Monday, January 31, 2022

 Core Connections:

1. Continue working on your Social Studies Project.  

    Slide #6 is the one due today.  The total project is due on Friday - we'll be working on other work this     week, too. 

2.  Water Poster Contest Information.  This poster is due Friday.  Contest rules, expectations, and explanations are in GC.  

Please use your time wisely.

Science

1. Classwork: Photosynthesis notes, annotations, and practice questions 

2. Finish the EdPuzzle - Photosynthesis (posted in GC), due tonight. 

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th: 

Completed Notes p60 Write Equations from Tables

Practice: writing equations doc in google classroom (started in class; finish for homework)

3rd:

Factoring Crossword Puzzle (started in class; finish for homework)

Friday, January 28, 2022

Core Connections:

1. Please turn in your Superfund Follow-Up Journal entry.

2. Today, we're working on Social Studies Projects.  By the end of today, you should have completed 4 and 5, with Monday's goal to be #6.

Science:
1.  Finish the Flocabulary Nutrition assignments if you did not finish in class.
2.  Take the Biomolecules Quizizz (posted in GC). This will count as a quiz grade; you may take it multiple times to improve your score.  This is due today. Consider it an open-note quiz. 

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Core Connections:

1.  Today we're working on your Social Studies Project - Legacy Part 3.  Make sure that you locate the following:

• Works Cited Page from Part 2.  Check your links and make sure they still work.  Make sure it's properly cited in MLA format.   Make sure your page is alphabetized. 
• Part 2 write up: Read through your research.  Do you understand it better now?
• Part 2 Script: You used this for the peer review process.  Read it through.

2. General reminders for slides:  Too much of a good thing isn't necessarily good.

• Use a larger font size and a consistent type of font.  
• Have a reason for any picture/graphic you use (and cite it). 
• Keep your writing concise (short), use bullets instead of sentences.
• Limit animation - it can be distracting

Social Studies:

1.  Locate research documents for Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 of the Constitution project.  Also locate your Pt. 2 SCRIPT and Work Cited documents Pt. 1 and Pt. 2.  Review your research on the  Amendment and Court Case (classwork).

2.  Review the project description for Slide 1, 2 and 3 in GC.  (classwork)

3.  Review the student example for Slide 1, 2 and  3 in GC. (classwork)

4.  Create Slide 1, 2 and 3 using the document in GC (classwork and homework)

Science

Classwork - Review puzzles (absent students do not need to do this)

Vocab Terms - If absent, please take notes on the 6 terms. Use the slideshow posted in GC today, Slides 4-24.Write on your own paper and use any note-taking format that works for you.

Flocabulary Nutrition - started in class today; do NOT need to finish for HW

ELA

1. Read Chapters 17 - 19 in "The Giver"

2. Begin working on "The Giver" Chapters 14 - 18 Questions and Vocabulary - Due 01/28/22 at 11:59pm

3. Begin studying over "The Giver" for Chapter 7 - 22 Test on Wednesday, 02/02/22

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

1. Notes p59 Write Equation from Graph

2.Complete Practice Sheet (classwork)

3. IXL AA8 (85 smartscore or 20 active minutes) (homework)

3rd:

1. Notes p79 Factor by GCF and Grouping

2. Practice half sheet (classwork)

3. IXL AA7 (85 smartscore or 20 active minutes) (homework)

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

 Social Studies:

1.  Warm up Review for your test (classwork)

2.  Test 1 (classwork)

3.  Review Part 3-Constitution Project in GC.  Thursday and Friday this week will be project workdays. (homework)

Core Connections:

1. Please make sure you watch the Fire Ecology at Ft. Bragg video and answer the questions that go with it. The questions go in order.  

2. Look back through your GC for Missing Assignments. If you finish, please do the Superfund Follow-Up.

Science:

If you did not finish the Macromolecules Task Cards (stations A & B), please use this slideshow to finish all questions, 1-16. 

STUDY your notes on Macromolecules.  You should be familiar with the 4 biomolecules, examples, uses in living things, and the monomers for each biomolecule.

ELA

1. Chapters 9 - 13 Questions - Finish for homework due at 11:59pm

2. Read chapters 13 - 16

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th:

Finish Stained Glass Window Graph

Finish form and IXL from Tuesday

3rd:
IXL AA1 & AA2 (85 smartscore or 15 min each)

Polynomial Project (all parts) due tomorrow

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Science:
Classwork -  Complete your Macromolecules notes on Proteins & Lipids. Today's slideshow is posted in Google Classroom.

