Monday, December 16

Science: Students had the day to research articles on nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing for our cross-curricular project with language arts. Students MUST have an article with them in language arts tomorrow!

Geometry: Did some additional practice with triangle congruence proofs. The triangle congruence quiz was started in class and is homework. Triangle congruence test is Thursday.

C. Reading:  Logs are due today.  If you did not turn in your log, make sure you turn it in tomorrow for late points.  You should be reading daily this week,  but I will not assign a new reading log UNLESS you did not turn one in today or tomorrow from last week.  I gave you the heads up about this last week.

R. Room Math:  No assigned homework this week unless you did not turn your homework in on Friday.  You need to finish it and turn it in to me for late points.  Also, even though you do not have a math packet this week, you should continue to study and practice your multiplication facts/songs.

Humanities: Students checked in definitions and history for our Amendment project in class. Students worked on current events and "own" Amendments for our projects. Homework is to finish the current event part of the project for tomorrow. All projects are due Wednesday.

Algebra - Chapter 5 test tomorrow

Spanish (Tomlinson): See Spanish downloads folder on Blog and last Thursday's blog post for copies. QUIZ tomorrow on 1.3 Vocab. La Familia and Tener DUE WEDNESDAY

ELA - Students reviewed how to read/analyze Informational Text in Reader's Workshop Day 1.  We looked at the format in which Informational Texts are written using text that involved the topic of study for our cross curricular project with Science.  Homework: Journal Entry #31, Read (3rd book should be done by the time we are back from break). Research for project

Course 3: We had a quiz today.  No homework.

Chinese: We learned how to ask and answer about telephone number, and the homework is on p.39 from textbook: write a sentence according to the pictures.

Spanish II: Your only homework is to make flash cards for pg 291 and start studying the words.

French I: Your only homework is to make flash cards for pg 101 and start studying the words.

Pre-Algebra: Today we did some catching up in our Interactive Student Notebooks. We also learned about using the Multiplicative Inverse Property to solve equations that involve fractions. HW: Cumulative Practice (1-33 every other odd) [ie.:1,5,9,13..]