Atticus took his Stanford practice test today. He discussed and wrote down all his new vocabulary words for Ancient Greece into his interactive notebook.
During most of today's session, Atticus completed the English section of the Practice Stanford Achievement Test. We then reviewed Atticus' study guide homework and discussed tomorrow's assignment and test on the novel.
We addressed Bruno's cowardly renunciation of his friendship with Schmuel and what options Bruno had other than disavowing his friend. From this point, we discussed what this scene might represent about the responsibility of people toward each other in a society . On the board, I outlined various ideas we have discussed in class about the meaning of this novel which is told as a fable. Based on today's reading, we identified how Bruno further represents those in a society who mutely stand by because they are afraid to try to stop a moral wrong . Atticus then completed in class this past week's assigned study guide homework .
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Lesson Comments
Atticus had a lot of organizational problems this week. He did not bring his book to class and claimed he did his homework but left it home. When he handed in Wednesday's homework today it was NOT the study guide work assigned but answers to questions clearly marked from 10 chapters back that he had done weeks ago.
Atticus completed his homework from the night before in class. We then discussed the significance of the city-states and the Minoans to Ancient Greece. In today's lesson he read about the religion, the origins of the Olympic games, and the Persian Wars. He studied a map of Greece and determined that the city-states were created due to the mountainous landscape of Greece.
Atticus used comparison symbols to indicate which substance contained more energy (<,>,=). We discussed and read about thermal energy being the total energy of a system. We discussed the 4 factors that determine thermal energy: kinetic energy, potential energy, mass and substance type. He read and we discussed fractional distillation.
This morning, Atticus was able to quickly relate our recent lesson on ratio reasoning and converting customary units to converting metric units. He used equivalent rates or dimensional analysis to convert metric units of length, capacity, and mass related to real-world scenarios. Then, Atticus took the lesson's quick quiz, scoring 100%. He finished with an IXL review lesson on graphing rational numbers on a number line and was assigned the unit's skills review questions on unit rate word problems and converting customary units.
