As a review, we discussed the concepts of congruence and similarity. Then we worked up the Angle-Angle Similarity Postulate on the white board with example triangles. We then transitioned to the Side-Angle-Side Similarity Theorem and students developed examples on the white board.
Assignment
None
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Students attitudes are fine. Both seemed to grasp the material well.
Final discussion for term paper/intro to next chap. (WWI)
Lesson Outline
- Review criteria for term paper (due tomorrow).
. emphasize sources/bibliography
- Intro. WWI
. Connect Imperialism as source of conflict.
. Ident. combatants/causes
Assignment
Read Chap.21- complete study guide
Session Minutes
75
Minutes Student Attended
75
Lesson Comments
Great lesson. All students indicated they were prepared with their papers.
Introduction was implemented
subsitute for the music teacher. Discussed Japan's increasingly frantic efforts at nuke plant.
Assignment
none
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Physicist Michio Kaku tells msnbc's Richard Liu that cooling attempts like using helicopter drops to cool down the 700 tons of spent fuel at Japan's Fukushima reactor site won't be enough, that they would be better served with a 'Chernobyl' approach.
Students will finish their power point presentations vover the weekend. Students read the next chapter in the Alejandro spanish reader. Then they answered the chapter exercises.
Assignment
Work on power points presentations
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Students' pronounciations are improving as they are reading through the spanish reader. They have a pretty good understanding of the material as they are reading it.
We began by discussing conditions necessary for similarity. Then students worked problems at the white board in which they examined polygons to determine whether or not they were similar.
Assignment
None
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Student attitudes are fine. The participated in the activity willingly and enthusiastically.
Students worked on power point prentations. They finishede english version and focused today on translating to spanish.
Assignment
Continue to work on power point presentation and look for childhood pictures
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Students are doing a wonderful job on their power points. They will be practicing their presentations orally soon in preparation for presenting to the school.
Continue and finish The Man to Send Rainclouds. Answer questions at end of story and each student presents discussion questions for the class.
Discuss symbols. Discuss internal and external conflict.
Assignment
Read The Red Convertible, do up to page 32 in vocab book
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
The students did a great job today. They were engaged and had a fantastic discussion. Devin turned in a new version of his essay. for second day in a row, Ashley "forgot" to do her essay.
