7th/8th Grade Packet

Go Tigers!

PE Every week you will need to track your physical activity Monday-Thursday. You need to aim for a minimum of 30 minutes for each day. Your physical activity could be almost anything: walking your dog, taking a jog, riding your horse, riding a scooter, practicing your dribbling for basketball, or a youtube fitness video. Go ahead and be creative and get moving!

Day Activity Minutes Intensity Level

Monday Easy 1 2 3 4 5 DIfficult

Tuesday Easy 1 2 3 4 5 Difficult

Wednesday Easy 1 2 3 4 5 Difficult

Thursday Easy 1 2 3 4 5 Difficult

Daily Warm Up (Pre Work-Out) 1. Jumping Jacks a. 30 seconds

b. c. Start in a standing position d. Jump in the air and split your legs apart while raising your hands above your head e. Jump again and bring your feet back to the starting position while lowering your arms back down to your side f. Repeat the process for 30 seconds 2. High Knees a. 30 seconds in place b. c. As if you were running, drive one knee to your chest d. Then, quickly change legs by placing one down and driving the other to the chest 3. Caterpillar Crawls a. 10 reps

b. c. Start in a standing position d. Bend down as if you were going to touch your toes e. Place your hands on the floor f. Begin walking your hands out to a push up position g. Once you are out as far as you can go, begin walking your legs back up toward your hands h. Repeat the process 4. Knee Hug to a Lunge a. You can do this stationary in a hallway, or outside in your yard b. 5 per leg

c. d. Start by grabbing one knee and hugging it to your chest e. Drive your hips forward, let go of your knee, let it step forward, and drop to a lunge position f. Stand up and drive the opposite knee forward using the same process g. Repeat, 5 per leg 5. Leg Cradles a. You can do this stationary, in the hallway, or outside in your yard b. 5 per leg

c. d. Bring one leg up e. If it is your right leg, grab under your knee with your right hand f. With your left hand, grab over the top of our ankle (do not grab your foot) g. Pull the leg up to the chest with an emphasis on trying to get the lower leg parallel to the floor h. Alternate legs and repeat the process

6. Lateral Lunge a. You can do this stationary, in a hallway, or outside in your yard b. 5 per leg

c. d. Start with your feet together about shoulder width apart e. With one leg take a big step out to the side f. Make sure both feet stay flat and toes pointing slightly forward g. Drop down into a lunge position keeping back leg straight and front leg bent h. Push yourself back into the starting position and repeat i. You can do one leg 5 times and switch or alternate legs going from one side to the other 7. Deep Lunge to a Hamstring Stretch a. You can do this stationary, in a hallway, or outside in your yard b. 5 per leg

c. d. Take a large step out into a lunge position e. Place both hands inside the front knee and drop to the ground as low as you can without touching the back knee to the ground f. Walk the back leg up and straighten both knees while fingers are trying to touch your toes g. Step out with the opposite leg and repeat the process

Monday Workout 1. Body Squats (If you have something to add weight to it feel free) a. 4 Sets of 30 reps

b. c. Make sure you practice the same form we use in class i. Good athletic stance ii. Low back locked in iii. Chest opened up d. Get parallel i. Make sure you are getting all the way down e. Control your speed i. It should take you about 2 seconds on the way down and one second on the way up 2. Squat Jumps a. 3 sets of 20 reps

b. c. Make sure and use counter movement i. This means that you will start in a standing position, drop down to a good jumps stance, jump and throw the arms up, then land down into a squat ii. Repeat the process 3. Standing Lunges a. 3 sets of 10 per leg (total of 20)

b. c. Start in a standing position d. Step out with one leg i. Make sure that you have space between your legs and are lunging on “railroad tracks” not a “balance” beam ii. As you step, stay locked in and chest up 1. Your knees should be at 90°, not out in front of your toes 2. Bend the back knee until it slightly touches the ground 3. Push yourself back to the starting position 4. Switch legs and repeat the process 4. Mini Squats a. 3 sets of 30 seconds b. c. Start in a below parallel position d. When you start the time, stand up to just above parallel. i. Do not stand all the way up straight e. Repeat this process for 30 seconds f. If you want to challenge yourself even more, at the end of 30 seconds, hold the parallel squat position for as long as you can

