Jess will be able to assess normality to decide whether she should, or should not, use a normal distribution to represent the problem.

Jess will be able to solve problems using normal distributions.

Review and discuss political parties, two-party system, significance of Republican National Convention.

1) Recap final chapter of Beowulf (Oral Quiz)
2) Quotation Journal Discussion
3) Discussion Questions for final chapter of Beowulf: Beowulf as anti-hero, Grendel as superhuman, Dragon as Beowulf Double, Women as objects, Ancestry, Christianity/Paganism

Begin discussion of political parties and how they fit into political culture in the US.

Begin discussion of Political Culture, American Political Culture, effect on government and political parties.

Jess will be able to: 1. Describe a normal curve; 2. Use the 68-95-99.7 Rule to solve problems; 3. Standardize data and use the standard normal table to find the area under a curve.

1) Recap Beowulf, pgs. 49-57
2) Quotation Analysis and Interpretation
3) Activity: Beowulf and Grendel on Trail, arguments for and against murder charges.
4) Discussion Questions for Reading

-Review Business finance:
.Short test exercise
-Introduce Productivity:
.elements of
.history of increased US economic productivity
.factors contributing to increased productivity
-Law of diminishing returns
.two case studies demonstrating input and output elements

Jessica will be able to: 1) Find and interpret percentiles; 2) Create a cumulative relative frequency graph; 3) Find z-scores; 4) Interpret density curves