Week of Oct 13-17

This will be a very busy week with MEAP testing and student-led conferences. Students will be testing in their 1st hour both Tuesday and Thursday of this week. It is extremely important that students get a good night sleep before the MEAP test and eat a good healthy breakfast. Parents, please stress the importance of this test and encourage students to do their best.

Monday Oct 13: New seats, review classroom expectations/procedures, clean out binders and finish collecting any old textbooks. Today students will be analyzing classroom data. They will be creating bar graphs for MP1 grades as well as looking at class averages in the areas of homework, participation, journals, quizzes, and tests. We will discuss strategies to help students be more succesful.

Tuesday Oct 14: MEAP Testing in the morning
1st - 3rd hour: Reading Uglies.

Wednesday Oct 15: (1/2 Day - Student-led conferences 12-3, 5-8)
4th hour: Begin Investigation 1.1 in Growing, Growing, Growing. In this investigation students gain an intuitive understanding of basic exponential growth patterns. Summarize with Lancer Notes.
5th-7th hour: Review linear patterns.

Thursday Oct 16: (Student-led conferences 5-8)
MEAP testing in the morning
4th-7th hour: Reading Uglies

Friday Oct 17: Finish reading Uglies in all classes
4th hour: begin Investigation 1.2. In this investigation students will begin to recognize exponential patterns in tables, graphs, and equations.
All other hours: Begin Investigation 1.1. In this investigation students gain an intuitive understanding of basic exponential growth patterns. Summarize with Lancer Notes.

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