Friday, January 22, 2010

Friday, January 22, 2010

General Announcements:
  • Updated Eighth Grade project documents available here, including Phase 2 calendar.
  • Friday, Feb. 5: Prisms' Coffeehouse! St. Mary's Church, Haydenville, 6-9 PM — Dinner, dessert & entertainment! Tickets now available for purchase! $5/person, $20/family
  • 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 Mon., 1/25: Complete 3.2 according to directions. Also, glue your completed shape onto your homework paper.
  • 8th Grade:
    • Due Mon., 1/25: Answer reflection questions on p. 16 of CMP book, using complete sentences and showing your current understanding.
    • Have a book to read regarding your research topic at all times.
Social Studies: Science:
  • None assigned
Language Arts:
  • Due Mon. 1/25: Grammar Sheet #6: Helper verbs, verb participle forms.
  • Group 1 only: Have at least one origami figure completed that you could make again for Monday in preparation for Tuesday's Overlook visit.
Spanish:
  • 7th Grade:
  • 8th Grade:
    Moment of Zen:

    You Are What You Eat?

    Flamingos turn pink because of the shrimp they eat, humans who seriously overdo it on carrots can take on an orange cast to them. So what does this photo series of people's refrigerator contents by photographer Mark Menjivar tell us? Menjivar's photos are collected from the refrigerators and freezers of a wide range of folks in the US. Each picture is captioned with a few notes about its owner, including their job (everything from midwives to metal drummers), how many people the fridge serves, whereand some other kind of biographical information about the fridge's owner (e.g. "She can bench press 300 lbs," "Feels more comfortable among flora and fauna of his era than people."). A distinctly different kind of food-based voyeurism from What the World Eats but an interesting complement in examining that question.

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