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General News This week in SEL we used our flex time to talk about different types of communication. We discussed the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive communication. Assertive is the goal! In small groups we roleplayed different common middle school scenarios one might encounter and ways one might handle that in various different communication styles. We are collecting food for the Hope Food pantry and have been using our Delta grati-turkey to reflect on the everyday blessings we sometimes forget to count. Our school is also “adopting” three families through an organization called Housing Support Services Alliance. Cameron (Ms. […]

Math: The Meatballs tackled measurement conversions and percents this week. The 8th grade class continued to work with slope-intercept form. They had lessons on multiple representations where they wrote verbal descriptions, equations, tables, and graphs of linear functions. The Algebra class had a check in over direct and inverse variation on Monday then jumped into the system of equations unit. They can solve systems of equations by graphing and substitution. Next week we will cover the elimination method. Humanities: Our Humanities topic of Short Stories is getting longer! This week, we continued our look at the topic by reading stories