In this activity, Will used the TVM program on the ti-84 to evaluate annuities for PV, FV, payments due and interest made.

I started the lesson by explaining that we would be reviewing for the final exam by reviewing his practice exams from the last two practice tests from the previous two chapters. Those are the two chapters which he studied during the second semester. He constructed the polynomial from its zeros including imaginary numbers. He was also able to factor polynomials to find the zeros. He was also able to use synthetic division to divide a polynomial by an binomial. There was no assignment.

Will reviewed his homework assignment and did an excellent job answering the comprehension questions. Next, we reviewed the literary term “conflict”. We discussed the different types of internal and external conflict. Then, Will found 4 examples of the external conflict, “man vs man” present in the novel. He took notes about the root causes of the four conflicts he identified. After his work on the novel, Will read a Newsela article about “fake” news. He identified the main ideas and key details in the article. For homework, Will is going to read pages 206-241 in our novel and answer comprehension questions.

Will took a Media Literacy assessment during the first part of our session today. After beginning the assessment, he became nervous and felt he was unprepared. After reassurances, he continued with the exam and earned a perfect score. Next, we reviewed the comprehension questions that he completed for homework. He has begun to regularly use quotes from the text to support his answers, and we discussed the importance of using text evidence. After we reviewed his homework, we had a very intense discussion about the content of the story, and how some of the topics made him feel uncomfortable. He is taking a mature attitude when approaching these topics, and shared that he reads it “like a lawyer” just looking for the facts. This novel has been a stretch for him emotionally, and he has shared that he would never pick a book like this to read and is only doing it because it is “required” by his college. For homework, he will continue reading pages 168-205 and answer 6 comprehension questions. Will continues to work hard and puts 100% into every assignment!

In this session, Will again worked with the TVM program to determine FV, PV, I, and payments of ordinary annuity.

In this activity, Will began working with annuities determining FV, PV, and Payments of ordinary annuities.

Friday May 03, 2019
11:00 - 12:00; 12:30-1:30 120 min. -
Photography:
Animation -
Will was tasked with using the puppet warp tool to reshape the lower jaw of a person, in a portrait. He made several different iterations of this process. We used the timeline function of Photoshop, to covert the images into an animation. Will repeated the process until we had a 5 second film, where a person in a photo, appeared to be speaking.

I went over examples of simplifying, multiplying, and dividing rational functions with Will. This gave him the steps to solve each type of problem. In all three types of problems, the first step is to factor all denominators and numerators followed by cancelling common factors in the denominators and numerators. We did several problems together and Will took the lead. There was no assignment.

In this activity, we worked on future value, present value, and payments. We will be talking more about payments when we start talking about annuities.

Will completed the Newsela article about social media and loneliness. He took a quiz on the article and did a good job understanding the content and the concerns of the author regarding students spending too much time on social media and not enough time interacting with people. Next, we continued our discussion about media literacy and did a review for the test which he will take on Monday. The test will cover the core concepts of digital media, propaganda (specifically band wagon, glittering generalities, name-calling, and testimonials), stereotypes, digital footprints, and social media. Will should review his notes over the weekend in preparation for the assessment. We then reviewed his homework and discussed the reading. He did an excellent job on the comprehension questions! For homework, Will is going to read pages 129-167 and answer the first 6 comprehension questions. We will discuss questions 7-10 in class on Monday.