Today he completed activities 4 and 5 on page 251 of the book. He completed a table with verbs in the present tense, conjugating them in the past tense and we began to study the future tense.
9-5 Completing the Square – We learned to complete the square by adding the square of half of the coefficient of the x to each side of the equation. Then we solved quadratic trinomials by completing the Square to completing the Square to write a quadratic equation in Vertex form.
Assignment: Complete the assigned problems for homework.
Today we discussed the suspect in a recent leak of classified Pentagon documents posted on social media. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was charged under the Espionage Act for posting classified information to an invite-only Discord chatroom. He was actually arrested at his parents' home over the weekend. We then discussed the definition of espionage. Espionage can be spying, or intelligence gathering, the act of obtaining secret or confidential information that can hurt one's country and put national security and people in danger. A person who commits espionage is called an espionage agent or spy. Any individual or spy ring, in the service of a government, company, criminal organization, or independent operation, can commit espionage. After learning its meaning, Cameron was unsure if this person in custody committed an act of espionage.
In today's class, we continued our discussion on anatomy and physiology, including talking about tissues and histology. We went over cell junctions, including anchoring, communicating, and occluding junctions, in addition to desmosomes.
ReadTheory (2 passages); reading fluency practice: G.B. 9/11 speech (English assignment) Cameron's last english class with a substitute was used for continuation of vocabulary.com practice. So he got an hour and a half of practice last Friday. We skipped that today, and used some class time for English to break it up.
