Section 1.3: Notetaking Guide (NTG) p 9 in book.

Quiz tomorrow: Sections 1.1 + 1.2

spa 5s – quiz on Alphabet

spa 6 – quiz on map of Central America and surrounding water (in Spanish)

spa7 – Spa First Year Ch 24 ex A on question words (p 226 or 228 or 291)

spa 8 – quiz on Question words, ser/estar, boot verbs

Quiz on vocab words – review handout of words.

Grade 6: PWB 1.5: 1-12. Test Tuesday.
Grade 7: PWB 1.4: 3-8, 16-18, 22. Test Wednesday.
Grade 8: PWB 1.4: 1-11, 18, 20. Quiz Monday, sections 1.1-1.5.

In your blue book read the the story on pages 13-16 “Race and Science”

Prepare a short thoughtful response essay (300-400 words) that reflects on the questions at the end of the reading.

Do workbook pgs. R15-20

Read pgs. 44-48 do assessment on pg. 48

Sec. 1.2 in PWB: p 3; 1 -12, 13 – 21 (odds) in book.

spa 5S – study alphabet – Oral and written quiz on Friday

spa 6 – study map of Central America, quiz on Friday

spa 7 – quiz on AR, ER, IR regular present tense, SER and agreement

spa 8 – Question words – Sp 1st yr p 297-298 1-10
Ser – Estar R 33 a, b

Boot verbs R21 a,b

Grade 8B: EXPLORE chart– choose 5 lines for “L”

Grade 8C: PART 1: Read “Poets to Come” and “The Road Not Taken.”  Choose ONE to respond to in your journal/notebook.    PART 2: Write your own short poem (completely free choice)- at least 7 lines.

Grade 7: No Homework today! Vocab Lesson 1 due Friday.

Grade 6: NONE. Test on Chapter One on Tuesday.

Grade 7: PWB 1.3: 1-12, 26, 28

Grade 8: PWB 1.3: 1-11, 16, 17

Do workbook p. R7-14

spa 5 – review alphabet, Quiz on Friday 10/10

spa 6 – Map quiz of S. America

spa 7 – review notes on SER, Correct WB pp.42-43

spa 8 – Prepare your notes presentation, practice activity and homework assignment for your review session.

Grade 7: Books We Love sheet.  Please spend time on the synopsis (summary) in particular.  Drawings should be colored and neat (but do not have to be artistically brilliant!)

Grade 8C: EXPLORE chart for the book that you will do your trailer on. If you choose a book that is not on the list, you will have to get it approved by me IN PERSON first.

Practice Workbook (PWB) 1.1; pp 1-2; 1-21 all. You may do work in book.

Grade 6: PWB 1.3: 1-14
GRADE 7: PWB 1.2: 1-10, 17
GRADE 8: PWB 1.2: 7-18, 23-25

Watch a movie trailer/preview for class and pay attention to what you see and hear. If you watch a fan-made movie, please email me the link.

Read “Harrison Bergeron” on pages 58-62 of your blue book.

Answer the questions that follow:

1. Would you want to live in the world of Harrison Bergeron?
2. What aspect of his society would you most like to change?
3. What difference would that change make?
4. Why were the people in the story so obedient and so willing to conform?
5. What could they have done to change things?
6. Why didn’t they try to change things?
7. What were the consequences of their failure to act?
8. What did you think of the role of Diana Moon Glampers (the censor)?
9. Make an identity chart for Harrison
10. Should an individual go against society? If so, under what circumstances?
11. What might the consequences be?
12. What opportunities have you had to stand up for what is right?
13. How hard is it to stand up?
14. How could it be easier to stand up for what is right?

Read pages 34-42 and do the assessment on page 43 TBC

Read script, “A Christmas Carol.” Note all scene changes (i.e. Scrooge’s office, Fred’s house, etc.). List if they are interior or exterior scenes. Note any information in the script that describes the scene (dark, gloomy, bright, poor, wealthy, etc.). Bring to class on Thursday, Sept. 9. You may also want to bring in pictures from magazines or from the web with ideas for the set. You can also look online for pictures from this play or movie. Print or save to a disc to bring to class. This part is optional but would be very helpful in your design ideas.

Grade 8: Please purchase William Golding’s Lord of the Flies by October 4, 2010.  Make sure you purchase the same edition as listed below (Information from Amazon.com).

• Paperback
• Publisher: ODYSSEY PUBLICATIONS@ (1997)
• ASIN: B0017HSKU2
• ISBN-13: 9780399501487
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.7 x 0.9 inches

The cover  should look like this:

Grade 6: PWB 1.1: 5-16
Grade 7: PWB 1.1: 1-7, 11-13, 17
Grade 8: PWB 1.1: 1-10, 16-20, 23, 25

spa 5s – look over the Spanish Alphabet
spa 6 – learn map of Central and South America
spa 7 – wb p 41-44
spa 8 – wb R1-R 5

Do workbook pgs. R1-R6

Grade 8: Books We Love worksheet.  Be sure to color your picture!

Grade 7: Reading and Writing Survey

Have a nice weekend!

Read pages 6-9 in text and do the assessment on page 9.

In your Facing History – Holocaust and Human Behavior book read the short story on page 2, The Bear That Wasn’t.  When you are finished, write full sentence answers to the following questions:

1. Why didn’t the people in the factory believe that the bear was who he said he was?
2. Why didn’t the bears in the zoo or at the circus believe him?
3. Why did the factory President assume he then had to put the bear to work?
4. When the bear finally got to be by himself, who did he think he was?
5. Extend this story to human beings. Make a connection to a situation in which might you find a person who cannot be who they wish to be?
6. How could the situation for the bear have been better ?
7. Think of groups of people with whom you choose to identify. What motivates you to identify with the group?
8. How are your choices affected by the identity you choose?

