I substituted for Bari. I followed her lesson plan to discuss the Super Tuesday primary elections in 15 states and American Samoa. Katya answered all the questions as per the lesson plan as well.

In this activity, Katya solved quadratics that were in vertex form called extracting square roots.

In this session, Katya completed an activity that used two methods of solving a system. The first method was graphing and the main method used was substitution.

Katya was given the Shepherd canvas project and instructed to work on the main character’s final color design.

We discussed tomorrow's Super Tuesday election. Latinos are expected to make up about 30% of the electorate. Sanders won Latinos overwhelmingly in Nevada, and if he runs up the score with them in California, he could be build a formidable pledged-delegate lead. How many delegates do the 2020 democratic presidential candidates have? Sanders is the heavy favorite here, despite losing to Hillary Clinton in 2016. He's spent about $7 million on ads (of the $15.5 million he's spent across Super Tuesday states), according to data as of Feb. 27 from Advertising Analytics provided to NPR. Biden has spent $0 on California TV ads, and just $4,000 on digital. A ray of hope for Biden is also that even though early voting started a month ago, fewer ballots have been returned than in past elections. Bloomberg, in contrast, has spent more than $71 million and is currently polling below the 15% threshold required to get any delegates in all of these contests. The CA Democratic Party estimates that African Americans are about 16% of the party. Do they turn out? Depending on which estimate winds up being correct could determine if Biden makes a dent in the state. This will also be the first significant measure of Asian Americans in this election. They were 8% of the electorate in 2008, and the CA Democratic Party estimates they are 10% now. Here is a breakdown of each Super Tuesday state: Texas Delegates at stake: 228 Virginia Delegates at stake: 99 Massachusetts Delegates at stake: 91 Minnesota Delegates at stake: 75 Tennessee Delegates: 64 Alabama Delegates at stake: 52 Oklahoma Delegates at stake: 37 Arkansas Delegates at stake: 31 Utah Delegates at stake: 29 Maine Delegates at stake: 24 Vermont Delegates at stake: 16

SKYPE LESSON: We discussed the beginning of Chap. 6: Public Opinion and the Media - particularly the chapter's first pp., 172 - 177 that Katya read for today's class.

In this activity, Katya solved quadratic linear systems by the graphing method. Using the calculator and factoring will be the next methods used.

Katya was given her clay sculpture an was instructed to create a pair of legs for her character. She was running into a bit of trouble so I made one of the legs so that she would have a physical reference. I had her place holes in the base of torso and attach the legs. She used additional clay to reinforce the legs and create the skirt of the character.

Per Katya's request ,she used this period as a study hall. I suggested some additional reading in the novel and distributed a grammar exercise in the event she was interested in using the period for English work.

We are starting a new unit on Public Opinion and the Media.