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This Week in Grade 8ENGLISH: In both Monroe’sand Shull’s English classes,students watchedbrainpop.com videos and TheMaster Race documentary onthe Holocaust to build uptheir background knowledgeof WWII and the Holocaust.Student’s are now into the

first week of reading theirnovels and are beginningtheir weekly LiteratureCircles to discuss the novels -focusing on literary termssuch as theme, vocabulary,character development, etc.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

This week students watched

a video on the PhilippinesPeople Power revolution.They took notes on thehistory of the Marcos regimewhich led up to the peacefulrevolution of the people inthe mid 1980s. Next week

students will begin to writea persuasive essayanswering the question,‘Was People Power asuccess or a failure?’

SCIENCE:

Students spent the weekexploring various simplemachines - the wedge,

pulleys, inclined plane, andthe lever. The concept of mechanical advantage (MA)was explained and studentslearned the MA formulaand made calculations witheach simple machine. Nextweek students will begintheir performance task -working in a group theywill design and build arescue machine (see Mr.Pasamba’s blog for details).

MATH:

Students began andcompleted, this week, theirStatistics performance taskfor which they createdtheir own scatterplots onthe computer to based onclass measurements onheight and arm span. Theyare now discussing graphs -

how to read a graph, createone, and finally will createdata graphs on theircalculators.

IMPORTANT DATES TO

REMEMBER:

* Jan. 21 - International Family

Fun Day at ISM 1-6pm

* Jan. 23 - No School - Chinese

New Year

UPCOMING ASSESSMENTS &

DUE DATES: 

* English - reminder for students

to stay on track with their

group assigned reading sections

IMPORTANT WEBSITES USED IN

CORE CLASSES:

• Google Docs

• brainpop.com

• Noodle tools - research skills &

notecards

WEEKLY BULLETIN: GRADE 8 LEARNING SUPPORT

 JANUARY 20, 2012

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL MANILA 

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Skill & Strategy Areas of 

Focus:

 Vocabulary Development:

- Developing strategies to help

determine meaning of new 

 vocabulary & expanding 

student’s vocabulary base

- Using context clues

- Categorizing/Classifying 

- Understanding words with

Multiple Meanings

- Prefix & Suffix meanings -

using these to help determine

 word meaning 

- Root Words/Base words - for

meaning 

The Writing Process:

- We are beginning to look at

the structure of a persuasive

paragraph or essay 

- how to support your opinion

 with valid reasons and

organize them into a strong 

persuasive paragraph

Research Strategies:

- using templates to organize

information

- Noodle tools online

- Paraphrasing skill practice

Study Skills:

- Note-taking strategies: we

are using the Cornell

method which is the 2

column notes method

(main ideas on left side;

supporting details on

right)

- difference between facts

and opinions

Time Management:

- chunking long term/

large assignments into

smaller due dates

Strategy Instruction Class

1.  Note- Taking Strategies

2.  Study Skills

3.  Time Management

4.  Self - Advocacy 

5.  Paragraph Writing

6.  Summary Writing

7.  Editing Strategies

8.  Interactive Reading

9.  Learning Styles