Today, we watched several short videos in Spanish about different topics and talked about them.

In today's class, Bella worked on an in-class quiz that tested her knowledge on everything she learned about evolution over the past week or so. She was able to use her notes as needed and did very well answering the questions.

Review standard form and vertex form of quadratic equation; review homework problems re same

Today, Bella worked on the IXL reading strategies exercise, "Determine the Main Idea of a Passage." We moved onto work on her written response to the question addressing if Brabantio's interrupting the emergency Senate/Duke meeting concerning war with the Turks in order to charge Othello with bewitching his daughter is appropriate, or a faux pas.

The US has 50 state governments that work with the federal government. One of the reasons for this cooperation is the large public works projects that benefit all states. Like the federal government, state governments are divided into three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial. The state executive branch is headed by the governor. The executive branch implements (executes) state laws. Officials in the legislative branch create state laws, and members of the judicial branch define and interpret those laws. The judicial branch of the state government not only comprises the state's supreme court, but also the entire state court system.

Some of the main powers of state governments are:

setting state election law
creating, executing, and interpreting state law
regulating local government.
Some of the main responsibilities of state governments include:

running state police and corrections
administering the state education system
maintaining state properties and facilities.
State governments must abide by their state's constitution. State constitutions are regularly amended. The powers and responsibilities of the state government apply only within their own borders, not within those of other states, and do not take precedence over federal law.

Today, Bella completed the first half of Warm-Up #7 in "Calisthenics for the Brain." We worked on reading strategies: Main Idea - #1 "Determining the main idea of a passage," and Audience, Purpose and Tone - #1 "Which text is most formal?" She completed writing her Duke of Venice's press release letter. We moved onto discussing and writing a response to the following question about Act 1 Scene 3: "Discuss how appropriate you think it is for Brabantio to take his complaint to the Senate at this moment. If you were the Duke or a Senator, would you consider this to be a public or a personal matter?"

During today's classes, we practiced Spanish by talking about personal relationships, feelings, and emotions.

Review of Algebra 2 Test; review of Topic 2 homework

In today's class, Bella would have worked on an in-class quiz that tested her knowledge on everything she learned about evolution over the past week or so.

In today's class, we finished our discussion on evolution, including talking about vestigial structures, comparative embryology, and the fossil record. Bella also began working on some activities that cover some of the topics we learned over the last week or so, including Darwin's finches.