Thursday, November 17, 2011

Thursday, November 17

Science: Investigation 3-A, Momentum and the 3rd Law. Quizzes are graded but there are a few students who still need to complete the quiz, so I will pass them back tomorrow. Students will have an opportunity to complete quiz corrections.

Geometry: Went over the 4.7 homework and 4.8 notes (congruence transformations). 4.8 worksheet is homework. Chapter 4 test is Tuesday.

Language Arts: Students worked on Grammar Lesson #3 Verbs - Read and took AR quizzes at the beginning of class. We then moved on to Day 3 of Launching an essay in Writer's Workshop. All notes are attached. Homework: finish Grammar Lesson #3, write, read.

Pre-Algebra: We continued with 2-step equations.  Today we had to write an equation from a story problem and then solve it.  Homework is worksheet 3.1, #23 - 27.

Humanities: Students finished sharing current events, were introduced to 4.4 and began to work on a "free choice" for 4.4 in class. Homework is to complete the free choice by tomorrow.

Algebra (Graham) We did a basketball problem solving exercise today. Our focus this year in math is to help our students become excellent problem solvers. I have attached a copy of the exercise, if you are interested. We started section 4.4 today-didn't get very far. No official homework tonight, however, I did assign some more problem solving work that is due on Monday.