Monday, October 7, 2013

Monday, October 7

Science: Students worked in groups to match stories with distance vs. time graphs. Homework is to complete the distance vs. time graph worksheet. 

Geometry: Continued our work with "the cube" by building the outer cube, here is a link to the u-tube video if people need help. Homework is to complete the outer cube questions. 


Humanities: Students checked questions for 4.4, were introduced to chapter 4 assessment and began to work on chapter 4 assessment in class. Due to MEAP testing, chapter 4 assessment will be due Thursday. Current events are due Thursday as well.

Spanish (Tomlinson): Ejercicios 9, 10, 11 p. 36-37. No hay clase martes el 8 de octubre; lab en el miercoles el 9 de octubre. (no class Tuesday due to MEAP; class meets Wednesday from 10:07-11 at Avery lab-meet in front hall of Norup)

Course 3: Today we continued to talk about the commutative and associative properties.  Homework is worksheet 2.6, # 1 - 17.

Algebra:  Due to MEAP this week and teacher error, the quiz has been moved to Wednesday (Thursday for 2nd hour).  We did section 3.4/6.3 today, discussing the possibilities of getting all real numbers as a solution or no solutions at all.  Homework: worksheet 3.4/6.3 (attached)

Corrective Reading: Reading logs due today.  The next one is due next Monday.

Math:  Packets due this Friday.

Chinese: We are practicing speaking and listening to pinyin combinations, and students take a quiz on strokes.


Pre-Algebra: Today we briefly reviewed fraction operations in preparation for equation solving. Our focus was addition and subtraction. HW: Mixed Number Addition and Subtraction (front and back)
2nd Hour - due Wednesday (no math tomorrow due to MEAP)
3rd Hour - due Thursday (no math tomorrow or Wednesday due to MEAP)

P.E.: Flag Football Rules page 1, Flag Football Rules page 2

ELA- Students began their Science Fiction Unit by reading out of our Literature Anthology.  We examined non-fiction writing and were given clues as to how to take notes on the important information in non-fiction writing.  Homework: Read!  Practice making conclusions about characters based on stated facts and inferences in the books we are currently reading as Journal entry #21.

Creative Writing: Today in Creative Writing we continued writing our literary essays. Most students are completing their intro paragraphs and beginning their first body paragraph. (This is only the first draft, I'm hoping the essays will be completed by Friday.) Homework: Read! Continue writing your first draft.