Archive for December, 2009

Cool Astronomy Pix

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Dr. Phil Plaitt, the Bad Astronomer, has posted his Top Ten list of Astronomy Pix for 2009.  There are some pretty darn awesome ones on it, as always.  Here’s a link:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/12/15/top-ten-astronomy-pictures-of-2009/

Extra credit if you check it out before Jan. 8, and let me know which one(s) was (were) your favorite(s)!

What We Did Today – 12/15/2009 (and catch-up)

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Thursday
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 2. Read and answer EmQs.

Friday
Vocab. quiz. Turn in Bell Work. Go over Act 1, Scene 2.

Monday
Begin watching Macbeth. Answer EmQs as we watched Act 1, Scene 3. We will finish it on Thursday; different class periods got to different parts.

Tuesday
FAIR testing. If you didn’t do it today, or if you didn’t finish, you’ll be doing it tomorrow.

What We Did Today – 12/09/2009 (and catch-up)

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Friday

Vocab. quiz.

Make-up: Take the vocab. quiz.  Turn in Bell Work.

Monday

New vocab. list.  Introduce Macbeth.  Read Act 1, Scene 1.

Make-up: Get the vocab and bell work.  Read Act 1, Scene 1.

Tuesday

Quiz on Shakespeare.  Work on First Draft.

Make-up: Take the quiz.

Wednesday

Work on and turn in First Draft.

Make-up: IF you were absent, and IF you have an excused admit, you may turn in your first draft tomorrow.  Yours will, however, go to the bottom of the stack.  You may or may not get it back before Winter Break.  And if you don’t have an excused admit, I will NOT take it.

What We Did Today – 12/03/2009 (this whole week, actually)

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Monday
New vocabulary. Go over Internal Citations and how to format the thesis paper.

Tuesday & Wednesday
In library.

Thursday

Why Shakespeare? video.  Also, a reminder to READ THE HANDOUTS THAT I GAVE YOU!!!!