Grade 6: None
Grade 7: None
Grade 8: None

On Wed. we will travel to Canobie Lake Park where the students will enjoy various amusement Park rides while taking data on a specified number of them. Once they have collected the data which they will be graded on, they are free to explore the park further. The exam is a take-home open-book test and is due in my hand or in my faculty mail box by Friday Morning at 9:30. There are some extra credit points available if the exam is handed in during the day on Thursday.

Please bring history books to Mr. McMahon’s room. The following people have history textbooks still due:

Misha,Nick,Aren,Molly,Ned,Carlin,Thomas,Peter,Jake,Margot,Reagan

If you would like a copy to keep, copies of Holocaust and Human Behavior can be ordered online, at http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/hhb- There is a button that says “purchase”, then you can just follow the directions.

Grade 6: PWB 13.5: 1-3
Grade 7: Textbook page 785: 1-9, 14
Grade 8: NONE. I will be available for help on Thursday from 7:15-7:40, and 1:00-1:45.

GOOD LUCK ON ALL YOUR EXAMS BUT ESPECIALLY THE FRENCH ONE!!!!!!!!!

Please bring your textbook to class when you arrive for the final exam on Thursday.

Exam Tips:

Study definitions and review notes 

Include each of the following in your exam essays:

Concepts – explain the human behaviors involved in creating history

Examples – use historical examples to support your ideas.

Interpretation – Tell in your own words what is important or significant about the event.

Both classes –

Time is of the essence.  We will be working on the essay question in class tomorrow (Wednesday).  If you want a copy of the skeleton outline to complete, click here.  This will be useful to you on the day of the exam.

For the exam –

1) I’d like to see your outline before Tuesday.  Please get it to me by 7:30 Friday morning.  If I don’t have it by that time, I can’t guarantee that it’ll be evaluated and given feedback.

2)  You may bring your outline to class on a thumb drive or e-mail it to me by 7:00 Tuesday (6.1) morning.

3)  For your exam, you can use your written outline, your books, your question, etc.

4)  For the skeleton outline, click here.

4)  If you don’t have permission for extended time, you will not receive it.  You must complete your essay in the 2-hour period that is allotted.

Grade 6: NONE.
Grade 7: Text page 780: 39-44. Page 781: 5,6,9,10,13,14,17,18.
Grade 8: Text page 946: 1,2,7,8,19,20,25,26,31,32,43,44,49,50.

Final Exam Review Questions- Set 4

1. Explain how Adolf Hitler, someone with such a distorted view of life, came to power legitimately.
2. List and explain Raul Hilberg’s six steps to mass murder:
3. Explain in your own words, the importance of the letter below.

Letter from a principal to his teachers on the first day of school:

Dear Teacher:

 I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no other man should witness:

Gas chambers built by learned engineers.

Children poisoned by educated physicians.

Infants killed by trained nurses.

Women and babies shot and burned by high school and college graduates.

So I am suspicious of education.
My request is: Help you students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns.
Reading, writing, arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human. 

EXAM STUDYING

spa 5sz wksht on time

spa 6 – Sp 1st year ch 4 ex E, F

spa 7 – complete wksht on SER ESTAR, do review pgs 143-148

spa 8 verb chart

Final Exam Review Questions – Set 3

1. Use a real example to help explain how three techniques of propaganda can be used to frame people’s thinking.
2. Explain how fear, conformity, and community helped Hitler to get people to line up and follow his lead.
3. In the Milgram Experiment some “teachers” refused to follow orders while others continued to give punishment. Why did some teachers to refuse to continue?
4. Why did the Nazis build factories for systematically killing Jews (why the factories?)
5. Explain a sequence of small steps that might slowly transform a normal person into someone who could accept allowing the Holocaust to happen.
6. Use an example to help explain what makes the difference between someone who stands up – e.g. a rescuer – and someone who does not (a bystander or participant) in personally dangerous circumstances like the Holocaust.
7. Use the example of Nicholas Winton, Oskar Schindler, or another personality tell the story of what a rescuer did to help save Jews during the Holocaust. Explain in your description how the rescuer had three of the qualities from the list below.

Non-conformists
Risk-takers
Habits of helping
Notions of decency
Realization of what self or others look like (hold up a mirror)
Creativity
Willingness to break rules
Empathy (no “we” vs. “they” focus)
Desiring to be a good person
Willing to say “no”
Alertness –amazed or shocked by alterations in behaviors (even their own)
Foresight – think forward to what will become if nothing is done to change things

8. How can society be a victim of racist assumptions? Explain why the range of choices that seem available or unavailable to people like Jesus Colon (when he was getting off the subway train) make a difference to society.  

Grade 6: TEXTBOOK page 729: 1-8, 11-13. Page 732, 733: 5,8,11,13-17
Grade 7: TEXTBOOK page 777: 19-22, 30-37, 42-47. Make a conversion table for 42-47. Start making your index card for the final exam. BE VERY, VERY NEAT.
Grade 8: TEXTBOOK page 944: 1,2,10,11,13-15, 19-21, 25, 26 (no graphs for 25, 26), 28, 29, 34, 35. Start making your index card for the final exam. BE VERY, VERY NEAT.

• Be sure to check the question and outline below.
• Transfer any papers from 2010 folder to your thumb drive.
• To make the transfer — 2010 — English Class Folder — look for any essays or essay tests that you’ve written.   Transfer them to your thumb drive.  If you don’t have Pages at home, open the document in Pages.  Then go to File – Export.  Select .rtf or Word depending on which program you use at home. Do the export by selecting “Next.”

