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Notes/Homework/Participation

Intro Alg: Sec.7-1 Coordinate Graphs/Quadrants

        Handout: Side 1: 1) draw figure from coordinates, 2) draw two figures and list coordinates

                     Side 2: Solve maze and list coordinates

Geometry: Sec.8-4: Rectangles:

        Homework: p.425- construction of rectangle with compass/ruler,

                        p.428: 7, 11, 13-15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29-32, 36, 42

Accel. Pre-Algebra: Sec.7-8 Simple and Compound Interest

        p.372: 1-16
 

Welcome back! 

 Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

--Thomas Jefferson

7th Core

Tuesday - WW lesson 7 parts A-B

Wednesday - Creative Writing Draft

Thursday - African Masks and Museum Project - Select a tribe and research their history. 

Friday - Writing edit - final due on Tuesday 1/21

8th Social Studies

HW data forthcoming  

Tuesday, 1/15:  First Day Writing

Wednesday, 1/16:  Bring signed portion of parent letter.

Thursday, 1/17:  SGB page 52-54

                      Microscope drawing with labels

Friday, 1/18:  Rules for microscope use
 

Science:

1.    Finish letter to me.

2.    Return signed syllabus by Thursday.

Lang. Arts 8

1.    Vacation reading assignment log and page totals due Wed.

2.    Check out a good book and read it 30 minutes/night.

3.    WW6 A and B due Wed. 

Core 7:

1.    Vacation reading assignment log and page totals due Wed.

2.    Check out a good book and read it 30 minutes/night.

3.    WW6 A and B due Wed.

Agenda

1.  Homework in Binder Reminder

    a.  Vacation Reading Assignment due tomorrow

    b.  Wordly Wise 1 A & B

    c. Bring your ID card tomorrow

    d.  Check grades online tonight.  If you notice an error, bring the graded work to me tomorrow at break so that I can fix it. 

2.  Warm Up:  Why should we bother studying vocabulary? 

3.  Wordly Wise books & begin

4.  Smartboard Training 

Agenda

1.  Homework in Binder Reminder

    Reading--Vacation Reading Assignment due tomorrow/ Check grades online TONIGHT (If I've made a mistake, bring me the graded work tomorrow at break)

    LA--Wordly Wise A & B (flash cards due in class today)

    SS--Mosaic, letter from parent, and paragraph due tomorrow (extra credit!)

2.  Smartboard Training

3.  Language Boards

4.  Wordly Wise flash cards: due today

5.  Things Not Seen 

Tuesday, Jan. 15- Page 626, #1-32. ALL

Wednesday, Jan 16- Page 224, #2-24, even

Thursday, Jan 17-Page 224-225, #26-52 even

Friday- Jan. 18- NO HOMEWORK

Accel Pre-Algebra:             WBK p. 64    Periods 2,3,4

Pre-Algebra:                       WBK p. 50    Periods 5,6

Science 7: Tuesday 1/15

• Rough draft of letter due Wed.

• Bring I.R. workbook every day to class.

• Cover text and bring to class.

• Finish ch. 4, sec. 1 workbook (I.R.)
  

  Wednesday 1/16

• Final draft of letter due (friendly letter format: use your grammar book, if needed or see you class notes).

• Signed syllabus: page 4 only due by Friday.

LA 8: Tues. 1/15

• Vacation rdg. assignment due Wed. Total your pages!

• Check out a good AR book as soon as you can and bring it to class by Monday.

• Bring in 3-5 poems or songs by next Thur.
• WW less. 6 D and E due on Wed.
  

Accelerated Core 7:

• Vacation rdg. assignment due Wed. Total your pages!

• Check out a good AR book as soon as you can and bring it to class by Monday.

• SS: finish chapter 5 overview (CW assignment) and keep.
  

• Read Homecoming chapters 1 and 2 by Tuesday.
• WW less 5 tests on Friday.

WELCOME BACK

HEADS UP !!! Students and parents should carefully read Ms. Chollar's Course Introduction Letter to understand course requirements and expectations. The letter must be signed and returned on 1/22. Binder and supplies are due on 1/25.

TUESDAY 1/15: Letter to Ms. Chollar

WEDNESDAY 1/16: Read Course Intro Letter and fill in Worksheet "Routines, Rules and Requirements"

THURSDAY 1/17: Study for quiz on "Routines, Rules and Requirements"; Read textbook pgs 22-27; Worksheet "Lab Safety"

FRIDAY 1/8: Cinquain and Signed Course Intro Letter due on Tuesday 

ALA 8: Agenda

Please pass up your homework (winter reading assignment) with total number of pages by your name, date, and period.

