Thursday, March 25, 2010

General Announcements:

• Due Fri., 3/26: Native American Character poem, according to directions on sheet handed out in Music on Tuesday with one change: instead of being written in LA journal, it should be typed or neatly handwritten and ready to be pasted into LA journal.
• Forecast says it's cloudy with a 100% chance of MCAS tomorrow.
• 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:
  • None assigned

Social Studies:

• Quiz Mon., 3/29: Study for quiz. The quiz will include topics covered from Triangle Trade through Shays' Rebellion.

Science:

• None assigned

Language Arts:

• Due Mon., 3/29: Read Ch. 13 & 14 in Children of Willesden Lane

Moment of Zen:

This Is a Bank Ad?

Click the picture for more images from and sociological analysis of this current ad campaign by HSBC, which, in a daringly and surprisingly insightful but largely unrelated to banking way, examines different interpretations of visual cues like this image of a shaved head.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

General Announcements:

• Updated 8th Grade Project Documents (3/24/10):
  • Calendars for Phase 3 of Project (March-June)
  • Thesis Proposal Guidelines
• 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., 3/25: Math's Mates 3.5 work for * problems and work for any N/A problems from 3.4 shown on a separate piece of lined paper. Begin 3.5 with problem #s incorrect on 3.4.

Social Studies:

• Due Thurs., 3/25: Read handout about Shays' Rebellion and answer the three questions on the separate sheet handed out.

Science:

• None assigned

Language Arts:

• Due Thurs., 3/25: Read Ch. 12 of Children of Willesden Lane (4 pages). Review Ch. 10 & 11 for assessment on Thursday.

Moment of Zen: Street artist Kate Sokoler plays life-size Pacman. For the record, I was a Pacman tableau months before this. So she's copying me. Whatever. ?

Monday, March 22, 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 Grade:
  • Due Tues., 3/23:
    • (Extra requirement) 7.4B - follow directions. Be sure to explain how you got your answers and show all calculations.
    • Do p. 76 #1-5. Use formulas for area A=πr² and circumference C=πd or C=2πr. Use π=3.14.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Tues., 3/23: Do odd # problems on p. 145 (handout). Show all work; use symbolic method, Pythagorean Theorem, and known properties of 30°-60°-90° and isosceles right triangles (Click to visit quick reference from last week's blog)

Social Studies:

• None assigned.

Science:

• Due Tue., 3/23: Two ¶s and a sketch:
  • ¶ 1: Summarize today's activity of planting and preparing the "growing system" for our Brassica rapa seed.
  • ¶ 2: Reflection on whether a seed is alive or not. Explain your reasoning.
  • Sketch 1/3 of a page large of what you think is inside the seed.

Language Arts:

• Due Wed., 3/24: Read Ch. 10 & 11 in Children of Willesden Lane.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:
  • Chapter 7: 10 drawings with Spanish from chapter.

• 8th Grade:
  • Capítulo 6 en Robo en la noche: translations from class.

Moment of Zen: He wasn't in the clip you saw Friday in All-School, so here's Cheburashka, the cute little protagonist of the show with the singing, accordion-playing crocodile. Click the picture above to read more about Cheburashka's ongoing influence, including a renaissance in Japan, where cute things live forever. Here's a few more pictures (click for full-size): There's quite a number of stylings of Cheburashka as Che Guevara and vice versa, which makes far more sense than it seems at first.