Tuesday, December 15, 2009

General Announcements:

• 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.
• Copies of Eighth-Grade Project documents for phase one available for download here.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • None assigned
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Wed., 12/16: Study the definition of "slope" in the glossary and be ready for a quiz on it on Thursday. I will type it and leave works out that you have to fill in.

Social Studies:

• Due Thurs., 12/17: Write a story summary of either Horatius at the Bridge or The Decision of L. Junius Brutus. Illustrate it with a ½-page, colored pencil drawing.

Science:

• Due Wed., 12/16: Write a 1-¶ reflection on what the Relative Planet Size activity showed you and what surprised you most in this activity.
• Due Thurs., 12/17: Read Physical Science, p. 311-317 and answer questions 1-8 on p. 320. Group 1 has the textbooks tonight (Tue.). Group 2 will have the textbooks tomorrow (Wed.) night.

Language Arts:

• Due Wed., 12/16: Bring independent reading book.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Thurs., 12/17: Finish your drawing representing some part of Ch. 4 in Pobre Ana

• 8th Grade:
  • Due Thurs., 12/17: Finish your drawing of two favorite scenes from Piratas

Moment of Zen: The Bacon Cake Is a Lie... ...Or at least so claims Seattle-based home food-artist "Ms. Humble," who runs the food blog Not So Humble Pie, and has not only made "bacon cake" (which both contains and is styled to look like bacon) but also the edibles constructed in the pictures above (the sushi are actually cupcakes, and contain no actual fish). This biological anthropologist turned food artist also has a penchant for science-related food, her collection of which includes gingerbread scientists, cookie Drosophila melanogaster, chocolate atoms and a periodic table fashioned out of cookies. The whole thing is worth checking out, but I recommend her Gallery of Weird Food, containing some of her most adventurous creations, as a jumping off place.