     1. HW in BR

            a. WW 1 C & D; prepare for test on Friday

            b. Take AR tests at break and lunch on Winter Reading

            c. Check out new books today for AR (Quarter 3 minimums are

40 fiction and 20 nonfiction points)

d. Create a list of Literary Terms: use your brain, lit book, internet, etc.  Get as many as you can.

e. The Outsiders Ch. 1 (finish)

1. Correct WW 1 A & B/ Language Boards
2. Warm Up:  Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like an “outsider”?
3. Check out copies of The Outsiders from the library.
4. Chapter 1 (finish at home if we don’t get to all of it in class)

Accel Pre-Algebra:             WBK p. 18    Periods 2,3,4

Pre-Algebra:                       p. 298 #6-30   Periods 5,6

 Intro Algebra: Linear Relationships

        HW: handout

Geometry- Sec.8-4: Rectangles (cont.)

    Homework: p.425- construction of rectangle with compass/ruler,

                        p.428: 7, 11, 13-15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29-32, 36, 42

        Quiz Prep.: Problems will be taken from: not finished...

Acc. Pre-Algebra: Sec.2-8: Inequalities and their graphs

       Homework: p.102: 1-4, 9-20, 29, 40-43

          Quiz Prep Information: problems will be taken from:

                        p.372: 8-10, p.102, 11, 15, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27

Core: Agenda

J Pass up your homework (even if you didn’t do it): Vacation Reading Assignment

1.  HW in BR: (Homework is always due the following day unless otherwise noted.)

SS—Using your SS book and the internet, create a list of the ten Chinese Inventions you would like to study.  Megan also has information and resources in the library that you can use at break, lunch, and after school.

LA—Wordly Wise Les 11 C & D; study for your test on Friday (spellings and meanings) using your flash cards and your family.

READ—You need to have a book to read each day in class, so bring a book from home or check one out from the library before school, at break, at lunch, or after school. (The library isn’t open during class until Friday.)

2.  Correct WW 11 A & B

3.  Second quarter extra credit mosaic presentations

4.  Read SS Chapter 8, Les. 1 (p. 251-254)—no notes

5.  AR time, or begin other homework quietly

6. Powerpoint and lecture on Feudal Japan: take notes on information

7.  Things Not Seen

Accel Pre-Algebra:            p.102 #9-30             Periods 2,3,4

Pre-Algebra:                WBK p. 51            Periods 5,6

ALA 8: Agenda

            Please pass up your homework (list of literary terms).  Remember your name, date, and period.

     1. HW in BR

            a. WW 1 E; prepare for test on Friday

            b. Take AR tests at break and lunch on Winter Reading

            c. Check out new books for AR (Quarter 3 minimums are

40 fiction and 20 nonfiction points)

d. The Outsiders Ch. 2 (finish)

e. Of your literary terms, choose a few you’d like to teach to the class (ones you understand well, or would like to understand better; ones that have clear examples in popular literature or pop culture)

1. Correct WW 1 C & D
2. Warm Up:  Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like an “outsider”?
3. Chapter 1: Unpack it (vocabulary words, setting, characters, Paul Newman)

Core: Agenda

Pass up your homework (even if you didn’t do it): List of Chinese Inventions

1.  HW in BR: (Homework is always due the following day unless otherwise noted.)

SS—Begin researching INVENTION #1.  Bring in notes from at least one source tomorrow.  Use a bibliography sheet for each source.  If you print information off the internet, you may hi-light important words or phrases, but remember not to color.  If you take notes by hand, you must put the information in your own words (or use quotation marks and hi-light main ideas); if you copy someone else’s words without giving them credit, you will receive a referral.  Remember the THREE WORD RULE.

LA—Wordly Wise Les 11 E; study for your test on Friday (spellings and meanings) using your flash cards and your family.

READ—For at least one hour tonight. 

2.  Correct WW 11 C & D

3.  Extra credit mosaic presentations

4.  AR Time

5. Powerpoint and lecture on Feudal Japan: take notes on information, finish up at home and look over your notes; turn them in tomorrow (1/18/08).