STUDY, STUDY, STUDY!!!!!

Your essay question is on the following link.  Be sure to start on it.  While you might not necessarily organize your paper in this manner, you can begin to think and write about dreams as portrayed in Langston Hughes’ poetry, Night, your own dreams for your time at St. Michael’s and beyond.  I will be glad to read your outline as well.

Click here for essay question.

Click here for outline.

Please e-mail me with questions and your outline (if you’d like) as you progress.  Your exam isn’t until June 1st, so you have plenty of time to let me read your outline before then.

spa 5sz – wkst on time

spa 6 wb 75-76 learn new o-ue verbs

spa 7 – wb 83-86 learn ser vs estar

spa 8 – organize notes review pret vs imperfect

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: TEXTBOOK page 721: 34-42
Grade 8: Handout with problems from Chapters 1-4.

Final Exam Review Questions Set 2:

1. How did Martin Luther King Jr. explain that hatred could happen simply from separating people into groups of “we” and “they.”
2. Use examples from the text to help explain how Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” helped to overcome discrimination in America.
3. Use examples to explain why the practice of segregation had both social and psychological effects.
4. Explain why the Trial of Emmett Till was such an important event in the history of the US Civil Rights movement.
5. Explain how Jimmy Carter’s behavior in 1955 (“ We could not Yield”, Parade magazine) sets an example of how people must think and act to protect and advance freedom in America.
6. Refer to the “The Bear That Wasn’t” or Jimmy Carter’s “White Citizens’ Council” experience in 1955 to explain how our identities are shaped and how they can influence us.
7. Explain how, as one survivor commented, the Holocaust was caused by hate.
8. Use the example of the Jews in Nazi Germany to explain how, when you are “the other” (the object of hatred), life can seem like you are being endlessly tortured.
9. Use a specific example of stereotyping in Nazi propaganda to help explain how a Jewish enemy was created in the minds of Germans.
10. Use the example of the St. Louis (the ship holding Jewish refugees from Germany) to help explain how our universe of obligation can affect whether we stand by and watch or combat evil in the world.
11. Explain three choices and the consequences of each that were open to German people on Kristallnacht.  

Do verb review sheet for exam next week

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: Textbook page 700: 1-5
Grade 8: NONE

Start organizing for exam tonite!!!

In class today the students performed a lab using pulleys. They should answer the questions on the lab packet and write a short conclusion about how pulleys help us do work.

spa 5sz – complete worksheet on colors, quiz on Friday

spa 6 – learn boot verbs, wb pg 74-74 a-d

spa 7 – Sp 1st yr – ch 30 section on identify with adjectives

spa 8 – written part of ch 7 test

Grade 6: complete last page of handout
Grade 7: PWB 13.3: 1-9
Grade 8: NONE

Do worksheet # 10 on “Imparfait/P.Compose”

The students did a lab about levers. They experimented with 1st and 2nd class levers on Tuesday and will finish up with 3rd class on Wednesday. A lab report on all three with a conclusion will be due on Thursday.

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: NONE
Grade 8: Quiz Wednesday. Review same material that we reviewed in class today. Sections 1-6 of the chapter, with HEAVY emphasis on sections 3-6.

Quiz tomorrow on “Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns”
Do Deuxieme Livre: pgs. 419-420 ex. T,U

1. Define each of the terms below (use complete encyclopedia definitions and examples to clarify  meaning when needed):
   1. Identity - How a person sees him or herself as a result of their social setting or context.  Expected “normal” behavior is included in each social category of identity and people tend to adjust their behaviors to fit. Example: If I have the identity of a teenager, I may still enjoy riding a merry-go-round, but I would feel embarrassed to do so. I would likely make the choice not to ride the merry-go-round because it is not “normal” to ride, given my “identity.” Identity may also be seen as a choice. It would have been “normal” in 1955 for Jimmy Carter to join the White Citizens Council in Georgia and practice discrimination, but he chose an identity that included a broader notion of humanity rather than simply conforming to his neighbors’ expectations of a southern  white man.
   2. Antisemitism
   3. Racism
   4. Membership
   5. Conformity
   6. Obedience
   7. Universe of Obligation - 
   8. Upstander behavior
   9. Perpetrator
   10. Genocide
   11. Indifference
   12. Propaganda
   13. Stereotyping  

spa 6 – wb p 71 vocab re-take during study hall on
Tue.

spa 7 – ch 13 test

spa 8 review for ch 6 test,test on WED.

Grade 6: No written assigment. Quiz on probabilities Tuesday.
Grade 7: Textbook page 687: 41-44. Textbook page 724: 8-13. Quiz Tuesday.
Grade 8: Self directed review of factoring, finding LCD of rational expressions. Quiz Thurdsay.

Using the answers you wrote to the legacy questions assigned for the previous homework and considering the legacies of the people reviewed during class today, do the following:

1. Define legacy in your own words.

2. Look at the ideas that best define you then write two paragraphs to discuss what your legacy may be now and what might be a good fit for your legacy in the future.

3. Describe a theme that could best exemplify you in your graduation video.

Read 422 433 do the assessment on 433.

• For Wednesday, complete Night.
• Vocab, Lesson 12 exercise due on Friday.
• Vocab. Lesson 12 quiz on Monday (5.24).

Quiz Wed. on “Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns”
Deuxieme Livre: p. 439-442 ex. E,J,H,I

Read through chapter 6 of Night.

