Wednesday's Homework

ELA: Revise your speech based on today's edits/feedback.  Add in any notes you may need to remind yourself of things while presenting (look left, stand still, pause, etc.).  PRACTICE!  Tomorrow's is presentation day.  It may be a good idea to have someone 'grade' you using the practice rubric.

Period 1, 3, and 5 ONLY: Upload your speech on your blog as this will take place of the UpFront response this week.  Comment on as many speeches as you want over 


Math:
Period 3: Finish ACE questions
               p. 34 #1-8
               Test tomorrow
Period 4/6: Quiz day, none :)
Period 5: Finish all review sheet for Quiz tomorrow

Science: None

History: Chapter 6 test tomorrow!

Tuesday's Homework

ELA: Type up (double spaced) your speech.  See Ms. Ferreira's blog for details

Math:
Period 3: Finish review sheet on interior angles of polygons and angle pairs
Period 4/6: Yellow/Green
Period 5: Finish 8.4 Practice B
               Quiz Thursday

Science: Evolution Review sheet
              Test tomorrow

History: Study for Ch. 6 Test
   

Monday Madness

ELA: Finish dialoguing with the speech

          Write your own version of MLK's "I Had a Dream" speech

          Watch the video on Ms. Ferreira's blog about MLK

Mathematics: 

Period 3: review triangle congruence

               test Thursday!

Period 4/6: Make ID

Period 5: Finish wanted: missing angels worksheet

Science: Evolution Test Wednesday

History: Test on Thursday!

Weekly Wrap Up

Students finished up their 1960's presentations in ELA.  We continued to review evolution in Science, translations/rotations/etc. in Math, and began covering chapter 6 in the History Book.

Only one more week until Vacation!

Thursday Things

ELA: 1960's presentations have begun!
          If you haven't presented yet, you should be practicing

Math:
Period 3: Review Sheet
               Quiz tomorrow
Period 4/6: 5.2 Practice C
Period 5: Look up names of polygons (3 sided to 10 sided) write them down

Science: Finish Carrying Capacity ?s

History: Begin study notes on Ch. 6

Tonight's Homework

ELA: Practice your presentations
          See Ms. Ferreira's Blog

Math:
Period 3: transformation requirements
Period 4/6: 5.1 Practice C
Period 5: Quiz Corrections
                Finish #15-18 on homework from last night

Science: None :)

With only 2 weeks until break there's lots of work to get done!
See tonight's homework below.

ELA: script needs to be edited and typed
          presentations needs to be cleaned up
          collage needs to be finished

Science: finish common descent lab
           1. answer ?s in lab packet
           2. complete the morphological tree

History: finish classwork

Math:
Period 3: #3-8 worksheet
Period 4/6: review sheet
Period 5: finish classwork

Weekly Wrap Up

ELA: This week we began working on Broadcast Group Projects.  Over the weekend continue working on your project.  On Monday groups will be compiling their collages, make sure to bring materials.

Science: We've completed our Darwin, Lamarck, and Wallace group presentations.  This week we've continued to study evolution; including the investigating common descent activity today.  Check out Mrs. Gauvin's blog for links and videos on evolution.

History: The Town Meeting is a wrap!  Students began completing the "Letters from John and Abigail Adams" packet and vocabulary worksheet today.

Tonight's Homework

ELA: Homework is explained in the NEWS BROADCAST Project Packet

• Watch the news and make note of how the anchors and reporters interact with each other (including transitions)
• Finish researching and writing down source information
• People who have to gather more information on certain topics, do that.
• Make sure you write down your source information on the start.
• Other people are typing up an outline for your presentation and watching a news broadcast form your year on the internet.

Math:

Period 3: Quiz day, no HW

Period 4/6: 4.8 practice B #1-25 odd

Period 5: Finish challenge problem from class

Science: Evolution quiz tomorrow

History: No HW

Tonight's Homework

ELA: 
For preparation for the project starting tomorrow, all students in all classes are asked to do the following:

• Watch a 30 minute news broadcast of your choosing (from beginning to end) and jot down notes of how the anchors interact with each other and with the specialty people (weathermen, sports broadcaster, etc.).
• Spend some time finding highlights of each year of the 1960s so you can make the best decision for your group tomorrow on what year you want to delve into tomorrow for our research project.
• An extra credit sheet was given today.  If you choose to do it, it is due Thursday.

