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Mrs. Sitta's science classes recently completed amazing projects showing interactions among Earth's spheres. They are currently learning about natural disasters and how to prepare for them. Hurricane Matthew gave us a close look at how hurricanes are tracked as well as the devistation afterwards. You my look forward to a personal brochure full of important and relevant information that may save your property and lives prepared by these inquiring and knowledgeable students.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! Civics students have been learning about the weaknesses of America’s first form of government and how the Founding Fathers had to start over! The US Constitution has now been in place for over 230 years! Algebra students just completed their District Quarterly Exams and will be starting their unit on Functions. PreAlgebra students are learning about Slope and Proportional Relationships. Students will be working in collaborate groups this coming week to complete their slope projects in class. 7th grade ELA students were engrossed in Piri Thomas’s story of the “Amigo Brothers”, two friends who are boxers in Spanish Harlem in 1949. They have looked at the historical context of the time, acted out the boxing match themselves, discussed the relationship between the two friends, and done a deep character analysis of the two characters and the ways we know so much about them through their thoughts, actions, dialogue, and author’s description. Students will continue Felix and Antonio’s story in to the future focusing on switching point of view next week in a creative writing activity. 6th grade ELA has traveled back in time to the Gold Rush era to find some adventure through a Jack London short story. Students have analyzed the text for how setting affects tone and how plot and characters intertwine to move the events of story forward. Next week, they will begin to create a fictional Gold Rush character of their own for a creative writing activity. Learning of the toughness it took to survive in those conditions has been a great experience for our students. Breaking News! 6th Global Tech is popping open a novel from a great author and bursting into reading to take them to a place that they would never have imagine. Where will their reading take them? It may be to The chocolate Factory, Neverland, Treasure Island, Olympia, or The Diary of a Wimpy Kid….hmmmm….I don’t know, but I am excited to see! In a few weeks, the 6th grade students will bring their novels to life. Stay tuned for further updates! LCMA News Flash……Have you heard about our innovative 7th grade Global Tech students? They are taking Global Tech to another level with “Kidpreneurship”. They are giving entrepreneurship another name on a kid level. Now that we are in our 2nd half of the semester, the students will be creating a business plan for our T-shirt project. This is just the beginning, we will keep you update as we reach our target goals. Lavelle’s classes have begun examining the impact of a story’s setting on everything else: characters, plot, conflict, theme, mood, tone and meaning. They started by discussing superheroes. What is Batman without Gotham City? What happens to the plot of Black Panther if there’s no vibranium in Wakanda? How does Superman’s story change if we change Krypton? What does time mean to Wonder Woman if she can exist during World War I and also in contemporary society? Students will extend these ideas to the three most recent stories they’ve studied: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, and Thank You, Ma’am. For their final Summative Assessment for this unit, they will be tasked with resetting the time and/or place of one of these short stories and predicting how the rest of the story changes as a result. “TAKE NOTICE!” Students have taken on the role of various historical figures from neutralist, loyalist, and patriot perspectives to determine if rebellion against Great Britain is justifiable. It has been decided that war on the Freedom Park green is inevitable! Will students join the patriots in their fight for liberty or remain loyal to the safety and security of British rule?! LCMA's Fourth Annual Hispanic Festival is Friday, October 26th at Freedom Park 6th graders - 6th period (12:25-1:07) 7th graders - 7th period (1:10 - 1:55) 8th graders - 8th period (1:58 - 2:40) -All parents are welcome to come! Live Music, Games, Cultural Booths, Arts and Crafts, Sports! -Please send money with your students as there will be six food trucks selling Hispanic food and drinks, shaved ice, churros, donuts, Limbers (Puerto Rican Ice) and a lot more! Wow! What a fantastic week it has been for Ms. Wiggins Global Tech classes! We started off the week with 6th grade students making homemade lava lamps that can be used at home for multiple purposes. They were able to take a Voss water bottles and other ingredients to create a unique lamp. The students were able to apply the design cycle process while successful creating a lava lamp.