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: NONE
Grade 8: Text page 798, 25, 27, 28. PWB 12.5: 1-6, 14, 15

Finish sentences put on board in class
Do Deuxieme Livre: pgs. 444-447 ex. m,n,o

Be sure that you’ve read through chapter 4 of Night.

Legacy Questions:

In preparation for graduation, we will begin to review your legacy at St. Michael’s. In preparation, please answer each of the questions below and bring them to history class on Monday.  Avoid making your answers too short or simple – the more detailed, the better.

Legacy Interview Questions:

What did you want to be when you grew up?

What do you think are your three best qualities?

Which do you think you have the most of: talent, intelligence, education, or persistence? How has it helped you in your life?

Do you have any special sayings or expressions?

What’s your favorite book and why? What’s your favorite movie and why?

Who are three people in history you admire most and why?

What have been the three biggest news events during your lifetime and why?

If you could travel into the future, would you rather see something that specifically relates to you, or

something that relates to the future of the country in general? Why?

If you could have three wishes, what would they be?

What’s the best compliment you ever received?

What kinds of things bring you the most pleasure now?

Do you feel differently about yourself now from how you felt when you were younger? How?

What things are most important to you now? Why?

How have your dreams and goals changed through your life?

What do you see? (Hold a mirror up to the person)

What have you liked best about your life so far? What’s your happiest or proudest moment?

Are there times of your life that you remember more vividly than others? Why?

Do you have a philosophy of life? What’s your best piece of advice for living? If a young person came to you

asking what’s the most important thing for living a good life, what would you say?

How do you define a “good life” or a “successful life”?

If you had the power to solve one and only one problem in the world, what would it be and why?

What do you see as your place or purpose in life? How did you come to that conclusion?

What would you like the students and teachers at St. Michael’s to remember about you?

In what format do you think your legacy can best be remembered by those who come after you?

If you could write a message for the future and put it in a time capsule for

them to read 20 years from now, what would you write to each? 

Grade 6: PWB 13.1: 1-10
Grade 7: NONE
Grade 8: TEXT page 798: 17-28

Review “Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronoun”
Do workbook p. 125
Do Deuxieme Livre: pgs. 414-416 O,P, Q

In class today we did a lab which investigated the mechanical advantage of an inclined plane. The students should answer all the questions in the lab packet and write a conclusion remembering that a conclusion should always refer back to the purpose or problem of the lab.

spa 5sz – memorize weather script

spa 6 – pre quiz on futbol vocab

spa 7 – Sp 1st yr 109 -112

spa 8 – text p 104 18,19,20

Grade 6: Make a probability tree showing the two digit numbers that you can make using only the numbers 1, 3, and 5.
Grade 7: Text page 673: 5-10
Grade 8: None

Come to class prepared to discuss Night (through chapter 4).

Students should have read pages 411 to 419 and tomorrow the assessment on pg. 419 is due.

Review your Ning Page for key insights to share and prepare notes to give a short talk about the individual you chose to portray. We will take a brief look at each Ning page during class.

p. 348 read
p. 349 # 13,14(#14 must be done with qui and que)

spa 5 sz – script for weather report

spa 6 – wb-71-72 b,c,d, learn vocab

spa 7 – quiz on super irr. know verb, stem meaning and verb endings

spa 8 – text p 204 18, 19, 20

1. Read pages 388-top of 393 in your Facing History book.

2. Write a 1/2 page journal-style entry, pretending to be Schmahling or Schindler and describing what motivated you to stand up.

1. Read pages 388-top of 393 in your Facing History book.

2. Write a 1/2 page journal-style entry, pretending to be Schmahling or Schindler and describing what motivated you to stand up.

Finish worksheet on Conditional handed out on Monday

Grade 6: No homework
Grade 7: PWB 12.6: 1-3, 5, 6, 10
Grade 8: PWB 12.4: 1-12

Grade 6: Finish worksheet from Friday class.
Grade 7: Text page 661, exercises 1-4. Find surface area only. Test Thursday.
Grade 8: PWB 12.3: 1,2,4,5,6

1. Read pages 388-top of 393 in your Facing History book.

2. Write a 1/2 page journal-style entry, pretending to be Schmahling or Schindler and describing what motivated you to stand up.

Read 406 to 411 and do the assessment on 411.

Quiz tomorrow on “Conditional and Si Clauses”
Do sentences with words given in class
Do worksheet handed out in class Ex. A,B

Deuxieme Livre; pgs. 143-148 ex. h,i,j,n

1. no wirttien hw tonight.

2. quiz tomorrow: solving quadratic equation.

Due 7 MAY: NONE
Grade 6, due 11 MAY: Complete worksheet from Friday’s class.
Grade &: NONE
Grade 8: due 11 MAY: Complete textbook problems listed on Friday’s worksheet.

Please note that because of subs and interviewees, I’m posting your assignments for Thursday through Monday and on to Wednesday all at once.

8C — For Friday (5.7)– Read chapter 1 of Night. Be sure to focus on characterization of Moishe the Beadle, Mr. Wiesel, and Elie.

– For Monday (5.10)– Read chapter 2 of Night. Continue to focus on characterization as you read.

– Bio-poem due.

– For Wednesday (5.12) — Read chapters 3 and 4 of Night. Continue to focus on characterization as you read.

8E — For Friday (5.7)– Read chapter 1 of Night. Be sure to focus on characterization of Moishe the Beadle, Mr. Wiesel, and Elie.

– For Monday (5.10) – -Read chapter 2 of Night. Continue to focus on characterization.

– For Wednesday (5.12) — Read chapters 3 and 4 of Night. Continue to focus on characterization.

