Friday Update – Team 8-6

The A+ Team is excited to end another marking period at Shawnee.  We are pleased to share the end of some creative units and introduce exciting new ventures.  In Social Studies, students just finished The Odyssey unit where students watched the movie and wrote a critical review.  Now students are learning about Ancient Greek mythology, philosophy and art.  Additionally, Mr. Ssemanda is teaching them about the beginning of democracy and how it has influenced our society.

In English class, students just finished revising their persuasive essays, and working with pronouns in their writing.  Now, they are learning about the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Students will view the speech and focus on persuasive techniques as well as literary devices.  Students are excited to have a student teacher, Ms. O’Connor, from Moravian College.

Mrs. Fowler’s students just finished learning about three-dimensional figures, focusing on volume and surface area.  Next students will practice for PSSAs with the 4Sight tests. 

Students in Ms. Lee’s class just finished their roller coaster creations (see picture).  Now, students will review volume, as they learned it in Mrs. Fowler’s class in a unit on density. 

The teachers of A+ Team are looking forward to a educational third marking period. 

Team 7-6, Shawnee

Ms. Barber’s classes are finishing their persuasive essays in English class.  Ms.  McColgan’s  classes are currently reading biographies.  Mr. Pinto is teaching probability in Math.  Ms. Dijirolanio’s Life Science classes are studying viruses.  Mr. Parrish is teaching his students about the geography of Africa.

News from Team 8-1

There is a new addition to Team 8-1: Mr. Dan Edleman, better known to the students as Mr. E.  He is Mr. Childs’ student teacher for history.  Mr. E will be joining us through the end of February.  He is a great addition to the team and we hope that he enjoys his time here at Shawnee.

Math and English classes will be starting Study Island this week.  Every Friday, students will be working on various activities to prepare for the PSSAs.  Science classes are finished with Chemistry and have moved on to Physics, which they will continue with for the rest of the school year.  Students enjoyed a lab where they calculated the speed of Matchbox cars.

Mardi Gras at EAHS

On Tuesday 5 February EAHS's French Club and its members celebrated the Mardi Gras. Students ate jambalaya, a New Orleans specialty, listened to music, wore beads and made traditional crepes. All had a lot of fun. Express Times photographer was there and took pictures one of which appeared in Valley section of the 2/6/08 issue.

Team 7-4 – Basement Bulldogs:

Megan S. will be competing in the regional spelling bee on Thursday, February 21 at Lehigh University. Come out and support Megan!

In Mr. Hink’s Social Studies classes, student teacher Mr. Shadle is teaching European imperialism in Africa and the African Slave Trade. Students will take part in an imagery exercise related to the conditions of slavery.  Miss Dinsmore’s Honors Pre-Algebra 7 classes are working on symmetry with Geometry.  Academic Math 7 classes are finishing up probability and starting similar figures.  Miss Meashock’s Academic classes are reading, discussing, and responding to novels.  Her Honors classes are continuing to read and respond to selections from their current units.  Miss Parsons' students are working on persuasive writing and are preparing to take the practice PSSA writing test.  Mrs. Hurst’s Life Science classes are currently studying Bacteria.  This week students learned about good and bad bacteria through a Microbe Zoo web quest.  Students also observed bacteria slides using the compound microscope and observed their bacteria cultures using binocular microscopes.

Shawnee Team 7-5

     In Miss Hunter’s Social Studies classes, students are completing the Civics unit and will be moving forward to explore the Africa unit.  Miss Gardner’s science classes are beginning their research projects on bacterial and viral diseases.  Students will also be creating posters and pamphlets displaying their researched information.  Mrs. Coon’s reading students presented their authors and displayed their posters.  In Mrs. Kinney’s English classes, students are continuing to build upon their persuasive writing skills and beginning their formal persuasive essays.