Classwork / Homework - Complete the Macromolecules Infographic (back of today's notes).  Use the colors indicated (see today's slideshow for reference).

Homework - Complete pages 12-13 in your Health & Disease LearnEd notebook. Slideshow and slides to use are posted in GC.

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, & 5th:

1. Graphing Form (classwork grade)

2. Graphing Cheesy Riddle "What Happend to the Boy Who Swallowed a Silver Dollar?" (paper copy in class; digital copy if absent) (classwork grade)

3. ALGEBRA IXL S7 (85 smartscore or 20 active mins) (homework grade)

3rd:

1. Polynomial Word Problems (paper copy in class; digital copy if absent) (classwork grade)

2. IXL Z10 (85 smartscore or 20 active minutes) (homework grade)

3. Polynomial Project (all parts) due Thursday January 27th

ELA

1. Read chapter 11 - 13 in "The Giver"

2. Start Chapters 9 - 13 Questions and Vocabulary due Wednesday night

Core Connections:

1.  Finish the High School Registration Activities (spreadsheet, slides, GPA, Grades, Colleges, etc...)

2.  Complete the Google Form: Dream School.

3.  Watch the Fire Ecology Video and Answer the Questions.

4.  If you're finished with everything, go ahead and work on the Superfund Journal prompt.

Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #12 (classwork)

2.  Use the study guide to review for tomorrow's test (classwork)

3.  Play Jeopardy Review which is found in your GC stream. (classwork and homework)

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Core Connections:

Please complete the following. 

1. Please make sure you've finished the H.S. Registration Activities Slides.

2. Ecology Review Videos with questions in a Google Form. 

3. Fire Ecology & Fort Bragg Videos with questions in a Google Doc.

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

1. Google Slides Graphing Practice Day 2

2. IXL AA6 (85 smartscore or 20 active min)

3rd:

1. INB p78 Special Cases

2. IXL Z9 (85 smartscore or 20 active min)

Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #11 (classwork)

2.  Read in the America text Ch, 14 section 4 p.499-503 (classwork)

3.  Answer the 14.4 Close reading questions 5-7 in GC (classwork)

4.  Review the Causes of the Civil War graphic organizer in GC (classwork/homework)

5.  Review the items on the Study Guide for your test next Wed. 1/26 (homework)

Science

Finish the Two-Minute Classroom assignment on Carbohydrates & Lipids. 

If you didn't finish the Amoeba Sisters handout (assigned Tuesday!), you need to finish this as well.

ELA

1. Finish Chapter 7 and 8 questions for "The Giver"

2. Read Chapter 9 and 10

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

 Core Connections:

1. Continue working on High School Registration Activities (Note:  Please finish answering the questions in the slide show.)

2.  Ecology Videos with questions (Note - Due Thursday evening.)

ELA

1. Journal Prompt

2. Read Chapter 7 and 8 of "The Giver"

3. Begin Chapter 7 and 8 Questions and Vocabulary ( We will finish tomorrow in class)

Social Studies

1.  Warm up #10 (classwork)

2.  "Hello. My name is American South." lesson (classwork).  *If you are at home you will need to find 3 photographs online which you believe represent the geography of the Southern region.  Identify a trait which you see and answer the following questions:

What is the relationship between the trait and the history of the South?  Does the trait unite or divide Southerners?  Explain.

3.  Use the Study Guide to prepare for the Antebellum America TEST next Wednesday, January 26th.

STUDY GUIDE

Vocab and Events 

"Trigger Events of the Civil War"  website review

America Book 12.1 notes (Reform Movements)

America Book 12.2 reading (Abolitionist Movement)

America Book 12.3 Comprehension Questions (Women's Rights)

Life of John Brown video and questions

Differences between the North and South video and collage

14.3 ad 14.4 Close Reading worksheets

Science:
- Classwork - Ecosystems Test
- Homework - Finish the Amoeba Sisters Biomolecules handout that we started yesterday. The video is linked in Google Classroom. 

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

1. Took notes in class; pages 56, 57 & 58 in notebook (copies posted in google classroom)

2. Complete Google Slides Graphing Practice (posted in google classroom)

3. IXL AA.4; go to 85 smartscore or work for 20 active minutes

3rd:
1. Textbook page #1-23, #42, #43 (copy of page posted in google classroom)

2. IXL Z.8; go to 85 smartscore or work for 20 active minutes

3. Part 3 of Polynomial Project due Thursday, January 20th (I'll check and return so you can complete parts 4 & 5)

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Science:

Warm Up - Classwork

Biomolecules Intro - Classwork (do not need to finish for HW!)

