Thursday, April 26, 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
• Hip Hop PE Thursdays from now until the beginning of May. Wear or bring clothes you can dance in and sneakers.
• Dance Fri., 4/27, 7:30-10 PM: Please bring snacks! We're dividing up the burden of snacks by name so that we get a variety:
  If your name begins with the letter:
  • A→E, please bring salty snacks like chips or pizza
  • F→M, please bring sweet snacks like cookies or brownies
  • N→Z, please bring drinks like juice, lemonade, iced tea or seltzer (no soda, please - everything ends up sticky!)
  If you are on cleanup, arrange to get picked up at 10:30. Everyone else should plan on leaving at 10 PM sharp.

Humanities:

• Bring iPods in for Friday!
• Due Fri., 4/27: Gr. 8: 2500 words of 8th grade project research paper. Share with Beth & John
• Due Wed., 5/2: Gr. 7: Read your novel, bring questions to discuss.
7th Grade Research Paper
• Print out final draft of biography and bibliography.
• Deadlines for 7th Grade Abolitionist Research Paper (updated 1/31)

Math:

• Graph paper link on the sidebar →
  Grade 7
• Test Fri., 4/27 on linear equations. Complete as much of review packet as you have time for to prepare.
Grade 8

• Due Thurs., 4/26:
  • CSL Group: Finish 1.1 and Follow-up, #4 on p. 14
  • Non-CSL Group: 1.3 A→C, follow up a→e

Science:

• Nada

8th Grade Project:

• Due Wed., 3/28: Project Proposal
Complete list of project due dates (as of 1/25) here.

Moment of Zen

Do you want fries with that?

It's not obvious, but this skeletal mummy sculpture is made out of $200 worth of McDonald's burgers. The artist, who goes by BenEverywhere, ground up the burgers and mixed them with resin to form the sculpture. What would you call it? McMummy? McSkellington? Just plain gross?