Monday, March 19, 2018
09:00 - 11:00; 120 min. -
Biology:
Plant Dissection -
Kelly came prepared to conduct a dissection of a flower. We toured the school grounds for a suitable flower to dissect, and settled on a ginger flower. We used dissection tools to isolate the male and female portions of the flower. We used the binocular microscope to examine pollen, and ovum. I instructed Kelly to slice a section of the ovary, to view with the high-powered microscope. We examined prepared slides for comparison, and Kelly drew her observations in the lab report. She then labeled, and classified, images of flowers before answering questions about the anatomy of a plant.

Kelly had assignment pages given to her by her full-time teacher at her school in Ohio.
We continued answering the questions, and reviewing vocabulary and grammar.
Kelly had additional grammar questions which I answered and copied my personal power points (from flash drive) onto her computer.
Those grammar lessons were:
1) the 14 tenses in French - I explained how to form each and when to use each:
present, future, passe compose, imperfect, conditional, subjunctive, past subjunctive, imperfect subjunctive, plus perfect of the subjunctive, future past, past anterior, conditional past, plus perfect, passe simple
2) demonstrative pronouns; indefinite pronouns; personal pronouns; & stress pronouns
3) negatives
4) review of passe compose with direct objects and avoir
5) review of passe compose with etre verbs

Completed section 3 homework and discussed section 4!

Kelly is learning how to determine zeros of a function on the calculator by factoring and by completing the square. We also covered number systems real and imaginary.

Kelly had assignment pages given to her by her full-time teacher at her school in Ohio.
1) Answered questions in paragraph form, regarding parents and their wardrobe as students...
2) Reviewed vocabulary on clothing and pronunciation, then matched terms to clothing...
3) Read 3 short conversations; identified idiomatic expressions and vocabulary; then answered vocabulary questions regarding wardrobe...
4) I looked through the assignment pages Kelly will be doing this evening and explained: vocabulary; idiomatic phrases; grammar - especially direct and indirect objects; placement and agreement of adjectives... We went over the directions on the next 4-5 pages that Kelly will attempt this evening.

Kelly completed on her Quadratic Factoring Chapter test.

Kelly's Geography project is finished, so she wanted to catch up on other things. We reviewed a list of the books that she should read over the summer or in her free time that will help her to increase her vocabulary, improve her writing, and provide her with the cultural references and foundation that will be helpful for college and standardized tests.

Kelly took several online quizzes to practice identifying various propaganda techniques, from "loaded words" to "glittering generalization". This is in preparation for Animal Farm, which she will be reading soon.

Kelly worked on her chapter test on factoring quadratics.

We continued with the Russian Revolution material.