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Coy Middle School. Eighth Grade. Got work???. Vacation Work One week notice Signed & dated p arent n ote All provided work due immediately upon return Make-up Work Student responsibility Assignments posted in class and online Allowed time equivalent to length of absence. Conferences.
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Coy Middle School Eighth Grade
Got work??? • Vacation Work • One week notice • Signed & dated parent note • All provided work due immediately upon return • Make-up Work • Student responsibility • Assignments posted in class and online • Allowed time equivalent to length of absence
Conferences • Parent-Teacher conferences requests issued midway through 1st quarter for students • Both day and evening sessions available • Meet with several teachers at the same time • Team conferences available on an as-needed basis • Scheduled during daily team meeting period (3:15-3:45.) • Contact any teacher to request a team conference
ProgressBook • Online access to your child’s grades, missed assignments, and teacher comments • Password protected • Contact the school office if you do not have a user name and password
Class websites • Access by teacher name through the CMS Homepage • http://www.beavercreek.k12.oh.us/Page/4021/ • Homework listings • Email staff members • Course curriculum • Class notes • Testing information • Supplemental links • Podcasts • Blogs • Online Textbooks • Announcements • Parent surveys • Student polls • Printable handouts • Parent resources
course Information • ENGLISH • Class focused on developing writing fluency and increasing writing skills • journaling • frequent essays • daily responses in class • Advanced grammar study (clauses, phrases, sentence structure) • Class works on improving reading comprehension and analysis • reading novels, short stories, poems, essays, non-fiction writing • working on response to literature, especially group discussions • working with increasingly sophisticated literary devices and topics (allegory, irony, allusion, figurative language, theme, etc.)
Kent State University- Middle Childhood Education 4-9 ~language arts and social studies with reading endorsement 9th year teaching reading or language arts. New to Beavercreek, formally from the Akron area. Proud to be part of Coy!! MRs. DUKE
Bowling Green – B.S. in Elementary Education, minor in English Master’s in Reading National Board Certified 16 yrs. at Ferguson/Coy Dream since 10 years-old: Become a teacher Loves teaching!!! Ms. Osterfeld - bio
Wright State Graduate Both Bachelors and Masters Reading/LA & Science 3rd Year Teaching Springfield Cincinnati Dream was to be either a tiger trainer or a teacher since I was a child Ms. REIDENBACH
Ohio University- B.S. in Science and Social Studies Miami University- Master’s degree in Special Education 6th year teaching and 2nd here at Coy. Glad to be back! Ms. pendry
course Information • MATH
course Information • SCIENCE • PHYSICAL SCIENCE • Motion and Forces • Newton’s Laws • Non-Contact Forces • EARTH SCIENCE • Earth’s Interior • Plate Tectonics • Geologic Time • LIFE SCIENCE • Inherited Traits • Mendelian Genetics • Diversity of Species
Ohio State – B.S. in Comprehensive Science Education, Grades 7-12 Wright State – M.Ed. in Classroom Teacher Science 23 years at Coy/Ferguson Proud to be a Science Geek Go Bucks! MRs. MEYER
course Information • SOCIAL STUDIES – We cover the time periods from the Age of Exploration until Post-Civil War Reconstruction • Emphasis on: • English Colonization • French & Indian War • American Revolution • Constitutional Government • Washington/Jefferson • National Growth • Age of Jackson • Manifest Destiny • Reformers • Nation Breaks Apart • Civil War • Reconstruction
University of Dayton: B.S. in Elementary Education Master’s in School Counseling (GO FLYERS!) 15th year Ferguson/Coy Avid soccer play and history junkie BEST job in the world! MRs. DRIVER
Wright State University Master’s in Art of Teaching Love to travel and just returned from visiting several Civil War Battlefields as well as Virginia’s history triangle (Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown) Eager to get the year started! MRs. MEISTER