We spent the first part of the session solving a couple of the more difficult SAT I math problems--one "counting" problem, involving a won-lost ratio, floowed by a winning streak and a geometry problem involving the angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a rectangle. We then returned to our discussion of yesterday: parent functions of families of functions.

Review Constitutional powers of Executive and Judicial branches.

cont. history of yoga; yoga myths; standing stretches; intro to arm weights (3 and 5 lb.)

Review Constitution Art. 1 Section 7,8,&9.
Identify powers and limitations of Congress.

Create a prompt that Ashley felt comfortable with work on a thesis statement then fill in rest of intro paragraph

go over main points of reading and discuss possible prompt and begin writing in class

review the reading and reading responses assigned
go over outline of college composition paper

Personal introductions and selecting a reading from the text book

We worked more SAT problems during the first half of the session. Then we returned to parent functions, examining them by graphing on the calculator. We were able to relate the parent function of the quadratic to a problem on the SAT,

We used the first 15 minutes for working SAT I Math problems. We then moved to "parent functions" for various families of functions, including linear, square (quadratic), cubic, quartic and quintic. We also discussed 'special cases' within the linear family--the constant and identity functions.