Tuesday, April 17, 2012

April 17, 2012




 Can You Identify These Protists?

Homework:

Read 20 minutes and record your time.
Planner signed

Reading:  "Passage to Freedom" Spelling pgs. 29-30, Vocabulary pg. 23, Judgments Chart/Award for a Hero (All assignments are due Thursday in class.) Spelling Test Thursday!

Language Arts: Work on your essay.

Math: Homework 7-6 and 7-7 worksheet./ Homework 7-8 due tomorrow.

Math 2:  Homework pg. 322 Student workbook pgs. 319-322.  Due 4/17. Homework 8-2 due Monday. Workbook pages 323-326 due Monday.

Social Studies:  "Night At the Museum" problem-solving assignment.  You will need to state your topic of research on Thursday. The project is due May 18, 2012.

Science:  Watch the instructional video about protists on Edmodo  and take notes. (A biology teacher is teaching about protists in this video.) Watch the video clips about paramecium and amoebas. Write TWO observations about EACH organism. You will have a total of four sentences for your assignment. This assignment is due Wednesday. For some extra credit, write down the four protists on a small piece of paper and turn it in as you walk into class on Thursday. Yea!

Keyboarding:  Practice five minutes a night or 25 minutes this week. You should have a total of 160 minutes by Monday morning. Take one 5 minute TIMED TEST.

Mangahigh: You have some specific Prodigi lessons and games to complete for math/science. They are the following:

1. Bar Charts  past due
2. Interpret Events Over Time past due
3. Use Line Graphs due Thursday
4. Use Pie Charts due Thursday
5. Recognizing Misleading Data due Friday

Complete the LESSON before playing the game. You MUST earn a Bronze medal to pass off this assignment! Repeat each lesson/game until you have earned a Bronze medal.  Look at the solutions to the problems that you miss. Use the hints. Learn from your mistakes and improve your score.

The due dates are on Edmodo for each Manga activity.