Thursday, April 8, 2010

General Announcements:

• Fri., 4/8:
  Main luggage for DC must be brought to school for check in. Any item you will need over the weekend (especially toiletries like toothbrushes) should be packed in the small bag you bring on Monday.
• Due ASAP:
  DC Trip Medical Consent form. This must be turned in even for students not taking medication. Please return all completed forms either in the box marked Confidential or in the Completed forms file under Prisms DC Field Trip.
• 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 Fri., 4/9:
    • Complete modified 1.3 sheet using your box. Separate sheet with parts C, D, E should be stapled to 1.3 sheet. Parts C, D, E should be answered in complete sentences using specific data to support your ideas.
    • Complete 1.3 Follow-Up, p. 8, as in the book.
• 8th Grade:
  • Due Fri., 4/9: Be ready to turn inLooking for Pythagoras tomorrow. Erase any stray marks from the book so it's ready for the next person who uses it.

Social Studies:

• Due Fri., 4/9: Complete Grandparents & Special Friends invitations. Mail by Sat. 4/10.

Science:

• None assigned.

Language Arts:

• Due Fri., 4/9: Choose an independent reading book for the trip to DC. Place it into your luggage for Friday's check-in.

Moment of Zen:

These Photos are 100 Years Old

Seriously. Taken at the beginning of the 20th century by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, official photographer to Russia's last tsar, Tsar Alexander II, they survey wide swaths of the empire from Russian peasants dressed up in their finest to monuments of Central Asian architecture to the railroad as it cut through the expansive empire, making it accessible as it never had been before. Also remarkable about Prokudin-Gorskii's photos is that they were, for all intents and purposes, taken before the advent of color film. Each color image is composed of shots from three independent lenses, each with a different color filter on it. These three images were overlaid to create a single, colored image. Click the picture to go to the front page of the gallery at the Library of Congress website or click here to read more about his color photography technique.