Do Deuxieme Livre: pgs. 138-139 ex. a, b
p. 142-143 ex. g

spa 5sz – quiz on weather on FRI

spa 6 – ch test on Thurs. Voacab list for ch 7 due for MON. 5/10

spa 7 - INSTEAD OF DOING ODDS>>>>> do 1-12 on each sheet 5.10, 5.11,5.12 and 5.13 , do odds on 5.14

LEARN VERB STEMS AND ENDINGS ofr SUPER IRREGULAR

spa 8 – wb 77-78 due thur morning, essay in Spanish about movie for Mon, quiz on geography terms on MON.

For THURSDAY do questions 1-15 on the Chapter Test on pages 401 and 402. For Friday do question 16-25 on page 402. Students should be aware that over the weekend they need to build a boat out of metal that can fit through a 15 cm. by 15 cm. square and can hold 50 pennies of cargo without sinking. The student whose boat holds the most weight without sinking will have an A+ added to their lab average.

Both classes  — for Friday read Chapter 1 of Night (through p. 22).  As you read, focus on Moishe the Beadle, Elie, and Mr. Wiesel.

Grade 6: None
Grade 7: For Monday, finish third problem on handout
Grade 8: Text page 757: 5-19. Fill out self-assessment on diversification of your team portfolio.

Quiz tomorrow on Mots. 1 et 2 in Chapter 7

1. Read pages 380-384 in your Facing History book

2. Make a list of 5 key phrases or thoughts that stand out.

There will be a quiz on fluid pressure. They will be asked to answer these exact three questions:
What is Archimedes’ Principle?
What is Pascal’s Principle?
What is Bernoulli’s Principle?
After each of these questions they will be asked a follow-up question using the principle in their explanation.
Ex. questions. 1)An iron block will float in Mercury using Archimedes principle explain why this is.
2) An hydraulic system has a small piston with a surface area of a 1 cubic cm. and a large piston of 100 cubic cm. If you apply 1 Newton of force to the small piston what will be the force pushing up on the larger piston.
3) Using Bernoulli’s Principle explain why the roof of a house might pop off during very high winds if the windows are closed.

Grade 6: Text page 673: 1-8, 13-20. Test on Wednesday. These problems will help you to prepare.
Grade 7: PWB 12.5: 1-9
Grade 8: None

8C– Bring your paragraphs to class about a time that you were called a name (see below).

8E — Bring Night to class.  Do  quick research on Jewish funeral/burial customs.

Quiz Thurs. on Mots. 1 et 2 in Chapter 7
Do workbook pg. 77

Grade 6: PWB 12.6: 1-4, 9, 10. Test Wednesday on Chapter 12.
Grade 7: PWB 12.4: 4-6, 10-13
Grade 8: PWB 11.4: 1-6, 13, 14, 16. Test Tuesday on Chapter 11.

8C — for Wednesday, 8.05 — Write a brief account of an experience of being called a name by a classmate, family member, or friend.  Describe the feeling or reaction.

Quiz Weds. or Thurs on Mots. I et 2
Do workbook pgs. 75-76

1. Read pages 350-356 in your Facing History book

2. Write a half-page response to some of the key ideas you consider in your reading (you might consider  some of the questions at the end of the readings)

spa 6 – p 186 read and translate dialogue, p 187 translate one house ad
chapter test WED

spa 7 – second set of vocab, read p422-23 write notes in Eng

spa 8 – quiz on airplane vocab MON

Grade 6: PWB 12.6: 5-8.
Grade 7: Finish take-home, open book review quiz. USE YOUR TEXT…DO NOT GUESS.
Grade 8: PWB 11.4: 1-6, 13, 14, 16. Test Tuesday.

Read about Pascals principle on pages 388 to 392 and do the assessment on 392 in note form with questions students may have.

Do the questions and write up a discussion and conclusion for the lab we did in class today on Archimedes Principle.

For Friday — Everyone bring a free reading book and towel to school.

For Friday — 8C — Bring LH book to class.

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: PWB 12.3: 5-10
Grade 8: PWB 11.3: 1-3, 7-9, 13-15, 28-30

Study formation of “Conditional” tense for possible quiz tomorrow

8C– Read the last portion of LH poetry.
8E — For Monday, read the last portion of LH poetry.

Everyone: Bring a book to read on Friday afternoon. You also may want to bring a beach towel or blanket to sit on.

spa 5 sz – learn weather terms

spa 6- spanish first year practice for possessive adj.

spa 7 – pre-quiz on vocab on train station

spa 8 – def. worksheet quiz Friday

Grade 6: Solve and graph the solutions to the problems given out in class.
Grade 7: PWB 12.1: 1-9
Grade 8: Text page 728: 4-12, plus any test corrections, accompanied by the work (for extra credit)

Continue learning Mots. I
Do workbook pgs. 73-74

Quiz tomorrow: Multiplying binomials using FOIL method and factoring polynomials by finding the Greatest Common Monomial Factor.

Holocaust Quiz Friday

Be able to list and explain Raul Hilberg’s six steps to mass murder:

Definition – Jews and other minorities are defined as “the other” through legalized discrimination.

Isolation – Through the accumulation of hundreds of anti-Jewish laws, social practices, living restrictions, property expropriation, Jews are marginalized in German society.

Emigration – Jews are encouraged through laws and terror to leave German territory.

Ghettoization – Jews are forcibly removed to segregated sections of Eastern European cities and are made to endure terrible living conditions.

Deportation – Jews are transported to death and concentration camps.

Mass Murder – Gassing, shooting, and confinement with forced labor are used to systematically kill Jews.

