Monday, March 15, 2010

Monday, March 15

Science: IB Area of Interaction Focus-Approaches to Learning & Organization. Students worked on organizing their binders/folders as well as organizing their project write-ups. Please see Friday's post for the project rubric. Circuits & write-ups are due Friday, March 19, we will be working on the project all week in class. Electricity test is Thursday, March 25.

Geometry: Went over practice test. Chapter 8 review is homework. Chapter 8 test tomorrow.

Algebra: Today we took a deeper look into the true meaning of exponents. Through the use of multiple representations, students constructed tables and models to symbolize exponential functions. No homework tonight.

Algebra 2: We celebrated pi day by reading articles about the history of pi. We spoke about infinite series of pi and the mathematical universal discipline. We also finished our discussion on conic sections by analyzing the presence of conic sections in the real world.
9.6 is homework tonight.

Course 3: We are reviewing in preparation for our Chapter 6 Test on Thursday. Austin-Today we checked our homework. We then played a probability game. No homework.

Pre Algebra: We took a practice Quiz today and are preparing for a quiz tomorrow.

Spanish 1: Today we practiced time and read a dialogue called "¿Conoce usted historia?" Please finish the worksheet about la hora (time) and review your question words.

Spanish 8: Please make sure all of you handouts about "La televisiĆ³n es muy importante" are finished. There are 8 handouts and practice sheets as well as the original reading.

Social Studies: Students checked 12.4 and were introduced to chapter 13 (Manifest Destiny) in class today. Homework folders were turned in today. No homework (current events due Wednesday).

LA - Students started to watch the timeless classic "To Kill a Mockingbird". HW - none

Journalism - students worked on their World, National and Local articles. HW - working on rough draft articles.