What's Going On? October 26th through October 28th

Modified Schedule for the Week

As you may be aware, this is a shortened week where students will have scheduled classes Monday - Wednesday, with Wednesday as an early-release day.  Due to the shortened week, students will meet with all 8 classes each day.  Monday will be our digital learning day, on Tuesday we will be face-to-face with school starting at 7:55 and on Wednesday we will be face-to-face with school starting at 7:35 and our last class dismissed at 12:10.

Triangle Congruence Relationships

This week, students will learn about how we can determine if two triangles are congruent (exact same size and shape).  This week, we will focus on the five triangle congruence shortcuts: SSS, SAS, ASA, SAA, and HL Congruence.  For the first two lessons of the week, students will use a new resource called "Agile Mind" to study some of our triangle congruence shortcuts.

What's Going On? October 19th through October 23rd

School Schedule for the Week

As you know, this week is the first week that we will come together for four days per week for face-to-face instruction.  Monday will remain as a virtual learning day.  Our virtual learning day for Monday, October 19th can be asynchronous.  This means that students will have some flexibility on when their learning will take place in our Honors Geometry class for the day.  The assignment for the day is posted on Blackboard.  Students can complete the assignment at any point throughout the day.  I will be available for questions and individual help within WebEx teams throughout the morning.  

Here is the schedule that we will follow for the week:

Unit 4: Triangle Congruence

This week, we will move into our fourth unit of the year on triangle congruence.  This week will focus on the properties of triangles.  We will investigate the properties of isosceles triangles, midsegments, the side-angle theorem, and the triangle inequality theorem.  We will end the week with a formative assessment to check in on our level of understanding related to the first few concepts of the unit.

The expectation for Monday's digital learning day is that students complete our vocabulary pre-assessment for the unit, view our video lesson and take notes, and complete our homework assignment for the day.  I will be available in WebEx teams throughout the morning on Monday to answer questions.

What's Going On? October 12th through October 16th

Unit 3: Parallel Lines

This week, we will wrap up our work on our third unit related to parallel lines.  During our asynchronous class on Monday, students will complete a formative check-in on Blackboard in order to check our current level of understanding on how to write equations for parallel and perpendicular lines.

Students who are working in the classroom on Tuesday will work through a lesson about spherical Geometry.  Students who are working virtually on Tuesday will work on our summative review.  The following day, the two groups will change to the opposite activity.

During Thursday's class, we will have a whole-class review activity and on Friday students will complete our Unit 3 summative assessment on Parallel Lines.  All students who do not have an excused absence for the class on Friday are expected to complete our summative assessment during our scheduled class time.

What's Going On? October 5th through October 9, 2020

 Unit 3: Parallel Lines

This week, we will continue our study of parallel lines.  As we did with the last unit, I will continue with synchronous instruction.  That means that students should log in to our class during its regularly scheduled time while we are learning virtually.

At the beginning of the week, we will spend time talking about how we can prove that two lines are parallel based on different known angle relationships.  This will connect back to unit 2 where we talked about the converse of different statements.  We will do a formative "check-in" during class on Wednesday.  All students are required to complete the formative check-in during our scheduled class time.  We will close out the week by writing equations for parallel and perpendicular lines.