OFF-LINE LEARNING PACKET GRADE 8 While the experience of in-classroom instruction cannot be replaced, we hope that our home learning resources are supportive of your efforts at home. This is not intended to take the place of regular classroom instruction but will serve to supplement and provide opportunities for student learning. Learning activities are a combination of paper and technology-based options across multiple subject areas, including consideration for student physical and metal wellness. In addition to these resources, we have prepared activities that are available for students who receive additional supports including dual language, highly capable, and special education services. KELLOGG MIDDLE SCHOOL – SHORELINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS PACKET #2: FOR JUNE 8 – JUNE 19, 2020 (Please be sure to pick up all 3 parts.): 1. 8th GRADE CORE PACKET (science, social studies, English/language arts, EL) 2. MS MATH PACKET (7 & 8 – contains all levels of math) 3. ELECTIVES SUPPLEMENT (includes art, music, world language, and PE/health) 8TH CORE CLASSES Kellogg MS JUNE 8 – june 19, 2020 ________________________ Table of contents ENGLISH 8/ENGLISH 8 HONORS . 1-11 SCIENCE 8/SCIENCE 8 HONORS. 12-26 SOCIAL STUDIES 8/SOCIAL STUDIES 8 HONORS . 27-34 ENGLISH LEARNING . 35-45 1 English 8: Do Something! ​ Ms. Jarvis an​ d Ms. Petersen, The Challenge to Make a Difference Main idea we’re learning about I know I learned this idea if I can... Essential Questions: How do non-profit organizations use ● Analyze informational texts for their persuasive argumentative strategies including logos, ethos, and strategies pathos to encourage people to make a difference? How ● Apply my learning to my This I Believe essay ​ ​ can I apply these strategies to my “The Challenge to Make a Difference” project? Engage Last week, you reviewed the strategies used to convince people to make a difference. Take a look at this public service announcement/ad. Can you identify the elements of logos, ethos, and pathos used in the ad as a call to action? Logos: An appeal to logic with facts, reasons, statistics ​ Pathos: An appeal to emotion with personal examples, ​ heightened language, powerful images Ethos: An appeal supporting the author’s credibility (expertise) ​ Read and Analyze Read two informational texts on pages 2-3, about how young people are making a difference in ​ ​ the world. Think about the target audience for these campaigns (an operation to achieve a particular objective e.g. political campaigns or fundraising campaigns). After Reading: Complete the reading questions to help you evaluate the texts. ​ Reflect and Share You have looked at several examples of young people making a difference. Talk with someone ​ at home about how you will act to make a difference in the world in support of your core values. 1 2 Apply your learning to your unit project It’s time to finish up your essay and celebrate your work! Here are some final steps for revising and editing your writing, and then in the next lesson you’ll be sharing your essay. Revise your essay: Look at your essay as one piece of writing. Try reading it out loud. Listen ​ for parts that don’t flow well or parts where you need to clarify details. Look for a voice that sounds like you. Check over all your notes and make sure you included everything you thought was important. Edit your essay: Read it out loud and fix run-on sentences. Check spelling, capitalization, and ​ paragraphing for each new idea. Extend your thinking with this option Create a poster to inform and persuade an audience about a topic that is important to you for which young people can make a difference. Share it with your friends and family. Here are two informational texts discussing ways you can make a difference in our society. Read the texts and answer the text questions. Article 1 From ​ Do Something! A Handbook for Young Activists Nancy Lublin Listen up! You don’t have to be a rock star of the president or even have a driver's license to change the world. You can do something important right now--like, before your head hits the pillow tonight--that can make a difference in someone's life, change something for the better, or fix an important problem. Young people rocking change isn’t just possible; it's happening every day. Like the 12-year-old who registered over 10,000 people to donate bone marrow for people with cancer. Or the 7-year-old who taught other kids to swim. Or the 10-year-old who raised $30 by selling lemonade--and it was enough to buy food at a shelter for one night. If they can do it, so can you. Facts about DoSomething.org in 2012 1. 2.4 million young people took action through our campaigns in 2012. 2. We have 1,667,208 members doing stuff to improve their communities and the world. 3. Our 977,781 mobile subscribers take action and text us all about it. 4. We gave young people $24,000 in scholarships in 2012 5. Our members collected 1,020,041 pairs of jeans for homeless youth through our Teens for Jeans campaign. 6. Our members recycled over 1.2 million aluminum cans through our 50 cans campaign. 2 3 English 8: Do Something! 7. Our members donated 316,668 books to school libraries through our Epic Book Drive. 8. 67,808 members stood up to bullying through our Bully text campaign. Answer these text questions with complete sentences. 1. What is the author’s purpose for this excerpt? 2. Who is the target audience for this excerpt? 3. How effective is the diction (word choice) of the piece in appealing to its target audience? Cite examples in your explanation. Article 2 About Freerice.com World Food Programme Freerice is a nonprofit website that is owned by and supports the United Nation World Food Programme. Freerice has two goals: provide education to everyone for free and to help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your education can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself. Perhaps even greater is the investment your donated rice makes to hungry human beings, enabling them to function and be productive. Somewhere in the world a person is eating rice that you helped provide. The Freerice online interactive game donates 20 grains of rice to the World Food Programme for every word that is correctly defined. WFP, the United Nations organization fighting hunger, distributes the rice to the hungry. WFP uses the donations from the site to purchase rice locally, both feeding people in need and stimulating, or increasing activity, in local economies. Already the site has raised enough rice to feed over 1.5 million people for a day. The game has been embraced by young and old alike, proving to be an excellent tool for prepping for the SATs or to brush up on vocabulary words. Teachers have been using the game to teach both vocabulary and the value of helping others in need. Answer these text questions with complete sentences: 1. How does the game on freerice.com achieve its two goals? 2. Can you identify logos, ethos, and pathos in this article? This week, you have considered two informational texts that call for young people to make a difference in the world. Now apply these ideas to your project. As you wrap up your “This I Believe” essay, think about what your personal call to action is. How will you work locally to support your core values? 3 4 English 8: Music Brings Us Together Ms. Jarvis and Ms. Petersen, The Challenge to Make a Difference Main idea we’re learning about I know I learned this idea if I can... Essential Questions: What language skills have ● Match the vocabulary words to their I learned this year that have strengthened my definitions skills? How can music bring people together ● Explain an author’s message about music and make a difference in our lives? What are and making a difference my personal goals I need to accomplish to ● Revise and edit my project work. Choose finish my Challenge to Make a Difference the method I will use to share my project project? and work on completing it. Engage and review This year you’ve learned important figurative language and other vocabulary words for English. Knowing the terms will help you be prepared for English in high school. To finish your learning of these words please follow these steps: 1. Use the list of words and definitions on page 7 to practice. You could cut ​ ​ them apart to make flash cards or to play a matching game. 2. When you are ready take the fill in the blank quiz on page 9. Afterwards use ​ ​ the answer key at the end of the lesson on page 5 to correct your quiz. ​ ​ Besides the words in the practice list the following are also important to review: utopia, imagery, flashback, simile, foreshadowing, protagonist, conflict, and plot. Look them up or ask someone if you don’t remember them. Every now and then quiz yourself on these words to stay sharp for high school! Read and analyze Our topic this week to continue our theme of The Challenge to Make a Difference is music, which brings people together, and brings joy and wellness to our lives. Taking care of ourselves is super important, and for many people enjoying music is part of that. Read the article titled How Listening to Music Can Have Psychological Benefits ​ on pages 10-11 and answer the questions to analyze the author’s message.