Team Tikal Update

Students do not have school tomorrow as teachers have morning meetings and afternoon grading time. On Monday students start term 2.

Attention, all Deal scholars! The National Junior Honor Society has officially launched for school year 2023-2024. This is a national academic organization that serves to foster and recognize excellence in academic scholarship and community service in our nation's youth. Every spring, hundreds of our 7th and 8th grade students are inducted into the Deal chapter of NJHS and it is amazing to see how hard they work and the great impact that their service has on our community. In order to participate, students must successfully complete each of the action steps noted below by all due dates.

Oct. 8- Digital application to join the NJHS goes live. Link forthcoming in school newsletters.

Nov. 10- Digital application to join the NJHS is due.

Dec. 15- Eligible students are formally invited to register for NJHS via Canvas.

May 20- All community service and extracurricular club forms are due. Canvas course will close for processing and late submissions won't be possible.

Jun. 4- NJHS Induction & Recognition Ceremony

Seventh graders- In order to be inducted in June, you must apply to participate, complete a minimum of 15 community service hours and submit your forms/evidence in Canvas. You must also be on A/B Honor Roll or Principal's Honor Roll for terms 1-3. Finally, you must participate in at least 1 extracurricular club and submit your form/evidence of this in Canvas.

Here is the online application link for the NJHS for SY23-24:

https://forms.office.com/r/xGn7iz7VhF

All applications are due by Nov. 10. If you have any questions about the NJHS, please reach out to Ms. Garcia (maria.garcia@k12.dc.gov) or Ms. Lienemann (stephanie.lienemann@k12.dc.gov) via email.

Math 8 scholars will complete a formative (b) on “slopes.” They will also analyze linear relations for lessons 5-7 in unit 3.

Math 7 scholars will continue to work with proportional relationships for lessons 10-13 in unit 2.

Thank you for supporting our scholars with passing their weekly I-Ready lessons. Our scholars will pass their first lesson for term 2 by 11/12.

Also, all grade 7 students will receive their weekly homework worksheet on 11/6, due 11/9. (First homework assignment for term 2)

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This week students designed and built a model "bone" to see if they could make it both light and strong. We currently have a tie for the best design. The tiebreaker will be during advisory today with brand new types of materials. We also began our study of the nervous system. Students read an excerpt from a NYT article published two weeks ago that detailed all of the new cells discovered in the brain.

Students may clean out their folders of anything from cells on white paper. They should keep all yellow notes sheets for the whole year.

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Please check Canvas for updates.

List of assignments

1. Formative C. and D. Choosing the best leader for society? – September 16, 2023. Complete in class.
2. Hominids Terminology Due September 14, 2023) – Found in the Hominids Module on Canvas
3. Domestication (Due September 21,2023) – Found in the Hominids module on canvas.
4. Formative A. Hominid terminology September 15, 2023 – Complete in class.
5. Summative C. and D. Agriculture Paragraph - Complete in class on September 21, 2023.
6. RCT Neolithic Timeline – September Complete in class.
7. Summative A. Hominids Test Complete in class via canvas on September 28, 2023
8. Mesopotamian Terminology (Due October 6, 2023 – Found in the Canvas module Mesopotamia
9. Formative C. Hammurabi’s Code Seminar – October 15, 2023 – Complete in class.
10. Summative C. Hammurabi’s Code Speeches -October 17, 2023