We are an IB World School in the heart of the Heights.
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Important Dates to Remember...
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- Dig It Day - Saturday, April 21
- PTA Book Club - Monday, April 23
- Athletics Banquet - Friday, April 27
- Girls Empowerment Network Event - Saturday, April 28
- Bilingual Spelling Bee - Friday, May 4
- UIL District Tournament - Saturday, May 5
- Teacher Appreciation Week - May 7-11
- Spring Concert - Thursday, May 10
- Memorial Day (No School) - Monday, May 28
- 6th Grade Award Ceremony - Wednesday, May 30
- 7th Grade Award Ceremony - Thursday, May 31
- 8th Grade Moving On Ceremony - Friday, June 1
- Last Day of School - Friday, June 1
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Staff Member of the Week
Ms. Carly Brown
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Ms. Carly Brown, Hogg M.S. Librarian Assistant, is our Staff Member of the Week because she exhibits the IB Learner Profile Trait of THINKER.
This is Ms. Brown’s first year at Hogg M.S. having been here for 5 months. Her goal is to be more like Ms. Chance! What a beautiful thing to say! Ms. Brown is inspired by passionate people. People who create and produce art, poems, or food inspire her. In other words, anyone who adds beauty to our world are her source of inspiration.
Ms. Brown attended Alief Hastings High School, but she graduated from Yoakum High School. She then attended Texas A&M University for undergraduate coursework and University of Texas at Austin for post graduate work.
Ms. Brown’s hobbies include learning about anything! She also enjoys reading, gardening, walking, hiking, dancing, traveling and volunteering.
Interview & Photograph by Alexis Garza
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Student of the Week
Serena Leal - 6th Grader
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Serena Leal, Hogg M.S. 6th Grader, is our Student of the Week because she exhibits the IB Learner Profile Trait of RISK TAKER.
Serena has one sister whose name is Melody. Serena believes she was chosen as RISK TAKER because she is not afraid to try new things!
Serena likes to help with special needs kids. She states that Ms. Johnson inspires her because she helps her students and is very sweet with them. Serena plans to become an engineer someday. Her goals are to continue helping the special needs children and travel the world.
Serena’s hobbies include gymnastics and acting after school.
Interview & Photograph by Raquel White-Rodriguez
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What's happening in 6th grade?
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Language & Literature:
Students will continue to better our understanding of how to effectively compare texts of both like and unlike genres. In doing this, we will also review the key skills for reading different genres and annotation strategies for tackling them.
Academic Vocabulary:
accumulation of the year
Math:
Students in MYP & VG will explore volume of rectangular prisms. They will also assess over area, angles, and volume on Wednesday.
Students in the Advanced class will explore volume of rectangular prisms and triangular prisms. They will also assess over area, angles, and volume on Wednesday. They will end the week with surface area of 3D shapes and nets.
Academic Vocabulary in MYP & VG:
area, base, height, cubic units, square units
Academic Vocabulary in Advanced Math:
area, base, height, cubic units, square units, diameter, radius, circumference, perimeter
Science:
Students will identify the major tectonic plates, including Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, Pacific, North American, and South American; and describe how plate tectonics causes major geological events such as ocean basins, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building.
Academic Vocabulary:
plate tectonics, Alfred Wegner, Pangea, transform boundary, convection boundary, divergent boundary, rift valley, subduction, sea-floor spreading
Individuals & Societies:
Students are continuing their study of Europe by discussing how the Treaty of Versailles led to World War Two. Vanguard classes participated in a simulation where they negotiated the terms of the treaty and will work to see how their treaty compares to the real one. MYP classes will discuss the terms of the treaty in class and how it led to a second war.
Academic Vocabulary:
reparations, arms, armistice, war guilt clause, embittered
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What's Happening in 7th Grade?
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Language & Literature:
Students will continue their targeted review of poetry and close reading.
Academic Vocabulary:
stanza, figurative language, graphic elements, sensory language, summary, theme
Math:
Students in MYP & VG classes will continue to review for STAAR. They will prepare for the next weeks to learn better test taking strategies and close the gaps to master the TEKS to help them feel confident taking STAAR in May.
