Friday, September 23, 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

Humanities:

• Due Mon., 9/26:
  • Lord of the Flies: Read to the end of the book and complete reading log.
  • Girl Who Owned a City: Read to the end of the book and complete reading log.
  • Come prepared to discuss.

Math:

• Due Mon., 9/12: Complete Math's Mate 1.3, according to following protocol:
  • No calculators (unless you have an accomodation to use one - you know who you are)
  • Show work for problems marked with * on separate paper, along with work for other problems as you see fit. Make sure work is labeled with the number of the question, and staple work to the back of the sheet. Your Math's Mate will be turned back as incomplete without this.
  • Work independently.
  • Complete any attached N/A problems from last week. You may need access to last week's sheet for diagrams.

Science:

• Rien

Music:

• Nichts

Moment of Zen:

Black and white to Black and What?!

A tumblr full of really strange old black and white photos.

Thursday, September 22, 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

Humanities:

• Due Fri., 9/23:
  • Lord of the Flies: Read Ch. 9 & 10 and complete reading log.
  • Girl Who Owned a City: Read Ch. 14 & 15 and complete reading log.
  • Come prepared to discuss.

Math:

Gr. 8
• Due Fri., 9/23: On p. 11 of Samples and Populations, do #1.3, parts a-e.

Gr. 7
• Due Fri., 9/23: On handout (photocopy, p. 40), do #10.

Science:

• Rien

Music:

• Nichts

Moment of Zen:

The 110-year lightbulb

This lightbulb has been working for the last 110 years. Installed in a firehouse in Livermore, CA in 1901. Most incandescent bulbs burn out after 1000 hours of use, or about 42 days of constantly being on. The Livermore bulb is constantly on now, in fear that it will burn out being turned off or on. It also is on a webcam, so you can check up on the bulb regularly. Click the picture above to see the bulb live and read more of its history.

Wednesday, September 21, 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

Humanities:

• Due Fri., 9/23:
  • Lord of the Flies: Read Ch. 9 & 10 and complete reading log.
  • Girl Who Owned a City: Read Ch. 14 & 15 and complete reading log.
  • Come prepared to discuss.

Math:

Gr. 8
• Nada

Gr. 7
• ничего

Science:

• Rien

Music:

• Due :

Moment of Zen:

What's your caption?

Tuesday, September 20, 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
• Wed., 9/21: Field trip to visit Anne Griffin's beehive in Florence and scout examples of Roman architecture along the way. We are leaving around 10:30 am and should be back by 2:30 pm. We will make arrangements for Blue House lunches, but otherwise make sure that you have food that doesn't require heating up.

Humanities:

• Due Tues., 9/20: Review and memorize key facts for your essay.
• Due Wed., 9/21:
  • All: Review and memorize key facts for your essay.
  • Lord of the Flies: Read Ch. 8 and complete reading log.
  • Girl Who Owned a City: Read Ch. 12 & 13 and complete reading log.
  • Come prepared to discuss.

Math:

Gr. 8
• Due Wed., 9/21: "Boston Celtic box and whisker plots"

Gr. 7
• Due Wed., 9/21: In Data About Us, p. 37 #1-4, 5-7.

Science:

• Due Wed., 9/21: Bring in paper grocery bag for field trip.

Music:

• Due :

Moment of Zen:

Chicken Eyeglasses
And other bizarre patents...

In keeping with the mad scientist theme from yesterday, Life magazine has a gallery of select "clever, crazy patents" including the above, "Spectacles to be worn by hens in order to prevent their eyes being injured by the beaks of other birds." (Patented 1902) Click to see the rest of the gallery of odd inventions.

Monday, September 19, 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
• Wed., 9/21: Field trip to visit Anne Griffin's beehive in Florence and scout examples of Roman architecture along the way. We are leaving around 10:30 am and should be back by 2:30 pm. We will make arrangements for Blue House lunches, but otherwise make sure that you have food that doesn't require heating up.

Humanities:

• Due Tues., 9/20: Review and memorize key facts for your essay.
• Due Wed., 9/21:
  • All: Review and memorize key facts for your essay.
  • Lord of the Flies: Read Ch. 8 and complete reading log.
  • Girl Who Owned a City: Read Ch. 12 & 13 and complete reading log.
  • Come prepared to discuss.

Math:

Gr. 8
• In Samples and Populations, do 1.1 and follow-up. Use the following three statistical techniques to analyze the data:
  1. The mean for natural/regular peanut butter
  2. The median for each type
  3. A stem-and-leaf OR histogram

Gr. 7
• In Data About Us, do Problem 2.2 and follow-up on p. 25 and #11-13 on p. 27.

Math:

• Due Wed., 9/21: Bring in paper grocery bag for field trip.

Music:

• Due Tuesday, 9/20:Write a prose and a verse for the words "Community" and "Individuality". They should be about the relationship between the words.

Moment of Zen:

Möbius Cake

The project of self-described evil mad scientists, the above möbius is made entirely of sugar using a 3D Printer called the Candyfab 4000. The Candyfab is EMSL's whack at making a low-cost 3D printer. Where most 3D printers use expensive lasers, the Candyfab uses cheap heating elements and sugar.

Science. It works.

Click the picture to read more about this particular project.