Group Work - July 13-17, 2015

Post date: Jul 11, 2015 12:57:45 AM

Here are some of the tasks we'll be doing this week during group. Find them interesting? Then join us.

The citizenship focus this week is on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are a few questions to ponder: Who are these justices? Who made them justices? How long have they been justices? What do justices do?

Mon 7/13 - Sentence Work: Read Act I of The Tragedy of MacBeth by Shakespeare. Read Spark Notes for summaries of each scene in Act I.

Tue 7/14 - Story problem: Answer these questions: Students in class A are playing hopscotch. The students are divided into 4 lines with 6 students in each line. How many students are in class A? If the students split up into 3 lines, how many class A students will be in each line? (Write the equation for each question. Then, solve the equations.)

Graphs/questions: Answer the questions about the graphs of four household power bills. Today, start with question 3. (Questions and copies of the bills are in pdf files below.)

Wed 7/15 - Sentence Work: Shakespeare wrote MacBeth in iambic pentameter, which is also called blank verse. Blank verse almost sounds like natural speech. Each line of blank verse is made up of 10 syllables. The pattern of syllables is unstressed then stressed, with every other syllable being unstressed. None of the words rhyme. See five examples of blank verse.

Media: Last week, you added a contact to your email address book and sent an email to your new "email friend" with a Cc to Deb. Today, you will send another email. See Email lesson for July15.2015 directions.pdf below for details.

Thu 7/16 - Electronics: Last week, we cleaned up the directions for assembling a parallel circuit. Our revised directions are below - Directions for assemblying a parallel circuit.revision1.July15.pdf.

Fri 7/17 - Employment discussion will continue with a video about work ethics and soft skills in the workplace. Here's some interesting quotes related to softskills.

Astronomy: Continue reading Mars Attack (3rd paragraph) from Dec 2013 issue of Smithsonian. Questions left to discuss include: Q1: Describe the mission. Q4: Define sky crane. Explain its purpose. Q5: What does "rationally confident and emotionally terrified" mean? Have you ever felt this way? When? Q6: Mars is referred to as the "Bermuda triangle of space exploration." Explain. How does this make you feel as a future inhabitant of Mars?