May 21, 2007

Cocoa says, " keep studying for all your exams... Woof -woof"

Alg: Quadratic formula and square roots test tomorrow.

Es: water cycle and climate test tomorrow. Lab due tomorrow also.

Eng: R & J test tomorrow


Global: read ch. 15, section and complete worksheet.

May 18, 2007

Alg: complete your take home quiz for 5/21. Quadratic formula and square root test 5/22
Es: Water cycle & climate test 5/22 EARTH SCIENCE REGENTS IS JUNE 19TH
Eng: Romeo & Juliet test 5/22; study the quotes handouts as well as the notes.
Global: keep studying for the final exam

May 17, 2007

Alg: complete left side column of square roots worksheet. Quadratic formula and square roots test next Tuesday.

Es: Study notes and Climate of Imaginary continents lab due to tomorrow.

Eng: Act 2 Romeo & Juliet diary due tomorrow.

Global: Study your notes.

May 9, 2007

alg: Finish the word problems in the factoring quadratics review sheet. (Test has been moved to Friday, May 11.

Es: Study your notes on the Water Cycle.

Eng: Act I dairy due 5/11/07

Global: read chapter 17, section 2 complete worksheet.
GLOBAL FINAL EXAM IS JUNE 7 & 8. STUDY!

May 7, 2007

Alg: complete problem # 10 on worksheet; factoring quadratics test on 5/9
Es: Earthquake test and packet due tomorrow
Eng: Make sure you are writing a diary (from one of the character's points of view) after each act. There will be five total and they are to be typed and handed in at the end of the book for a grade.
Global: review for Reformation & Renaissance test tomorrow.

May 4, 2007

Alg: Complete take home quiz, due Monday.

Es: Earthquake test on 5/8 , ES packet due 5/8 also

Eng:

Global: Renaissance & Reformation test 5/8

May 3, 2007

Renaissance and Reformation test May 8th, 2007

May 1, 2007

Alg: complete quadratic worksheet
Es: If you did not hand the lab in today, it's late, get it in asap. (study your notes)
Eng: define your Shakespearean insult using the Internet or the Oxford dictionary.
Global: read Ch. 14, section 4 & complete worksheet.
Renaissance/Reformation test May 8, 2007

April 27, 2007

Go Yanks!

Alg: TAKE HOME QUIZ; DUE MONDAY APRIL 30TH, 2007

Es: Earthquake epicenter lab due May 1.

Eng: check out the links to Romeo & Juliet

Global: Renaissance Project due May 1.

April 26, 2007

Alg: Complete factor with a coefficient worksheet to complete the puzzle.

Es: study notes

Eng:

Global: Read Ch. 14, section 3 complete worksheet. Renaissance Project due May 1st.

April 25, 2007

Read all about young Romeo & Juliet's tragedy. Click here!

Alg: complete 1-4 & # 9 on factor worksheet
Es: signed test corrections and Eureka worksheet due tomorrow.
Eng: We begun studying Romeo & Juliet; homework use each vocab word in an original sentence from p. 670 in packet
Global: Renaissance project due May 1st.

check out this R&J matching quiz http://www.quia.com/mc/270540.html

MLA Citation Style

You must follow these formats for this project.

Book
Okuda, Michael, and Denise Okuda. Star Trek Chronology: The History
of the Future. New York: Pocket, 1993.


Journal Article
Wilcox, Rhonda V. "Shifting Roles and Synthetic Women in Star
Trek: The Next Generation." Studies in Popular Culture 13.2 (1991):
53-65.



Encyclopedia Article (well known reference books)
Sturgeon, Theodore. "Science Fiction." The Encyclopedia Americana.
International ed. 1995.


Website
Lynch, Tim. "DSN Trials and Tribble-ations Review." Psi Phi: Bradley's
Science Fiction Club. 1996. Bradley University. 8 Oct. 1997 www.bradley.edu/campusorg/psiphi/DS9/ep/503r.html>.



