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Thursday, June 16th – Friday, June 17th
Thursday finals: 1st, 2nd, 3rd hours
Friday finals: 4th, 5th, 6th hours
HAVE A GREAT, SAFE, AND ENJOYABLE SUMMER!
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Wednesday, June 15th
No school due to extreme heat weather
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Tuesday, June 14th
We continued watching Remember the Titans
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Monday, June 13th
We watched Remember the Titans in class today. We will continue with it tomorrow.
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Friday, June 10th
In class today students working on a writing prompt from a question I gave them having to do with a couple of the topics we covered this semester. If you were absent you can actually discuss it with me on Monday.
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Thursday, June 9th
We finished the Business PPT presentations today.
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Wednesday, June 8th
We began with the Business PPT presentations today. We will continue with them tomorrow.
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Tuesday, June 7th
Students worked in their groups today on the Business projects. ONE person from each group must submit the PPT to Schoology no later then 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. Be sure to have your rubrics with you. Extra copies of the rubric are on Schoology.
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Monday, June 6th
In class today students worked with their groups on the Business projects. Time will be given in class tomorrow to work on it as well.
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Friday, June 3rd
In class today I went over the directions for the PPT project. The directions and rubric are on Schoology. The project is due on Wednesday, June 8th. It must be submitted to me on Schoology by ONLY ONE PERSON in the group by 8:00 a.m. on the 8th. You will be given time in class on Monday and Tuesday next week to work on it.
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Thursday, June 2nd
In class today we moved on to our next unit which is business and skills. I first started by showing a clip from the show, Shark Tank. I then assigned a group project and went over the instructions. I will give class time tomorrow for groups to work on the project. We will begin with presentations sometime next week. The Shark Tank clip is on Schoology, the instructions on PPT, and the rubric for the project are in this week’s folder in Schoology too but will be posted tomorrow. If you were absent today, I will put you in a group when you come back to class.
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Wednesday, June 1st
In class today students partnered up to read each other’s letters from yesterday’s assignment and discuss/debated what was said in their letters. We will continue with the discussions tomorrow.
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Tuesday, May 31st
In class today students worked on an assignment where they had to write a letter to one of the characters in the movie Godsend we finished watching last week. The assignment is under this week’s folder on Schoology. Be sure to have it done for tomorrow.
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Friday, May 27th, Monday, May 30th
NO SCHOOL – MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND BREAK
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Thursday, May 26th
We finished watching Godsend in class today. No homework for the weekend.
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Wednesday, May 25th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, May 24th
We began watching the movie Godsend in class today as part of our unit on genetic testing/cloning.
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Monday, May 23rd
We spent the hour discussing the article and questions from Thursday.
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Friday, May 20th
Students were given the hour to work on their Animal Farm study guides and study for the test on Tuesday.
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Thursday, May 19th
In class today I assigned an article on genetic testing on humans. There were also 5 follow-up questions students had to answer after reading the article. If you were absent, you can get the article and questions on Schoology. Please read and annotate the article and then complete the 5 questions afterwards. Be sure to mark anything you didn’t understand from the article so you can ask me to clarify on Monday. You are to work on it over the weekend, but I will probably give 5-10 minutes at the start of class on Monday for you to finish the questions.
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Wednesday, May 18th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, May 17th
We continued working in groups today from yesterday’s class activity. Groups then started to present their answers. We will continue with it on Thursday.
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Monday, May 16th
In class today I collected the work assigned on Friday. I then showed each of the students’ assignment and we discussed. I then separated the class into 6 different groups and then began to discuss their assigned cloning scenario. We will continue with the groups and cloning scenarios tomorrow. I posted the scenarios on Schoology if you wanted to look at them at home and think more about it before further discussing in class with your group members.
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Friday, May 13th
In class today I assigned an activity that students worked on called Create Your Next Generation. If you were absent, the directions are on Schoology. Have it done for Monday.
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Thursday, May 12th
We finished with our last presentation today for the unit on bullying. I then assigned a writing prompt to the class. In your notebooks, 1 page, single-space you have to answer the question, What is Bullying? You are to write this from your perspective with all the knowledge you acquired doing the project and watching the presentations of others.
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Wednesday, May 11th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, May 10th
We continued with presentations today and will finish them on Thursday.
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Monday, May 9th
We continued with presentations today. We should finish them tomorrow.
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Friday, May 6th
We continued with presentations today. We may finish with them on Monday.
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Thursday, May 5th
We watched the film, How to Eat Fried Worms in class today. It aligned with the unit on bullying we are doing now.
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Wednesday, May 4th
No class. Hospital day.
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Friday, April 29th
We continued with bullying presentations today. We will continue them next week when we come back from the little break.
No school Monday and Tuesday, May 2nd and 3rd
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Thursday, April 28th
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Wednesday, April 27th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, April 26thh
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Monday, April 25th
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Friday, April 22nd
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Thursday, April 21st
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Wednesday, April 20th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, April 19th
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Monday, April 18th
We continued with bullying presentations today.
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Friday, April 15th
No school
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Thursday, April 14th
We began with presentations and lesson of the bullying projects today. We will continue with them on Monday.
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Wednesday, April 13th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, April 12th
Students continued to work on their bullying projects today. The posters are due on Thursday and lesson presentations will start then.
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Monday, April 11th
Students continued to work on their bullying projects today.
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Friday, April 8th
Students continued to work on their bullying projects today.
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Thursday, April 7th
Students worked on their bullying projects in class today. I handed out a sheet explaining it. If you were absent you can find the sheet on Schoology under the week 5 folder. If you were absent be sure to stay in contact with your partner about the work on the project.
