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Today we will continue our review of Acceleration. We will complete a section 9-3 worksheet as a group.
This is a formative grade.
Students will need to bring their Science workbooks to class on Thursday. We will be reading in Chapter 10 and begin a new unit related to Force.
Today's DOL - Parts of Speech
A nagging pull throbes in your mind when a person is too selfish to collaborate in a group project.
After reviewing DOL, the rest of the class period was spent discussing the Writing Assessmen tomorrow and answering questions.
HW: Have a blue or black ink pen and a #2 wooden pencil - BE ON TIME!!
Heads Up! We will have a quiz on Thursday covering the concepts and application of motion.
Announcement: Starting this week Mrs. Trimble will be holding after school study sessions most Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:20 - 5:30, if you have any questions please send an email to elizabeth.trimble@cobbk12.org.
This week's DOL sentence is:
Cents your a sellphone expert its thyme to present you're concensus plan. (9) We will work through the regular DOL schedule this week. The rest of class time is to be used in groups preparing for the next week's presentations. Groups will present beginning on Monday. Numbers will be drawn to see who goes first.
Starting this week Mrs. Trimble will be facilitating an after school study session every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:15 - 5:30. The purpose of this study time is to support students in Mrs. Voss's ELA class and students in Mrs. Stittleburg's Science class. Questions? elizabeth.trimble@cobbk12.org
The students' presentations are going well, but they are like the energizer bunny; they keep going and going!
RETEST INFORMATION: Since I promised them they would take a retest over Chemical Bonds and Reactions on Thursday, I am postponing presentations today in order to review for tomorrow's retest. Presentations will resume either tomorrow after the test (If time permits) or Friday
Today's DOL was phrases, clauses, and structure. Students have their DOL quiz AND their vocabulary quiz TOMORROW! After DOL, a discussion was had regarding group work and group ethics. From there, students were given Worksheet #1. Each student in the group is responsible for completing side one for the plan assigned to them. By Wednesday of next week, each group must come to a consensus of which from those researched is the best value. Then each student will copy the best plan's infromation onto the consensus side and submit. Groups are currently working with brochures/pamphlets and magalogs, but they will move into the computer lab next week for on-line research.
Homework: Study for the DOL Quiz and the Vocabulary Quiz
Students should begin to prepare for the tests, which occur on Tuesday 11/13. Check previous blogs for more information. Today they will be given class time to work on review. I will also go over last night's homework and yesterday's quizzes. For review they should be answering the following questions from the Chapter Assessments:
Pages 132-133, #1-4, 6 ,11,12 ,15-17, 20-24 Page 133 Test Practice Box: #25, 26, 28
Page 174 1, 6, 7, 8, 12
We completed our analysis of our writing today. Students completed a matrix with regard to parts of speech and parts of a sentence for their writings. After completing the matrix, students chose their 5 '"worst" sentences and rewrote them for better style and better mechanics. HW - None
Friday - DOL QUIZ Students will use Progress Report 1 rfrom our story, "Flowers for Algernon" and rewrite the paragraph to correct the 27 grammatical errors. NO HW for the weekend.
Time Permitting we will watch a short video about the disabled.
This is the study guide for Thursday's test. Students had the entire class period on Tuesday to work on it.Download study_guide_atomic_structure_and_pt_1.doc
Homework: Study for the test on Thursday
