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Mornings
(8:30-12:00)
Monday 8/19
Board: perhaps writers wrote about how to cure illnesses with specific herbs (2 errors)
98+62=n
98-62=n
98*6.2=n
98/6.2=n
Group: Excuses Begone by Dr. Wayne Dyer. Read and discuss chapter 1 – pages 17-19. Results: Read pp. 17-top of 18. Discussed several words: dramatic, scrutinized, legitimacy, paradigm, radical, inconsistent, tenets, psychological, sociological, emphatically, and perceptual.
Individual: See notebooks.
Tuesday 8/20
Board: how would you explain that the earth is spherical to a friend (2 errors)
94+81=n
94-81=n
94*81=n
94/81=n
Group: Story problems -- Add & subtract negative and positive numbers. Do 3 more story problems. Results: We did 3 more problems.
Individual: See notebooks.
Wednesday 8/21
Board: what would not be included in a periodical essay (2 errors)
85+46=n
85-4.6=n
85*4.6=n
8.5/46=n
Group: Media – What else influences a story? We will examine stories for 5 W's & H, plus discuss headlines and a quote from Walter Cronkite. We'll be doing an adaptation of Lesson 3 in The Careful Reader: Teaching Critical Reading Skills. Results: We read more stories.
Thursday 8/22
Board: many books started as personal journals or observations about the authors lives (2 errors)
32.2+56.9=n
32.9-26.2=n
9923*8657.2=n
23.9/56.2=n
Group: Solar system – Dr. Hrbek will have us look at several elements of the Periodic Table, and how they interact with each other. Results: We learned more about chemical elements from a chemist.
Individual: See notebooks.
Friday 8/23
Group: Interviewing - Continue our discussion about ways to answer tough interview questions.
Individual: See notebooks.
Board Answers:
8/19 -- Perhaps writers wrote about how to cure illnesses with specific herbs. (2 errors)
8/20 -- How would you explain that the earth is spherical to a friend? (2 errors)
8/21 -- What would not be included in a periodical essay? (2 errors)
8/22 -- Many books started as personal journals or observations about the authors lives. (2 errors)
Afternoons
(12:30-4:00)
Monday 8/19
Individual: See notebooks.
Tuesday 8/20
Board: the idea of thinking things through in a logical sequence did not begin during the age of reason (4 errors)
7.7+7.3=n
7.7-7.3=n
7.7*7.3=n
7.7/7.3=n
Group: Supreme Court Landmark Case #3 -- Gibson v. Ogden (1824) about interstate commerce.
Review Gibson v. Ogden (1824), US v. EC Knight Company (1895). Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), & National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp (1937).
Our study of the politics behind Roosevelt's push for minimum wage and how we finally got a federal minimum wage law continues as we read more of Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938. Results: We read and talked about 2 more paragraphs.
Individual: See notebooks.
Wednesday 8/21
Book Group
1) Calculate achievements. Set new goals for next Wednesday. (Reach 80%? If yes, set up root beer float party for next Wednesday.)
2) Read and discuss
Getting Unstuck by Dr. Sidney Simon, pages 44-48. Results: We read pages 44-46.
Individual: See notebooks.
Thursday 8/22
Board: what would you have written about (2 errors)
8.16+5.23=n
8.16-5.23=n
8.16*5.23=n
8.16/5.23=n
Group: Guest teacher Julie will lead us in comprehension and phonics lessons. Today will be her last day. (She'll be babysitting instead.) We will bring treats to thank Julie for her work! Results: We all signed a card and brought treats. Julie had us read and discuss a great story about crossing the Mexican border.
Individual: See notebooks.
Friday 8/23
Group: Food Science: Salt -- We will check on our cheese experiment and then look at more intriguing information about the element salt. Read p. 95-96 "How Salt Affects Taste" from Herve This' book Molecular Gastonomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor. Results: We learned that cheese wrapped in damp cheesecloth had the most mold. Cheese wrapped in damp, salty cheesecloth had some mold. Cheese without any cheesecloth had only one spot of mold. The cheese with no mold during the same time frame was the cheese wrapped in dry cheesecloth.
Individual: See notebooks.
Board Answers:
8/20 -- The idea of thinking things through in a logical sequence did not begin during the Age of Reason. (4 errors)
8/22 -- What would you have written about? (2 errors)
Evenings
(4:00-7:30 PM)
Tuesday 8/20
Individual: See notebooks.
Thursday 8/22
Individual: See notebooks.
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