Wednesday, December 2, 2009

General Announcements:

• Wed., Dec., 2: Parent Meeting in Prisms 3rd Floor Classroom 6:30-8:00 PM. Topics will include Coffee House organization, 8th Grade Project, and Graduation Responsibilities of 7th Grade parents.
• Sat., Dec. 5 Winter Fair!
• Tues., Dec. 8: Black performance wear must return to school to be ready for Thurs. performance.
• Thurs., Dec. 10: God/Goddess Puppet show (1:30 PM) and Ancient Greece Museum Exhibits (AM)
• You must have an independent reading book every day. If you are getting close to the end of one, have the next one at school and ready to go.

Math: 7th Grade:

• Due Thurs., 12/3: Do #11 on p. 58 of CMP book (more with writing equations from given information). Staple this assignment to last night's (#7, p. 55).

8th Grade:

• Due Thurs., 12/3: Do #1-3 on p. 59 of CMP book (more practice with using symbolic method of solving equations). Be sure to show all steps in the symbolic method applied to solving these problems. Refer to your notes and to p. 55 example.

Social Studies:

• Due Thurs., 12/3Submit a photo of your project so far.
• Complete list of Due Dates leading up to Dec. 8

Science:

• Due Thurs., 12/3: Read p. 157-163 of handout about eclipses. On one side of a sheet of plain paper, draw a careful diagram (use straightedge) of how a solar eclipse occurs. On the other side of the paper, draw an equally careful diagram of a lunar eclipse. Label both diagrams carefully as in the handout.

Language Arts:

• Group 1 only: Make significant progress on your knit/crochet project for Buddies meeting this Thursday.

Spanish:

• Due Thurs., 12/3: Complete Pobre Ana worksheet, part B only.

Moment of Zen: A drawing from David Macaulay's book The Motel of the Mysteries which presents a humorous perspective on both modern American culture and how we interpret the past based on artifacts. In the book, archaeologists a thousand years from now uncover a motel which had been buried in junk mail in the late 1980s. The researchers assume their find to be a sacred tomb and interpret everything inside to be religiously important. The book also parallels and, by that token, mocks Carter's discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.