Sunday, October 5, 2008

Week of Oct 6-10

This week we will be finishing up our work in Looking for Pythagoras and will end with a unit test Wed. Oct. 8 and Thurs. Oct. 9. Students will need to turn their textbook in by Thursday Oct 9th. Any textbook not returned is $8.00 to replace. Tuesday from 2:27 - 3:15 will be a review session in my room. Any student who needs to bring their grade up or earned a D or F on the last quiz needs to come and practice. Bus tokens will be available.

Monday Oct 6:
Bell Work: Find the Error
Lesson/Summary: Today we will be reviewing the partner quiz given last Friday and helping students solidify how to apply the Pythagorean theorem as well as find the distance between any two points. Students will also work with their partner on a few practice problems that students commonly missed in last week's quiz.
Homework: Finding Distances worksheet (be sure to show all of your work!)

Tuesday Oct 7:
Bell Work: checking last night's homework - green pen
Lesson: We will be doing some work in stations. Students will spend 5 minutes at a station reviewing key items before the Unit Test tomorrow.
Summary: We will discuss each problem students solved at each station to ensure everyone is ready for the test.
Homework: Pythagorean Theorem Practice wksht

Wednesday Oct 8:
Bell Work: checking last night's homework - green pen
Unit Test

Thursday Oct 9:
Bell Work:
Unit Test
TEXT BOOK RETURN

Friday Oct 10: 1/2 Day
1/2 day advisory - preparing for student led conferences

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this for some class of yours? Which book do you use?

Jennifer Pinckney said...

8th grade math, Connected Mathematics