Cycle 4 Has Ended

Grading cycle 4 ended on February 20. Please expect your child’s report card to be sent home on March 4, 2009.

Solar System Travel Brochure Checklist

Solar system travel brochures are due Monday, March 2. Please use the following documents to check that you have met all the requirements.

Solar System Brochure Assignment

Solar System Student Rubric

Please keep in mind that the student rubric has the scoring chart for only one planet. Since the students are required to complete 4 planets, the final teacher rubric will have 4 scoring charts for planets.

Math PreAP February 20, 2009

Notes to parents and students:

RECIPE PROJECT is due next Friday, February 27.  Please go to February 12 Math PreAP to see more specific instructions.  All students have received a copy of the Rubric for this project.

Homework for Monday/Tuesday, Feb. 23-24.  Complete calculations/conversions for Mrs. Hernandez’ recipe AND complete calculations/conversions for your own recipe.  The handout completed in class today will be part of your project. 

REMEMBER:  Your recipe MUST include at least 5 different fractions. 

Keep practicing and stay focused on learning!

Have a great weekend,

World Cultures Homework

Student are to do Reading Essential Workbook pgs 153-174

Due Feb 24th (Green Day)

Due Feb 25th (Blue Day)

Math PreAP February 13, 2009

Note to parents and students:

Fourth (IV) Cycle will end February 20.  Detailed progress report were sent home today for ALL periods.  Please, verify  your grades and if there is any discrepancy see me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  If there is any missing work you have to turn it in BEFORE February 17.  I will not accept missing work after that date.  

Reminder:  the average indicated in the progress report will be changing daily up to Friday, February 20. 

Have a great weekend and “Happy Saint Valentine’s Day”. 

World Cultures Grade Update

Grade Print Outs Given out TODAY!

Every student was given a grade print out today (2/13). This shows what the students current grade this will be on the report card. Also students were given a list of any missing work they need to complete. Religions of the Middle East, German Minorities Questions, Inaugural Facts and Inaugural Weather Questions are all posted in blog posts. ALL missing work is due by Friday Feb 20th at 3:45pm. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

Europe Test

Students were given the grade they got on the Europe test. Scranton’s will go home next week. Answers to the test were given in class with student making corrections to their Scranton.

German Minorities Questions

Students who are missing this assignment can copy the question and check out an article from Mrs. Husi. The questions are: 1. What does the word nonracial mean? 2. Why do Germans feel they are not racists? 3. Why is it unlikely for a minority to become the leader of Germany? 4. What does the German word “Rassenchande” mean in English? 5. How has President Obama given hope to the German minorities? 6. What can be done to help German minorities feel more accepted in Germany?

Inaugural Weather

The website used for Inaugural Weather is: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/Historic_Events/Inauguration/Inauguration.html Here are the questions. 1. The warmest January inauguration happened in ______. The noon temperature for the warmest January inauguration was _____ degrees Fahrenheit. 2. The coldest January inauguration happened in ________. The noon temperature for the coldest January inauguration was ______ degrees Fahrenheit. 3. The same president was inaugurated on both the warmest and coldest January inauguration days. He was _______. 4. The worst weather for an inauguration day occurred for President William Howard Taft in ________. Nearly ________ inches of snow fell on Washington, D.C. 5. A record amount of ___________fell on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inauguration day, in 1937. 6. The temperature was 89 degrees Fahrenheit for President _______’s inauguration. The ceremony took place on __________________. 7. The coldest March inauguration occurred in ________. The noon temperature was_________ degrees Fahrenheit. It was the second inauguration for President __________. 8. The noon temperature for George Washington’s first inauguration, in March of 1793, is believed to have been _____ degrees Fahrenheit. 9. President Benjamin Harrison took the Oath of Office under an _____ in 1889. 10. The temperature for the 1917 and 1921 inaugurations was _______ degrees Fahrenheit.

Inaugural Facts Questions

The website used for Inaugural Facts is: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pinotable.html Here are the questions: 1. Who was the first president to be inaugurated on January 20? 2. Who was the first president to be inaugurated at the Capitol, in Washington, D.C.? 3. Who was the first president to take the Oath of Office in the White House? 4. Who was the first president to ride in a car to and from his inaugural ceremony? 5. Who was the first president to have his inauguration broadcast on television? 6. Who was the first president to have his inauguration broadcast live on the Internet? 7. Who was the first president to wear long pants for his swearing-in ceremony? 8. Which president’s inauguration is believed to have been the first one photographed? 9. Who was the first president to have his inauguration broadcast on radio? 10. Who was the first president to take the Oath of Office outdoors in Washington, D.C.?

