Monday, December 5, 2011

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
• Wednesdays: Mummers Play Rehearsal Rehearsals will take place every Wednesday between here and Solstice from 3-5 PM in the River Classroom.
• Sat., Dec. 3: Winter fair!
• Fri., Dec. 16: Prisms/Purples Dance. Job sign-ups and song request lists up in both classrooms.

Humanities:

• Due Wed., 12/7: Read novels & complete reading log
  • Fools Crow, ch. 5-7
  • Light in the Forest, ch. 3-4
• Long Range Project: Stories of White and Native American Encounters
  First Draft Due Mon., 12/19
  Final Draft Due Thurs., 12/22: Write a story, diary entries or a series of letters from the perspective of two people living in the early 1800s in West Virginia. The first chapter, letter or diary entry should be set in the year 1800. The final chapter, letter or diary entry should take place in 1838.
• Ample class time will be dedicated to this project and related, short-range deadlines will be updated

Math:

• Graph paper link on the sidebar →
  Grade 7
• Due Tues., 12/6: p. 66, #6 and p. 58, #12 a and b
  Challenge: p. 67, #7
Grade 8
• Due Wed., 12/7:
  • Algebra B: correct p. 364, #43-48 and do Fruity Math #1 and 2

Science:

• Due Tues., 12/6: Submit 2-3 reputable sources about your topic.
• Long Range Project: Independent Heredity Research
  • Each student will pick a topic relating to work in Science about heredity, relating to a particular inherited trait such as eye or hair color, hereditary diseases such as Sickle Cell anemia or muscular dystrophy, or ethical question regarding human interference in heredity such as selective breeding for traits in plants and animals, cloning, or a particular genetically modified organism. Each student will present their research either in an essay or Powerpoint presentation.
  • Deadlines:
    • Fri., 12/2: Submit topic proposal
    • Tues., 12/6: Submit 2-3 reputable sources about your topic
    • Fri., 12/9: Outline of info due
    • Wed., 12/14: First draft due
    • Fri., 12/16: Final draft due

Español:

• Bring home all Day of the Dead materials!

Atelier:

• Due Wed., 12/7: Spend a focused 30 min. working on the draft of your bee illustration with borders

Tech:

• Due ASAP: If Dan L. talked to you today about your magazine project, you need to find time outside of class to work on it in the Tech Lab.

Moment of Zen:

How phenotypical...

Canadian photographer Ulric Collette found himself fascinated by the similarities in the faces of closely related people. To better examine this, he photographed pairs of close family members (parents & children, siblings, cousins) and created one portrait of the pair with each contributing one half of the face. The results are astonishing, ranging from one composed of twins, which looks like one woman with a different hair style on each side of her head, to uncannily similar half male/half female faces (like the artist's self-portrait with his cousin, above). Click the photo to see more of Collette's "Genetic Portraits" which include the names and ages of each person photographed and their relationship to each other. The site is in French, so this is what you need to know to decipher it:

• mère - mother
• père - father
• fils - son
• fille - daughter
• soeur - sister
• frère - brother
• cousin(e) - cousin
• jumeaux - twins (masc./mixed)
• jumelles - twins (fem.)
• ans - years