6.  Things Not Seen

7.  Language Boards

plot

setting

theme

irony

onomatopoeia

characters

hyperbole

simile

metaphor

genre (mystery, romance, comedy…)

imagery

conflict

protagonist

antagonist

static character

point of view

flashback

forshadowing

allusion

characterization

alliteration

dialogue

personification

maxim

mood

character development

oxymoron

dynamic characters

allegory

epic

subplot

situational irony

dramatic irony

atmosphere

interlude

caesura

kennings

stereotype

didactic

symbolism

propaganda

epilogue

analogy

dialect

paradox

diction

monologue

epithet (?)

caricature

subjectivity

parable

metonymy

anagram (?)

periodic structure

novella

anthropomorphism

negative capability

narration

unreliable narrator

pun

ode (?)

saga

assonance

idiom

farce

Intro Algebra: p.307: 1-26

Geometry: p.434: 4-7, 12, 13, 16-19, 41-43

    Quiz Prep: p.428: 11, 30-32, p.425 Example 2; p.434: 16-19, 43

Acc.Pre.Alg: Workbook p.18, Text p.102 21-28, 34-36

    Quiz Prep: problems will be taken from:

            p.372: 8-10, p.102: 5, 7, 11, 15, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, 31, 33, 35

Periods 1-5

Tuesday:  SGB p 15

Wednesday:  SGB pp 4-8

Thursday:  Chapter Review #1-11, p 32

Friday:  None

Period 6:  

Tuesday:  SGB p 1-2

Wednesday:  SGB p 3

Thursday:  SGB p 9-11

Friday:  None 

Period 1 – RSP Language Arts

Tuesday – Vacation Essay due today J

                    DOL #17 – Do both Monday and Tuesday

                     Wordly Wise #15 A

                      Read and Log pg. 41-47 – read this on Monday

                       Read and Log pg. 48-54 – read for Tuesday

Wednesday – DOL

                        Wordly Wise #15 B

                         Read and Log pg. 55-59

Thursday – DOL

                     Wordly Wise #15C

                      Read and Log pg. 60-63

Friday –.

A/R Due

Bring your ID Monday to check out a new book

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Period 3 – RSP Math

Tuesday -  Daily Math Practice #18.  Complete both Monday and Tuesday.

Wednesday – Daily Math Practice #18

                        Workbook Ex. 71

Thursday – Daily Math Practice #18

                     Workbook Ex. 72A  

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Period 4 – RSP Social Studies

Tuesday – U.S. History Puzzles pgs. 11-14

                   Complete pgs. 11 - 12

 Wednesday – U.S. History Puzzles pg. 13

Thursday –   U.S. History Puzzles pg.14

Thursday –   HW Due

Geometry

Draw rhombus using compass and instructions in book, p.433.

p.434: 9, 21, 26-31 

Accel Pre-Algebra:             WBK p.19     Periods 2,3,4

Pre-Algebra:                 p. 302 #18-42            Periods 5,6

Monday, Jan 21- Holiday

Tuesday- Jan 22- Page 229-230, #2-42, even

Wednesday-Jan. 23- Page 233-234, #2-24, even

Thursday, Jan 24- Page 238, #2-30, even

Friday, Jan 25- Quiz

This weeks homework:

Tuesday: Write an 8 sentence paragraph about the constitution, more information provided in class.               Due Thursday

              Study for test

Work on flash cards due Friday with the test
 

Wednesday through Thursday: same as above

Tuesday, 1/22:  SBG p. 55-58

                        Using the Microscope Lab

Wednesday, !/23:  Plant Cell Drawing (p. 120)   Enlarge to at least 15 cm (6 inches) 

                            Label and color (the chloroplasts must be green)

Thursday, 1/24:  Animal Cell Drawing (p. 121)   Enlarge to at least 6cm    Label and color

Friday, 1/25:   Plant & Animal Cell Lab
 

Intro Algebra: handout: draw graph, label axes, and at least two trends on each graph

        This material is to prepare for section 7.2

Geometry: p.438 1, 2, 4 (drawing a kite), p.442 (sec.8.6- trapezoids): 9, 11, 24, 33, 34, 37

        To draw 37, 1) draw a segment, 2) use a compass and draw identical arcs centered at the ends of the segment that both cross the segment and also extend above the segment, 3) at each of the arc/segment intersection, use the compass set a a different radius and draw two arcs that cross one each of the earlier drawn arcs, 4) connect the arc intersections and you should have a segment that is parallel and centered above the original segment, 5) draw sides.  It should look like an isosceles trapezoid.
 

Acc.Pre-Algebra: Sec.2-9 (solving inequalities with +/-): p.106: 1, 2, 8-16, 25-28, 31

        In class we will work in workbook, p.19 

Tuesday-Friday

• Read 30 minutes.

• Study your poetry terms (handout and flash cards).  Keep each and bring to class each day this week.

