6th Grade:
UVA - Complete package - 21st Century Skills: Outlining
MIT, UChi, and UCLA - No Homework
7th Grade: To allow adequate prep time for the NYSCC ELA Mock Assessments, students will be assigned no new homework until Friday. Students will have until Friday, March 1, to submit the Black History Month project related to Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” healthy eating initiative (handout). A handout was previously provided in class for the Michelle Obama project. Details of the assignment are also available on the school website, rivertonmiddleschool.com on a past social studies homework post.
8th Grade:
Brandeis/Caltech/Johns Hopkins:
Imagine that you came up with an idea for a new kind of product. You build a few samples yourself, prototypes, and sell them to people you know. Soon, people want to buy more of your product. However, before you are able to build them, the neighborhood starts selling copies of the product you invented.
- How do you feel?
- How can you solve the problem?