STUDY! Test tomorrow on Ecosystems..  See GC for vocabulary list and sample quiz questions. 

** Reminder: If you have not turned in your Food Web poster, please finish it and submit it. 

Core Connections:

1. MLQ - Two Quotes, two journals.

2. H.S. Spreadsheet activities.  

If you finish, study for your Ecosystems test in Science

Social Studies

1.  Warm up #9 (classwork)

2.  Flocabulary:  Frederick and Abraham (Video 1:15), Vocab game, 4 Read and Respond Questions, Quiz)

(classwork and homework)

ELA

1. Journal Prompt

2. Finish and turn your "I Have a Dream" Speech Writing Assignment by tonight

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

1. Slope Word Problems Doc posted in google classroom

2. Slope EOG Practice form

3rd:

1. Cheesy Riddle (Stick of gum & Sneeze)

2. Part 3 of Project due Thursday 1/20/22

Friday, January 14, 2022

 Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #8 (classwork)

2.  Read America 14.3 p. 494-497 and answer questions 1 -3 on the CLOSE READING document posted in GC.  You may skip question 4.  (classwork)

3.  Watch the 6 min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npmoZQxvH2c

Create a collage which clarifies the differences between the North and the South during the Antebellum period (classwork)

 Core Connections:

1. Finish your science poster.

2. Two MLK Quotes - two journal entries are due Tuesday.

3. Let's make a plan! High School Registration Support activities.

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th: Took a math test on tables and slope today

If you have been absent, make sure you are completing work in google classroom. Notes and videos are posted to help you.

3rd: Complete notes p76 Multiply Binomials (distributive) and p77 Multiply Binomials (box method)

Science:
Finish your Warm Ups for this week and submit.

Classwork - vocabulary review and LearnEd BellRingers for review

Homework: Finish the Carbon & Nitrogen Cycle Color By Number assignments if you didn't finish in class. 

Enjoy the snow!  Stay safe!

Thursday, January 13, 2022

 Science:

1 - (Classwork) - Warm Up 

2 - (Classwork) - BellRingers in your Ecosytems LearnEd notebook

3 - (Classwork) - Notes on Carbon & Nitrogen Cycle

4 - EdPuzzle: Amoeba Sisters - Carbon & Nitrogen Cycles (posted in GC)

5 - Study Jams review of Carbon & Nitrogen Cycles (posted in GC)

*Food Web poster is due today. If it is not finished for any reason, please keep it and turn it in on Friday!

*Ecosystems Test - Wednesday, January 19. See study material posted in GC. 

Social Studies:

1.  Complete Warm up #7 (classwork)

2.  John Brown Seminar:  How did certain events initiated by "the people" lead the U.S. to Civil War?

*this seminar cannot be replicated at home.  (classwork for those who are present)

3.  Review the website in GC "Trigger Events of the Civil War" and new unit vocab (homework)

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

Study for test (complete review sheet; make sure notes are up to date)

Video explaining review sheet will be posted later today

Test Friday January 14th

3rd: IXL Z6 (85 smartscore or 20 active minutes)

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

 Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #6 (classwork)

2.  Share your thoughts about John Brown with 3 classmates (classwork)

3.  Primary Source reading:  "John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial".  Analyze the document using codes:  IMP/color green= important,  INT/color blue=interesting, CON/color yellow=confusing (classwork)

4.  Review the website "Trigger events of the Civil War" in GC.  Seminar tomorrow. (homework)

Science:

1 - Warm Up (see today's slideshow in GC)

2 - Watch the Carbon Cycle and Nitrogen Cycle videos if you were not in class today. 

3 - Write your journal entry about your travel experience as a nitrogen molecule (on the back of you nitrogen 'passport' from class today).  

* Food Web poster is due tomorrow (unless you spoke with me about extra time!)

