Weekly Update from Team Mesa Verde

On October 10th and 11th students do not have school.

October 10: Student led family conferences

You should be on the lookout for an email to sign up from your child's advisory teacher. If you have not received a link, please reach out to them.

October 11: Professional Development Day

Our team will be running and participating in a food drive benefitting the Capital Area Food Bank leading up to Thanksgiving. We will be hosting a competition between homerooms to see who can bring in the most canned food. We will count how many unexpired items each first period class brings in and collect them for donation. I will buy doughnuts for the winning homeroom.

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All students will have their 3rd I-Ready lesson passed by 10/6 at midnight, along with their weekly homework on PEAR. Please check Aspen to see what homework assignments scholars have missed.

Math 7 students are completing their "end of unit 1" assessment on Tuesday (10/1), and we will jump into unit 2 as we get ready for proportional relationships.

Math 8 will also complete their "end of unit 1" assessment around Wednesday. We will then launch into unit 2 as we learn about "dilations, similarities, and slopes".

Please reach out to Mr. Walton with any questions and concerns.

This week students observed live protists swimming around under the microscope. They also wrote and performed their own experiments on spinach photosynthesis. Chloroplast Part 2 (the spinach lab) will be graded as a summative. I purposefully have made it due at the end of class tomorrow so that students may submit it until the end of term.

Next week we will continue to study organelles.

Hello! This week, the students annotated primary and secondary sources about Native resistance to European colonization. Then, they spent the rest of the week creating a timeline of the various events studied in class. Using the timeline, the students chose 2 interactional events to complete graphic organizers, where they identified details about the event and its impact on the groups involved.

Next Week:

Monday: Geography & Culture of 13 British Colonies

Tuesday: 13 British Colonies cont.

Wednesday: Introduce Unit 1 Summative & Study Guide

Thursday: Summative work time

Friday: Summative work time

Library Corner

The library orientations have completed for all students! Most students have now checked out at least one book from the library! Notices will go out next week for 6th students who have overdue materials and over the following two weeks for 7th and 8th graders.

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.

Retakes and Grading:

· Any assignment that earned a D+ or below may be retaken once within the progress report marking period. The highest possible grade on a revised assignment is a C (76).

· All late work for assignments due before progress reports must be submitted by the end of the progress report marking period. Assignments due before this period will not be accepted after this deadline. All late work for assignments assigned after the end of the progress report marking period is due by the end of the term. The grade for a late assignment will be reduced by one letter grade (i.e. A- to B-).

Please check Aspen and/or Canvas for updates.

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