Hello 8th Graders!
We started Thursday's class by checking our grades for comments and scribes, for those of us who have scribed. We had a comment due Friday for either the 7th or 8th grade blog. Also, we have to look up at the moon every night and write down what we see, then share these notes with Ms. D somehow.
We went down to the computer lab, and had to sit away from our partners or from people we debated against, because Ms. D sent us an email with questions about the debate. We had to answer these questions and email the answers back to her.
The questions were:
What is the basic debate about concerning the topic you researched? Please use some genetic and ethical reasoning when explaining this.
If you look from the ethical/moral side, what are the benefits and non-benefits of this debate for your team's side? What are the benefits and non-benefits of the other team's side? (pro vs. con)
If you look from a scientific/genetics side, what are the benefits and non-benefits of this debate for your team's side? What are the benefits and non-benefits of the other team's side? (pro vs. con)
Did you debate with your personal opinion on this topic or against your personal opinion? Why do you personally feel one way or another?
What overall affects do you think this debate topic will have on society in general (worldwide)? This should be a personal thought.
On Friday we will recieve the grade for our debate. The point of these emailed questions were to salvage our debate grades, because a lot of us did not use enough scientific vocabulary or didn't speak enough during the debate. Also, on Thursday we got back our Inherited Traits lab, and Ms. D congratulated us on our use of data, though she reminded us that the dominant and recessive actually had equal results, so neither of them was more common in AISZ. Also, those of us who have messy handwriting should have taken the time to redo our data table. We should remember to give our data tables and graphs appropriate titles.
From now on we have an assignment called APOD, which should be turned in every Tuesday. This is a continuous assignment througout our study of Astronomy. The website we are to use is
We have to chose one of the many pictures (there is a picture of space for every single day) and write two well-written paragraphs about it. The first one should be about the science and the second should be about why you chose the picture. You can find the guidelines and rubric on Moodle.
THE NEXT SCRIBE IS NOAM!!!!