Period 5: complete the activity above and also...

•   Freewrite on blog
•   Make comments on blogging group members' freewrites
•   Don't forget to complete the assignment above

Math:

Period 3: Quiz tomorrow

              finish review sheet

Period 4/6: p. 259 #14-17, 20-25, 29-31

Period 5: #1-6 angle pairs

Science: Vocabulary worksheet

History: Presentations tomorrow

             Dress up for extra credit :)

ELA:
Period 5: Post freewrite on your blog, comment on blogging group members' freewrites, list articles from UpFront Magazine.

Period 6:
1. Read "Artic Meltdown" on pg. 8-10 and Dialogue with the text
2. On ELA blog, answer the 5 multiple choice ?s
3. Answer the thick ? they way we've been practicing in class.
     Question: Do you think the US and other nations are doing enough to address the issue of climate  
     change?  Explain you position.


Math:
Period 3: pg. 13 Problem 1.4 on worksheet
               Part A and B
               Quiz on Wednesday

Period 4/6: 2 word problems

Period 5: Design and solve your own angle pair problem


History:
Finish your projects!


Science:
Evolution Posters and Presentations are tomorrow!

Weekly Wrap Up

ELA:
Period 5: Most students have started setting up their blogs
Period 6: Students are continuing to work on developing the perfect paragraph

Science: Students are wrapping up their projects on the different theories of evolution.  Presentations are on Tuesday!

Math:
Period 3: Students have just started working on transformations and symmetry.
Period 4 and 6: Students just took a quiz on slope intercept form and finding the slope of a line.  The class will now start working on functions and relations to end Chapter 4.
Period 5: Students have begun to study angle pairs with parallel lines being cut by a transversal.

History: Students are working on their projects for the Town Meeting.

Have a great weekend! 

Welcome back!  Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break :)

Lots going on this week.  We're working on SPARK notes and dialoguing with text in ELA.  In Science we're continuing to learn about Darwin and Natural Selection.  Students are role playing in History and working on angles in Math!

Weekly Wrap Up:

This week went by so quickly and next week is going to fly by as well!  Everyone should be preparing for their exams next week!

There will be a test in Math, History, and the 2nd part of the ELA test is on Monday.  Make sure to review your notes on elements of a short story, symbolism, irony, Poe, Annabel Lee, The Raven, and Tell-Tale Heart.

ELA End of Trimester (at a glance)

11/13/12:  Wrap-up The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

11/14/12 - 11/15/12:  Visual Literacy poster project for Edgar Allan Poe's work.  All of this work will be done in class over this two day span.  Make sure your group has a poster board and all of the art supplies (coloring stuff, glue, scissors, rulers, etc.) that you will need.

11/14/12:  Open response questions for final exam will be distributed.  It isHIGHLY suggested that you spend some time reading through the questions, making your decision and completing brainstorming before writing the open response of your choice on Friday, 11/16 in class.

11/15/12:  After school whole group study session for final exam

11/16/12:  In class you will take the open response section of the final.  You may use your notes, the texts and anything else you feel as though you may need.  However, you MUST be finished with the paragraph by the end of the period, which is why it is HIGHLY suggested that you complete brainstorming and prewriting (NOT ROUGH DRAFT WRITING) before Friday and bring that to class with you.

11/16/12:  I will be after school on this day as well.  If you feel like you may need a little one-on-one time and attention, please make arrangements to stay after on this day as well.  Make sure you tell me by lunch time on Friday if you are staying after school on this day.

11/19/12:  In class Trimester One Final Exam.  You must complete the test in this hour.  This is the only test you will have all trimester, so make sure you feel confident and ready to attack it  :).

11/20/12:  Book talk focused on our choice books.  The topic of the conversation = what makes someone strong.

11/21/12:  Early release day and the start to your Thanksgiving Break!

Science:  DNA and Meiosis Test corrections are due on Thursday.  Stay for extra help tomorrow if you have questions about how to get point back!

ELA:

• 'Polished' draft of you Poem Analysis of the Raven is due tomorrow 
• What's the Theme worksheet is to be completed for HW tonight
• Period 5- If you did not finish your open notes vocab quiz, you need to stay after on Thursday for this.

Happy Wednesday!  Let's get organized, this week I will be staying after school today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday) until 2:45.

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