Thursday, October 23, 2014

Thursday, October 23

Thank you to the parents who came to conferences last night! Today, conferences are from 12:30 - 3:00 or 5:30 - 8:00.

Science: 1st & 2nd hours worked with their new groups to create an image to represent their shared intelligence strengths. We will discuss lab corrections tomorrow, please make sure to bring your lab to class with you tomorrow if you got it back at conferences! Lab corrections will be due on Tuesday, October 28.

Geometry: Attached is the key for that rotation practice homework. Rotation quiz is tomorrow, Transformation test is Wednesday, October 29.

Humanities: Students reviewed causes of the American Revolution, were introduced to 4.1 of the text and worked on a time line for the section. Homework is to finish the time line and complete a current event for Friday.


ELA - It was great seeing many of you last night at parent teacher conferences. I look forward to seeing more of the parents tonight. 1st hour was given until tomorrow, the beginning of the hour, to turn in their projects (hoping some will work on their project today with the half day). This gives another work day in class to 4th and 6th hours.
To clarify Project due dates/times:
1st Hour - Friday at the beginning of class
4th Hour - Friday at the end of class (COW in class)
6th Hour - Friday at the end of class (COW in class)
Please remember these other important Summative Assessment due dates:
* Tuesday, October 28th - Journals - 43 entries with table of contents to match (home and school entries combined)
* Friday, October 31st (1/2 day) - 5 AR quizzes taken and passed (one book every two weeks for the marking period)

RR English: Logs are due Monday.

RR Math: Homework packets were passed out.  

Pre-Algebra: Today we started 2.4. We worked on picture representations of story problems to support algebraic thinking. There is no homework today.