Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tuesday, January 31

Science: Today we began our unit on electricity. All labs have been returned, lab corrections are due on Monday, February 6. We will go over the midterm on Thursday or Friday (after everyone has had the opportunity to take it!).

Geometry: We finished going over the 7.5 notes (tangent ratios) and took a quiz on 7.1-7.4. Homework is the 7.5 worksheet. The chapter 7 test is Wednesday, Feburary 8.

ELA - Students learned about point of view, listened to "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs" and viewed a video of a poem called "Lost Generation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA. We then practiced writing an argument from another point of view.  Homework: Read, TKM chapters 7-9 due Thursday

Tech - we continued with our Moodle work with an Information Literacy assignment.

Humanities: Students discussed 9.1 and 9.2 in class. Students also began to take notes on 9.2.  Homework is to complete 9.2 notes and a current event for tomorrow.

Algebra (Hill): Practice the review problems for tomorrows quiz on sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

Pre-Algebra: We went over rules for exponents. We got started with negative exponents and an exponent of zero. No homework.

Algebra (Graham): Finished up solving systems of equations using elimination. We have a quiz tomorrow over sections 11.1-11.4. Homework: 2 worksheets (practice quiz and story problems


Technology (Graham): Worked on Moodle-module 0 (Notetaking)