Newspaper or Magazine Article on the Internet
Andreadis, Athena. "The Enterprise Finds Twin Earths Everywhere It
Goes, But Future Colonizers of Distant Planets Won't Be So Lucky."
Astronomy Jan. 1999: 64- . Academic Universe. Lexis-Nexis. B.
Davis Schwartz Memorial Lib., Brookville, NY. 7 Feb. 1999 web.lexis-nexis.com/universe>.

April 23, 2007

Alg: Factor quiz tomorrow

Es: study your notes

Eng: We started a new unit today; William Shakespeare (he was born today in 1564)

Global: We began a project called the Reniassance Project. It is due on May 1st. You should get your book sources now (2).

April 19, 2007

April 18, 2007

Alg: Review notes
Es: lab due tomorrow and test on Friday
Eng: study for Antigone test on Friday
Global: Complete worksheet

April 17, 2007

Alg: No hw
Es: lab due on the 19th
Eng: complete hw form the board; Antigone test on Friday
Global: complete worksheet

April 16, 2007

Alg: No hw
Es: Lab due tomorrow. (study your notes also)
Eng: unit 4 vocab test tomorrow. Antigone test on 4/20
Global: Mid. Ages test tomorrow. ( keep studying your notes)

Characteristics of a Feudal Society.

1. No central Government authority

2. Rigid/strict social classes; no social mobility.

3. War/Military society

4. System of exchange; land for protection.

Vocab test 4/17 and Antigone test 4/20

April 12, 2007

Global HW: Read Ch. 9, section 5 & complete worksheet

Check out the new Mult. Binomials site in the Links section.

April 11, 2007

Alg: Complete E - O in FOIL packet
Es: Signed test report due tomorrow
Eng: review for vobac unit IV test
Global: continue to study for Mid. Ages test 4/17

April 10, 2007

March 29, 2007

Alg: No hw

Es: No hw

Eng: Complete unit 4 vocab over the break. Quiz on 4/17

Global: Crest project due Tuesday, 4/10. Test on 4/17

Try this Extra Credit project over the Easter Break.

Johnny and Joey have been experimenting with balloons in Earth Science class.
They found that if they fill 5 balloons with helium, they can use the balloons to lift 50 pounds. Three of the same balloons filled with hydrogen lift 60 pounds. Ten filled with neon lift 20 pounds.

How many pounds could the students lift with 5 neon, one hydrogen, and two helium balloons?

Email me the answer or give it to me the 1st day back.

March 27, 2007

Click here for Earth Science Review

March 22, 2007

March 21, 2007

March 20th 2007- Happy Vernal Equinox

Eng: reader's response: What was Creon's action towards Antigone from today's reading.
Global: Read Ch. 9, section 3 & complete worksheet.

double click image to view animation

March 19, 2007

Alg: complete problems 24-30 on combination worksheet
Es: moon phase lab due 3/21 astronomy & earth's motion test 3/22
Eng: summarize scene II of Antigone
Global: study your Western Europe notes....... Test soon

March 15, 2007

Eng: Finish editing the paragraph worksheet and do the Antigone homework.
Global: Read chapter 8, section 3 & complete worksheet. study notes

March 13, 2007

Alg: 1-10 0n worksheet
Es: Lab due tomorrow
Eng: read Antigone notes
Global: read ch. 8, section 2 complete worksheet. Study for Western Europe map quiz tomorrow

Make sure you know where the following are located.
Portugal
Spain
France
United Kingdom
Norway
Sweden
Finland
Italy
Greece
Germany
Switzerland
Belgium
Netherlands
Denmark
Iceland
Thames river
Seine river
Tagus river
Danube river
Rhine river
Pyrenees mountain
the Alps
Adriatic sea
Aegean sea
English channel
northern sea
Baltic sea
Norwegian sea
Atlantic ocean
Mediterranean sea
black sea
straights of Gibraltar
Iceland

March 12, 2007

Alg: Review for quick quiz tomorrwo on Venn Diagrams.