MATH PREAP FEBRUARY 12, 2009

NOTE TO PARENTS AND STUDENTS:

RECIPE PROJECT is NOT due on February 13, 2009.

As of now I just expect that the student has a copy of the recipe he/she will be working on.   The instructions (copy given to each student) are as follow:

RECIPE-MATH PROJECT

 

            Mrs. Hernandez 6C/PIN OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL

1. Choose a finger food snack recipe that requires a variety of fractions as part of your measuring ingredients.  (5 or more different fractions).
2. Type your recipe with instructions in 12 font and single-spaced.  Make sure you include the title of your recipe; and your full name on the top margin of your paper.
3. Prepare and decorate the cover with stickers, drawings, markers, pens, pictures, be creative…. (Do NOT print it out from your computer.)
4. Cook your recipe with verbal help/supervision from your parents/adult.  Parents/adults are encouraged to “add-to-the-lesson” bay asking questions. 
5. Clean up is student’s responsibility!
6. Extra 10 points in your project if you bring a sample of your cooked recipe to present to your class.  You can eat it during lunch or after school snack.  IF you eat your sample BEFORE you present your project, you WILL NOT receive extra points.
7. Conversions’ page:   You MUST  include the right measurements for each ingredient if you want to prepare:

 

   a) Half of your recipe       

  b) double amount of your recipe

  c)  one and a half amount of your recipe

 

Enjoy it and …HAPPY SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY

 

Your project MUST include:

 

1. 1^st page:  Cover/Title page:  (decorated, not printed from a computer).  Include your name, last name, class period, Title or your recipe, date)
2. 2^nd page:  original recipe with instructions typed.
3. 3^rd page:  Conversions (table)
4. 4^th page:  Calculations for your conversions (This page doesn’t have to be typed! These are your real calculations.)
5. 5^th page:  One page essay (typed)
6. 6^th page:  This instructions signed by your parents or legal guardian.

Date this project was assigned:  ___________________________________

Date this project is due:                ___________________________________

Student’s signature:  ________________________________ Class period:_______

Parent’s signature:    _____________________ date___________

Independent Reading Responses

As part of their weekly independent reading, students are now being asked to write three Independent Reading Responses each week. Responses are due Friday unless otherwise specified in students’ planners. Students practiced writing these responses several times in class and they have received a handout with instructions and a model to follow (see attachments below). Students are to complete responses on their own paper.

Independent Reading Response

Questions to Help with IRR

Students are still required to keep reading logs and are expected to read a total of 150 minutes each week.

Solar System Links

We will be researching in the library this week for an in-class project. Follow the link below for some to start your research. Check back often as I will be updating the bookmarks as I find more websites.

Mr. E’s Solar System Bookmarks

World Cultures Update

Europe Test

Students will take the Europe Unit Test on Wednesday 11^th (Blue Day) or Thursday 12^th (Green Day). A review session for the Europe Test will be held Monday 9^th from 3:45-4:30pm. Students who attend the review session should be prepared with questions!! The test will cover identifying European countries and capitals, economies, political systems, and culture. The test will be about 70 questions.

 

Vocabulary Words

Students should be studying vocabulary at home. The following is a list of words that I expect students to know. Nationalist, Loyalist, Traditional, Market, Mixed and Command economies, Canton, Catholic, Protestant, Direct Democracy, Representative Democracy, Parliamentary Democracy, Constitutional Monarchy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Legislative, Executive, Judicial branches, Parliament, Prime Minster, President, House of Lords and Commons. Along with vocab words found in the book and in the homework.

 

Religions of the Middle East

Many students are missing this assignment if you are missing it here are the questions. Copy them down and use your textbook pgs 88-93 to answer the questions. Questions must be written out in order to get full credit for this assignment.

1. What do the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common?
2. What items make up the complete Torah, the holy book of the Jews?
3. What are some beliefs of Judaism?
4. What are some beliefs of Christianity?
5. What items make up the Bible, the holy book of the Christians?
6. How was the spread of Christianity achieved?
7. What are the followers of Islam called?
8. What does the Quran, the Muslim holy book describe?
9. Why is Ramadan an important holiday on the Muslim calendar?