* Ecosystems Test - Wednesday, January 19

Core Connections:

1.  Meeting with Mrs. Howell regarding CTE course interest survey.  (This Google Survey form is a grade. )

2. Continue working on your Science Foodweb Poster

ELA

1. Test day!

2. Catch up on any missing assignments

Math:
1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th - 

1. Notes p55 Slope from ordered pairs (pdf and video posted in google classroom) (classwork)

2. Practice sheet (paper in class or digital for those who are absent/remote) (classwork)

3. IXL AA2 (75 smartscore or 20 active minutes) (homework)

4. Test Friday on evaluating functions, completing tables, and slope

3rd - 

1. Polynomial Perimeter in google classroom

2. Complete parts 1 & 2 of Polynomial Project

Tuesday, January 11, 2021

Core Connections

1. Project Work Day - Science Food Web Project

2. Short Google Form

Social Studies

1.  Warm up #5 (classwork)

2.  Who was John Brown? Watch the video in GC. (classwork)

Hero?  Terrorist?  Patriot?  Man who started the Civil War?  Traitor?  Abolitionist?  Martyr?  Rebel?

3.  Write 1 paragraph which answers the question "Who was John Brown?"  Make sure that you start your paragraph with your answer  For example:  John Brown was a hero.  Then, use evidence from the video to support your claim.  You will need 3 sources of evidence for your claim. (classwork)

**If you are working at home please send your paragraph to my email address: mharris@voyageracademy.net for grading

4.  Review the information on the website in GC titled "Trigger Events of the Civil War" (homework)

Science
1 - Warm Up #2 (classwork)
2 - Complete the Good Buddies assignment (posted in GC if you were not in class today).
3 - Finish the Relationship Status assignment in GC if you did not finish in class. 
4 - Write a summary paragraph of interactions among living things.  This is at the bottom of your Interactions Among Living Things notes. 
Reminders:
Food Web poster is due on Thursday,  Jan. 13. Follow all directions carefully. 
Ecosystems Test next week: Wednesday, January 19.

ELA

1. Read and annotate Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech

2. Study for "The Giver" Chapters 1 - 6 that is TOMORROW

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

1. Slope from tables practice (paper copy in class; digital version for those who are absent/remote)

2. IXL BB.6 (80 smartscore or 20 min)

3. Slope google form

3rd:

Finish step 1 of Polynomial Project

Monday, January 10, 2022

Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #4 (classwork)

2.  Add the word sectionalism to your vocabulary list for this unit.  You will also need to add it to your quizlet game (classwork)

3.  Read in the America text Ch. 12 section 3 "A Call for Women's Rights".  Answer Questions 1-9 which have been posted in GC.  (classwork)  The questions are in order as they appear in the text.  You do not need to respond in complete sentences.  

4.  Review your Antebellum America unit vocab and key events leading to the Civil war. (homework) 

Science:

1 - Warm Up (classwork)
2 - Ecological Relationships Notes (classwork) (Use Slideshow posted in GC)
3 - Finish the EdPuzzle for Symbiosis.
You should be working on your Food Web Project in Core Connections!  This will be due this week - stay tuned for due date..

ELA:

1 - Journal Prompt (classwork)

2 - Go over study guide (classwork)

3 - Study for "The Giver" Chapter 1 - 6 Test that is this Wednesday, 1/10/22

Core Connections

Today is a project work day - you're working on your Food Web Project.  

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, & 5th:
1. Complete notes p54 Slope from Table (pdf and video of it are posted in GC)

2. Complete slope from practice half sheet (paper in class; posted in GC for those who are absent/working remotely)

3. FINISH SLOPE NAME ART

3rd:
1. Polynomials and Perimeter worksheet (paper in class; posted in GC for those who are absent/working remotely)

2. IXL Z5 (go to 85 smartscore or 20 active minutes)

Friday, January 7, 2022

 Science: 

Classwork - Submit your Warm Ups for this week (you should have 4 total for this week).  Continue working on your Food Web Poster.  Your draft should be finished.  Use this to draw your organisms and show the energy flow.  You will work on this project during Core Connections class on Monday and Tuesday  next week. 

Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up 3 (classwork)

2.  Review the slideshow on Minden WV if you are in class today.  This is a supplement to the Environmental Justice project which you completed in CC.  (classwork) If you are working at home, use your computer to do a 15 minute search for these topics:  Minden, WV, fracking, and Superfund sites in the U.S.

3.  Share something that you learned today about Environmental Justice with a friend or family member (homework).

Core Connections:

Finish yesterday's posting -

1. Quizlet Vocab.

2.  Amoeba Sisters Video with Google Form

3. Species Slideshow

4. Trading Card

AND if you finish

please work on your Food Web Poster project for Science.