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Wednesday, April 6th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, April 5th
We finished watching The Karate Kid today. I started to discuss the project and presentation students will be completing on the topic of bullying. Students chose to work with one partner for this. I will go over the specifics of it on Thursday.
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Monday, April 4th
We continued watching The Karate Kid today and will finish it tomorrow.
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Friday, March 25th
In class today we started to watch The Karate Kid which has to do with our unit on bullying. We will continue with the film when we come back from break. There will be no homework over spring break.
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Thursday, March 24th
In class today I assigned a writing prompt about bullying. Students worked on it for the hour. Please have it completed for tomorrow. The instructions for the prompt are under the week 4 folder on Schoology.
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Wednesday, March 23rd
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, March 22nd
In class today we started our next unit on bullying. I showed students a Stop Bullying website provided by the United States government to review some statistics and a survey. Then we read two articles in class and discussed. If you were absent today, please read both articles and annotate them for Thursday. They are under the week 4 folder on Schoology.
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Monday, March 21st
We finished watching Contagion today.
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Friday, March 18th
No class on this half day.
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Thursday, March 17th
We continued watching Contagion. We will finish it next week. We don’t have class on Friday because it is a half day with 1st-3rd hour classes.
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Wednesday, March 16th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, March 15th
We finished with presentations for the pathogen posters today. We then began watching the movie, Contagion which relates to posters we did. We will continue with the film on Thursday.
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Monday, March 14th
We began with presentations today with the pathogen posters and will continue tomorrow.
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Thursday-Friday, March 10th-11th
Students were given time to prepare for their pathogen poster presentations. We will begin with them on Monday.
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Wednesday, March 9th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, March 8th
Students finished their pathogen projects in class today. We began with presentations and will continue with them next week.
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Monday, March 7th
Students continued to work on their pathogen projects in class today. The projects will be due by the end of class tomorrow.
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Friday, March 4th
Students continued working on their pathogen projects in class today. You will be able to work on it in class on Monday. However, I recommend you work on it this weekend if you think you need more time than Monday’s class as the project is due on Tuesday.
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Thursday, March 3rd
In class today I introduced a new project. We are going to be learning about pathogens. The project will be done on a poster. Everyone was assigned a partner and a pathogen. The information about the assignment is on Schoology. If you were absent, you can send me a Remind to inquire about who your partner is and what pathogen you were assigned. The project is due on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, March 2nd
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, March 1st
We finished with PPT presentations today. We will move on to our next unit on Thursday.
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Monday, February 28th
We continued with PPT presentations today. I am planning to finish them up in class tomorrow on Zoom.
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Friday, February 25th
We continued with PPT presentations today for the mental health projects. We will continue presentations on Monday.
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Thursday, February 24th
We began with PPT presentations today for the mental health projects. We will continue them tomorrow.
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Wednesday, February 23rd
No class. Hospital day.
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Mid-Winter Break, February 18th-22nd
Over the break you are to finish your project and submit it to Schoology by Thursday, February 24th at 8:00 a.m. We will begin with presentations then. Do not forget to bring your rubric with you to class. You will have to give it to me when you present. If you do not have it I will take 5 points off your project.
Enjoy the break
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Thursday, February 17th
Students spent the hour working on their Mental Health projects.
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Wednesday, February 16th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, February 15th
We began with our next unit in class today which is on Mental Health and Illness. I handed out two articles in class which we read together as a class and discussed. I then went over the PowerPoint project I am assigning for this unit. The project is due next Thursday, February 24th. Presentations will begin then. The projects will be done individually. The articles, rubric, and a student sample for this project are under the week 2 folder on Schoology. On the main menu of Schoology is the sign up sheet for topics. You can look over a list of topics on a website called Mental Health Matters. It is under the week 2 folder as well. You are then to sign up for a topic as soon as possible. If you have any questions, let me know.
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Monday, February 14th
We finished watching Patch Adams in class today. I then assigned a follow-up writing prompt which can be found under the week 2 folder on Schoology. It must be completed for tomorrow.
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Friday, February 11th
We continued watching Patch Adams in class today. We will finish the film on Monday.
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Thursday, February 10th
We started watching Patch Adams in class today. We will continue with it tomorrow.
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Wednesday, February 9th
No class. Hospital day.
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Tuesday, February 8th
We finished skits in class today. Starting Thursday will watch the film Patch Adams which relates to the theme of human compassion we have been working on the last couple weeks.
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Monday, February 7th
We continued with skits today and will hopefully finish them up tomorrow.
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Wednesday-Friday, February 2nd-4th
Snow days
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Tuesday, February 1st
Students had one last day to work on their skits. We began with presentations today and will continue with them the rest of this week.
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Monday, January 31st
Students continued working in groups today on their skits. We will start presenting them in class on tomorrow.
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Friday, January 28th
Students continued working in groups today on their skits. I will give class time on Monday to continue working on it. We will start presenting them in class on Tuesday.
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Thursday, January 27th
In class today I introduced a project where students will be working together in groups and role playing a scenario from the list of the assignment from Tuesday. We will start presentations either Tuesday or Thursday next week. Groups will continue working on their skits tomorrow.
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Wednesday, January 26th
In class today I discussed the assignment from Monday. I went on to discuss more about the significance of human compassion. I also had student role play the doctor and patient from the scenario on Monday’s assignment. We will continue with this topic tomorrow.
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Tuesday, January 25th
In class today students did another assignment on the topic of human compassion. If you didn’t finish it in class please have it done for tomorrow. I provided a copy of the assignment on under the week 1 folder on Schoology.
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Monday, January 24th
Welcome to a new class for the 2nd semester!
We spent the class today working on a writing prompt about the topic of human compassion. If you didn’t finish it in class today please have it done for tomorrow. I provided a copy of the assignment under the week 1 folder on Schoology.