Towards the end of the week, 7th grade ended with “What kind of flavored drink can I create?”. Students are learning to be entrepreneurs in 7th grade. This project is about teaching our students the beginning steps towards entrepreneurship. Students learned about different parts of a business plan, create a pitch for their drink, and how to convince others to buy in, give peer reviews, and self- reflect. Thursday and Friday of this week, the students were given the opportunity to create their drink and allow their classmates to provide feedback about their drink. What a way for our students to show some of their culinary skills and apply them to the design cycle process! PreAlgebra students have been working hard on completing their City Map Project in class. We will complete our study of Transformations with dilations next week. Students will have the opportunity in class to retake 1 quiz or test on Wednesday, October 10th. Ms. Whitehurst’s classes have been analyzing the thematic implications of short stories and poems. They have also been making connections between multiple pieces of literature. 7th Grade classes have been analyzing “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. Students have explored themes such as: Treasure surpasses monetary value and holds sentimental value in one’s life; A child is a parent’s greatest treasure; and Determination and hope conquer life’s obstacles. Students have also created graphic organizer posters analyzing how theme develops over the course of the text and is driven by characters and plot. 8th Grade classes have been analyzing the work of Edgar Allan Poe. They have read his short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and his poem, “Alone”. Students have learned about the life of Poe and how his outlook on life plays a role in the themes of his writing. They have made connections between the two pieces and created graphic organizer posters to represent how theme relates to other literary elements such as characters, setting, plot, conflict, and resolution. Algebra students have progressed through solving various types of equations and will wrap up the nine weeks working on compound inequalities. Geometry students are demonstrating their understanding of rotations, dilations, translations and reflections through creative options of their choice. They also are finishing up Flatland and most have decided that living in a two-dimensional world would not be for them! Lavelle’s 8th-grade classes have been busy dissecting the language of the MYP Statement of Inquiry for Unit 1, along with the language of the current Learning Target, and making connections between the two. They are applying that language directly to the literature they’re reading in class, including Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh.” Their current project involves creating a theme statement in addition to examining the impact the central character has on both the movement of a story and its theme. 6th grade students in Mrs. Patient's Spanish class this week were introduced to the Fluency Fast Reading Novel (Las Aventuras de Isabela) which enable students to acquire Spanish Language easily and effectively in a brief period of time. Creative Writing & Drama: 6th & 7th Graders have been using their “acting chops” by participating in dress rehearsals for several skits held in class. They are learning and practicing stage directions, characterization, projection, and various other drama skills. These acting pieces will be followed by a writing assignment that will demonstrate self-reflection, backstory, or extending a scene through script-writing. 8th Graders are in the middle of their poetry unit. They have already written a haiku, limerick, and cinquain poem and will continue with concrete and free verse. Our dean, Mr. Simpson, also shared some of his original poetry from his days at Florida Southern College. Lastly, all of the original scripts for the “Out of the Box” troupe at Lakeland Community Theatre were hand delivered to Mrs. McGowan. A few of them were even performed for her in class. This collaboration is an excellent way our students reach the special needs community here at home. Civics: The student colonists have spoken! King George III was ruling like a tyrant and the colonists have had enough! Our “Break Up” letters have been delivered and the colonists are independent. Now, we are learning about the process of creating a new government, and it wasn’t as easy as they thought! From the Articles of Confederation to the US Constitution, we have lots of work to do! Ask us what we know! Science students spent this week in health lessons. Last week 8th grade Advanced Comprehensive students explored the density of different candy bars. Butler's Science classes:SC7L16.2 Learning Target: Use a Punnett square to determine the probability of genotypes and phenotypes of possible offspring Bean Gene Lab: Students were exploring how traits are passed from parent to offspring and how we can use a Punnett square as a tool to predict the possible traits of the offspring that are produced. First, they predicted or hypothesized what they thought the outcome (offspring traits) of the cross would be between 2 Heterozygous red flowers. For example, Riley J predicted “that the majority of the offspring would have red flowers with a small chance of white flowers because the parents both carried the recessive gene” We tested their predictions by using red and white beans as a model for genes received from each parent, and completed 50 trials. After analyzing their data from the 50 trials, they revisited their prediction to determine if it was supported or not supported by the data. Riley J discovered “my hypothesis was supported because 70%of the offspring produced did have red flowers, with only 30% having white flowers”. When then used a Punnett square to complete a cross between the same 2 flowers and see how those results compared to the 50 trials. (see pic I just sent) The students were shocked that using a Punnett square resulted in similar probabilities and was a much more efficient means of determining probability. Great things are happening EVERY day @ LCMA! Thanks to our fabulous teachers and students! |
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