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th - worked on Slope Name Art in class (it's due Tuesday at the beginning of class)

look thru google classroom and complete any missing assignments

3rd - complete 1/2 sheet Adding/Subtracting Polynomials OR IXL Z4 (75 smartscore or 20 active minutes (do both if you want the other to count as extra credit)

  

Thursday, January 6, 2022

 Social Studies:

1.  Warm up #2 (classwork)

2.  Reflection Questions in GC on the Foundations of our Democracy lesson on 1/5 (classwork)

*make sure that you turn in your responses if you are working from home.  This is done my sharing your responses with me (mharris@voyageracademy.net)

3.  Review the Ch. 12 section 1 notes in GC  (classwork)

4.  Read America Ch. 12 section 2 (homework)

Science:

Finish the draft portion of your Food Web project.  This will count as a homework grade, to be checked tomorrow.  Tomorrow in class you will begin your actual poster, using your draft as a guide. 

ELA

1. Work on Chapter 5 and 6 questions. They need to be done by tomorrow night

2. Test on Chapter 1 - 6 of "The Giver" next Wednesday 01/12/22

Core Connections:

1. Review the Ecology Quizlet terms.

2. Watch and answer:  Amoeba Sisters Video on food web/chain/energy pyramid with Google Form Questions.

3. Create the Species Slide Show.

4. Work on your Endangered Species Trading Card

Math:
1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th:

1. Complete Slope from graphs 2 (google slides)

2. Complete Slope from graph 2 google form

3. Optional Extra Credit: 8th grade IXL AA1 go to 80 smartscore or work for 20 active minutes

3rd Period:

1. Completed 1/2 sheet about polynomials and standard form (classwork)

2. IXL Z1 Polynomial vocabulary (100 smartscore or 20 active minutes)

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

 Social Studies:

1.  Complete warm up #1 for Q3 on a new doc (classwork).

2.  Review the doc in GC titled "Foundations of our Democracy" (classwork).

3.  Answer the following questions in a group or individually if at home (classwork).

A. Name 5 laws. Why do you believe that we have each law?

B. How is each law enforced?  Explain.

C.  Are these laws applied equally?  If not, which are and which are not?  Why?

D.  How are the laws known to the people?

E.  Give an example of how an elected official or regular citizen has defended the Constitution.

4.  Read Ch.12 Section 1 in your America textbook (homework).

Science:
- Finish the Food Web Analysis if you did not finish during class. 
- Please complete the Science MTSS assignment posted today if you did not finish this during MTSS. (Pages 16-19 in your Ecosystems LearnEd notebook. See MTSS GC for more details.)

Core Connections:

1. Make sure you've turned in your New Year's Resolutions Google Form.

2. Cornell notes summary - turn in either electronic or hard copy.

3.  Play two of the review video games in Learning Legends.  (Fish & Park Ranger).

ELA

1. Please complete "The Giver" Chapter 4 questions and vocab

2. Complete "Proper Vs. Common Noun" Worksheet

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th-

1. Complete Google Slides Slope from Graphs

2. Complete Google Form Slope from Graphs

3rd-

No Homework

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

 Core Connections:

1. Google Form on Reflections

2. Cornell form for EJ article.

Social Studies:

1.  New Seating (classwork)

2.  Review the new Q3 Syllabus in GC (classwork)

3.  Create a new doc for Q3 warm-ups.  Warm-ups will start tomorrow. (classwork)

4.  Define your new unit vocab (Antebellum America) in GC using quizlet or flash cards (classwork)

5.  Create a timeline using the events listed in GC.  You should have 3 or more sentences describing each event.  You may use any source that you would like for the assignment. (classwork and homework)

Math:

1st, 2nd, 4th & 5th:

1. Warmup graphing half sheet (paper given in class; digital posted for those who are absent)

2. Completed notes INB p51 Special Cases

3. Desmos Activity - Linear Equations Special Cases (classwork)

4. ALGEBRA IXL S21 - go to 85 smartscore or 20 active minutes (homework)

3rd:

1. Warmup was 3 EOC questions (paper given and collected; copy posted in google classroom for reference)

2. CW & HW: Exponents Practice Sheet (paper given in class; digital copy posted for those who are absent)

Science:

Classwork - Complete the Energy Pyramid Notes

Classwork/Homework - Finish the Energy Pyramid Practice (all slides, even the bonus!) :) Let me know if you have questions or need help.