BCMA Instructional Agenda Important Dates, Notices, Reminders & Information Important Dates in January / February SnapShot #4 Window January 18, 2016: SharePoint January 26, 2016 through February 2, 2016 SnapShot #5 Window February 22, 2016: SharePoint March 2, 2016 through March 9, 2016 SnapShot #4 & #5 are optional, due to amount of testing, students may take in class within window. Important Notices, Reminders & Information Gifted & Talented Application Process Update Application Deadline: October 31, 2016 All GT Testing for Window #1 has been completed, results will be shared individually once results have been returned. Tutorials Began Monday, September 26, 2016 Mondays: English Language Arts (R&W) Tuesdays: Science Wednesdays: Social Studies Thursdays: Mathematics Progress Report & Report Card Dates Please note the following dates that your child will be issued Progress Reports and Report Cards for the remainder of the 2016-2017 Academic Year: *PR = Progress Report / RC = Report Card* Type of Report Final Date for Grades Entered Date Report Sent to Parents PR 4 January 25 th January 27 th Cycle 4 RC February 15 th February 17 th PR 5 March 8 th March 10 th Cycle 5 RC April 5 th April 7 th PR 6 April 26 th April 28 th Cycle 6 RC TBD Last Day of School Saturday Tutorials Look for the Schedule of Saturday Tutorials, which will be sent home with BCMA students. Saturday Tutorials will begin: Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 9:00AM – 12:30PM Saturday Detentions Held on the same dates as Saturday Tutorials: Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 9:00AM – 12:00PM BCMA National Junior Honor Society BCMA’s National Junior Honor Society is currently reviewing semester averages and preparing to send out notifications to prospective members. Eligible students will be notified on Friday, January 27 th . If your student has at least a 3.7 GPA, he/she is eligible. Please check in with your student on the 27 th to make sure that he/she receives the invitation. If you have any questions, contact Ms. Davis via email at [email protected].
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BCMA Instructional Agenda Important Dates, Notices, Reminders & Information
Important Dates in January / February SnapShot #4 Window January 18, 2016: SharePoint January 26, 2016 through February 2, 2016 SnapShot #5 Window February 22, 2016: SharePoint March 2, 2016 through March 9, 2016
SnapShot #4 & #5 are optional, due to amount of testing, students may take in class within window.
Important Notices, Reminders & Information
Gifted & Talented Application Process Update
Application Deadline: October 31, 2016
All GT Testing for Window #1 has been completed, results will be shared individually once results
have been returned.
Tutorials Began Monday, September 26, 2016
Mondays: English Language Arts (R&W)
Tuesdays: Science
Wednesdays: Social Studies
Thursdays: Mathematics
Progress Report & Report Card Dates Please note the following dates that your child will be
issued Progress Reports and Report Cards for the remainder of the 2016-2017 Academic Year:
*PR = Progress Report / RC = Report Card*
Type of Report Final Date for Grades Entered
Date Report Sent to Parents
PR 4 January 25th January 27th
Cycle 4 RC February 15th February 17th
PR 5 March 8th March 10th
Cycle 5 RC April 5th April 7th
PR 6 April 26th April 28th
Cycle 6 RC TBD Last Day of School
Saturday Tutorials
Look for the Schedule of Saturday Tutorials, which will
be sent home with BCMA students. Saturday Tutorials
will begin:
Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 9:00AM – 12:30PM
Saturday Detentions
Held on the same dates as Saturday Tutorials:
Saturday, January 21, 2017 from 9:00AM – 12:00PM
BCMA National Junior Honor Society
BCMA’s National Junior Honor Society is currently reviewing semester averages and preparing to send
out notifications to prospective members. Eligible
students will be notified on Friday, January 27th.
If your student has at least a 3.7 GPA, he/she is
eligible. Please check in with your student on the 27th
to make sure that he/she receives the invitation. If
you have any questions, contact Ms. Davis via email
9 Coffee with the Principal #2 8:45AM – 9:30AM PTO to Provide Refreshments 17 8th Grade Dance 22 EARLY DISMISSAL (Parent Involvement Day) 24 7th Grade Dance
Science Fair Update
Congratulations again to all our students for their hard work on their independent investigations and BCMAR
Science Fair participation. Houston ISD will not be holding a District Science Fair this year. Seventh and eighth
grade students have the opportunity to participate in the city Science and Engineering Fair of Houston
(https://sefhouston.org/fair-announcement). SEFH occurs at the University of Houston on February 24th (set up
posters), 25th (competition), and 26th Sunday (awards).
First – Third place individual winners and First – Second place team winners are automatically accepted provided all
registration requirements are met through Scienteer. Additional individuals and teams who placed honorable
mention – 4th place will be invited through teacher nominations. Parents and students will be notified of those
nominations on January 13th. The opportunity for parents to nominate their child will open up on Tuesday, January
17th if space is available.
