Retest Policy

REMEMBER

Students who score below 80% on any summative assessment (major test) will have at least one opportunity to retest for a maximum grade of 80%. The higher of the two grades shall be recorded for the student. The student must come in during tutorials for tutoring over the material before retaking the test.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Week of April 23, 2012

This week we are learning about the Associative, Commutative, and Distributive properties of integers. We are also simplifying expressions by combining like terms.

8th graders will participate in a Science/Social Studies camp on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then they will take their STAAR tests over both subjects on Thursday and Friday. Good luck 8th graders!

Finally, Friday, April 27, 2012 is NOT an early release day. This will be a full day due to STAAR testing.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Week of April 16, 2012

This week 8th graders will start their Algebra Unit. They will cover the following this week:


  • Translating expressions and equations
  • Evaluating expressions
  • Translating expressions and equations from word problems

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Week of April 10, 2012

No school Monday, April 9, 2012.

This week 8th graders will be reviewing for and taking CBA #5. This will cover Pythagorean Theorem, Irrational Numbers, Scatterplots, Probability, Measures of Central Tendency (mean, median, mode, range), and Graphs.

LINK for the review.

The end of the grading period is Friday, April 13, 2012.