Monday March 16, 2015

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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HOMEWORK:

Math:

7th Grade:

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• POW

8th Grade:

• John's Group
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• Grace's Group: 
• Finish what you started in class.

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Humanities:

Literature Study:

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All:

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Grade 7:

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Grade 8:

• Turn outline into rough draft. First half DUE 3/24 
• Put the bibliography at the end.
• Minimum 2500 words

Science:   

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All

• Bring Chemistry Folder home by Wednesday, March 18 to show your parents.

Grade 7

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Grade 8

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Atelier: 

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Spanish:

Grade 7:

• forma oraciones

Grade 8: 

• traduce 1/2 and backside of sheet

Tech:

• n/a

Music: 

• n/a

UPCOMING TESTS/DUE DATES:

7/8:

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7TH GRADE:

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8TH GRADE:

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MOMENT OF ZEN: 

Happy Lithuanian Book Smugglers Day (and my mom's birthday, Happy Birthday Mom!) 

From 1866-1904, Russian authorities outlawed books in Lithuanian written in the Latin alphabet (which is what this blog is written in) in exchange for ones written in the Cyrillic alphabet (this one: фиолетовый). The Russian government believed that Lithuanians were too influenced by the West and wanted to "Russify" them, hence having to learn the Cyrillic, aka Russian, alphabet. In response, scores of people risked their lives to smuggle Lithuanian texts written in the Latin alphabet into Russia. One of these smugglers, Jurgis Bielinis, was born today, which is why Book Smuggling day is today. Learn more here.