Monday, May 3, 2010

General Announcements:

• Friday, May 7: We will be meeting at 8:30 directly at Helen Hills Hills Chapel for a hip-hop rehearsal. There is an essential e-mail from Amy about coordinating transportation to and from Smith College. We need to know:
  • If you need transport from HCCPS to Smith at 8:15
  • If you can drive from HCCPS at 8:15
  • If you can drive from Smith to HCCPS at 9:30 - We need to transport the whole class back and, due to scheduling, the bus is not an option.
• Share Your DC Pictures! Pick up to 20 of your best shots from DC to upload to the group account at Photobucket for official trip documentation. Sort photos into the albums for Monuments/Memorials, Museums, People, and Other. Email Grace if you need the login information or if you have trouble logging in. The account is private, but I have a separate guest password to pass along to parents, grandparents, etc. which grants view-only access.
• 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., 5/4:
    • Circle Graphs worksheet (back of "Range, Median, Mode" worksheet from last week), #1-6 work shown on line paper
    • Integer Addition/Subtraction Worksheet, first two columns (boxed in purple)
• 8th Grade:
  • Complete even-numbered problems for 5.10, pp. 115-116. Show all your work on separate paper. Use the information at the top of p. 115 to assist you.

Social Studies:

• Due Tues., 5/4: Finish worksheet on Bill of Rights, p. 16-18. You will need your Constitution.

Science:

• Due Mon., 5/3:

Language Arts:

• Due Tues., 5/4: Complete the typed monument descriptions if not completed during LA class time.

Moment of Zen:

A New Take on Looking Trashy

Some people define their many roles by talking about the many hats they wear. New York artist Gene Pool has suits instead of hats - and he's being literal. Pool's best known works have been those he's worn himself, a series of suits made of things you find on the ground and leave lying there from grass (the "Living Grass Suit" - made out of over 20 pounds of live sod) to small change ("The $uit", above, which weighs about 52 lbs). Pool says that the purpose behind his many suits is half awareness about things people throw on the street and half wanting to shake people—gently—out of their day to day mindset. Even in New York, someone walking down the street covered head to toe in cans is a bit of a spectacle still.

• "Forget About Cloning. Let's Talk Gene Pool. (NYTimes, Mar. 9, 1997)