What's Going On? January 4 through January 8, 2021

  

Happy New Year!

Welcome back, everyone!  I hope you had some time to rest, relax, and recharge during your time over break and that you are ready to get back into the swing of things!

Coming Soon....Semester Exams

1st Semester Project

This week, students will be working together to begin their first semester projects. At the beginning of the week, students will have the opportunity to choose their preferred topics. I will take into account student preferences and assigned groups based on the feedback. Students will be working in their assigned groups on their assigned topic to help the rest of the class get ready for the final exam. For the project, students will prepare a "one-stop shopping document" that includes all of the definitions, formulas, and concisely summarizes the topic. Students will prepare a short 10-15 minute review game to help us to practice the concept. In the past, students have created a "Castle Attack" game, Kahoot, a board game, and other activities to make our review time engaging. In the times of virtual learning, we will have to get creative to get everyone engaged!  Finally, students will also write 8 practice problems and provide an answer key for the review questions. These practice problems will serve as homework for the rest of the class.

What's Going On? December 21st and December 22nd

Thought for the Week

Schedule for the Week

***NOTE: 

Monday:

• There is no AE on Monday
• all students will be learning virutally on Monday

Tuesday:

• Cohort 1 will attend school face-to-face
• Cohort 2 will attend school virtually

Wrapping Up Unit 6: Polygons & Quadrilaterals

During our virtual day on Monday, students will complete our Unit 6 summative during our scheduled class period.  Students must complete the assessment during our class period unless they have an excused absence from the class.

During our class on Tuesday, we will learn a little bit about probability and test our knowledge by playing "Deal or No Deal".

Have a great winter break!!!!

 

What's Going On? December 14th through December 18th

Thought for the Week

Planning Ahead: December 21st and December 22nd

Due to our two-day week, we will follow a modified schedule on Monday (12/21/2020) and Tuesday (12/22/2020).  All students will meet virtually on Monday.  On this Monday, we will skip our AE/Homeroom class period.  On Tuesday, cohort 1 will meet face-to-face and cohort 2 and virtual students will all meet via WebEx Teams.

Semester Exam Schedule

Unit 6: Polygons & Quadrilaterals

At the beginning of the week, students will spend more time working with quadrilateral proofs on the coordinate plane.  Students should expect a formative assessment during class on Tuesday.  During class on Tuesday and Wednesday, students will spend some time working on a short project: "Quadrilateral Detectives in Training".  For this project, students will draw some quadrilaterals on the coordinate plane and discuss how they know what shape was drawn.  The following day, students will swap with someone and use their "detective skills" to determine which shape was graphed.  We will end the week with some review.

Looking ahead: we will complete our summative assessment on unit 6 the following week.

What's Going On? December 7th through December 11th

 Thought for the Week

Unit 6: Polygons and Quadrilaterals

We will start off this week by checking in with a formative assessment through Blackboard to make sure that we are starting off the unit on the right foot.  Our formative will include solving for angles in a polygon, the properties of parallelograms, and how to prove that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.  Throughout the rest of the week, we will talk about the properties of special parallelograms, kites, and trapezoids.  We will wrap up the week by talking about how we can apply a two-column proof to the coordinate plane.