Thursday, December 3, 2009

Thursday, December 3

Science: Students worked on the "Is The Force With You?" rough draft. Please see Monday's post for the rubric. Peer review of rough drafts is tomorrow. Lab is due Monday, December 7. Unit 2 test Friday, December 11.

Geometry: 5.3 notes (angle bisectors in triangles). 5.3 worksheet is homework. 5.1-5.4 quiz on Tuesday, December 8.

Algebra: All classes but 1st hour have 4.6 homework tonight.

Algebra 2: Chapter 5 Test tomorrow.

Course 3: Baker-We reviewed for a quiz tomorrow on 5.1-5.6.

Pre Algebra: Today we started the class with Bert's Cell Phone Problem which allowed students to write and solve multi-step equations. Afterward, we reviewed for their quiz tomorrow on 3.1-3.5.

LA - students took the noun quiz and handed in the grammar packet for a homework grade.
We started reading "The Pigman" novel by Paul Zindel. HW- Final Drafts are due tomorrow. The paper should include cover page (my name, students name, hour, date and title of paper), 5 paragraph essay, bibliography, chart and rubric.

Journalism -revising and typing up news articles. Preparing for tomorrows guest speaker Al Taubman. HW - rough draft articles are due.

Humanities: -Students worked shared notes for 7.1 and worked on notes for 7.2 (see attached). 7.2 notes are due Friday and homework folders will be collected Tuesday.

Spanish 1: We spent today practicing speaking. First the students talked for a minute about the small drawing of the store. I noticed that not everyone took notes on the page in preparation. I want to reiterate that when a person thinks through something in a foreign language, it is a good thing to plan out some vocabulary and grammar, so the notes are an indication that the preparation was thorough.

The students will be playing Spanish taboo next week and to prepare each student must write 8 cards based on our vocabulary to date. The cards are due Monday. There will be a small quiz on Monday in which each student either writes or says from memory the small description they were asked to memorize for today.

Spanish 8: The students took a small memorization quiz today based on the sentences they were asked to memorize two days ago. Afterwards we finished the biography video of Antonio Banderas. Many students did not realize he is Spanish. He actually learned his lines for his role in the Mambo Kings phonetically since he did not speak English at the time of filming! We also looked at a list of famous Spanish actors and artists. Each student chose one who he/she will investigate and make a small poster about listing date of birth, where born, and what he/she is famous for. This is due Friday, December 11.