In Algebra classes, students will continue to model and solve real life situations involving quadratic and exponential functions, including the vertical motion model and exponential growth and decay.
Academic Vocabulary for MYP & VG:
bar graph, biased/ unbiased sample, box plot, center, circle graph, compound, convenience sample, data, double box plot, dot plot, equivalency, misleading graph, numeric data, population, probability, quartile, sample, simple random sample, simple, statistics, skew, spread, survey, systematics random sample, variability
Academic Vocabulary for Algebra:
asymptote, exponential growth, exponential decay, growth/decay factor, growth/decay rate
Science:
Vanguard students will begin their Unit on Catastrophic Events and Watersheds by conducting case studies over historic catastrophic events and how they affected both the natural and human environments.
MYP students will study for and take the unit test over Ecosystems, ecological succession, and energy flow within ecosystems.
Academic Vocabulary for VG:
catastrophic event, tornado, hurricane, drought, forest fire, flood
Academic Vocabulary for MYP:
ecological succession, primary succession, secondary succession, pioneer species, energy pyramid, food web, food chain
Individuals & Societies:
Students will begin their final unit where they will discuss Texas transitioning into the modern era of the 20th Century.
Academic Vocabulary:
progressive, modernization, innovation
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What's Happening in 8th Grade?
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Language & Literature:
Students will continue reading different novels according to levels. Comprehension questions and tests will cover chapters read. They will also continue learning new SAT words through Sure Score resources.
Academic Vocabulary:
accumulation of the year
Math:
Students will solve equations, percents, and y intercepts. They will also review for the STAAR test.
In Algebra classes, students will continue to model and solve real life situations involving quadratic and exponential functions, including the vertical motion model and exponential growth and decay.
In Geometry, students will continue to explore right triangles and trigonometry.
Academic Vocabulary:
variables, y intercept
Academic Vocabulary for Algebra:
asymptote, exponential growth, exponential decay, growth/decay factor, growth/decay rate
Academic Vocabulary for Geometry:
Pythagorean Theorem, hypotenuse, converse, trigonometric ratio, tangent ratio
Science:
Students will continue their investigation of Newton's Laws of Motion (Law of Inertia, Law of F=ma, Law of Action-Reaction).
Academic Vocabulary:
Inertia, Law of Inertia, Law of F=ma, Law of Action-Reaction, Force, mass, acceleration, net force, speed, velocity, Newton, increase, decrease, friction, rest, motion
Individuals & Societies:
Students will continue their “manifest destiny maps” as a group project. They will learn about the reform movement and the Industrial Revolution.
Academic Vocabulary:
abolitionist, suffrage, reform, capitalism, industrial, urban, rural, nullification
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2nd Annual Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre
Presented by The Razorback Theater Department
TONIGHT at 6:30pm in the Hogg M.S. Auditorium
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Dig It Day - TOMORROW, April 21
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Please join us
TOMORROW, April 21 from 9:30am-11:30am
for Dig It Day to work in the Hogg Garden. We will have breakfast treats and water for the volunteers. Students who participate will receive a free dress pass wristband!
We hope your family can come dig with us!
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Upcoming PTA Parents' Book Club
Monday, April 23 at 6:00pm
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Parents, please join us for our next meeting of the Hogg Think Tank when we discuss
Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World
by Rosalind Wiseman. We're meeting off campus
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Monday, April 23 at 6:00pm
at A 2nd Cup, across the street from the Hogg M.S. Field on Pecore. Hope to see you there!
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Internet Safety for Families
Tuesday, April 24 from 5:30pm-7:00pm
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Hogg M.S. Athletics Banquet
Friday, April 27 at 6:00pm
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The Hogg M.S. Athletics Banquet will be held
Friday, April 27 at 6:00pm
in the Hogg M.S. Gymnasium. Invitations have been delivered, and tickets are available for purchase.
Student athletes are limited to two guests each. Tickets are $10 per person, and athletes are free. Here is a link to purchase tickets on-line:
https://www.schoolpay.com/pay/for/Sports-Banquet-April-27-2018/IdFXA
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James Hogg Middle School | ph: (713) 802-4700 | fax: (713) 802-4708 | jameshoggms@houstonisd.org
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