Lenna's 6th Grade Language Arts

Welcome back!

Monday 12/1

Complete IR Check In handout for your IR reading over break. Complete mini-outline on Jose de la Guerra. Remember your Outline Checklist!

Tuesday 12/2

Complete mini-outline on Jack Powers. Remember your Outline Checklist!

Wednesday 12/3

Complete (handwritten) rough draft of letter to Scorpions author Walter Dean Meyers using the format handout.

Thursday 12/4

Type (optional) your final draft of Meyers letter on Holy Paper. Reminders: Be ready for a Vocab #1-3 review test and Rewrite word quiz (they will be combined into one); Bring your IR book with you.

Friday 12/5

Whoohoooo! Happy Weekend!

Donna's Science classes HW 11/19-20

Wed: Work on your project at home; if you need more results, get some going at home, there are only two more school work days left! If you have good results, start writing a rough draft of your lab report. Final lab reports are due on 12/3/08.

Thu: Homework is to continue working on your project and/or lab write-up as described above.

Fri: This is the next-to-the-last work day for your project. Come prepared to make the most of it, meaning bring all your stuff!

Donna's Math classes HW 11/19-20

Pre-Algebra (both classes):

Weds: Complete the handouts we started in class today. Do all problems on both sides. Turn in on Thursday morning before we leave for the field trip.

Thu: Field trip, no HW.

Fri: in-class work, no HW; Happy Thanksgiving break!

Revised 6th Grade Language Arts

Wednesday 11/19

Pop-up Thank You card for internship - please follow the handout! Complete paragraph editing  handout using Proofreading Editing Codes handout in your binder. Both are due on Friday. Please bring your IR book with you to class on Friday as well. 

Friday 11/21

Your goal over Thanksgiving Break is to read at least 25 pages of your IR book. Be ready to complete an IR Check In sheet when you return after break.

Dawn's Langugae Arts Nov. 18-19

Monday: Write four stanzas, each of which has the following structure
Dependent clause,
Dependent clause,
Dependent clause,
Dependent clause,
Independent clause.

They can be connected in theme or four completely seperate poem. Please use a variety of subordinating conjunctions.

Example:
After the stars come out,
Before the sunset has diminshed,
Even though the coyotes shout,
As soon as the day is finished,
I find peace.

Tuesday:
Make any improvements to your personal narrative and bring in a final copy after break.

Marc's Science Homework for the Week of Nov. 17-21

"There are only two kinds of songs - there's the blues, and
there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah."
- Townes Van Zandt

Monday, November 17
We'll do histogram graphs of our pendulum data. Do these graphs by hand in your lab books just to remember how. (I'll never ask you to a graph by hand again!) You should finish in class, but it's homework if you don't.

If you don't finish in class, I must have your lab books back tomorrow on Tuesday, even you are sick!

Support our girls' volleyball team in the tournament tonight!

Tuesday, November 18
We'll play with the "real" formula for pendulum times: t = 2*pi*sqrt(l/g)

We'll start our next project (to do after Thanksgiving break) to explore the non-linearities in this equation.

Wednesday - Friday, November 19-21
Conferences and Internships, no classes.
Don't be afraid of conferences – it's a chance to shine with what you know!

Don't Forget My Stumper:
Marc's stumper for the week: I love these drizzly
days and chilly nights, especially sitting by a cozy fire
in the fireplace or wood stove. But there's a danger
when we first fire up our stoves for winter. Soot and
creosote in dirty chimneys can burn explosively in a
chimney fire. The cure is to have a chimney sweep
clean the smokestack. The stumper is that this "fuel"
is just a build up of smoke particles that have already
burned. Charcoal is another fuel made from burned
wood. I understand that wood can burn. But how is it
that this chimney soot and charcoal can burn again?

Lenna's 6th Grade Language Arts

Hope you learned a lot and enjoyed your internships!

Wednesday 11/19

Create a fabulous pop-up Thank You card to send to the business where you interned (discussed in class). Explain 2 things you learned and what you really enjoyed/appreciated about it/them. Be creative and put 110% effort into this gesture of gratitude!

Thursday 11/20

Field trip to the SB Maritime Museum!

Friday 11/21

Happy Thanksgiving! Take a moment to appreciate all you've been blessed with! Read your IR book!

Noah's Math Classes 11/10 - 11/14

MONDAY
Pre-Algebra
p202-203, probs 22, 30, 50
p206-208, probs 13-29 by 3's,31-35odds, 38, 40, 45-49odd, 53a-d
Algebra (per 2)
p214-216 probs 17, 18, 24, 26,44,45,66,67-70
p221-223 probs 2, 14, 15, 17, 26,35, 39, 42, 44-53 by 3's, 64-66
Algebra (per 3)
p214-216 probs 17, 18, 24, 26,44,45,66,67-68, 71-73
Applied Algebra
Discovering Algebra Book. p262-263 Finish Investigation Steps 1-12

TUESDAY
Pre-Algebra
Chapter A Test, odd problems
Algebra (per 2)
p230-231, probs 16-20, 21-36 by 3's, 47-50
Algebra (per 3)
p221-223 probs 2, 14, 15, 17-23 by 3's, 26-32 by3's, 35, 39, 42, 44-53 by 3's, 64-66
Applied Algebra
Discovering Algebra Book. p284-285, Finish Investigation, steps 1-4
Statistics Stretch Worksheet

WEDNESDAY
Pre-Algebra
Look over notes and chapter 4 material
Finish Test Tomorrow
Algebra (per 2)
p231-233, probs 38-44 by 3's, 51-56, 58-69, exclude 66, 70-71(xtra credit)
Algebra (per 3)
p230-231, probs 20-25, 33, 34, 47
Applied Algebra
Discovering Algebra Book. p262-263 , Exercises 1, 2, 3ab, 4, 5, 8

THURSDAY
Pre-Algebra
p219-221 First read examples 1-6 for this lesson (5.1)
Then Do Problems 21-43 odds and 49-58 by 3's on page 222-223
This is almost all review
Algebra (per 2)
p244-245 13-21odd, 23-32 by 3's
Algebra (per3)
p230-233, probs 26, 30, 34, 36, 39, 42, 43, 52, 55, 56, 58-60
Applied Algebra
Discovering Algebra p48-49. Exercises 6, 8, 10
Also Finish investigation 1.2 steps 1-7 if you did complete in class

FRIDAY
No Homework!