Thursday, December 18

Humanities: Students continued to work on 7.3 guided questions. 7.3 guided questions worksheet is due tomorrow.

RR English:

Read every evening

Reading log is due Monday, January 5, 1015

parents must sign reading logs

RR Math:

A section of math should be completed each night

Math packet is due Friday, December 19

TEST: Friday, December 19

Pre-Algebra: We worked on 4.2, working with GCF using prime factorization and story problems. The homework is 4.2, 2-28 even, 29, 30. The notes and homework are available at http://norupstein.weebly.com/pre-algebra-notes-and-homework .

Please bring the following items to class tomorrow, if you have them:

-colored pencils or highlighter

-glue stick

-scissors

Science: Continued taking notes from Discovery Education videos. Tomorrow we will be discussing citations.

Geometry: Finished 4.3 and did the 4.3 handout. Students need to take the time to go over the 4.3 handout more carefully for homework. Quiz tomorrow. 

ELA - Students began their Writer's Workshop with Position Paper Day 1. This cross curricular project was started with our Informational Reading Reader's Workshop, continued in Science with research and organizational lessons, and is now coming to completion with writing the paper and practicing a presentation of the information. Today we took the research completed in Science class and organized it in an outline & used the argument checklist to analyze their progress.  I checked thesis statements and gave remarks on adjustments. Tomorrow we will be using this outline to flash draft our first draft of this paper. If your student has any missing information for their outline please have him or her complete it tonight. Homework: Grammar take home quiz, Journal entry #2.44, Read.

Spanish: WHAT WE DID: We took Part 2 of the Chapter 2 Test. We started Chapter 3 by reviewing the vocabulary, and completing exercises 3 and 4 on page 79. This is homework if it was not completed in class.