7 Th Grade Post

Tonight I would like all 7Th graders, as a follow up on our in class discussion we had after watching the Presidents address to students from Tuesday, to post one long term goal and one short term goal you have set for yourself.

Parents, the speech was a good speech, it was inspiring and a call to action, to excel and take responsibility for their grades and their future. We had a good follow up discussion where I asked the students about responsibility, one of our core principles here at ICS and asked the students if they had every heard the things the President told them from another adult in their lives at some point before they heard him say it. I asked if it meant more coming from him or was it a reinforcement, etc.

A healthy and lively discussion took place and i think we all learned something from it.

I am going to try and get the notes posted for Chapter 5 Section 1 as well and we will begin our class work on Natural Resources tomorrow.

Thank you all
Mr. Clark

8th Grade

For some reason there was some confusion about when the test was......Core 3 took the test and it did not look good grade wise. I made a rare exception, threw out the tests, wrote a new one and the 8Th grade will retake Chapter 3 test tomorrow. I will not make these types of exception often if ever again. Because power school wand email was down over the weekend, there may have been a delay in receiving the email I sent out on Friday, making the comment "test Wednesday" confusing if you did not receive that email until Monday.

Long story short, the 8Th grade test is tomorrow. They should have their notes, book and any other material and be studying for this test tonight.

Mr. Clark

7th Grade Test Results

Core 1
High 58
Low 12
Average 29.6 out of 50

A- 4
B- 1
C- 0
D- 2
F- 18

Core 2
High 46
Low 11
Average 24.3 out of 50

A- 1
B- 2
C- 1
D- 1
F- 14

Clearly the students blew this test off and they confirmed that in class today. I was conflicted as to what to do about the low score. I have decided to allow the students to "fix" the ones they got wrong and earn half credit for all the corrected answers. The catch is that they must be signed by a parent. I think a discussion at home about study time and amount of time spent on school work at home might be appropriate. I was very disappointed in the effort especially since every short answer question on the test was taken directly from the study guide. The problem there is that only about 1/3 of the students completed the study guide.

Thanks for your help at home regarding this issue. I will not always allow "fixing" tests but this time I am.
Mr. Clark

7th Grade

Test results...............

I am going to hold the test results and we are going to discuss what went wrong on this test. The scores are almost impossible to believe. I want to get to the bottom of the disaster that is the Chapter 4 test. That being said, I will not be posting the notes for Chapter 5 Section 1. We will move on after we learn the information from Chapter 4 first.

Mr. Clark

Youi have to enter the new site into your browser and then when the window opens, click chat....it is working. I am on it now

Mr. CLark

7th grade study session

Here is the new window for the study session

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I have the window up running and waiting for your questions
Mr. CLark

I am working on the study session.......give me a few moments