Differentiate between the major muscle groups and their anatomical makeup.

1)Dicuss "So You Want to Be a Writer. Here's How" as a Process Analysis Essay. Questions: Is the writer prescribing a plan of action for all potential writers? Or is she merely suggesting one? How can you tell? Who is Virigina Woolf, how does her model compare to the one presented in the essay?
2)Dicuss "The Spider and the Wasp" essay as a Exemplative Process Analysis. What is the author's thesis? How does he go about proving this? What is his model?

Review all materials in Ch 3 of text and begin the new vocab and readings for Ch 4

We reviewed to guidelines for solving related rates problems, including a good-sized discussion of translating the "word problem into a model (equation) which we could differentiate to give us rates of change. Then we began work on a fairly complex problem which we were unable to finish.

use diagrams to label and discuss the important bones

using vertebral images discuss the main structures and function
briefly look at some common veertebral column disorders- scoliosis, kyphosis and lordosis as well as herniated disc and ruptured disc
view the anatomy of the rib cage and discuss the main functions
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Jessica and I practiced the Sentence Completion Strategies that she learned last week on a new set of practice questions.

Today in class Jessica and I discussed the Norton Sampler Essay "How Boys Become Men." In this discussion, Jessica was asked to come up with arguments for/against Jon Katz's assertion that boys are born with a "code of conduct" that denigrates their ability to feel empathy until they are men.

We worked through two problems--one "meaty" problem involving the expansion of a spherical balloon as it is blown up and one "spare" problem where we calulate the change in y in a function's graph as x changes at a given rate.

After discussing classification in regards to the "Playtus" essay, Jessica and I defined Process Analysis as a Rhetorical Mode; we then read the "Sudoku" essay.