Monday, December 17

Science: Watched Bill Nye Motion and Disney's Imaginarium Newton's 3 Laws of Motion to help review for Wednesday's test. Students who didn't have the review done worked on completing it. Test is Wednesday. Labs will be returned on Thursday and students will have time in class Thursday and Friday to work on corrections. 

Geometry: Went over the 6.5 homework and 6.6 notes (proportionality theorems). Homework is the 6.6 worksheet. We also discussed the Kitchen Geometry Project which we will work on after break, but students have been given some directions to get started over break.

Humanities: Students reviewed chapter five in class today. Homework is to complete the "critical thinking" and "review questions" portions of the chapter five assessment (pp. 136-137) and to answer the following question: How did an American Identity begin to form?  Think about politics (Glorious Revolution and English Constitution), schooling (ability to read/shared understanding), press (similar news and entertainment), philosophy (Enlightenment) and war (French Indian). 

Pre-Algebra: We finished up Scientific Notation today.  Homework:  worksheet 4.7.  We will be reviewing for the next 2 days-focusing on greatest common factors and least common multiples.  Our test for this chapter will be on Thursday.

Algebra: We did some brain teaser work and some review for the midterm (worksheet is homework if not finished in class).  We have one chapter to go before we start our focusing solely on reviewing.  Test scores are on Family Access.

ELA - We began with a journal entry about what we are thankful for, recognizing all the good that is in our lives.  Students were handed back Literary Essay work from Friday with comments, we then began an outline of our claims. Homework: Journal entry #36, Read, finish Lit Essay Day 5 to be graded as a quiz, (a formative Assessment).

Spanish I: Study for the 2.1 vocab quiz (part 2) which will be on Friday, January 4th.