VOCAB list can be found on QUIZLET (click): NEW VOCAB LIST  Check out the Vocab Tab for a complete list of Vocab words.

  Plans for the week of December  2nd

12/02  - NO SCHOOL TODAY.  THANKSGIVING VACATION.

12/03  - Daily Quiz on Vocab # 14 - 19 first IF not taken before break. Students will then receive a handout: "What Happens During Photosynthesis?" to read and to complete the questions.  What isn't completed in class is homework.  

12/04  - We will be watching the DVD:PHOTOSYNTHESIS today.  Students will complete a 3 - 2 -1 sheet will be due at the end of the period.  This is a graded assignment. 

12/05  - We will read handout: "What Happens During Photosynthesis?" aloud in class and appropriate highlighting will be done. Vocab words # 20 - 24 should be defined by using the handout.  HMWK: Complete the questions in the handout and study vocab for Daily Quiz tomorrow. 

12/06  - Daily Quiz on Vocab # 20- 24 will be first. Then we will go over the answers to the questions on the worksheet. Students will be reading about Photosynthesis and will outline pages 103-105 in their text. This is Outline #2. Vocab words # 25 - 30 should be defined. HMWK: Study vocab for Daily Quiz Monday.

  Plans for the week of December  9th

12/09  - Daily Quiz will be taken on Vocab # 25 - 30. Then students will use the diagram found on page 104 along with their Outline #2 to complete the Take Home Quiz on which they will label and color a chloroplast and answer questions about photosynthesis.  This Take Home Quiz will be due on Wednesday.

12/10  - Students will continue working on their Take Home Quiz and outlines. HMWK: Complete the outline if not done so. There will be a formal Quiz on Photosynthesis on Friday.

12/11  - THE TAKE HOME QUIZ as well as Outline #2 are due today at the end of the period. Students will be given Study Guide 4.2 which is a review of photosynthesis.  HMWK:  Complete the Study Guide if not finished during class today.

12/12  - We will review Study Guide 4.2 in class today. In addition, there will be a short video on Photosynthesis to use as a review. Students are encouraged to take notes for tomorrow's quiz.

12/13  - Quiz on Photosynthesis today. Then students will copy Vocab words #31 - 35 onto their Vocab Foldies and define them. In addition students will be working on a worksheet and learning more about the Nature of Photosynthesis.

  Plans for the week of DECEMBER 16 th

12/16 - First we will have our Daily Quiz on Vocab words # 31-35.  Then students will begin reading about Chemical Energy and ATP on pages 100 - 102 in their text and will outline these pages.  This is Outline #3 and will be due tomorrow.

12/17  -

 

12/18  - Outline #3 will be collected. Students will then complete a Science World assignment using the latest edition of the magazine.

12/19  - Today we will watch a DVD: The Human Machine.

12/20  - EARLY DISMISSAL TODAY - Not all classes will meet.

 

In 2019 the winter arrives on Friday, December 21 at 11:19 pm EST. The word solstice comes from the Latin words for "sun" and "to stand still.” In the Northern Hemisphere, as summer advances to winter, the points on the horizon where the Sun rises and sets advance southward each day; the high point in the Sun’s daily path across the sky, which occurs at local noon, also moves southward each day. At the winter solstice, the Sun’s path has reached its southernmost position. The next day, the path will advance northward. However, a few days before and after the winter solstice, the change is so slight that the Sun’s path seems to stay the same, or stand still. The Sun is directly overhead at "high-noon" on Winter Solstice at the latitude called the Tropic of Capricorn.  In the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice days are the days with the fewest hours of sunlight during the whole year.  Because Earth doesn’t orbit upright, but is instead tilted on its axis by 23-and-a-half degrees, Earth’s Northern and Southern Hemispheres trade places in receiving the sun’s light and warmth most directly. The tilt of the Earth – not our distance from the sun – is what causes winter and summer. At the December solstice, the Northern Hemisphere is leaning most away from the sun for the year.

      HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY !! 

  WINTER VACATION 12.21.19 TO 1.6.20