Quarter 1 ended on Friday, 10/30/09

Please be sure that I have all missing assignments, homework, make up tests and books for grading. I have collected Math books, Unit Review Graphs, workbooks, Wordly Wise Text books, and Science Folders.

If you are absent on Monday, 11/2/09, please send missing work in with a parent or classmate so that I can count all of your work on this quarter. Thank you.

Homework 11/2/09-11/6/09

Math: MATH BOOKS, UNIT REVIEW GRAPHS AND FOLDERS WILL BE COLLECTED ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27TH. NO HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEKEND!

Reading/Writing:
YOUR FIRST DRAFT OF YOUR 10-50 PAGE STORY IS DUE ON THURSDAY, 10/29/09.
Work continues on your Humorous Story according to your handout. Your first draft should be done on colored paper. Each night you will make changes that your editor has suggested and bring back a refined copy the next day for the next editor. There is no other homework for Reading/Writing besides this story.

LATIN FLASHCARDS WILL BE USED IN READING/WRITING. We will be putting all of the roots on cards.

Science:

Quiz on Science Tuesday,10/27/09, Sections 1-1- and 1-2.
Quiz on Science 11/4/09, Sections 1-3, 1-4, and 1-5.


History:

DAR Paper due on 11/2/09! Please see handout for particulars. 600-1000 words.
Review Chapters 4 and 6 for quiz on Monday, November 2, 2009.

Wordly Wise: Texts were collected on Tuesday, 10/27/09.


Latin:
Have your Latin folder set up with 6 dividers: Class Notes, Homework, Handouts, Quizzes/Tests, Projects, Research, plus lined paper. You may need to purchase a single hole punch and flashcards for vocabulary. Please punch one hole in the upper left hand corner of the card. Also, please make sure you have sharpened pencils for class. Joseph Marquette will have a blog shortly and you will follow that.

High School Biology:

Data collection sheet for the preventitive flu lab is due on Monday, 11/2/09.
Write up of egg experiment in scientific format is due on Thursday, 11/5/09.
If you have outstanding assignments that are due, you will not be going to Biogen IDEC on Thursday, 11/05/09. Instead you will be in a science study hall catching up on your work.

Tuesday, 10/27/09: Review for Test on Thursday. Please have all materials with you for class. If you are missing portions of any assignments, please complete them by Tuesday. Please make a checklist in preparation for visiting lower school classrooms on Tuesday, November 3, between 9:30-10:30a.m, where you will collect data on surfaces touched and how many times it is touched, symptoms of illness in students, how many times a student touches her/his face, nose, eyes, how many students don’t cover their noses and mouths when they sneeze, and any other observations regarding preventative care. Please leave extra room for additions to this list.
Science folders will be collected on Thursday, October 29th. Make sure that all assignments are filed under the appropriate divider, and that you can account for all work. As I’ve mentioned, your folder will count as a test grade.
Chapter 2 Test on Thursday, 10/29/09. I will pull questions from class notes, handouts, labs, as well as your textbook.
As always, if you have questions about material, or if you need help with anything, you can see me every day at lunch, before or after school, or you may call me in the evening.

FIELD TRIP TO BIOGEN IDEC ON THURSDAY, 11/6/09. please bring a bag lunch with a non-messy snack to eat in the van. Bring a non-glass water bottle as well. We will leave PROMPTLY at 8:30 a.m. and return by 3 pm pick up. All paperwork from this lab must be completed and put into your Science Folder when we return.

Q1 Collection of Books

Students will be asked to turn in their Wordly Wise texts, Science Folders, and Math folders with Unit Review Graphs. Group 5G will also hand in their first draft (minimum 10 pages, single spaced, or 20 pages double spaced) of their Humorous Story for the Boston Globe Writing Contest.

H.S. Bio. Students Collect Data on 11/3/09

High school Biology students spent class on 10/27/09 completing their data collection sheets in preparation for visiting classrooms on Tuesday, 11/3/09. Lab report rubrics were handed out so that students would know how they will be graded, and the lab report format was discussed. Absent students must contact their classmates or their teacher to find out what they missed in class. Any student who does not have a completed data collection sheet will not be able to visit classrooms on Tuesday.

H.S. Biology Students to act as Clark "CDC"

High school biology students have begun a unit on the Pandemic Flu. We have read and talked about how viruses are spread, and we have visited various government websites to track the spread of H1N1 and seasonal flus, and to investigate the best ways to prevent students at Clark from catching or spreading them.

Each High School Biology student has been assigned a classroom in the lower school which they will observe during a Tuesday morning class period in order to collect data regarding: surfaces touched by students and how many times they are touched; how many students exhibit signs of illness (coughing, sneezing, feeling nauseous) and how many times each occurs; how many students touch their eyes, nose, mouths; how many students use Purell after sneezing or coughing; how many students wash their hands before or after eating; how many students cover their mouths and noses when sneezing or coughing; and observations about what areas could be cleaned by students on a daily basis versus those areas which could be cleaned by adults.

After collecting and analyzing data, high school students will make recommendations to teachers, and they will swab and culture various high-traffic areas before preventitive measures have been made and after they have been put in place.

