4. Students who have lost materials or see items that may be linked to their account by mistake should speak with Mr. Reichlen.

There are no fines or penalties for lost materials. Donations of hard cover titles of middle school-age-appropriate works in good condition are always accepted if families are able to replace lost materials.

Library Corner

Happy New Year! Let's make 2025 a great year for reading and inquiry! Check out these great resources that the library is offering in January. Check out this month's Library Newsletter below:

https://secure.smore.com/n/veq7k

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Library overdue emails were sent out in December and I have heard from several families about books overdue that are owed to different schools. Please disregard titles owed to other sites. At the end of the year, I will send another notice email. Notices will only include Deal items moving forward. Sorry about any confusion!