A science fair meeting to prepare your student for participation will be held Tuesday January 17th at 4:15 pm in the
STEM Station at BCMA at Ryan.
After school tutorials/coaching/mentoring will be offered on Mondays, in the STEM Station for students (parents are
Review Expository Writing Begin writing The Outsiders essays
Ms. Yap A-Day: Monday- Present Plays!
You may come in costume!
Students must complete their assigned readings at home. Discussions and activities that take place during
class will be related to the previous night’s readings. We will not be reading the book in class, as it is expected that students will do that at home. Homework: Daily Readings (in reading calendar) Daily Dialectical Journal & Study Guide
Questions Study for Daily Reading Quiz
This Week in ELA-R with Ms. Davis & Ms. Yap
Note to Students & Parent Guardians All students will be given a copy of The
Outsiders to borrow. Students are expected to return the novel back to their teacher at the end of the unit. Failure to return book will result in a $20.00 fine. If a student loses his/her book, he/she may also replace that copy and forgo the $20.00 fine. Each student has been given a reading calendar. Students are expected to keep up with their readings, in addition to completing their daily homework (dialectical journals and study guide questions). Students will also be given a daily reading quiz over the previous night’s readings.
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This week in Art with Ms. Price in Art Elective
Theme of the Week: The How-To Basics
Monday, February 6 – Friday, February 10, 2017 o A Days: Project #6: Drawing the Human Face
DAYS 1 & 2: Drawing the Face of a Famous Person
Day 3: CAC Activity – Collage In the Style of Romare Bearden
o B Days:
DAY 1: Project #6: Mandalas pt 1 DAY 2: Project #6 – Mandalas pt 2
o Please Note: The volunteer art educators with
Community Artists’ Collective visit with BCMA weekly and work with our rotating A/B day schedule, so Friday activities will vary for Elective Art students depending upon the week.
This Week in Algebra I w/Mr. Wanjala & Mr. Turloski
February 6th/7th
Concepts: Factoring Special Polynomials (Perfect Squares Binomials & Trinomials)
Homework: Worksheet on Factoring
Special Polynomials
February 8th / 9th
Concepts: Solving Quadratic Equations by the Quadratic Formula
Homework: Worksheet on solving
quadratic equations by the quadratic
formula February 10th/14th
Concepts: Graphing Quadratic Functions
Homework: Worksheet on graphing
quadratic functions
BCMA Instructional Agenda
This Week in the Math Lab w/Ms. Kerawala Classwork this Week: TSW complete individualized topics, assignments, earn their piece of the pie, and take quizzes in www.Aleks.com program. Students have approximately an hour in class daily to work on weekly topic and time assignments. Anything not completed in class will be expected to be completed at home.
Topic of the Week: Due to the nature of the program and built in extended deadline with multiple attempts, the program will not allow extension for assignments past the due dates. These assignments must be done in a timely manner. Student are expected to 1) work at least two hours and 2) complete at least 8 topics for this week.
Due Date for Topic 4.6 and Time 4.6 is Sunday, midnight 2/12/17
Upcoming Topic: The program is self-pacing, and therefore some students may need to work over two hours to master 8 topics. The assignments are as follows:
Topic: 4.6—5 Topics Time: 4.6 –2 Hour Makeup Quiz: if missed on www.Aleks.com
All quiz and tests are done on the ALEKS program in class. Every student is given the opportunity to look at worked examples during a quiz/test and a chance to make corrections at least once on ALL quizzes and tests during the allotted class time. Weekly Focus: On a daily basis, students will continue to review skills needed for success in 7th grade math. We will continue to work on STAAR math Test.
Weekly Focus: STAAR TEST Project Due:
Pie piece: 75% of PIE 662 topics for Pre-AP, 388 for Algebra Completed, Due February 19, 2017
Work must be shown clearly to receive credit on homework and classwork. Students must use composition book to show their work they do on Aleks. Student must show work on at least 20 problems for each class period.
No Work = No Credit
This Week in 7th Grade Math w/Ms. Morgan & Mr. Wanjala
February 6th & February 7th Focus: Area of Circles Homework: Texas Go Math Grade 7
Lesson 9.3 p. 301 all, A/B Activity Sheet February 8th & February 9th Focus: Composite Figures Homework: Texas Go Math Grade 7
Lesson 9.4 p. 307 all, A/B Activity Sheet February 10th & February 13th Focus: Chapter 9 Review Homework: Texas Go Math Grade 7; STAAR Ready
Review Packet
MANY STUDENTS ARE COMING TO CLASS WITHOUT SUPPLIES
PLEASE BRING THE REQUIRED SUPPLIES EVERY DAY Pencil with eraser & Math Notebook or a tabbed 3-ring binder with loose leaf paper
Please Note:
Instructional agendas are subject to change due to unforeseen schedule conflicts
Chapter 9 TEST:
February 14th & February 15th
Supplies Needed Daily: Composition Book (Notebook), 1 Pocket Folder w/Brackets, Paper and Glue Stick.