A public health presentation to lower school students during Morning Meeting will be made, and High School Biology students will develop hands-on activities for younger groups and a powerpoint presentation and lesson plan will be developed for older groups. Posters will be put up in bathrooms and in each building to remind students of what they have learned.

The goal is to have High School Biology serve as the repository of preventive health information for the Clark School community, and to help all of us stay as healthy as possible this winter.

Homework for 10/26-10/30/09

Math: Do 30 minutes of Math, five nights per week, completing all corrections before moving on to new material. ALL CALCULATIONS MUST BE DONE IN YOUR MATH FOLDER; put in the generic formula (if there is one) and solve sequentially, substituting one thing at a time. IF YOU DO NOT SHOW ALL CALCULATIONS, YOU WILL COMPLETE THEM IN LUNCH BUNCH. If you have problems with homework, please call me between 7:00pm and 9:00 pm. MATH UNIT REVIEW GRAPHS AND FOLDERS WILL BE COLLECTED ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27TH.
Reading/Writing:
Thursday, 10/29/09, Comedian Bob Gautreau will do a 2 hour improvisational comedy workshop for Groups 5.
YOUR FIRST DRAFT OF YOUR 10-50 PAGE STORY IS DUE ON THURSDAY, 10/29/09.
Work continues on your Humorous Story according to your handout. Your first draft should be done on colored paper. Each night you will make changes that your editor has suggested and bring back a refined copy the next day for the next editor. There is no other homework for Reading/Writing besides this story.

Science:
Extra credit homework was due on Tuesday, 10/20/09.
Quiz on Science Tuesday,10/27/09, Sections 1-1- and 1-2.
Quiz on Science 11/4/09, Sections 1-3, 1-4, and 1-5.

Wednesday, 10/28/09 Field Trip to Biogen IDEC for Lab Experiment. Bring a non-messy bag lunch and snack for the van ride. No glass, please.

History:
Extra credit homework was due on Thurs., 10/22/09.
DAR Paper due on 11/2/09! Please see handout for particulars. 600-1000 words.
Review Chapters 4 and 6 for quiz on Monday, November 2, 2009. Read Chapter 7, for Max’s presentation on Monday, 10/26/09.

Wordly Wise: On Tuesday, 10/27/09, test on Wordly Wise #6. Prepare text for next week's test on Wordly Wise #7.

Latin:
Have your Latin folder set up with 6 dividers: Class Notes, Homework, Handouts, Quizzes/Tests, Projects, Research, plus lined paper. You may need to purchase a single hole punch and flashcards for vocabulary. Please punch one hole in the upper left hand corner of the card. Also, please make sure you have sharpened pencils for class.

High School Biology:
Tuesday, 10/27/09: Review for Test on Thursday. Please have all materials with you for class. If you are missing portions of any assignments, please complete them by Tuesday. Please make a checklist in preparation for visiting lower school classrooms on Tuesday, November 3, between 9:30-10:30a.m, where you will collect data on surfaces touched and how many times it is touched, symptoms of illness in students, how many times a student touches her/his face, nose, eyes, how many students don’t cover their noses and mouths when they sneeze, and any other observations regarding preventative care. Please leave extra room for additions to this list. Science folders will be collected on Thursday, October 29th. Make sure that all assignments are filed under the appropriate divider, and that you can account for all work. As I’ve mentioned, your folder will count as a test grade.
Chapter 2 Test on Thursday, 10/29/09. I will pull questions from class notes, handouts, labs, as well as your textbook.
As always, if you have questions about material, or if you need help with anything, you can see me every day at lunch, before or after school, or you may call me in the evening between 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.

Comedian Bob Gautreau to visit 10/29/09!

As part of our "What is Funny?" writing project, comedian Bob Gautreau will offer a two-hour improvisational comedy workshop to Group 5G and 5B from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 29th. While a student at Emerson College, Bob appeared on national television on HBO's Campus Comedy hosted by Joe Piscopo. His impressions have been seen at the Comedy Connection, An Evening at the Improv, Las Vegas venues and he is a teacher of comedy at the Cambridge Adult Education Center. We look forward to learning more about "What is Funny?" from a person whose livelihood depends on knowing the answer!

What is Funny? Project

You have probably heard about our large writing project for this year - a Humorous Story of 10-50 pages which will be submitted to the Boston Globe Writing Contest on 12/4/09. We will spend class time during Reading and Writing and homework time, producing this work. Your student has a written timeline in their Reading/Writing folders which you can refer to for deadlines.

During the next few weeks, we will be seeing funny television and movie clips of famous comedians - Red Skelton, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Lucille Ball, some of the less offensive of Don Rickles, to name a few. I would also like to show clips from more contemporary comedians like Will Farrell, Jim Carrey, Saturday Night Live skits (e.g.,"Bassomatic"). The campfire scene from Blazing Saddles contains bodily humor and is funny because some people find it offensive. Your students have assured me that they are mature enough to handle it, but if you should feel differently, please let me know.