The question of why so many German people went along with Nazi policies seems to be answered by conformist behavior (not wanting to be perceived as non-conformist or cowardly) or by belief (a long held culture of anti-Semitism that made people think it was OK to harm the bad “others”). The Nazis’ small steps also contributed to people’s moral decline by involving them in a steady process of increasingly abusive behavior toward Jews.

All vocabulary quiz on lesson 11 tomorrow.

Grade 6, 7, 8: NONE

Read pgs.380-385 and do assessment on 385 to be collected. Students should have read 372-378 and done the assessment on 378 yesterday.

Continue learning Mots. I
Do worksheet # 8 on “Imp/Pc”

Propaganda films prepared by each group are to be finished and put into the 2010 folder. The films will be shown in class on Thursday.

spa 5 sz – test on calendar tomorrow

spa 6 – wksht on possessive adj. translate ex c

spa 7 – study vocab , wb p 159-160 2 sentences for each pic.

spa 8 – study vocab

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: Finish review problems from class. Remember, work must be attached. No work equals a zero for the assignment. Text page 623: 1,2,5,6,8,9,11-14, 17 (round to nearest whole number), 20-24. Test Tuesday.
Grade 8: Text page 755: 8-15. Plus three problems written on board in class. Quiz Tuesday.

8E and 8C — Wed., 4.28 — Vocab. quiz

8E — Complete the NY article on the iPad and the Kindle.  Highlight things that you find interesting and thought provoking (vocab word).

Preview Chapter 7
Start learning Mots. I pgs. 206-207

spa 5 sz – test on calendar 4/27

spa 6 – read text 183 possessive adj

spa 7 – vocab 431

spa 8 – vocab 221

Grade 6: Text page 673: 5-16. Quiz Monday.
Grade 7: PWB 11.7: 1-4, 7-9. Test Tuesday.
Grade 8: PWB 11.2: 13-20. Quiz Tuesday.

Test Monday on “Double Object Pronouns”

Newton Scooters should be completed and ready for testing in class on Monday. They should operate on their own power without gravity or any electric motors and be able to travel without help for 1.5 meters. A neat final drawing of the scooter should be included with a friction force arrow, gravity force arrow, and an action force and reaction force arrow.

Make sure that you develop a discussion about the key human behavior concepts connected to your event. If you choose to use Keynote or Power Point, use the slides to amplify your comments (images and short bullet points), rather than using them to repeat what you say! 

Thurs, April 22 – Daisy, Molly, Phoebe, Phil, Aren. Ian

Mon, April 26 – Reagan, Ayah, Jake, Nick, Sam, Najla

Tues, April 27 – Peter, Jake, Ellis, Libbie, Emily, Hope

Wed, April 28 – India, Katie, Becky

4.26 — Monday — Lesson 11 exercises due.

4.28 — Wednesday — Lesson 11 quiz.

Test Monday on “Double Object Pronouns”
Finish packet begun in class

Grade 6: PWB 12.2: 1-12
Grade 7: Text 605: 19-21, 606: 40-47
Grade 8: PWB 11.1: 1-3, and finish open book test if you have not completed it.

Test either Monday or Tuesday on “Double Object Pronouns”
Finish “Double Object Pronoun” worksheet

All –

If you didn’t finish writing about the following quotation in your journal, do so.

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”  — Delmore Schwartz

What does this quotation mean?    Think of a dream that you have; write about the dream; and explain what responsibilities that you have or will have to have to reach that dream.

8C –4.22 — Thursday — Bring LH books to class.

4.26 — Monday — Exercises 11A-11C.

4.28 — Tuesday — Vocab quiz 11

8E — 4.3 — Friday — Bring LH books to class.

spa 5sz – one side of wksht, crossword due Fri, quiz on fri on questions and seasons

spa 6 – Vocab list for house, learn vocab. , text p 176-177 ex 8,9

spa 7 – vocab quiz (2nd set of vocab) , ch test thurs/fri

spa 8 ch review p 186-187
wb 85 C, 87 f
cha test Thurs/Fri

Do worksheet packet on “Double Object Pronouns” up to and including pl. 299
Test next Monday on “Double Object Pronouns”

Grade 6: PWB 12.2: 1-12. Note: In your work, I want you to show me the step in which you moved the constant term away from the variable (by addition or subtraction).
Grade 7: PWB 11.5: 1-10, 13
Grade 8: Finish second half of test from last week. It is open book. Show your work.

Work on the final sketch for Newton Scooter and go over study sheet for quiz on Thurs.

* Make sure that you focus on a key human behavior concept!

Tues April 20 – Margot, Zack, Will, Julian, Madi, Payton

Wed, April 21- Thomas, Carlin, Ned, Amberlee, Alex, Misha

Thurs, April 22 – Daisy, Molly, Phoebe, Phil, Aren. Ian

Mon, April 26 – Reagan, Ayah, Jake, Nick, Sam, Najla

Tues, April 27 – Peter, Jake, Ellis, Libbie, Emily, Hope

Wed, April 28 – India, Katie, Becky

spa 5sz no HW

spa 6 – complete final version on Familia Falsa

spa 7 – Quiz on second set of vocab on WED.Review chapter coming up t a chapter quiz, some of you have a quiz on Tues at recess.

spa 8 – ch test on Wed.

Do sentences 7-11 that were put on the board in class today
Double Object Pronoun test coming up tentatively for Monday April 26

Students should put the action-reaction force arrows associated with Newton’s third law onto their “Newton Scooter” sketches.

9.2: Multiplcation of polynmials: PWB p 135; 1-10 on separate piece of paper.

spa 5sz – no hw

spa 6 – quiz on tener expressions

spa 7 – wb pages 153-155

spa 8 – complete wksht and translate.

