October 16, 2024

We look forward to seeing all of you at Parent Teacher Conferences this week!

World History:

Things are going great in World History! Students have completed their Unit 2 tests and will be moving into Unit 3 beginning next week. Please reach out if you have any questions

- Mr. Bottom

Physical Education:

All is well in PE! We have begun units in Scatterball and Alaskan Kickball. Students in Sports Conditioning will be finishing up fitness testing and next week we will resume our normal workout routine. Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have for your student!

*We will look to go outside as much as possible for PE (weather permitting). Please help us in reminding our students to bring water bottles and tennis shoes every day they have PE.

Contact Information:

Coach Amon
Phone 913-651-7371. Ext 4111 Email pamon@usd207.org

Coach Dreiling
Phone: 913-651-7371 Ext. 4110 Email: tdreiling@usd207.org

Coach Turner
Phone: 913-651-7371 Ext. 4138 Email: cturner@usd207.org

Avid 9:

This week in AVID we had our first official Tutorial. Students will also reflect on their progress so far to prepare for conferences.

Math:

• Just a reminder that students can check Google classroom for the Weekly Learning Plan, Vocabulary, Lesson Recordings, and Completed Notes.

• Please continue to check Skyward regularly to check that students are completing assignments.

Algebra students are working in Module 3 “Relations & Functions”. There will be a quiz, Wednesday, Oct. 23 and the Module Vocab quiz and Test are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 28 and 29.

Pre-Algebra students started Module 4 “Exponents and Scientific Notation” this week. There is a quiz scheduled for Friday, Oct. 25.

Geometry students are working in Module 3 “Logical Arguments and Line Relationships”. The Module 3 Vocab quiz and Test are scheduled for Thursday Oct. 31 and Friday Nov. 1.

Thank you and have a great weekend! Mrs. Blount

Art:

Student artists completed the art challenges they began last week. The 7th, 8th and 9th grade artists learned the history of linear perspective this week. They are now ready to begin 1-point perspective (7th) and 2-point perspective (8th and 9th) drawing projects. 6th grade artists will create 3D lettering designs.

Culinary Essentials:

Students are working on the Flow of Food. This follows food from the time it is received at the restaurant until it is served to the customer. This allows students to practice skills to keep foods safe at all stages of the process. Students should expect to have their Unit 1 on Friday, September 20th. Students have access to notes and slides provided in class to begin studying. ALL students will be required to earn a minimum of an 80 on the Safety test before cooking in class. **Reminder that all assignments from Unit 1 can be submitted up until test day to receive credit. All remaining assignments will remain a 0.

If you have any questions, please contact me at kcox@usd207.org

Foods and Nutrition:

Students are wrapping up their first Unit in F&N. Wednesday, September 18th will be the Unit 1: Safety Test. ALL students will be required to earn a minimum of an 80 on the Safety test before cooking in class. PLEASE encourage your student to study using the notes and slides supplied in class. **Reminder that all assignments from Unit 1 can be submitted up until test day to receive credit. All remaining assignments will remain a 0.

If you have any questions, please contact me at kcox@usd207.org

Principles of Biomedical Science:

We are starting the next unit in class which will focus on what happens in a morgue. Students will learn about autopsies, time of death, manner of death, etc. I know this is a sensitive topic for most students and hope you will ask them about it at home to provide support. A great way to start the conversation would be to ask to view the PLTW website so you can see the material, how it is presented, etc. In addition, we will be briefly discussing the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Center, sometimes referred to as the body farm. The scientists have human bodies in different stages of decay and study what happens at each stage. This is helpful to law enforcement as it gives them firsthand experience in what happens when a person dies and helps them determine the time of death.

Students also made a trip this week to the dome theater at Bradley Elementary for an astronomy lesson. Have a super weekend!

Spanish 1:

Quarter 2 will include more note-taking and a switch to more instructions being given in the target language of Spanish. We will continue to supplement with Señor Wooly, but we will be utilizing the structural components through using our Savvas curriculum.

This week:

CP pages (10/15) 31-34, (10/16) 35-38

Next week:

GP pages (10/21) 53-58,

(10/23) 59-62, & (10/25) 63-68

QUIZ over six-box format

Quiz 10-100 & 100-1,000

Kahoots over subject pronouns, ser, vocabulary 2A

Nuggets 1-6 Encerrada En La Escuela are due on 25 October.

Dicho #5: La necesidad es la madre de la inventiva. (Necessity is the mother of invention.) Quiz 1 November

ELA:

We had a good short week in 9th grade ELA. Students completed a “Says Means Matters” organizer on “Booker T and W.E.B.,” a poem by Dudley Randall. They also participated in a “philosophical chairs” activity. Next week we will start on a new unit: “Against All Odds.”

Please reach out if you have any questions!

–Trace Gibson (tgibson@usd207.org)

Drama 8/9 -

Auditions for our next show began this week and will carry into next week. Once the roles have been cast, we will begin learning lines, drawing sets, making prop lists, and creating light plans. All this is in preparation for our December 3rd production.

Ms. Paradies pparadies@usd207.org

Broadcasting:

Students will have new jobs this week. When not working on their news tasks, students are working on at least 3 independent projects from the choice board. These activities are due 11/8.

Engineering Essentials:

Students will complete Unit 1 this week. Unit 2 covers making objects move. We will review simple and compound machines as students develop and use models to represent objects and systems. Students employ experimental design to inform development of a model that represents important aspects of a phenomenon, and develop a protocol to test the function of a mechanical device compared to design criteria. Finally, students work with rapid prototyping equipment to design and create physical models.

ESL:

We will be wrapping up our study on paragraph structure with learning how to write a good conclusion paragraph. We'll put all the components together to write a final five paragraph essay.

https://secure.smore.com/n/s84k2-october-newsletter

Nina Hewitt ESOL Teacher

Patton Jr. High: 913-651-7371

Have a great weekend!

- 9th Grade Team