Last night Ben completed revisions to his "Flowers for Algernon" essay . Today, we examined his revisions and discussed further edits. For the most part, we addressed combining sentences and adding punctuation to correct run-on sentences and examined how to remove extraneous words and phrases.I further provided some guidance on paragraph reorganization so that his broader topic sentences appeared first or last in a paragraph instead of breaking up the logic of the paragraph . During the remaining minutes of class, I introduced our next novella, John Steinbeck's "The Pearl." I discussed the purpose of a parable as well as the class struggle and deterministic philosophy that underlie much of Steinbeck's Natualist work.
Topic 8 Solve Problems Involving Surface Area and Volume
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Topic 8-2 Find Volume of Cylinders – We applied our understanding of volume to cylinders. We learned that like prisms, cylinders have parallel, congruent bases. Therefore, the volume of a cylinder can be determined by multiplying the area of the base by the height of the cylinder.
Discussion - what Germany thinks of USA/Canada - Begin Projekt - Schnitzel
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Discussed pros and cons of stereotyping in the videos Easy German what do Germans think of US and Canada. Then time to work on project - How to cook a schnitzel - ingredients etc.
Topic 8 Solve Problems Involving Surface Area and Volume
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Topic 8-1 Find Surface Area of Three-Dimensional Figures – We learned that formulas for finding the areas of polygons such as rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles can be used to find the surface areas of cylinders, cones, and spheres.
Ben continued working on Ch. 17's assignment detailing leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. He is conducting research online and using his textbook to find key contributions and philosophies.
Ben read about voltage and analyzed the diagrams of low voltage and high voltage simple circuits. He completed the 3-Dimensional Thinking on page 227 about measuring voltage using a voltmeter.
