Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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.

Math:

• 7th & 8th Grade:
  • Due Thurs., 1/14:
    • Math's Mate 2.4 - work for * problems shown on a separate sheet of paper.
    • Corrections for Math's Mate 2.3 on a separate sheet of paper (can be same sheet used for 2.4 work)
• 7th Grade:
  • Due Thurs., 1/14: Complete #2-7 on pgs. 22-23. Measure accurately for #2 and #3 answers so you have data to support your responses to all questions. Write in complete sentences and restate question in answer. Edit.

Social Studies:

• None assigned :

Science:

• Due Thurs., 1/14: Cover for science notes: Choose an image from our space study (including field trip to Amherst College) to draw as a cover for your science notes. Cover must be drawn in colored pencil.

Language Arts:

• Due Thurs., 1/14: Grammar sheet #4 on Possessives

Spanish:

• 7th Grade: Read through ¿Qué Tal? revista

• 8th Grade: Read pgs 1&2 of Robo en la noche

Moment of Zen:

Improv Everywhere

This guerilla improv group takes Calvin's directive to "...make everyone's day a little more surreal" very seriously. Their "missions" have included getting dozens of people to freeze for a full minute in Grand Central Station in New York, turning a mall food court into a musical and creating a "cell phone orchestra" by having a large group of people check their bags in the same place and having other people call them en masse at coordinated times. The picture above, from a mission where people stood in store windows, doing silly things in sync and then holding up letters spelling out "LOOK UP MORE" sums up well their core goal: to use spontaneous goofiness to ask people to really look at their everyday surroundings instead of rushing by until it could disappear without their noticing. Click the picture to go to their website, which details all their missions and links to videos of many of them. Additionally: Following up from the video this morning, here's the Complaints Choir website for more information about other complaints choirs worldwide, including videos of many choirs for inspiration.