Monday, January 13, 2014

Monday, January 13

Below is a tentative midterm schedule:

Algebra- January 16 & 17
Geometry- January 23
Spanish 2 & French- January 30 & 31
Science- February 4


Science: Today we read and took notes on energy, work, potential energy, kinetic energy and the law of conservation of energy. No homework. We will have a "Quest" on this unit Wednesday, January 22 and the midterm will be on Tuesday, February 4. 

Geometry: Investigated similarity and triangles. Homework is 5.4 practice. Quest on dilations and similarity on Friday and the midterm is Thursday, January 23.

Algebra - We are continuing our review for the midterm which is this Thursday and Friday.  I have attached 2 of the reviews (Algebra 1-6 Practice & Practice Exam 2) that were given out in class.

C. Reading:  Reading logs will be passed out today.  They are due Tuesday 1/21/14.  They need to be completed in full.

R. Room Math: 
We will have one of our mini-tests on Friday.  Homework is also due on Friday.  If you turn your homework in to me by Wednesday, I will check it and return it to you so you can study from it.


Spanish (Tomlinson): 1.3 Review, Test-Wednesday

Chinese: Take Unit 2 Quiz. Reminder- Final exam is this Friday!

ELA - Students continued with their Argument Writing with Writer's Workshop Op-Ed Day 4, we discussed the validity of their argument and tested each other's arguments. Homework: READ (remember 5 AR books are due by next Thursday) Journal # 46

Humanities: Students discussed the citizenship handbook in class. Homework is to complete 9.1 section assessment.

Spanish II: study verbs and vocab for the midterm coming up, and begin to study the 4.3 vocab words for a quiz in a few weeks.

French I: Begin studying for the unit quiz on 3.1. This will be given on Wednesday.


Pre-Algebra: Today we finished up our exploration of Rotations and began working on a packet that reviews all of the transformations we have learned (translations, reflections, dialations, rotations). The review also covers more complex problems that involve multiple transformations (i.e: first rotate the original 90 degrees clockwise and then reflect the image using the x-axis). Tomorrow and Wednesday we will continue reviewing. We will have an Transformational Geometry test on Thursday (1/16). HW: Complete pp. 1-3 in Review packet (#s 1-6)

Course 3: Today we started review for our test on Thursday.  Chapter 6 review is due tomorrow.  Students had time to work on it in class.

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