Monday, April 5, 2010

Monday, April 5, 2010

Math
- pg. 413-414 #8-14, 16-17 all, 19-23 odd, 26-27
Use these answers to correct your homework: BE HONEST
- Extra Credit Tessellations Project due Friday, April 23, 2010

- Quiz #18 this Wednesday!!! (covers 8-6 to 8-7 )
- Chapter 9 Test this Friday!!!

Ongoing Blueprint to Success project is due mid-May --- here is the checklist/calendar for you to keep on track.

Science
- online Chapter 12 Review due TOMORROW
- notebook will be stamped soon!

- revise/post Natural Resources blog entries:
Entry #4 -
  • Discuss the outcome of the project and describe your final product
  • Reflect on how well you worked either by yourself or with a group of people
  • Discuss the people you plan to show the project to/try to convince to make a change --- how do you plan to present your ideas?
Entry #5 -
  • How are your presentations going with the 3-5 people? Are you successful in getting them to make a change?
  • Describe the whole experience as you were trying to convince people to make a change in their lifestyle --- is it easy or difficult?
Entry #6 -
  • Did those 3-5 people that pledged to make a change actually do so?
  • Reflect on the whole process of trying to make a change in the world
- Chapter 12 Quiz TOMORROW!!!
- Landforms Unit Test this Wednesday 4/7!!! (covers Chapters 11, 12, and 3-3)
(see study guide for both the quiz and the unit test)


Exploratory
- finish Journal Entry #2: "Vertigo"
paragraph 1: How do you think Hitchcock has grown as a filmmaker from his first film "Rear Window" to his masterpiece, "Vertigo?" Explain using evidence from the two films.
paragraph 2: How does cutting and editing allow Hitchcock to show "things that are not really there?" (i.e. think about the scene where Scottie watches Madeleine walk by in the restaurant or the beginning falling off the roof scene)