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Parents, I am placing the parent letters for our next two units here.  I hope this will help in knowing and planning for what your student will be studying in the upcoming weeks. 
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Yea!  We are on the downward run toward the end of the year.  Eighth graders have been registered for high school and the CRCTs are done.  Hopefully, no one will be attending summer school.  For the remainder of the year in Math 8 and Deep 8,  we are extending and reviewing the eighth grade math standards.  Students will have at least two quizzes the week of May 4 and May 11.  They will also have at least one major test before the last week of school.  The last week of school they will take a final exam that will cover the complete  year so they need to be reviewing on a daily basis.  All of these assessments will be included in the final average for the last nine weeks.

For Accelerated Math I, students have been given an Algebra I packet to study in preparation fo the EOCT which will be taken on May 13 and 14.  Also, we are finishing the last unit on circles and spheres.  They also will have at least two quizzes and one major test before the last week of school.  The EOCT will count 15% of their final nine weeks grade. 

Parents, CRCT testing begins tomorrow, April 23 and continues until Tuesday, April 29.  Students will have the reading test tomorrow, language arts on Thursday, and math on Friday.  Monday and Tuesday of next week will be science and social studies. Please be sure your child gets adequate rest and comes prepared with #2 pencils.  Thank you!

The eighth grade will have a slide-show at the end of school.  We need pictures!  If your child has pictures that they would like to share, please have them bring them to me by this Friday.   

Math 8:  Page 337 in your worktext. Be sure to show your work and check your answers.

Deep 8:  You have one problem assigned in class today.  It is a system of inequalities problem that you are suppose to graph. 

Accelerated Math I:  You have three activity sheets that were given out in class to complete for homework.  They are due tomorrow. 

Math 8 and Deep 8 -  page 361 in the worktext (not the text book) to work for tomorrow.  Be prepared for a short quiz over solving systems of equations by graphing. 

Accelerated Math I:  You have two pages to work for homework tonight.  Be sure you show work for each problem.  You will not receive full credit for this assignment if you only have answers with no work!

Homework tonight:
Deep 8: Page 664 - #s 1, 4, 5, 11, 13,and 15.
Accelerated Math I:  Learn what conjugates are - Mathwords.com is a good place to start.
Math 8: Page 663 - #s 15 - 24.

No homework for Math 8 and Accelerated Math I.
Deep 8 has page 610 #2-12 (Even) and #14, 20, 28.

Homework:
For Math 8 and Deep 8 classes - page 340 #34-43.

Tomorrow you will have a short quiz over parallel and perpendicular lines and the congruent angles formed by a transversal. 

No homework for Math 8 or Accelerated Math I
Deep 8 has 610 #2-12 (Even); #14, 20, 28.

Have a good weekend!

Math 8:  You should be studying for the test over unit 5 which will be given on Friday.  Be sure that you can do problems with -

• Linear functions:
  Graph from a table
  Graph given two points
  Find the slope and y-intercept from a given graph
• Write an equation that represents an arithmetic sequence
• Graph inequalities with two variable
• Write an equation to represent a situation and solve using that equation
• Write an equation in slope-intercept form and in point-slope form
• Explain slope and how you find it
• Name and explain each part of the slope-intercept form of an equation

Studying with your worktext from page 371 to page 407 should help you with this test. 

Deep 8:  You should be studying for the Unit 5 test on Friday.  You can use the list above to study also.

Accelerated Math I:  Test on Friday - Unit 5

Homework:

Math 8:  Pages 658-659 #s 2, 4, 6, 13, 14, 15-17, 22, 24.
             Test on Unit 5, Friday, March 14.

Deep 8:  Test on Unit 5, Friday, March 14.

Accelerated Math I: Test on Unit 5, March 14.

Homework:

Math I:    Complete the activity sheet on  inequalities with two variables.

Deep 8:  Page 658 in your "green" textbook #s 1-14.

Accelerated Math I:  In the Algebra I textbook (online) - page 666.  You do not have to work the problems.  You just need to be sure you understand the problems and that you can work them.