Tuesday Workout

1. Normal Crunches a. 3 sets of 30 reps

b. c. Lay down on the floor with your knees bent at 90 degrees and your feet up d. Cross your arms on your chest, or put your hands by your ears e. Curl your upper body up toward your knees f. Come back down flat g. Repeat the process

2. Dolphins a. 3 sets of 30 reps b. c. Start in a good plank position with your forearms on the floor, your belly button up tight and your low back flat d. Push your hips and belly button up toward the ceiling e. Drop back down into a good plank position f. Repeat the process for 30 reps 3. Cobra’s a. 3 sets of 30 reps

b. c. Lay down on the floor on your stomach and hands to your side d. Lift your chest and arms off the floor as high as you can, keeping arms straight and by your side e. Make sure your toes stay on the ground f. Drop down to starting position g. Repeat process for 30 reps

Thursdays Workout

Between each set, stand up and hold your arms straight out with palms facing down for 30 seconds. Keep your hands about your ear level with elbows straight. This will help with deltoids.

1. Push-Ups a. 4 sets of 25 b. Normal Modified c. Start with hands slightly wider than shoulder width (for some this may be wider than others). Place your hands like we do when we bench press d. Keep your core tight and back locked in e. Drop down and stop 2-4 inches above the ground f. Push yourself up g. Repeat the process

2. Incline Press a. 3 sets to failure (as many as you can)

b. c. Find some chairs, your couch or a bench of some sort d. Position yourself just as you would for a push up e. Go down until your chest is 2-4 inches from the bench f. Repeat the process to failure 3. Tricep Push-Ups a. 3 sets to failure (as many as you can)

b. To modify, drop down to your knees c. Place your hands as if to make a triangle with your thumbs and pointer fingers d. Hold a tight plank as you would for a push up e. Drop down until your chest is 3-5 inches from the ground f. Push yourself up to starting position g. Repeat the process

7th MATH Please complete this week’s lessons of iReady: Understand Proportional Relationships, Write Equations for Proportional Relationships, and Practice: Proportional Relationships

8th Math Please complete this week’s lessons of iReady: Concept of a Function, Linear Functions, Linear Functions, and Rate of Change and Initial Value.

MS English Language Arts Daily Reading Tracking

Name:______

Week # 1 Dates 4/13 4/14 4/15 4/16 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 2 Dates 4/20 4/21 4/22 4/23 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 3 Dates 4/27 4/28 4/29 4/30 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 4 Dates 5/4 5/5 5/6 5/7 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 5 Dates 5/11 5/12 5/13 5/14 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 6 Dates 5/18 5/19 5/20 5/21 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 7 Dates 5/25 5/26 5/27 5/28 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Week # 8 Dates 6/1 6/2 6/3 6/4 Total Title/Author Pages Pages Read

Weekly Writing Prompt #4 This week we are learning about plot. Plot is the sequence of events in a story. Every day of the week you need to write a paragraph describing what is happening in your book right now. Make sure to have lots of details! Only write about your book you are reading or have read. Make sure to watch the video on YouTube about plot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yzY6buMflo

Amphibians

Fill in the chart using the words: Frog, Adult frog, eggs, tadpole with eggs, tadpole Social Studies: US History Please read the following article on Shays’ Rebellion. There will be questions at the end so please complete them and send them either typed up in an email to Ms. Miller or take pictures of your handwritten answers and send them to Ms. Miller’s email.

Shays’ Rebellion was a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in that began in 1786 and led to a full-blown military confrontation in 1787. The rebels were mostly ex-Revolutionary War soldiers-turned farmers who opposed state economic policies causing poverty and property foreclosures. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a farmer and former soldier who fought at Bunker Hill and was one of several leaders of the insurrection.

What Caused Shays' Rebellion? The farmers who fought in the Revolutionary War had received little compensation, ​ ​ and by the 1780s many were struggling to make ends meet.

Businesses in Boston and elsewhere demanded immediate payment for goods that farmers had previously bought on credit and often paid off through barter. There was no paper money in circulation and no gold or silver to be accessed by the farmers to settle these debts.

