This ppt is compatible with the 8th grade Inspire Science Curriculum by McGraw Hill (copyright 2020). Mcgrawhill Science books work as a tool to help students access text. As a teacher, this was difficult for many of us to swallow and the resources we were given did not begin to serve this purpose. Hence, I created ppt with student Journals to go along McGraw Hill lessons. Students are asked to find and synthesize information from book text and record it using various means in their journals. I