Wednesday, January 11, 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 - 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:

• Test Thurs., 1/12: on Mexican-American War

Math:

• Graph paper link on the sidebar →
  Grade 7
• Due Thurd., 1/12: Bring your protractor to class (buy one if you don't have one - lots of colors at Acme Surplus for 50 cents)
Grade 8
• Due Thurs., 1/12: In Looking for Pythagoras, do 2.3 and #1 and 2 on following page.

Science:

• Due Wed., 1/11: Read Ch. 7.2 - questions?

8th Grade Project:

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

Moment of Zen:

Beware of Alot

After spending the greater portion of the school day reading your magazine articles, I'm convinced that you all need to learn about the alot. The alot is the animal comic writer Allie Brosh visualizes whenever she sees someone on the internet write "alot" instead of "a lot" often to comic effect. Read about that and more of her rationalizations about internet writing by clicking above.