Math Lab Tutorial Hours
Computers and tutoring will be available on
Tuesdays / Thursdays from 7:30-8:00 A.M. in
Room 129.
No Late Arrivals Permitted Students will be picked up from front door at
7:30 and escorted to lab. Two other labs available
This Week in Scientific Decision Making w/Mr. Wertz
Monday, February 6 and Tuesday, February 7th Students will summarize the learning objectives on the
Heritable and Rare Disease unit which students will be engaged in during the 5th Six Weeks, and analyze how carriers of the gene for sickle cell anemia cope with the high incidence of Malaria in malarial zones.
Students will view the short informational film: The Making of the Fittest at the following
Respond in writing to question on study guides examining the correlation between the sickle cell gene present in populations found within malarial zones.
Lastly, students will examine in detail, the malarial parasite life cycle in humans found at the HHMI module: o http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/malaria-
human-host and the malarial parasite life cycle found in
mosquitoes at: o http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/malaria-
mosquito-host Homework: Students will review the BrainPop module vocabulary on Malaria in preparation for the next class meeting.
Wednesday, February 8th and Thursday, February 9th
Students will in small cooperative groups discuss the remain questions from the HHMI study guide on The Making of the Fittest and turn their final responses in to Mr. Wertz. Students will:
Evaluate the bioethics of genetically altering mosquitoes to prevent the spread of malaria and other infectious agents.
Evaluate the impact of genetically altering one organism and consequences to the rest of an ecosystem including humans.
Analyze the HHMI film: The Making of the Fittest and complete the accompanying study guide: The Making of the Fittest: Natural
Selection in Humans. Homework: Students will complete the student worksheet The Making of the Fittest for homework.
This Week in Scientific Decision Making w/Mr. Wertz
Friday, February 10th Students will design a public service announcement on a rare, infectious, emerging or heritable disease and produce a 2nd draft in preparation for a full scale Public Service Announcement for display in the BCMA hallways, classrooms, display cases, and bulletin boards
Conceive, and produce a public service announcement on a self-selected topic covered in the last six weeks. Homework: Students will prepare for a quiz covering malaria and sickle cell developed from the study materials gathered from HHMI and NIH.
This Week in Social Studies with Mrs. Stewart & Mr. Conrad
Monday & Tuesday
Wrap Up: Concept Poetry & Secession Poster
We Do: Refresher: The Divorce
We Do: New Learning: Battles of the Civil War
Wednesday & Thursday
You Do: Check for Understanding: Civil War Battles Twinstagram
Finish for Homework, if not completed in class Friday
We will continue our lesson over Infectious and Rare Disease s beginning with the Avian flu. We will be looking into the ways that different strains of flu can cause outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics in our world both past and present.
Homework: Research Spanish Flu of 1918 Wednesday & Thursday
We continue our lesson over infectious and Rare Diseases and the ways that they are transferred we will be completing the immunity breakdown activity. During this activity we will work in pairs to identify and explore disorders related to the immune system. Homework: Continue to Research the Immune Disorder Friday
We will finish our immunity breakdown activity and present the findings to the class. After the presentations we will complete vocabulary exercise regarding the immune system. Homework: Finish Vocabulary Exercise
This Week in Science w/Mrs. Tyson
Monday-Tuesday, February 6-7, 2017
Topic: Using a Dichotomous Key
Define Dichotomous Key
Identify its origin and its connection to Taxonomy
Examine organism characteristics and use the key for identification of animals and plants Activity #1: Video Presentation- Dichotomous Keys: Identification Achievement Unlocked Activity #2: Virtual Lab---How are Living Things Classified into Groups Homework: Taxonomy (due next class)
Wednesday-Thursday, February 8-9, 2017
Topic: Variations in Populations
Define variation
Discuss how variation in population is specifically suited for animal survival Activity #1: BrainPop Video-Hibernation
Activity #2: Variations in Beaks Activity # 3: Foldable Activity
Homework: Variations in Populations (due next class)
Cambridge website cambridgescp.com, currently free, open access to all 4th edition materials
grammar practice, vocabulary practice, translation aids Technology is a daily part of our class, please allow your students to bring their cell phones, tablets, laptops, and any internet-ready technological device with them on the day they have Latin. A day that says Kahoot! is definitely a cell phone or tablet day.
Ongoing Extra-Credit: Students who volunteer to turn packet activities into Kahoot! quizzes and storyboards will
receive a 100 for a project grade if done to satisfactory!
