Chase was tasked with writing a short scene featuring a character with the physical characteristics of someone she likes but the personality of someone she DOESN'T. She placed the character into the context of one of her book titles from last week.

I had her go through some problems as an assessment of retention of the material we have been working on with triangles. We will finish this up next time, and once it is complete, continue onto matrices next time.

Today, at long last, Chase was introduced to the preterite (simple past) tense with -ar verbs.

Thursday, November 30, 2017
02:00 - 04:00; 120 min. -
AP Environmental Science:
Animal Population Ecology -
Chase completed an extensive comprehensive exam on population ecology of natural systems. Homework: complete module quizzes and chapter test for chapter 7

Chase and I discussed the pros and could-be-betters of the 1" frame story. Then we continued discussing our story title choices/inspirations from yesterday. Chase began writing the first page of a story inspired by one of her book titles from yesterday.

Chase reviewed the future and conditional tenses today and did an excellent job of recalling irregulars and conjugating them correctly.

We read and discussed the 1200-word short story "The School" by Donald Barthelme, with emphasis upon his strategies for development/thematic expression. Next, Chase and I both came up with 10 titles for novels we'd like to write someday and shared our ideas with each other, discussing what inspired our title choices.

Chase completed various vocabulary and grammar exercises relating to present tense and pronouns.

Chase will continue her short story, with the challenge of incorporating an object that I give her into the plot/actions of a character.

We went through her homework from last time solving triangles using SOHCAHTOA, Law of Sines, and Law of Cosines with applications.