Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011

General Announcements:
  • If you ever notice something missing or wrong on the blog, comment to let me know about it - I don't always have the whole picture. -Grace
  • Sat., Dec. 3: Winter fair!
  • Fri., Dec. 16: Prisms/Purples Dance. Job sign-ups and song request lists up in both classrooms.
Humanities:
  • Due Tues., 11/29: Finish essay begun in class about Sing Down the Moon and share with Beth on Google Docs.
    • Introduction: Background, main idea (answer the question), briefly describe three main examples
    • 3 middle paragraphs
    • Conclusion: Restate main point, closing
Math:
  • Graph paper link on the sidebar →
    Grade 7
  • Nada
  • Grade 8
  • Due Wed., 11/30: On handout, p. 296-297, do #6-8, 10, 12, 17-24
    Challenge: #25-27
Science:
  • Due Thurs., 12/1: read pp. 221-228, and answer the following questions on lined paper:
    • p. 225, #2-3; p. 229, #1-6
  • Begin thinking about topic for heredity research project.
EspaƱol:
  • Bring home all Day of the Dead materials!
Moment of Zen:

Does # of genes indicate complexity?

If it does, we need to reevaluate ourselves, because it turns out the water flea has 35% more genes than we do, about 8,000 more. Click to read more at National Geographic.

3 comments:

  1. Grace, are you going to update the date, that's kind of the meaning of update... I'm never sure if you updated the actual home work. :)

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  2. BY the way that last comment was from Alison, just FYI :p

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  3. You and your needs, Alison! Oh, I **need** to know what day it is.
    (Kidding aside, weren't the due dates hint enough?)

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