Wednesday, April 28, 2010

General Announcements:

• Due Thurs., 4/29: Share Your DC Pictures! Pick up to 20 of your best shots from DC to upload to the group account at Photobucket for official trip documentation. Sort photos into the albums for Monuments/Memorials, Museums, People, and Other. Email Grace if you need the login information or if you have trouble logging in. The account is private, but I have a separate guest password to pass along to parents, grandparents, etc. which grants view-only access.
• Due Friday, 4/30: Come to school dressed in a black T-shirt and dark pants/skirt. You will be wearing what you wore for other Prism productions at All-School for Earth Day. Bring a change of clothes with you if you wish to wear something different the rest of the day.
• 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 Wed., 4/28:
    • In new MCAS packet, do #1-9 (no open-response questions).
    • Do #7-12 on mixed number multiplication worksheet and redo/fix any wrong from #1-6. Show work for each problem on a separate sheet of paper, which should be stapled to the worksheet.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Wed., 4/28: In MCAS Review packet, do #29 (open-response). Write answer on separate paper as if answering it in an MCAS response booklet: show all calculations and explain your thinking clearly and thoroughly.

Social Studies:

• None assigned

Science:

• Due Wed., 4/28:
  • Group 1: Make a histogram for your group's data about physical traits.
  • Group 2: Fill out sheet about your own traits in preparation for graphing them with the data from your group and from the class.

Language Arts:

• Due Wed., 4/28: Use group’s responses to revise “gallery placard” so it is ready to be posted—and in produce a final copy that is well-edited. Ask an adult to proofread it with you before considering it final. Formatting: It should be in a type font and size that can be read easily by a viewer in our hall (ex. Times New Roman, 16 pt, bold). Have your name at the bottom as "monument designer."

Moment of Zen:

...And You Thought New England Mosquitoes Were Big

Published in London from the 1890s to the 1950s, The Strand Magazine is best known for being the first place Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his stories about one Sherlock Holmes. Its contributor list also includes such literary heavyweights as Rudyard Kipling, Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse. In 1910, it also published a piece called, "If Insects Were Bigger, " including the above picture, which was given the caption, “Panic Caused by a Mosquito in Piccadilly Circus.” About 78 years before Photoshop and 51 years before Mothra, other illustrations bear captions like, “A Lacewing Fly Spreads Consternation in Wellington Street” and “A Dragon-Fly Captures an Unsuspecting Four-Wheeler in Liverpool.” The author, J.H. Kerner Greenwood, noted: “It is true we are still molested by hordes of wild animals of bloodthirsty propensities. These wild animals only lack the single quality–namely, that of size–to render them all-powerful and all-desolating, and this quality they have not been able to attain owing to the lack of favouring conditions.” Click here or the picture above to see more from this feature.