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danielleandscott
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Teaching Summer School
I started summer school today and found out I will be teaching 8th grade special ed. ss/eng., science and math. I have never taught 8th grade before and now have to come up with material. They gave us no books or anything. This is going to be a lot more work then I thought. 
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Posted 7/5/06 2:02 PM  |
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Re: Teaching Summer School
ooh no! Is there someone there, one of the F/T teachers maybe, ho can help you?
sorry I could not be any help. I hope it all works out for you
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| Posted 7/5/06 2:08 PM |
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danielleandscott
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Re: Teaching Summer School
I talked to my chairperson b/c he taught 8th grade math and he gave me some info. But I have no idea about 8th grade science. I had to ask the kids what topics were covered. Now I am looking through my s.s. book I had from teaching 7th grade. Thank G@d we only have two days this week.
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| Posted 7/5/06 2:14 PM |
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Karen
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Re: Teaching Summer School
same thing happened to me last year, which is why I probably won't teach summer school ever again. it's just not worth the $$ if you have to create everything. and without textbooks, you are probably going to have to give them a ton of dittos.
good luck!
ETA: you might want to look at the NYS Standards for those subjects. 8th grade is a pretty important year from the state's perspective, so I bet the standards are pretty good!
Message edited 7/5/2006 2:16:47 PM.
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| Posted 7/5/06 2:15 PM |
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Re: Teaching Summer School
Eek- good luck!
I taught English- haven't taught 8th grade in a while though. Did they give you ANYTHING?
Otherwise, the way it's done in NYC is to work on one full-blown writing piece through the whole session. Usually it's non-fiction, like a feature article. Then the reading, whatever it is, supports the writing, so the kids would also read lots of features while writing their own. Memoir is another good genre- lots of good memoirs out there.
This is my region in NYC- they put their literacy SS curriculum online- Region 1 Literacy page.
I can't help with science, but this is a blog of a science teacher who has a lot of links to resources for teaching science on the right side of her page. Ms. Frizzle
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| Posted 7/5/06 2:19 PM |
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danielleandscott
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Re: Teaching Summer School
Thanks everyone for your help. I am searching on line now.
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| Posted 7/5/06 2:22 PM |
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GoingNutty
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Re: Teaching Summer School
What type of science is it? I have taught eighth grade science, but physical science. FM me if you want- I'll try to help!
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| Posted 7/5/06 3:02 PM |
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