Friday, January 29, 2010

General Announcements:

• Friday, Feb. 5: Prisms' Coffeehouse! St. Mary's Church, Haydenville, 6-9 PM — Dinner, dessert & entertainment! Tickets now available for purchase! $5/person, $20/family
• Eighth Grade project documents available here, including Phase 2 calendar (updated 1/22/10).
• You must have an independent reading book every day. If you are getting close to the end of one, have the next one at school and ready to go.

Math:

• 7th Grade:
  • Due Mon, 2/1: Study Ch. 1-4 for a check-up test on Monday. Study the assignments you have done through Ch. 4. Read comments. As part of the review, complete "Additional Practice" on p. T-153 (handout): #1, 4, 5.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Mon., 2/1: Complete 2.3 on p. 21 according to directions. Lengths of segments are to be written as whole numbers or as a square root—not as a decimal or fraction. There are 14 possible segments that can be drawn on the paper given. Refer to handout describing how to find area for any square.

Social Studies:

• None Assigned

Science:

• Due Mon., 2/1: Write Experiment Report following format given (typed or handwritten). (See Format for Experiment Summary)

Language Arts:

• Test Mon, 2/1: Study Grammar Lessons 6 & 7 on helper verbs, past/present participles, and action verb tenses (present, future, simple past) for test on Monday. There will be review questions as well on Lessons 1-5.

Atelier:

• Due Tue., 2/2: Complete Golden Spiral collage piece and bring to Atelier by noon.

Spanish:

• 7th Grade:

• 8th Grade:

Moment of Zen:

Bunch of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger

CORNISH, NH (The Onion)—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.