Hillcrest
Middle School
Welcome to Distance Learning! I know these are unprecedented times but we will work through this together. I will be posting your work here and will be using Google Classroom as well. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Monday
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Focus: Math - Percents
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Read through the Connect on page 309 of the text. Complete questions 1, 4, 8, 9
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Here is a video of a teacher going through the Connect with an additional example:
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Focus: Language
- Type up your March persuasion letter free writing and submit through google classroom. Remember - don’t share it with me or send it to my email...go through the assignment and attach it there!
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Hillcrest Athletics is on Instagram!
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Tuesday
Morning Message
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Focus: Math - Percents and Equivalents
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Take up questions from yesterday:
Answers
1a) 34/100, 0.34, 34%
1b) 8/100, 0.08, 8%
1c) 87/100, 0.87, 87%
4a) 26%
4b) 36%
4c) 44%
8a) 64%
8b) 50%
8c) 1%
9a) 13/100, 0.13
9b) 5/100, 0.05
9c) 79/100, 0.79
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Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmVfZ9o-2gg
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Complete questions text page 314 #4, 5, 6, 10
Focus: Language
1. Read an independent novel for 30 minutes
2. Practice your speech. I’m looking into ways to connect with you to hear it on Tuesday!
Wednesday
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Focus: Math - Percent of and Discount
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Take up your questions from yesterday.
Answers:
4a) ¾ = 75% using scale factor or 25
4b) 100%
4c) â…— = 60% using scale factor 20
5a) 50% (half shaded)
5b) ¼ = 25%
5c) â…— = 60% scale factor 20
6a) > because 5/10 would be 50% and 7 is greater
6b) < because ¾ is 75%
6c) < because scale factor 4 so 44 < 50
10) Ravi since 18/20 use scale factor 5 = 90/100 vs. 85/100 Karli
2. Watch the video from Khan Academy click here.
3. Understand that we can always use the benchmark of 10% and our powers of 10. For example, if you want to find 30% of 45, we know that 10% would be the same as x 0.1 which means we move the decimal one place to the left...so 10% of 45 would be 4.5. Now we can triple this number to get 30%. So 4.5 + 4.5 + 4.5 = 13.5
4. Complete questions page 318 #4, 6, 8, 10
5. Take a picture of your math flag task (both the flag and all your work) and email it to me.
Focus: Language - Listening to interpret
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Listen to the following podcast click here:
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Complete the google form - who do you think won the discussion
Thursday
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Focus: Math - Discount
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Take up questions from yesterday
Answers:
4a) 10
4b) 15
4c) 8
6) 18
8) 9
10) you could subtract 10%
2. POW - Click here for the problem of the week. I will post the answer on Tuesday.
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Weekly Check-in - complete the google form
Focus: Language - Writing Response
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Based off of the podcast you listened to yesterday, write a short response as to who you think had the best argument and won the debate. According to the survey, Flying was the winner with the majority of your votes! Post your response to padlet:
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2. Practice your speech aloud. You have the option to record an audio of yourself using a phone app like “voice memo” and send it to me or I will call you at home on Tuesday and you can say your speech to me live! The ones I have heard so far have been great and it’s been nice to hear your voices!
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3. Tomorrow is Good Friday so I will not be posting any more work until Tuesday. - Happy Easter, Enjoy!
Friday