Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Tuesday, February 24

Announcement! Gabrielle Aiello has been named a local winner in the 46th annual America & Me Essay Contest, sponsored by Farm Bureau Insurance. The essay topic was "My Personal Michigan Hero", she wrote about her father. She will receive an award certificate for the achievement and her name will be engraved on a plaque for permanent display at NIS.

Science: Students read and took notes on series and parallel circuits. Homework is the series and parallel worksheet. Event & sketch for What is Safe? project due Thursday. 

Geometry: Completed special right triangles- homework is the special right triangles handout. 



Humanities: Students finished reviewing chapter 9, and were introduced to 10.1 of the text in class. Homework is to complete an acrostic poem for "JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY." Poems are due tomorrow.

Canvasser: Reading Logs due Monday- read daily. Math: Homework packets will be passed out today or tomorrow.  


ELA - Drafting Day. Students checked in their rough drafts or wrote their rough drafts. They then had another student look over their first draft to be sure that their evidence proves the thesis and that tenses were correct. Tomorrow we will hold a Peer Review in a more official format. Homework: Revisions, Journal #3.23 & Read

Technology - Students created the spreadsheet to but used for their Family budget project. They then received the packet for the "Design Folder" with all directions in it. Investigation should be ready to be checked by Monday.

Algebra: Took our chapter 8 test. Homework: page one of section 9.1 homework

Spanish: WHAT WE DID TODAY:
We went over last nights homework (p. 104, ex. 1-3). We began working on p. 105 (ex. 4-6), which is due tomorrow. Some students had already finished the assignment, and were able to start on our project based review for Chapter 3, 'Tres en rayos.'

WHAT'S COMING UP:
due 2.25 p. 105, ex. 4-6
2.25 20 Point Quiz on er/ir verbs from chapter 3. Students should know definitions and how to conjugate the verbs.
2.27 10 point Quiz on verbs venir/tener
2.27 ''Tres en rayos' project due. Students will be given class time to complete these projects.