Tolar Junior High News
DATE: WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10TH
BRAD MORGAN: [email protected]
PHONE: 254-835
TJH Newsletter
This week is the midpoint of the first six weeks of school. Parent Portal is up and running
where you can check your students grades and attendance regularly. If you have any questions
concerning grades please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher. Don’t forget that
Monday September 10th 6:00-7:30 is Open House at the Junior High and High School. It has
been a great start to the year and we are all very excited to have your child on our campus.
Please come by Open House and meet the new teachers on staff and the familiar ones you
may already know. Starting Thursday the Junior High will have it’s first pep rally in the pit at
3:00. I will keep you updated each week on the time of the peprally as it may
change between 3:00 or an earlier time depending on a long distance away game.
Have a Great WeekBrad Morgan
TJH Class Information by Grade Level
6th Grade
7th Grade
Math– Coach Moody
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Wrapping up fractions, decimal,
This week we will continue learning and percent relationships. We
about exponents. We will study and will then begin investigating the
integers.
practice Order of Operations and
Rules for Divisibility. Please practice ELA– Mrs. Whiteley
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multiplication facts with your child
In 7th Grade ELA students will
each night. We will be doing some
continue building their first narratimed multiplication tests beginning tive essay ("My Favorite Mistake")
next week!
using the kernel model. Students
Math– Mrs. Endsley
will also finish the flipbook on
charting plot and the newspaper
scavenger hunt. In literature students will read, analyze the narra.We are continuing our poetry unit.
tive essay "The Night the Bed Fell"
Students will have a test on Friday.
by James Thurber. Throughout the
Students keep their work for my class week students will be using a variin a classroom binder. They will be
ety of activities to build vocabulary. Finally, students will read and
allowed to bring their classroom
examine the poems "Spiderman"
binders home on Wednesday or
Thursday to study; however, it is very and "Footsteps to Follow".
ELA– Mrs. Walker
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important that they bring them back
to use in class each day.
ELA-Mrs. Boisjolie
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Students completed their first
Quicklist (prewriting activity) this
past weekend, and we read excerpts
from narrative texts to identify how
author's create varied experiences
for the reader dependent upon the
subject, audience, and purpose.
Students will begin writing their
first narrative in class with daily
crafting lessons on style and technique. We will also explore the
following grammatical skills within
our own writing: sentence structure
- simple and compound, and the
four comma rules.
8th Grade
Math– Mrs. Keith
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We will continue our study of
Rational Numbers while selecting and developing appropriate
problem-solving strategies;
communicate mathematical
ideas; and make conjectures
from patterns or sets; and validate conclusions using mathematical properties and relationships.
TJH News
Open House– Monday 6:00-7:30.
Ice cream provided by Athletic
Booster Club
JH Volleyball– Monday at THS
Gym 4:30 & 5:30
JH Pep Rally– Thursday at 3:00.
JH Football– Thursday at DeLeon
7th Grade: 5:00 –8th Grade: 6:00
Homecoming– THS Friday at
7:30.
Homecoming Brisket Dinner–
Friday at THS Cafeteria 4:00-6:00.
Proceeds go to Project Graduation.
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Algebra-Coach Moody
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http://www.facebook.com/TolarJuniorHigh?ref=hl
Continuing our understanding
and investigation of functions.
We will begin looking at different forms of functions and learn
to use functions to find specific
values.
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ELA-Mrs. Boisjolie
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The students will explore the
meanings of utopian and dystopian societies and the consequences of each as we prepare
to read The Giver. As we begin
reading, students will analyze
the author's style as she develops characters, setting, conflict,
and theme. Students will engage in written and oral discussions about the text.
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Tolar Junior High News
DATE: WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 10TH
TJH Class Information by Grade Level– Cont.
6th Grade
Science:- Mrs. Daniels [email protected]
In 6th grade science this week, we will be defining
matter and making observations of mass.
Social Studies– MrsMcGlothlin [email protected]
Students will use a real life situation as they consider
ethics and free enterprise. They will map the diverse
culture regions within the U.S.A.. Students will explain in a paragraph how a country can have a diverse culture within and one main American culture.
Students will create a post card of the American culture.
BRAD MORGAN: [email protected]
PHONE: 254-835-5207
7th Grade
Science– Mrs. Daniels
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In 7th grade science this week, we will be writing
a paragraph and drawing a diagram of photosynthesis for a test grade and looking at energy as it
passes through the food chains, food webs and
compost!
8th Grade
Science-Coach Wilkins
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8th grade will start on an in depth look at
protons, neutrons, and electrons. They will
have a test on Friday. All tests will be comprehensive.
Science-Coach Wilkins
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7th grade will finish up the sections on Cycling of
Matter and Flow of Energy. They will have a test
on Friday. All tests will be comprehensive.
U.S. History– Coach Keith
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We have been studying about the English
colonies this past week. We will be finishing up on the Southern Colonies and begin
Representative Government this week. We
Literature: Continuing analysis and reading of Texas History– Mrs. McGlothlin
have a quiz from the notes every Friday. 8th
the novel: Liar,Liar
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graders, be sure to look over and understand
Students will compare cultures of American Indi- your notes on Thursdays.
ans in Texas by organizing them into regions, and
LEAD-Continuing character education lesplace them on a map. Students will internet reTech Apps– Mrs. Whiteley
[email protected]
sons over respect. Students are also either re- search Gulf Coastal, Southeastern, Plains, and
Pueblo
Indians.
Texas
Regions
map
TEST
In 8th Grade Tech Apps, students will priceiving extra academic support in Math and/
Wednesday!
marily be working on their team project.
or ELA or some are continuing research on
The team project is a music video and all
current events.
Texas History– Coach Lefevre
team members must be in the video. Team
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storyboards are due Tuesday. The video is
due at the end of the period on Friday.
When not working on the video, students
Literature– Continuing reading and analysis of will continue on lessons in word processing
6th Grade Band– Mr. Yerigan
the novel: Holes
and computer literacy.
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8th Grade Tech Apps class will also parLEAD- Continuing character education lesticipate in a blog honoring September
We are reviewing basic music symbols and rhythms.
sons
over
respect.
Students
are
also
either
re11, 2001. The blog question is, "How
Each day we are getting closer to starting to make
ceiving extra academic support in Math and/or would you describe what America
sounds on mouthpieces! In a few more weeks, we
ELA or some are continuing research on curshould have an instrument in our hands!
means to you?"
rent events.
7th Grade Band-Mr. Yerigan
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We have gotten most all students an instrument that
require one, and we are playing. We are starting at the
beginning of the beginner book for review purposes
and moving along at a good pace. We will spend a few
weeks reviewing out of the beginner book before we
start playing some "stand tunes" and eventually working on Christmas music in preparations for the Christmas concert that is just a few months away!
Literature– Continuing reading and
analysis of the novel: Bamboo People
LEAD- Continuing character education
lessons over respect. Students are also
either receiving extra academic support in
Math and/or ELA or some are continuing
research on current events.