Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Tuesday, March 1 (B-Day)

Science: Watched "Bill Nye-Electric Current" and worked on quiz corrections.

Geometry: Took the quiz on 8.1-8.4. 8.6 notes are homework. Chapter 8 test Monday, March 7.

Social Studies: Students checked chapter 11 assessment, reviewed folders and were presented with a project that is going to be due in class on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Homework is to think of a project topic, inquiry question and list of resources to be used for completing the project.

Algebra: We spent a second day on product properties of powers (8.1). Homework is from the book p. 492 (3-45 multiples of 3). We will have a Take home quiz on Thursday!

Spanish 8/Spanish I vocab quiz on Friday

LA - students started their unit on "The Outsiders" - We discussed the author S.E. Hinton and her background of why she wrote the book at only 19 years old! We also discussed what the class thought of when they saw the words The Outsiders on the board. I read Ch1 aloud to them and we talked about the exposition (protagonists, setting, conflict etc.) HW - none

Pre-Algebra: We finished taking notes on division of fractions.  Homework-worksheet 5.5, # 5 - 20, even.