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: PWB 11.4: 1-8
Grade 8: Do corrections for quiz that was returned today. Prepare for test tomorrow. Content: Line of symmetry, finding min or max point, factor, find the zeroes, find the discriminant and know what it tells you, complete the square, use the full quadratic formula.

Prepare your current event presentation.

Presentations begin next Tuesday – Margot, Zack, Will, Julian, Madi, Payton

1.  “Dream Deferred Montage” read for Wednesday.

8C –

2.  Vocab. ex. 10a due on Thursday.

5sz – quiz on holiday- write date and name holiday in Spanish bring pre-quiz

spa 6 – practice tener expressions, Quiz Thurs., wb. p 61-62

spa 7 – know conjugation of stem changing reflexive verbs!!!! complete wksht

spa 8 – complete wksht on double object pronouns

Grade 6: textbook review for test tomorrow. Page 621: 3-6, 12-14, 20-22, 24-26, 29-31
Grade 7: Textbook page 623: 1-12, 17, 18. Note: for 17 and 18, round to the nearest whole number.
Grade 8: Find one company that reported quarterly earnings between the time that the market closed on Monday, and the time that it opened on Tuesday. Was the report good or bad news for the company? What was expected by the analysts, and what was actually reported? What was the effect of the news on the company’s stock price on Tuesday in the actual stock market. For example, if the company was Alcoa (Ticker = AA), earnings came in at about what was predicted, but sales were lower than forecast by about $350 million. The stock traded down about 2.2% (or whatever the final number turns out to be at market close, since this information is from noon today).

Read 362 to 365 and do the assessment on 365 and place force of friction and gravity arrows on to Newton Scooter sketches.

Quiz tomorrow on “object pronouns”

Current events presenations begin next Tuesday.

Be prepared to turn in this current events planning sheet on Wednesday, April 14

Good sources of articles: 

1.     http://www.facinghistory.org/facingtoday

1. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/global-history/

My presentation date: ____________

My article: Title, date, source, and authors

______________________________________________

Key human behavior concept that I will FRAME, analyze, and discuss. Examples: Obedience, indifference, fear, conformity, membership, prejudice

The basics:

o      who were the people involved ____________________________

o      what happened ________________________________________

o      when & how it happened ________________________________

o      WHY did it happen? (think about this)______________________

o      Why is the event newsworthy (answer the question, “so what?)

How I will make my presentation interesting for others (pictures, sound, involvement, etc.)

__________________________________________________________

spa 5sz – learn holidays

spa 6 – Spanish First year exercise D on Tener expressions

spa 7 – conjugate the stem changing verbs into charts, write a vocab list for the rest of the ch vocab

spa 8 re-do wb p 67, complete double obj prn worksheet

Grade 6: PWB 11.7: 1-9
Grade 7: None
Grade 8: PWB 10.6: 1-8, 12

Today’s journal entry was –

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.  –Anais Nin

What does this quotation mean?  Have you ever had a time in your life when it applied to you?  If so, please explain.

8E — 4.13 — Tuesday — Vocabulary books to class.

All –4.14 — Wednesday — “Montage of a Dream Deferred” 0n pp. 221-272 in LH for Wednesday.  For the poems, decide what the dream is that is being deferred.

8C — 4.15 — Thursday — Vocabulary books to class.

Finish worksheet on “Future”

1. NTG: p 190; 5-6.

2. PWB: p 133; 10-12.

3. Do both on separate piece of paper.

All –

1. Vocabulary test on lessons 9 &10.

8E –

1.  Be ready to discuss the Madam poem sequence in LH.

spa 5sz – learn dates and spanish names of holidays
pre-quiz TUES, quiz on WED>

spa 6 – 30 sentences about false family

spa7 – learn second set of vocab el cepillo, el champu etc.
do workbook pages 149-152

spa 8 – read about do/io pronouns for review.
do wb p 67

Grade 6: PWB 11.6: 7-13
Grade 7: PWB 11.3: 1-10
Grade 8: NONE

Read 353 to 359 then work up sketches for Chapter project entitled “Newton Scooters”

1. Read pages 274-283 in your Facing History book then write a two paragraph response to the issues raised in the readings. Look to the questions following each reading to help your considerations.

2. Find an article for your upcoming current events presentation. The article is to focus on a key concept – conformity, indifference, obedience, fear, membership, etc.

Quiz Monday on “Imparfait and Future”
Worsheet on Future handed out in class: Do ex. a, b,c

9:1 in PWB: p 133; 1-9.

Complete your 4th blog post using a key concept then review your entire Ning page for accuracy and completeness.

Everyone –

1.  Read the Madam sequence of poems from p. 201 – 208 in your LH book.  See earlier posts for what to do with it.

2.  I need an electronic version of the stock market essay from the following people –  Peter, Phoebe, Jake, India, Molly, Zach, Sam, Nick, Aren, Julian, Ian, Emily.  Please see that I receive it by 8:00 tonight.  Expect a response from me after I receive it.  Be sure that you follow good e-mail etiquette when you mail it to me.  Do not sent me the document as a .pdf file.

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: Finish answers to question #2 and #3 on handout in class.
Grade 8: Study for quiz, sections 10.1 – 10.5. Review material covered in class today.

Do worksheet on “Future” handed out in class
Quiz Monday on “Future”(reg and irreg) and review Imparfait as well

We did a lab in class today entitled “Investigating Friction”? The students should answer all the questions on the lab sheet referring to the data they took and write a short conclusion about the lab that should refer back to the problem of the lab.

