What's Going On? April 29th through May 3rd

Unit 11: Surface Area and Volume

This week, we will dive into our unit on three-dimensional solids.  We will start the week talking about surface area of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.  Towards the end of the week, we will start talking about the volume of solids.  Students should expect to see a few formative assessments throughout the week to check for understanding.




Sophomore Aspire Testing

This week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, sophomores will be completing the Aspire test.  Students with last names at the beginning of the alphabet will test in the morning and students with last names at the end of the alphabet will test in the afternoon.

What's Going On? April 22nd through April 26th

Wrapping Up Unit 10: Area

During class on Monday, students will complete the unit 10 summative on "area".  Students should be working on the summative review that was posted on BlackBoard and be ready to start the summative right away on Monday morning.  I will be available on Monday morning starting at 7:00am for any students that would like to get some last minute questions answered.  If questions come up over the weekend, please log in to "Class Kick".  I will check in periodically over the weekend and offer feedback when requested.

Aspire Testing

The rest of the week will be disrupted by "Aspire" testing.  Freshmen will be broken into two groups.  Students with the last names A-K will test in the morning Tuesday through Thursday.  Students with the last names L-Z will test in the afternoon Tuesday-Wednesday.



Spirit Week

This week, we will have a spirit week with an assembly on Friday.  Here are the dress up days:

What's Going On? April 15th through April 18th

Modified Schedule This Week

This week, students will have school Monday through Thursday with an early release day on Thursday.  Due to this, we will follow a modified schedule for the week with Monday as a "Tuesday-style" schedule, Tuesday as a "Wednesday-style" schedule, Wednesday as a "Thursday-style" schedule and Thursday as a modified "Friday-style" schedule.





Unit 10: Area

This week, we will continue our study of area.  We will start Monday's class with a review and a
formative assessment to gauge our current level of understanding of the basic area, circumference, and arc length properties.  Later in the week, we will focus on finding the area of a circle and how to calculate the area of parts of a circle, including a sector, a segment, and an annulus.

End of the Year Schedule

What's Going On? April 8th through April 12th

Unit 10: Area

This week, we will continue our study of area.  We will specifically focus on finding the area of trapezoids, kites, and regular polygons.  We will also dive into calculating the circumference and areas of circles.  Students should expect to see a few formative assessments this week so we can make sure we have a firm grasp of our concepts.

End of the Year Schedule

What's Going On? April 1st through April 5th

Welcome Back!


I hope everyone had a chance to rest and relax over spring break!  At this point, we have 9 more weeks of school.  Let's see how much we can learn between now and the end of the year!

Wrapping Up Unit 9: Circles

Upon our return from spring break, we will wrap up our ninth unit on circles.  During class on
Monday, we will review our material from unit 9, including chord, tangent, and secant properties.  Students should expect to see a summative assessment during class on either Tuesday or Wednesday.  Once this is complete, we will begin our tenth unit on area.

What's Going On? March 18th through March 22nd

Unit 9: Circles

This week, we will continue our focus on the properties of circles.  We will focus on "inscribed angles" during class on Monday. Then will focus on angles created by secants and tangents.  We will end the week by talking about relationships that exist between circles and the lengths of line segments.  Students should expect to see a formative assessment or two this week to check in to make sure that we're on the right track.

What's Going On? March 11th through March 15th

Unit 9: Circles


This week we will begin our circle unit.  On Monday we will focus on how we can write the equation of a circle.  For the rest of the week, we will focus on the relationships formed when chords, secants, and tangents are drawn in a circle.  This unit comes with a lot of vocabulary related to circles, so to help with the familiarity of these terms, students will participate in an activity where we create physical models of the parts of a circle.