Es: Planetary orbits lab due 3/14 SATELLITE ORBIT DEMO LINK

Eng: continue to study for Oedipus test 3/13

Global: read ch. 8, section 1 & complete worksheet. W. Europe map quiz 3/14

March 9, 2007

March 8th 2007

Alg: no hw

Es: signed test corrections due tomorrow & finish eccentricity sheet for tomorrow also.

Eng: Study Antigone notes

Global: Africa test tomorrow

March 7, 2007

Alg: no hw

Es: signed test corrections due 3/ 9

Eng: Study for oedipus test

Global: study for Africa test 3/9

Motion in the Solar System

I. Motion in the Solar System
A. Johannes Kepler developed 3 laws of planetary motion we need to
understand:
1. 1st Law of Planetary Motion - all planets have elliptical orbits.
- at aphelion, a planet is its farthest from the sun
- at perihelion, a planet is its closest to the sun
2. 2nd Law of Planetary Motion - the equal area law. An
imaginary line connecting the planets to the sun sweeps
over equal areas of an ellipse in equal amounts of time.

A diagram showing a planet on its elliptical orbit around the Sun. The shaded areas are of equal size, and were swept out in equal time, i.e. it took the same amount of time for the planet to move from A to B and from C to D.
(see diagram below)

II. Solar System Models
A. Geocentric model - earth is the center of the universe. Proposed
by Ptolemy in 140 AD.

B. Heliocentric model - sun is center of solar system. Proposed by
Copernicus in the 1600’s.

March 6, 2006

Alg: review problems on probability packet for tomorrow's test.
Es: study notes
Eng: study notes on Antigone and study for Oedipus test.
Global: read ch. 12, section 4 & complete worksheet. Africa test on 3/9



Some notes on Antigone

Characters: Oedipus had 4 children with his wife\mother Jocasta. Creon Raised them. He is now the King of Thebes. A civil war breaks out in Thebes and it divided the two brothers.

1. Antigone: A strong willed woman who challenges King Creon.

2. Ismene: Is a loyal adherent of King Creon.

3. Etiocles : A Loyal soldier who defends Thebes & Creon.

4. Polyneices: He Left Thebes for political reasons to form his own rebel army ( in Ar gives) to fight against Creon and Etiocles.


In one particular battle, Argives attacks Thebes and Thebes fights them off and eventually
Argives retreats; However, both Etiocles & Polyneices die on the battle field.

Creon gives Etiocles a proper soldiers burial but makes an edict (law) forbidding anyone to bury Polyneices, under penality of death, because he is a traitor.

Antigone feels strongly that both her brothers deserves a proper burial so their soul will be accepted into heaven and goes against Creon's edict.

March 5, 2007

For your Africa test on Friday make sure you study all your notes.

Do you know?

1. Mali

2. Mansa Musu- "King" Musa powerful leader, expanded Mali's land base & established peace and order.

3. Niger River

4. Songhai

5. African Geography

Happy Sunday afternnon

My knee is feeling a lot better, I get the results of the MRI this week. Hopefully I did not have a complete tear of any ligaments. I was looking at my web page today and decided to add a widget that will give you additional searching help. I added ANSWER TIPS. Just double click on any word in the blog except the ones from the PowerPoint's, and a pop-up will open with the definition of the word with other related information. I find it to be pretty cool. Check it out.

Here are some words you should know:

1. Africa

2. great rift valley

3. Sahara Desert

4. Niger River

5. Winter Solstice

6. Equinox

7. Summer Solstice

8. Earth's tilt

9. Oedipus

10. Thebes

11. Jocasta

12. Laius

The widget use millions of bits of information from the Internet and then pops it up without opening another browser. NOW REMEMBER THIS DOES NOT REPLACE THE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF RESEARCH LIKE THE DICTIONARY OR OTHER BOOKS.

March 1, 2007