Monday, October 21, 2013

Monday, October 21

Science: 1st & 3rd hour peer-reviewed rough drafts of the "How Fast Am I?" labs, rubrics were posted to the blog on Friday. 5th-7th hours played Jeopardy for review. The test review is due tomorrow for 5th-7th hours and is due on Wednesday for 1st & 3rd hour. Unit 1 test is Wednesday for 5th-7th hour and Thursday for 1st & 3rd hour. All labs are due on Friday.

Geometry: Today we investigated constructing quadrilaterals using various tools (patty paper, compass/straightedge, and TI Inspire). Homework is the first e parts of the Quadrilateral Review (through constructions). Test on Quadrilaterals will be Friday and Monday, Friday will be the individual test and Monday will be the group test.

C. Reading:  Reading logs are due today.  If you did not turn one in, make sure you get it to me by tomorrow for reduced points.  New logs will be handed out today and are due next Monday.

R. Room Math:  Homework due Friday.



Humanities: Students discussed college choices and shared projects in class. No homework. Current events due Wednesday.

Spanish 2; Vocab quiz tomorrow on 3.3

French 1: vocab quiz tomorrow on 1.3, 1.3 worksheet due Wednesday, Oct 23rd (change of date)

ELA- Day 7 of Reader's Workshop for Science Fiction discussed metaphorical dragons and how they effect our main characters.  We then looked at the metaphorical dragons for the end of the book and updated our list of conflicts and resolutions from Day 5 and made sure they were updated through the end of the book.  Hopefully many students made a connection with this novel and some may continue on through the series by Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son all are science fiction and are part of this series. We looked at our final project and discussed the timeline for the next two weeks. Homework: Read, Journal entry #36

 *due dates
- Monday October 28th Projects due at beginning of the hour (Summative Assessment/test grade)- Thursday October 31st Journals due - 45 Home and School Journal entries (Summative Assessment/test grade)

Chinese: Practice Doing more listening exercises of pinyin initial-final combination. Practice using the 8 greeting phrases from last Friday. homework: Making correction on dictation of numbers from last Friday. 

Spanish (Tomlinson): Complete "ser" sheet. Quiz tomorrow!!  Conjugation of "ser"

Algebra:  2nd hour-we took our chapter test  4th-7th we went over the test from Friday (great scores-average of a 94%) and started compound inequalities.  No homework.


Pre-Algebra: Today we discussed the parts of an expression and the steps for simplifying variable expressions. We took notes and completed examples in our Interactive Student Notebooks. HW: 6 expressions to be simplified (copied down in class, see attached). **3rd Hour students may retake their Mixed Number Operations quiz on Wednesday, Oct 23rd during lunch if they received a C- or below on their quiz. They must make corrections to their original quiz in order to retake.

Creative Writing: Today in  Creative Writing we practiced direct and indirect objects during grammar, assigned book club groups, and distributed new books to each group. Homework: Begin reading your new book. 

Course 3: 1st and 2nd hour-worksheet 2.8, #13-15, 18-20.  Test Thursday. 3rd-5th hour- Test Wednesday.