• Bring 3-5 song lyrics or poems to class on Thursday.  They should be descriptive and not really short.

• Poetry term test next week.

• WW less. 6 tests on Friday.

Agenda: Tuesday-Friday

1. WW less. 6 review to prepare for tests.

2. AR reading: SSR(Silent sustained reading)

3. Poetry terms: learn about different poetic devices and analyze poetry.

4. Review adjectives, adverbs and their place in descriptive writing (poetry).

5. Begin to look at figurative language and imagery. 

HW: Monday

1. Study microscope rules for quiz on Friday.

2. Learn microscope parts for quiz on Friday.  Spelling counts!
   

Agenda for the week:

1.    Learn microscope parts and how to use (lab).

2.    Study cell parts and their functions.

3.    Cell drawings.

4.    Review chapter 4, sec. 1 and 2. (Lecture and lab). 

HW: Friday 1/25

• AR reading

• WW less 6 due Tuesday; tests on Tuesday

• Think about your geography warm-up.

Agenda:

 1.   Copy HW.

2.    Grammar: O.B. p. 76 "Checking Your Skills."

3.    More on writing sentences: preps. and simple and compound                sentences. 

4.    Literature: Homecoming.  Chapter 1-5 summaries.

5.    SS: Africa: chapter 5; review study guides, if time.

 Periods 4 and 5

The Giver- Read Chapters 1 and 2 for Weds. and Chapters 3 and 4 for Friday

Period 2 and 3

Do Wordly Wise 5D and 5E 

Accel Pre-Algebra:             WBK p.20     Periods 2,3,4

Pre-Algebra:               WBK p.52            Periods 5,6

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.--Shel Silverstein

7th Core

Tuesday - Social studies Ch 6-2 pages 186-191 q 1-6 in notebook

Wednesday - Literature Read and Respond pg 54 q 1-5 on PAPER

Thursday - Literature reread and review (TEST FRI)

                Finish Ch 6 reading TEST FRIDAY

Mask project research and creation in class this week - Museum reports are due on MONDAY, 1/28

8th Social Studies

Tuesday - Monday

Lewis and Clark/American Expansion projects due MONDAY - January 28th

    Read and review project outline (bright yellow paper)

    Complete L and C trail map

    Research and write 2-3 page essay on the expansion of the United States

    Research and write the biography of an individual who was on the Discovery trip

    Perfect your nature observation notes and illustrations

         *** Grand Finale --  CREATE A CLEVER AND ATTRACTIVE FOLDER FOR ALL YOUR WORK
 

Periods 1,2,3,4,5

Tuesday:  IR p. 33

Wednesday:  Metric Practice sheets (there are 3 -- whatever you did not finish in class)

Thursday:  make up card for test

Friday:  test on scientific method, variables, graphs, conversions

Period 6

Tuesday:  SGB p 33-35

Wednesday:  SGB p 36-38

Thursday:  Outline chap 3, sec. 1

Friday:  none 

Intro. Algebra: p.311: 1, 4-7, 9, 11-14, 19-21

Geometry: p.443: 13-19, 22, 26-28, 38 (<- need drawing instructions)

Acc.Pre-Algebra: p.111: 1-7, 13-26, 33-35 

1/18/08

Core: Agenda

Pass up your homework: Chinese Invention Research on INVENTION #1 (yellow sheet on TOP)

1.  HW in BR: (Homework is always due the following day unless otherwise noted.)

SS—Continue researching INVENTION #1.  Bring in notes from at least one OTHER source (Research #2 on Invention #1).  Use a bibliography sheet for each source.  If you print information off the internet, you may hi-light important words or phrases, but remember not to color.  If you take notes by hand, you must put the information in your own words (or use quotation marks and hi-light main ideas); if you copy someone else’s words without giving them credit, you will receive a referral.  Remember the THREE WORD RULE.

LA—Wordly Wise Les 12 A; study for your test Friday (spellings and meanings) using your flash cards and your family.

READ—For at least one hour over the weekend.  Get your parents to sign your Reading Log.   

2.  Correct WW 11 E and total out of 53

3.  Complete SS Ch. 8, Les. 1 Review # 1-7 and turn in with your Ch. 8, Les. 1 Notes stapled to the BACK.

4.  AR Time

5. WW Les 11 Test

6.  Things Not Seen

1/22/08

Core: Agenda

Pass up your homework: Chinese Invention Research #2 on INVENTION #1 (yellow sheet on TOP)

1.  HW in BR: (Homework is always due the following day unless otherwise noted.)

SS—Continue resear