Monday, December 22, 2009

General Announcements:

• Copies of Eighth-Grade Project documents for phase one available for download here.
• Take home pokeberry pouches from display board.
• 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 Tues., 12/22:
    • Complete 1.1 on p. 7 of new CMP book (Covering and Surrounding) about designing layouts for a bumper car ride given specific requests and materials, as begun in class today. For parts A, B and C, you should have three possible sketches that fit the criteria for each - no half-tiles.
    • Read through 1.1 Follow-Up (you may want to do this before doing the main part of 1.1) and complete 1.1 Follow-Up, questions 1 & 2.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Tues., 12/22: Complete #14-20 in handout packet according to directions (more practice with determining slope & y-intercept and writing equations to describe a linear relationship using the form y=mx + b, given data points that lie on that line). Each line must be graphed on a separate set of axes, but each page may have more than one set of axes. Show how you got your answers and explain where necessary.

Social Studies:

• None assigned

Science:

• Due Tues., 12/22: Challenge assignment from handout (copy of p. 320 from science book), begun in Study with Grace
  1. Graph average distance from the sun and surface temperature for each planet based on table on the other side (p. 317, using temperatures in gray box on p. 320 for inner four planets). All parts of graph must be properly labeled (Title, axes (with units!), planets).
  2. Answer questions a, b, c in gray box on p. 320 either on the back of your graph or on separate paper.
• Due Tues., 12/22: Write one ¶ about two things you found interesting on our field trip Friday. Use supplied paper.

Language Arts:

• None assigned.

Spanish:

• Nada ¡Que tengan buenas vacaciones!

Moment of Zen: The work of Lego sculptor Nathan Sawaya. Click the picture to visit his website.