Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Tuesday, October 21

Parent-Teacher Conferences: 
Wednesday 5:30-8:00
Thursday 12:30-3:00 and 5:30-8:00


Student Council - Friday is MSU vs UM day - wear your team's spirit wear or both colors to earn Spirit Points for your grade. Hats are allowed for a donation of $1.00 to Susan G. Komen

ELA - Students worked on projects today. Homework: Journal #1.42 & Read. Projects due Thurs end of class for 1st Hour, Fri beginning of class for 4th & 6th

Science: Took the unit 1 test in class today. After the test students were asked to complete a multiple intelligence inventory. We will use this inventory to learn more about ourselves and what our learning strengths (and weaknesses) are as well as make new groups based on the results. We will continue discussing this for the remainder of the week. Labs will be returned at conferences, if on one attends conferences students will get their labs back on Friday and we will discuss lab corrections in class on Friday. Tests will also be returned Friday.

Geometry: Students were given a few minutes to complete quizzes if needed, but in the future students need to come to class and start immediately when there is a guest teacher. The substitute indicated that it was very difficult to get class started yesterday. We also began rotations in class today- rotation quiz is Friday. Transformation test will be next week, Wednesday, October 29.

RR Math: Homework packets will be passed out today and will be due 11/4/14. Red group- Finish any workbook pages we went over today by tomorrow. Practice those X facts!

RR English: Late logs need to be turned in by tomorrow. New logs were passed out Monday and are due next week on Monday.


Humanities: Students received test grades and worked on 3.5 in class. 3.5 section assessment is due tomorrow. Current events are due Friday.

Algebra: Finished up Absolute Value Inequalities. Homework: 6.6 worksheet (all) Test on Friday (6.4-6.6)


Pre-Algebra: Today we went to the lab to practice the distributive property, combining like terms and simplifying variable expressions. The homework from yesterday is 2.1 - 2.3 Review, all. The homework can be found at http://norupstein.weebly.com/pre-algebra-notes-and-homework . There is a quiz tomorrow, Wednesday, October 22.