Monday, May 14, 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
• Thursday, May 31 - Prism Tempest performances, 1:30 PM. Come see us perform scenes from two versions of Shakespeare's classic desert-island play and read scenes reinterpreted in different historical contexts.
• Friday, June 1 - Il Teatro
• Tuesday/Wedensday, June 5 & 6: Eighth Grade Project Exhibitions
• Wednesday, June 13 - Graduation
• Friday, June 15 - Last Day of School!

Humanities:

• Due Wed., 5/16: Final draft of spoken word poem.
• Work on Memorizing your lines for your Shakespeare performance
• Wednesdays (Gr. 7) or Fridays (Gr. 8): Read your novel, bring questions to discuss.

Math:

• Graph paper link on the sidebar →
  Grade 7
• Due Wed., 5/16: p. 29, #18; p. 30, #20;, p. 37, #2-5
Grade 8


• Due Wed., 5/16: 4.1 Follow-up #1, 2, p. 60-63 #2, 3, 9, 11. You may borrow a graphing calculator to use (at school) where it asks you to for Follow-up #1, but for #2, you must sketch the graph and make the table on paper.
Algebra B
• Due Tues., 5/15: p. 622-623, #31-37 odd, 63, #51-61 odd, 67

Science:

• Due Wed., 5/16: Food Chemistry:
  1. Protein Handout: read/answer questions
  2. read Textbook p. 230-231

8th Grade Project:

• Friday, May 11: key facts you want the audience to learn, shared on googledocs
• Monday, May 14: description and picture of your mentor, shared on googledocs
• Tuesday, May 15: reflective paragraph of your project, shared on googledocs
• Wednesday, May 16: interactive element directions, shared on googledocs
• Thursday, May 17: all pictures printed out
• Friday, May 18: all written elements edited and printed out
• Monday, May 21: be ready for presentation to panel, rehearsed and professional
• Any day before Wednesday, May 23: bring trifold display board to 3^rd Floor.
Complete list of project due dates (as of 1/25) here.

Moment of Zen

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