Humanities - Feb 26

Students are working on consolidating their understanding of the Aztec worldview.  They have been assigned a task to connect the details of the Aztec to the elements of worldview.  This can be done visually or in writing.  Most students have finished.  It is due tomorrow.

Current events are due tomorrow for the group member who is in charge of presenting.

Humanities - Feb 25

As students continue to work on their current events, they are encouraged to think about the follow elements of worldview and the questions connected to the elements...

Geography: What role do geographical features such as climate and location play in how people look at the world and behave in it?

Time: In what terms is time viewed by a society? eg mechanical (clocks and watches?) natural (eg. the sun, the moon, the stars?).

Society: What roles are available to individuals in society?  Who holds power and how is power maintained? Who has status and how do they get it? Are certain benefits available to some and not others?

Values: How do people in a society act toward each other?  How do people in a society act toward people in other societies/ groups?

Beliefs: What beliefs do people hold about life and death? About their environment?

Economy: Who controls the resources? What is to be produced?  How will it be produced? For whom? How is property distributed? Protected?

Knowledge: How do people develop knowledge?  What ways of knowing are accepted?  Who has access to knowledge?  How is it valued? Where or in whom does the knowledge reside?

Feb 24 Humanities

Students have been assigned an ongoing task of seeking connections to worldview and current events.    this task will continue until the end of the year.  This task addresses the following curricular outcome:

Students will appreciate how a society’s worldview influences the society’s choices, decisions and interactions with other societies.

Students have selected small groups.  On Fridays, one person from each group has been assigned to bring in a current event with a summary and a reflection about how that current event connects to worldview.  Students will discuss the event and build on each others ideas.  The person responsible for the current event will then write a reflection on how the discussion has changed his or her thinking.  This, along with the summary, will be handed in on the following Monday.

The task and the rubric have been posted in D2L on the 8-02 Core Subjects shell.  To find it, scroll to the bottom of the content browser.  You should see the current events module listed there.  Students are encouraged to use the rubric to support them in developing their responses.

Humanities - Feb 23

Students have been working on researching the worldview of the Aztecs and creating a codex - a representation of the Aztec society in symbolic form.  They were asked to explain their symbols in writing.  We have been working in class on this assignment for three days.  Students have now been asked to finish the work for tomorrow.

February 18-Science/Math

 

 

Rates and Ratios Unit Test- Thursday, February 19, 2015

A great review video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gB1y-PMWfs#t=71

Look through all of your math notes paying close attention to the review assignment: Chapter 4 (pages 150-151) #10-17.

Sample Word Problem examples:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKywkLHV6Ko

2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4kDzoQOngY

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February 10-Math/Science

Science test tomorrow- Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Please know:

1. Parts of a Microscope

2. Measuring field of view

3.Characteristics of Living Things

4. Parts of cells (and their functions)

5. Fluid movement in cells

    - permeable

    - impermeable

    - diffusion

    - osmosis

    - transpiration

Feb. 9- Math/Science

Math Homework!

Textbook Work

Pg. 148-149 (#4,6,7,8,9,11)

Due Tuesday, February 10

Science Cell Quiz- Wednesday, February 11!