Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wednesday, March 13

*Please remember to pack a lunch for the field trip tomorrow.


March Miracle entry forms are due Friday, March 15.

Science: Completed Investigation 15-A (Electric Charge) and collected circuit plans. Quiz corrections are due on Friday, if students are going to Chicago then they should turn in their corrections on Friday. 

Geometry: Went over the 9.5 notes (Compositions of Transformations) and quizzes were returned. 9.5 worksheet is homework. 


Technology 8 - Orlando: What we did today: Students worked on typing and explored some other websites. Homework: No homework.  No class tomorrow because of the field trip Discussion topics: How many words can you type per minute?

Humanities: Students practiced and performed our historical poetry in class.  Students also had an opportunity to work on 12.3 free choice in class. 12.3 and current events are due Friday.

Spanish I: Study 2.3 vocab (part 2) for a quiz on Thursday, March 21st. The vocab packet that goes with these words is also due the same day.


Tech 8 (Stein): Watched a video on planning and designing a publication. Viewed an example and created a hard copy rough draft of the college research brochure. All links, documents and the rubric are available on www.edmodo.com. Brochures are due Tuesday, March 19.

Pre-Algebra: We worked on an activity today.  No homework.

Algebra: Today we went over our quizzes from Monday,  did some review problems from 8.3,  and introduced Friday's activity.  No homework today.  I tried to attach the equation solving assignment that is due on Monday (hope it works).

ELA - Students graded their Grammar Chapter 4 Lesson 3 (4.3) Linking Verbs and Predicate Words.  Then began working on their next lesson 4.4 Principal Parts of Verbs.  This is a concept that is being or has been taught in Spanish as well so it should be fairly easy :)  When they completed the assignment they were given the rest of the hour to read.  As always I am open at lunch for any clarification or a quiet reading environment. Homework: Grammar 4.4, READ! Journal entry #29. Remember all AR quizzes are due Monday, March 25th, the last day of the marking period is the 28th (a half day)


Course 3: Today we worked on decimals fractions and percents.  No homework. 4th hour-hw-worksheet 7.1, all.