Debate Team
During the first quarter, the students did a debate about imperialism and whether or not it is a morally justifiable foreign policy. This quarter, they are working on a debate about FDR’s New Deal and the general effectiveness of welfare programs. Eighth graders tend to love a good argument, so formal debates are a great opportunity for them to practice civility, exercise logic, support their premises with evidence, and learn to work together on debate teams.
Mrs. Roh
War Inventions
The eighth graders generally love to learn about weapons and battles in history. They did a project on the significant technological changes before and during World War I that affected the weaponry and tactics of the war. The students wrote an essay about their chosen weapon or invention such as poison gas, submarines, automatic rifles, tanks, etc., and created a PowerPoint presentation in computer class to show pictures of their weapons and share their analysis with the class.
Mrs. Roh
The Water Cycle
8th Grade Science class is currently studying the water cycle and the effects it has on our lives.
Mrs. Christian
Clouds
8th Grade Science class completed a lab on how to create a cloud by using hot tap water, a bottle, and ice. Everyone had a fun lab time.
Mrs. Christian
Pre Algebra
Students have been studying a unit on Integers and Expressions. They have been learning the importance of mathematical principles, as compared to using God’s principles in our daily lives.
Mrs. Christian
Pre Algebra
We have been exploring numbers this half of the school year. The class has found patterns for working with integers, variables and exponents. This year I am teaching in a flipped classroom for math and so the students will copy vocabulary and examples into their notes for HW (kind of pre-reading for the next day’s lesson). In class the next day, they will watch a mini lesson of how to and practice the application in front of me. This has been helpful in not only the student understanding during homework/classwork, but in starting up math conversations during class about what to do and why. Currently, we are studying using operations with rational numbers.
Miss Stahler
Soccer Playoffs
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi
This month in Gym we have begun our Soccer Playoffs. These games are highly intense being that rivalries have been sown from the year before. Whether students are playing goalie, defense, offense, or midfielder they are determined, focused, and resolute to win the game. Often that means jumping in the path of the ball. Even though these games are intense, students maintain a high level of sportsmanship thought the season.
Mr. Wong
Advanced Spanish
Advanced Spanish has been learning about how students in an isolated section in Colombia use a zip line daily to travel to & from their school. In addition to cultural highlights, 8th grade is learning how to conjugate stem-changing irregular verbs for user in verbal Spanish expression.
Mrs. Jean-Pierre
Spirit week has been a blast this year. Each day students dressed up in a new theme to earn points for their class. On Monday, students came dressed like their friends for “twin day.” Some friends came in groups of four and five all dressed alike. The most memorable twin outfit was a group of our senior girls that dressed in pink hello kitty pajamas. Tuesday was filled with more fun as students went all out for “career day.” They were dressed like nurses, doctors, fashion designers, military and the list goes on and on. The most well thought out outfit was a student who came dressed like her favorite teacher. She had such great detail in her costume, it was comical. Wacky Wednesday brought out some interesting characters as students came in all forms of mix-matched outfits. Teachers also had fun with this one. Our traditional “spirit day” Thursday had so much excitement during the pep rally. For the first time in Evangel history, we had a drum cadence set up during the pep rally by three of our students who played and got the crowd pumped up during our varsity vs. staff/alumni basketball game. It was a great game and the week ended in a great “time” as students came decked out in various decades. The students came dressed up in 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Mr. Hernandez was the most talked about outfit as he came dressed in his leather jacket and 50’s style hairdo.
Other than dressing up during the week, students also competed in games during the week to earn points for their class. Some of the games included, root beer chug-a-lug, tug-a-war, candy relay, cracker whistle relay and many more. The students really went out this year and the most talked about game since the start of games two years ago is the egg toss. With eggs flying through the air, it’s always amazing to see the one team who never breaks the egg. It came down to our seniors and sophomores this year, but the seniors pulled it out. Spirit week has been a blast this year and both our JV and Varsity boys basketball teams came out with two victories this week as we kick off our fall and winter sports season.
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