Hunter will use copic markers to create his first rendering of his graffiti name. He will not be given any guidance for this assignment is based on self-expression and his understanding of design. We will use this in a future assignment and recreate it digitally along with three other versions.
Assignment
Hunter is to collect 20 -25 images that will be used in the final development of his website. Resource sites for stock photos have been given to Hunter. Assignment is due 2/27/2018
Hunter will work in Photoshop to create a 2 inch x 3.5 inch business card. The required elements for the card are company logo, name, title, phone number, address, and website. Hunter will learn how to add backgrounds, shape tools and layer capacity. Using all of the tools he will create three designs, of which one will become his actual business card.
I will introduce Hunter to Marcos Lemonis, business saving entrepreneur. In the video we will be introduced to a business owner that has lost his way and is need of Marcus Lemonis' help to stop his business from closing in two weeks.
As Hunter completed The Book Thief, we read poems by Emily Dickinson and Edgar Masters likewise about death or where death is personified. Hunter did a good job analyzing a number of the Masters poems from Spoon River Anthology. We also defined and reviewed point of view and personification and located examples in the poetry. Hunter is keeping notes in his notebook on these topics.
Hunter and I will go over the meaning of time management, how it affects day-to-day operations, along with taking a look at positive and negative versions of time management.
Hunter and I will go over a game plan for finishing up his website project.
Today I refreshed Hunter on how to multiply two binomials. We use the process of FOIL, which stands for "First, Outer, Inner, and Last". I gave him several examples of multiplying the binomials with radicals in them. A binomial and it's conjugate are binomials that have the same terms, but one is subtraction, and one is addition. There is a shortcut for multiplying conjugates together - take the square of the first term and subtract the square of the second term from it. Hunter worked on exercises 13-26 on p. 382
Session Minutes
60
Minutes Student Attended
60
Lesson Comments
Phone update: I opened the "phone bag" at the start of class, and asked Hunter to please put it in, He complied. We could hear it vibrate several times during class.
Judie, may I suggest that we purchase phone caddies for the classroom walls? Amazon sells clear plastic ones for $8.13, and they are held up by command strips. We could make it a simple policy that the phones are to be in the caddies during class time, with the ringer off or on vibrate, unless the teacher permits otherwise. Marcos and Katya don't cause any problems with the phones. They keep them in their pockets or bags and never pull them out to check social media. As you know, though, Hunter just likes to push the boundary and get his out. I've heard other teachers express frustration over the phones, as well. If we had a school-wide policy, I think it would speak volumes to the parents and the students. It would say that learning and personal interaction with the teachers is our first priority, and the cell phones need to be set aside so that the students can focus and gain the most out of their sessions. The phones, for many of them, serve as a CONSTANT temptation and distraction. Also, a school-wide policy would really help support those teachers that probably really hate that Hunter (or any other student) is looking at his phone during their class, but are too reluctant to take a firm stance on it. Here is a link to the holder: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0084M69YW/ref=asc_df_B0084M69YW5377969/?tag=hyprod-20&creative=394997&creativeASIN=B0084M69YW&linkCode=df0&hvadid=167134163907&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17683598107748578814&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9012031&hvtargid=pla-305828853811#customerReviews
Multiplying and Dividing Radical Expressions,Binomial Radical Expressions
Lesson Outline
I had Hunter work on some 5 question quizzes on Multiplying and Dividing Radical Expressions. He worked the problems and made corrections until he was able to score a 4 out of 5 correct. I also introduced Radical Expressions to him. Like terms have the same number under the radical sign. They can be added together by adding their coefficients. Hunter did p. 382 (1-12)
Session Minutes
165
Minutes Student Attended
165
Lesson Comments
Judie, this is the day when Hunter took out his phone to look at in the middle of class. When I asked him to put it in the bag, he responded "I'll just put it in my pocket and it will stay there." We went back and forth a bit with me asking him to put it in the bag, and him telling me "This is how it is going to be. I'm going to put it in my pocket and keep it in my pocket." After about 5 minutes of this, I told him that I was going to take a break, and that I would tell you and Kelli what was going on, and that I would return when he was ready to put the phone in the bag. Out of 105 minutes in the afternoon, we only worked for about 45 of them. Once I returned for the last 30 minutes, his phone was plugged in on the desk. I put it in the bag and proceeded with the lesson without saying anything more about the phone, or the incident.
You cannot leave a radical sign in the denominator of a fraction. The radical must be simplified all of the way. If it cannot be simplified, then you must "Rationalize the denominator". You do this by multiplying by a different version of "1". Just write a fraction with the radical of the original denominator over the original denominator. Hunter worked on p. 377 (22-33)
Hunter read aloud during our entire class today and finished "The Book Thief." I really think he enjoyed it and was proud of accomplishing this task, the first time he's really read a novel from start to finish. We will watch the movie in our next class.