At the same time, Massachusetts residents were expected to pay higher taxes than ​ ​ they had ever paid to the British in order to assure that Governor ’s business associates would receive a good return on their investments.

With no means to move their crops and make money to pay off debts and taxes, Boston authorities began to arrest the farmers and foreclose on their farms.

The Rebellion Begins Farmers first attempted peaceful means to settle their issues. In the August of 1786, farmers in began to take direct action against debtors’ courts. Committees of town leaders drafted a document of grievances and proposed reforms, some considered radical, for the legislature in Boston to enact.

But other actions began to take place. In Northampton, Captain Joseph Hines led several hundred men to block judges from entering the courthouse. They were joined by a contingent from Amherst and several hundred more men from elsewhere.

In Worcester, judges were blocked from holding court by crowds of hundreds of armed men. When the militia was called in, those men refused to answer, and many joined the crowd around the courthouse.

Daniel Shays Daniel Shays, for whom the rebellion was eventually named, was a farmer in Pelham and an ex-soldier who fought at Bunker Hill and other significant Revolution battles.

Shays became involved with the insurgents sometime in the summer of 1786 and had taken part in the Northampton action. He was offered a leadership position in August but refused.

Soon, however, Shays was leading a sizable group and the eastern elite claimed he was the leader of the entire rebellion and potential dictator. But Shays was only one leader in the rebellion.

In September, Shays led a group of 600 men to shut down the court in Springfield. Determined to use peaceful means, he negotiated with General for the court to open while allowing protesters to parade. The court eventually closed down when it couldn’t find any jurors to serve.

A concerned Henry Knox, an artillery commander during the Revolutionary war and the future first U.S. Secretary of War, wrote to George Washington in 1786 to warn ​ ​ him about the rebels:

“[T]hey see the weakness of Government[,] they feel at once their own poverty compared with the opulent, and their own force, and they are determined to make use of the latter in order to remedy the former. Their creed is that that the property of the has been protected from the confiscations of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all…Our government must be braced, changed, or altered to secure our lives and property. We imagined that the mildness of our government and the virtue of the ​ ​ people were so correspondent, that we were not as other nations requiring brutal force to support the laws—But we find that we are men, actual men, possessing all the turbulent passions belonging to that animal and that we must have a government proper and adequate for him.”

Shays’ Rebellion Escalates The insurgents found support in unexpected places. Chief Justice William Whiting of the Berkshire County Court was a wealthy conservative who publicly spoke out in favor of the rebellion, accusing the wealthy state legislatures of making money off the impoverished farmers and claiming the farmers were obligated to disrupt government in response.

Legendary patriot Samuel Adams, however, called for the execution of the rebellious ​ ​ farmers.

The Massachusetts legislature offered leniency and flexibility to those with tax burdens. Amnesty was also offered to the rebels if they disavowed the efforts to close the courts. The farmers were expected to take oaths of allegiance to the state government.

However, a bill was passed excusing sheriffs from responsibility if they killed any insurgents and declaring harsh punishments for rebels in custody. Soon after, the legislature suspended the writ of habeas corpus for a period of time.

Another bill prescribed the death penalty for militiamen who took part in the protests.

The situation continued to escalate. In December 1786, a militia assaulted a farmer and his family in Groton, arresting and crippling the farmer, which further fanned the flames of the insurrection. In January 1787, Governor Bowdoin hired his own army, privately funded by Boston businessmen. Some 4,400 men under the command of General were directed to put down the insurgency.

Attack on Springfield Arsenal Shays and other leaders made plans to raid the federal arsenal in Springfield to procure weapons. On the snow-covered morning of January 25, 1787, 1,200 men approached the arsenal. Some men had guns, while some carried clubs and pitchforks.

General Shepard predicted the assault and was waiting at the arsenal. Shepard believed the insurgents planned to overthrow the government. Meanwhile, General Lincoln’s troops marched from Worcester to Springfield to provide additional defense.

Two other groups of insurgents traveled to join Shays. Another rebellion leader, Luke Day, who had ridden to Quebec with Benedict Arnold in 1775, would head from ​ ​ the north with 400 men. Eli Parsons would lead 600 men from the Berkshires.