5sz – complete the holidays learn holidays

6 – learn family vocab.WB pages 57-58 QUIZ FRI

7 – complete wksht study vocab quiz FRI

8 – text 171 and translate., wb 65-66 , quiz FRI

Quiz this week on regular “Future”
Do Premier Livre: pgs. 133-137(everything except “L’)

The final blog for your Holocaust Ning page is due this Friday. Each blog should focus on a concept such as conformity, obedience, fear, indifference, universe of obligation, or membership. Be sure to review every part of your online project for accuracy and completeness. A final grade will be given for the whole project upon completion.

Grading criteria are as follows:

Ning Page Grade:         ____/25

  5  Knowledge –Examples and terminology

  5  Concepts – Awareness, insight, understanding, and connections

  5  Skills – Analysis and evaluation with thinking, alternative points of view, problem solving, and understanding of biases.

  10  Organization – Communicates neatly and effectively. Content requirements are met – 10 photos, 400 word profile, 600 word narrative, 4 key concepts defined and each used in a 200 word blog, responses and wall comments, citations noted.

Grade 6: PWB 11.6: 1-6
Grade 7: None
Grade 8: PWB 10.5: 1-12

spa 5 sz – quia on months

spa 6 – review family

spa 7 – learn reflexive verbs

spa 8 – quiz on hotel

1. Chapter 8 test tomorrow: 8.1 – 8.4.

Professor Emeritus Gerhard Weinberg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present a lecture at 9:30 in the St. Michael’s Library about Kristallnacht. 

Students are requested to prepare by reviewing recent readings on pages 263-272.

04.07– Wednesday –ALL–Vocabulary reviews due — pp. 67-68, ex. 1&2.

04.08 — Thursday — 8C — Read “I, too, sing America.”  Be sure to answer the questions from Monday (4.06) for 8E.

04.09 — Friday — ALL — Read all of the poems in the “Madam to You” sequence in your Langston Hughes collection.

As you read these poems, find specific details that help you understand what kind of person Madam Alberta K. Johnson is.  From these details, make a general statement about Madam.

Grade 6: NONE
Grade 7: NONE
Grade 8: Complete Stock Market Game worksheet. One spreadsheet per team for question #1 is acceptable. Each student must hand in questions 2 and 3. Collaboration is permissable.

Read pgs. 340 to 348 do the assessment on pg. 348

Do Premier Livre: pgs. 129-132 ex. e,f,g,h,i
Pop quiz on Future coming up soon!

spa 6 – review notes on family

spa 7 – worksheet on reflexive verbs and translations
learn these verbs

spa 8 – learn vocab Quiz on Wed.

4.06.10 — 8E — Read “I, too, sing America” on p. 275 for Tuesday.

As you read –

1. What is the point of view that Langston Hughes uses for this poem?  Why do you think that he uses this point of view?  Who is the speaker?
2. What is this poem about?  What are the conflicts in the poem?
3. What is the poem’s setting?

4.07.10 — All — Vocabulary review on pp. 67-68.  Just do 1 and 2.

4.12.10 — All vocabulary test for lessons 9 and 10.  You must know –

1. roots and their meanings
2. word definitions
3. how to use words correctly in sentences.

Review formation of “Le Futur”
Do workbook pgs. 66-67
“Pop” quiz some time this week on the ‘Futur’

Read pgs. 334 to 337 do assessment on pg.337

Review three readings about Kristallnacht on pages 263, 268, and 270. Take written notes on 4-5 ideas that strike you as important and be prepared to discuss them in class.

1. Happy Easter! No written homework for the weekend.

2. Review for Chapter 8 test on Monday.

3. Chapter 8 test on Tuesday.

Grade 6: Finish textbook page 599, 24-29 from classwork. Do textbook page 619: 60-71.
Grade 7: PWB 11.1: 1-12, 16-21
Grade 8: Wash cars at the car wash.

Quiz Monday on Mots. 1 et 2 in Chapter 6

Each person is to write a 450-550 word description of your group propaganda film. Include a definition of propaganda and tell what effects your film is intended to have on the viewer. Include what you did for each of the 7 techniques (bandwagon, transfer, glittering generalities, testimonial, plain folk, name calling, and card stacking). You may also choose to refer to “Triumph of the Will” to help explain intended effects.

*Keep up to date with blog entries for your Ning page!

5sz – quiz on months of the year

spa 6 – look up info on Madrid, Galicia, Valencia

spa 7 – vocab ch 12first 2 sections

spa 8 – wb 63-64

All –

Vocab lesson 10 quiz tomorrow.

SMG essay final draft due.  Send it to me electronically, please.

Grade 6: PWB 11.4: 1-16
Grade 7: NONE
Grade 8: Text page 647: 10, 11, 13, 14, 19, 20. No graphs required…only need to find axis of symmetry, min or max value (the ordered pair’s coordinates), and then factor it and find the zeroes.

Quiz Monday on Mots. I et 2
Do worksheets #6,7 on “Imparfait/P.Compose” handed out in class

Each person is to write a 450-550 word description of your group propaganda film. Include a definition of propaganda and tell what effects your film is intended to have on the viewer. Include what you did for each of the 7 techniques (bandwagon, transfer, glittering generalities, testimonial, plain folk, name calling, and card stacking). You may also choose to refer to “Triumph of the Will” to help explain intended effects.

*Keep up to date with blog entries for your Ning page!

NTG: p.178; 3-4

PWB: pp125-6; 25-31.

5sz – quiz on months on Friday 3.2

6 – quiz on history and geography of Spain

7 – second part of ch test (list,read, write)

8 – quiz on hotel vocab 6-1

Continue learning Mots. 2
Quiz Monday Mots. I et 2
Do workbook pgs. 64-65