We reviewed and did sample problems from Ch. 8-5 Factoring x^2+bx+c And 8-6 Factoring ax^2+bx+c.

Tuesday, February 14, 2017
10:00 - 11:00; 60 min. -
Biology:
Chordates -
Aubrey was tested on the five classes of chordates. She was tasked with creating a list of each class, which includes the main strategies that make them unique, and the strategies that they have in common. She was encouraged to use the vocabulary she has been adding to her notebook over the past few weeks. When she was done, we examined some vertebrae of boney fish compared to shark cartilaginous vertebrae. We also examined a chart that shows the different wing shapes, employed by different birds, and the lifestyle they suggest.

Today we reviewed the transition from Republic to Empire, as well as rise and fall of the Roman Empire. We discussed different reforms of certain selected emperors, foreign invasions, growing wealth inequality, and civil unrest/war. Aubrey completed assessment questions from the section. We then discussed the factors that make a government successful or not.

We reviewed Ch. 8-6 Factoring x^2+bx+c and covered 8-7 Factoring ax^2+bx+c.

Monday, February 13, 2017
10:00 - 11:00; 60 min. -
Biology:
Vertebrates: Mammals -
Aubrey created a page in her notebook for the animal class Mammalia, listing the main characteristics, including strategies for keeping warm, reproduction, body covering, and respiration. We watched the BBC production LIFE, episode 3: Mammals, which showed the strategies used to survived, adapted and adopted by mammals such as weddell seals, fruit bats, polar bears, rufus sengi, aye-aye, reindeer, hyenas, coatis, meerkats, elephants and humpback whales.

Aubrey is reviewing certain grammar and writing guidelines to help improve her own writing. Topics include misplaced modifiers, pronoun-antecedent agreement, and parallelism. The review includes short editing and writing exercises.

We reviewed Ch. 8-3 Multiplying Binomials and 8-4 Multiplying Special Cases and covered 8-5 Factoring x^2+bx+c.

Thursday, February 09, 2017
10:00 - 11:00; 60 min. -
Biology:
Vertebrates: Birds -
Aubrey created a page in her notebook for the animal class Aves or Birds, listing the main characteristics, including strategies for keeping warm, reproduction, body covering, and the common names. We watched the BBC production LIFE, episode 5: Birds, which showed the strategies used to survive adapted and adopted by Longmire, bower birds, white pelicans, chin-strap penguins, grebe, tropicbird, the spatula-tail hummingbird and other fascinating birds. After the show we discussed the amazing lengths species will go to find a ‘niche’, and how the life force instructs their determination and will. We talked about the few examples we had seen and which she found most interesting.

We worked on an assignment from Aubrey's history teacher.

Aubrey worked on the assignment from Section 6 on Roman History and answered the questions and wrote the vocabulary.