Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Tuesday, December 3

8th Graders took the ACT Explore test today 5th-7th hour.


Humanities: Students continued to work on questions from chapter 8 in class today. Chapter 8 questions are due Wednesday. No current events this week.

Corrective Reading:  Reading Logs are due Monday 12.9.13.  All five days need to be completed, parents need to sign logs and five different reader responses need to be complete.

Resource Room Math:  Homework is not due until 12.13.13, but students can start their homework packet today and multiplication practice at home should be daily.


Science: 1st & 3rd hours worked on rough drafts of the "Is The Force With You?" lab. All classes rough drafts are due tomorrow for peer review. Final drafts are due on Friday.

Geometry: Began proofs about parallel and perpendicular lines. Homework is to complete the 3.2-B worksheet.


Spanish (Tomlinson): Write 1 sentence for each of the present tense forms of "estar" (6 sentences total)--make sure that the pronouns and adjectives match in gender and number.  These sentences should be about how people FEEL today (not something permanent, like being short or smart).
estoy   estamos
estás    estáis

está      están

Spanish 2: Quiz on prepositions tomorrow. Also do #5 and #6 on the bell work packet for tomorrow. I will post the answers on my blog today. Please check your answers.

French I: Make flash cards for the brown words on pg 73 for a vocab quiz on Monday. Also the chapter test will all be next week, as the next unit is a very short unit. Make sure that you are studying all the vocab on pg 73, and the verb "avoir".

Chinese: We learned to write characters from L4 Text 2, and write down everyone's birthday in characters.

ELA- 4th hour had a reading hour due to the ACT Explore test during 5-7th hours. Yesterday's Grammar 3.1-3.3 Pronouns  is due tomorrow. Homework: Read, Journal #23, Grammar

Course 3: Today we are writing 2-step equations.  The homework is 14 questions on a worksheet.  Write 2-step equations if you can.  If not, solve logically.

Pre-Algebra: 4.2 - Today we looked at how we can use different methods of factoring to find the Greatest Common Factors of numbers or whether to tell whether numbers are relatively prime. We also practiced finding the GCF of given monomials. HW: 4.2 (odd) ** Please take a moment to look at missing assignments on Family Access. Many students have missing assignments or absent work that should be turned in as soon as possible. If you need copies of the assignments, please see me.