DAR Paper Due Nov. 2, 2009

All Group 5G students will be submitting a 600-1000 words paper for the DAR topic: "Describe how you felt on May 10, 1869, when the golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad." Each student is asked to pretend they are "either a settler planning to use the train to travel to their new home in the West, an Irish or Chinese worker who helped build the line, or a Native American whose way of life was greatly affected by the railroad." Each paper should have a title page (see handout), a bibliography, and you should hand in two copies which you have printed at home.

As always, please back your work up on your thumb drive so that if Murphy's Law prevails, you are covered!

Homework 10/19-10/23/09

Math: 30 minutes of Math, five nights/week, completing all corrections before moving on to new problems. All calculations must be shown in your workbook in the required format. If you have questions, please call me between 7:00-9:00pm.

Reading/Writing: Work continues on your Humorous Story according to your handout. Your first draft should be done on colored paper. Each night you will make changes that your editor has suggested and bring back a refined copy the next day for the next editor. There is no other homework for Reading/Writing besides this story.

Science: Extra credit homework is due on Tuesday, 10/20/09.
Quiz on Science 10/27/09, Sections 1-1- and 1-2.
Quiz on Science 11/4/09, Sections 1-3, 1-4, and 1-5.


History: Medieval Manor FEAST on Wed., 10/21/09. Please bring your medieval game/toy to share at the Medieval Manor. Quiz on Monday, 10/19/09 on Chapters 3 and 5.
DAR Paper due on 11/2/09! Please see handout for particulars. 600-1000 words.

Wordly Wise: On Tuesday, 10/20/09, test on Wordly Wise #5. Prepare text for next week's test on Wordly Wise #6.
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High School Biology: For Tuesday, 10/20/09, read and outline Chapter 2-3. Answer questions 11-13 of Check Your Understanding on Page 41. For Thursday, 10/22/09, do Testing Yourself on pg. 44-45, questions 1-26. Review on Tuesday, 10/27/09. Test on Chapter 2: Thursday, 10/29/09.

Homework 10/13-10/16/09

Math:30/min. of Math five nights/week, completing corrections before moving on to new material. Please call me if you have a problem between 7 pm-9 pm.
Reading:: We will use Reading and Writing blocks to work on papers.

Writing: Follow timeline for your Humorous Story. All Hulbert assignments for people who did not go are due on Tuesday, 10/13/09.
Science 5G:
Quiz on Science 10/27/09, Sections 1-1- and 1-2.

Quiz on Science 11/4/09, Sections 1-3, 1-4, and 1-5.

History: See blog for extra credit assignment. Quiz on Chapters 3 & 5 on Monday, 10/19/09.We will go over Chapter 4 in class in preparation for the Medieval Manor.
Each of you will prepare a game or toy to share at the Medieval Manor.

Wordly Wise: Test on Chapter 4. Prepare the text for Chapter 5 for next week.

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High School Biology:
For Thursday, 10/15/09, check cdc.gov blog for updates on H1N1 virus. Prepare ideas for public service announcements, posters, newsletter articles, on ways to prevent the spread of viruses.

Extra Credit Assignments for Quarter 1

Extra credit for Science to be handed in on 10/20/09 (no late papers accepted; email me if you are sick) Page 43: questions 1-5 all parts.

Extra credit for History to be handed in on 10/22/09 (no late papers accepted; email me if you are sick) History packet on feudalism and heraldry with written responses. See me for the packet.

Assignment for those who don't go to Hulbert

Teambuilding Skills We Can Learn from Geese
Author Unknown

Fact #1 – As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds 71 percent greater flying range than if one bird flew alone.
Lesson Learned – People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the strength of one another.
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Fact #2 – Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front.
Lesson Learned – If we have as much sense as geese, we will stay in formation with those who are ahead of where we want to go and be willing to accept their help as well as give ours to others.
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Fact #3 – When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies at the point position.
Lesson Learned – It pays to take turns doing the hard tasks and sharing leadership.
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Fact #4 – The geese in formation honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed.
Lesson Learned – We need to make sure our honking from behind is encouraging, and not something else.
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Fact #5 – When a goose gets sick or wounded or shot down, two geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and protect it. They stay with it until it is able to fly again, or dies. Then they launch out on their own, with another formation, or they catch up with their flock.
Lesson Learned – If we have as much sense as geese do, we too, will stand by each other in difficult times as well as when we are strong.


The purpose of going to Hulbert Outdoor Recreation Center is to promote teambuilding for students within a group and within the school community. Students must leave reliance on technology (cell phones, ipods, videogames, television, computers, etc.)and instead work on communicating with each other. The experience provides opportunities to test each individual’s personal limits, to learn what coping skills work and don’t work for success as an individual, and to learn the most effective strategies for working with other students and as part of a group. Students must communicate, cooperate and build trust with one another – qualities that they will bring back to school and that they will hopefully expand.

Your assignment is to write a five page paper (Arial 12,block style (no indentations for paragraphs, just skip a space between paragraphs), single spaced font, 1” margins on top, bottom and sides) on the following topic:

Using the five facts of Teambuilding Skills We Can Learn from Geese, write your own interpretation of each fact, giving examples from your own (or someone you know) experience. Then talk about what you personally can do to help our class be the most cohesive and most supportive group.