Monday, January 23, 2012

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., 1/25 - Forbes Library Research Day
• Wed., 1/25 - Coffeehouse Planning Meeting, 3rd Floor Classroom, 6:30-7:30
• Fri., 3/2 - Prisms Coffeehouse!
• Yoga Unit in PE on Fridays - Please wear or bring comfortable clothes to move in on Fridays during this unit.
• Student Art Exhibit at Meekins Library: This is an encore exhibit of last year's Prisms artwork currently on display at the Meekins Library in Williamsburg Center. Throughout the month of January, their 3-tiered drawings illustrating the history of the Connecticut River are on display.

Humanities:

• Due Wed., 1/25: Finish "To Be a Slave" and fill out homemade worksheet tracking Lester's explanations of slavery (italicized writing), his evidence (the accounts in normal type that he's reflecting on), and your own comments.

Math:

• Graph paper link on the sidebar →
  
  Grade 7
• Due Tues., 1/24: Find 8-20 points for your original picture, and list the (x, y) coordinates for each point.
Grade 8
• Due Tues., 1/24: 4.2 Follow Up, #2; 4.3; p. 46-47, #2-4

Science:

• Test Next Thurs., 2/2: On parts/function of a cell.
• Due Mon., 1/30: Cell Study Guide

8th Grade Project:

• Due Mon., Jan. 23: Bibliography and specific research question due.

Moment of Zen:

The City Is a Dinosaur and it may just eat you

British illustrator Andy Council has created a series of images of the city as a dinosaur. This idea takes different shapes in different contexts: sometimes it's eating the landscape around it, sometimes it's built with the roads or trains as its skeleton, but each provides some visualization of the city as a large, imposing, living entity. Click above to see more of Council's Urban Dinos.