As they approached the arsenal, shots were fired at Shays and his men. The first two were warning shots over their heads, but further shots left two rebels dead and 20 wounded. The rest retreated to Chicopee, sending a message back to Shepard demanding the dead for burial.

Lincoln sent troops up the Connecticut River to prevent advances from Day’s group. ​ ​ Shays and his men fled to Petersham. Lincoln followed, causing them to scatter. Shays and his wife fled to Vermont. ​ ​

Aftermath of Shays’ Rebellion Attempts to rekindle the rebellion from Vermont with Revolutionary War leader failed. Allen quietly gave former rebels refuge in Vermont, but publicly disavowed them.

The Boston legislature passed the Disqualification Act banning rebels from serving on juries, holding public office, voting or working as schoolmasters, innkeepers and liquor salesmen for three years. By the summer of 1787, many participants in the rebellion received pardons from newly-elected Governor . The new legislature placed a moratorium on ​ ​ debts and cut taxes, easing the economic burden the rebels were struggling to overcome. Some rebels were publicly paraded to the gallows before release. Two were executed for burglary.

Shays was pardoned the following year. He returned to Pelham briefly, then moved to Sparta, New York, where his legend made him a popular attraction for visitors. He ​ ​ ​ ​ died in 1825 and was laid to rest in an unmarked grave.

Shays is memorialized by the Daniel Shays Highway in western Massachusetts, a section of US Route 202 built in 1935 that runs through Pelham.

Significance of Shays’ Rebellion At the time of Shays’ Rebellion, the newly formed United States was governed by the Articles of Confederation, a document that many in the country felt was too weak ​ ​ ​ to effectively manage the fledgling nation.

The specter of Shays’ Rebellion informed the debate over the framing of a new U.S. Constitution, providing fuel to Alexander Hamilton and other Federalists who ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ advocated for a strong federal government and diminished states’ rights.

Nationalists used the rebellion to heighten paranoia, and George Washington was convinced enough by their arguments to come out of retirement and take part in the Constitutional Convention, where he was elected the first president of the United ​ States.

Shays’ name was often mentioned in attacks by the Federalists against critics of the Constitution, who were referred to as “Shaysites.”

When the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention began, many communities in Massachusetts that supported the rebellion sent delegates that had taken part in it. Of the 97 “Shaysite” towns sending delegates, only seven voted in favor of the Constitution.

Read Lesson 3: Creating the Constitution Please answer all questions with Complete Sentences. ​ 1. What was one thing from the article that you did not understand after reading?

2. Under the section Shays’ Rebellion Escalates, it mentions the insurgents finding support ​ ​ in unexpected places. Who did the insurgents receive support from?

3. One bill that was created determined that the death penalty could be given to militiamen

for their participation in what?

4. When did the Attack on Springfield Arsenal occur, and what ended up happening?

5. What did the Disqualification Act do?

MS Ag 2nd period

This week you are to begin your Sheep Breed Report. You must include at least 2 breeds, discuss their origin, characteristics, wool type, physical characteristics, size of rams and ewes, and popularity in the US. It must be 12 point font, 1 and 1/2 pages, double spaced, with a cover page and bibliography. Picture of the breeds need to be included, but put them on a separate page from your text. Make sure it is your own work. No plagiarism! This assignment is due by Tuesday May 12.

MS Ag Mech- 3rd period

https://classroom.google.com/w/Njg2NDIzNzUxNzla/t/all

Business

Since the pandemic has started, many companies have seen their sales drop. Why do you think that is? People have the ability to purchase the same products online, so why are sales still dropping? What kind of things have some businesses done in order to try and maintain high sales? Have their plans worked? What kind of effects have these plans/strategies had on their brand, image, employees, and other factors? Also, do some research and compare some similar businesses. Determine how or why one business is doing well while the other is not. What is one doing right compared to their competitor?

Your job is to answer the previously mentioned questions and write a three to four paragraph response.

Band

Concert F major scale. On page 42 of your book.

Extra credit You can do another scale off of page 42 for extra credit.

You can email me a video or complete it on smart music.