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Post date: Sep 6, 2013 10:29:16 PM
Mornings
(8:30-12 noon)
Monday 9/9
Board: born in 1746 patrick henry began his political career in virginia in 1765 (6 errors)
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Group: Excuses Begone by Dr. Dyer. Read and talk about pages 18-22. Results: Read pages 18-20. Dyer says changing habits is easy. Our group disagree with him.
Individual: See notebooks.
Tuesday 9/10
Board: patrick henry was known during his time as a fiery orator (3 errors)
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Listed 8 parts of speech:
1) noun - a person (Roger), place (school), thing (notebook), or idea (study)
2) pronoun - takes the place of a noun (he, she, it)
3) adjective - describes a noun (small, light, brown)
4) verb - expresses action (sing, walk) or being (to be - is, am)
5) adverb - describe a verb (slowly), an adjective (well -- well-made costume), or another verb (really, very) (often ends in -ly)
6) conjunction - connects words, phrases, and sentences (and, or, but, therefore)
7) interjection - expresses emotion and able to stand alone (Yes! Wow! Stop!)
8) preposition - shows relationship to time (after you, before me), direction toward the left), or location (to his house)
Group: Story problems -- today we begin a 28-problem review which includes knowing which operation to use, converting time and money into like units, converting percentages, fractions, and decimals, and adding and subtracting with negative numbers. We'll do three problems today for review. Results: Wrote notes for add/subtract negative numbers.
Individual: See notebooks.
Wednesday 9/11
Board: bob asked what is an orator (6 errors)
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Group: News media - Our focus is still on fact and opinion. Results: Spent so much time on defining nouns and pronouns that we ran out of class time today.
Individual: See notebooks.
Thursday 9/12
Board: according to the website ushistory.org patrick henry had no ambition (5 errors)
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Group: Solar System - Sun. Do we have answers to our questions? Results: Spent most of the morning defining the 5 elements of verbs. Quite an extensive discussion. Great notes. Ran out of time to do any science.
Individual: See notebooks.
Friday 9/13
Board: none
Group: Interviewing - Discuss techniques. Results: Great discussion. Guest speaker, Tom, talked about his interviewing experience this past week.
Individual: See notebooks.
Board answers:
9/9 -- Born in 1746, Patrick Henry began his political career in Virginia in 1765. (6 errors)
9/10 -- Patrick Henry was known during his time as a fiery orator. (3 errors)
9/11 -- Bob asked, "What is an orator?" (6 errors)
9/12 -- According to the website ushistory.org, Patrick Henry had no ambition. (5 errors)
Afternoons
(12:30-4:00)
Monday 9/9
Individual: See notebooks.
Tuesday 9/10
Board: after the people in his home town got angry patrick henry studied for the law test (5 errors)
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Group: Landmark Supreme Court Decisions. We've been reading about cases following the Gibbons vs Ogden decision. Currently, we are looking at US vs. Darby. Results: This group decided to set up a challenge. We spent most of the afternoon figuring out what it is. THE CHALLENGE - Everyone must bring in 5 words they discovered this past week that were new to them and explain them to the class (must bring the sentence and definition written in your notebook) or teach the class (30 seconds) about something you learned during the past 7 days. On whichever Tuesday 75% or more of the group brings in their words or new learning, the following Tuesday the group will celebrate with a luncheon.
Individual: See notebooks.
Wednesday 9/11
Challenge: Our next challenge -- when 85% of our goals are met then we get lunch!!!
Group: Getting Unstuck by Dr. Simon. Read and talk about pages 52-55. Results: Read page 52-54.
Individual: See notebooks.
Thursday 9/12
Board: patrick henry was against the us constitution he was all about states rights (8 errors)
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Group: Phonics & Spelling. We building words through units of sounds. Results: Reviewed A-H, added /sh/, and practice vocabulary and finger-spelling.
Individual: See notebooks.
Friday 9/13
Group: Food Science -- Read pages 44-48 of RL Wolke's What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained. Results:
Individual: See notebooks.
Board answers:
9/10 -- After the people in his home town got angry, Patrick Henry studied for the law test. (5 errors)
9/12 -- Patrick Henry was against the US Constitution; he was all about states' rights (8 errors)
Evenings
(4:00-7:30)
Tuesday 9/10
Individual: See notebooks.
Group: Sentence & math problems
Thursday 9/12
Individual: See notebooks.
Group: Sentence & math problems
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