Bella was absent from class today. I took the period to lesson plan.

In today's lesson, we continued our discussion on cell structure and function, including the various organelles and their functions and differences and similarities between animal and plant cells. Despite not feeling well, Bella was well engaged in our lesson.

Review of Algebra I practice test.

Federalism is a system under which the powers and sovereignty are constitutionally divided between the national (federal) government and the constituent units (states). Under federalism, citizens are subject to federal, state, and local laws. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton advocated for a federal government in an essay series called the Federalist. As framers of the 1789 US constitution, they created the model of modern federalism that was later followed by other federal countries. The model's key element is the supremacy clause, which states law is invalid (unenforceable) if it conflicts with the federal law. The U.S. has followed various models of federalism in its history. During the 1960s, it pursued creative federalism. Under cooperative federalism, states and the federal government have common goals, and the federal government supports states with grants.

Conversational Spanish.

Today, Bella and I completed our study of the paired reading, "The Guilty Party." We finished answering the assessment questions and backing up our answers with evidence from the text. We then moved on to complete the three discussion questions where Bella had to respond to a question in paragraph form and support her claim with textual evidence.

Bella was absent from class today. I took the period to lesson plan.

Today, Bella and I continued analyzing our story, "The Guilty Party." We discussed the concept of culpability in both this story and "Othello," and how they both address the issue of the main character's culpability for murder. We answered assessment questions #1-8, in which Bella had to make a claim, then support her claim with evidence from the text.

In today's lesson, we began an introduction into the cell, including the discovery of the cell, cell theory, and various functions of the cell (respiration, biosynthesis, excretion, etc). Bella was well engaged in our lesson.

Today we began with a Quiz on the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. Bella scored We looked at the course of how the Constitution has been amended 27 times from 1791 - present. We looked at notable amendments such as the Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15) Prohibition, Womens’ right to vote (19th), reversal of Prohibition, presidential terms, voting age.