Geometry Gems

Monday, November 4: We spent today practicing and building our skills with proofs, starting off with supports and scaffolds before moving into writing an entire proof all on our own. We also received our first SAT Practice packet which will be due at the start of class on Friday, November 22.

Tuesday, November 5: No school today, enjoy the day off!

Wednesday, November 6: Today and tomorrow are all about practicing for Friday’s assessments! We got a third AgileMind practice and two review worksheets, all of which need to be checked in by Moylan by the end of class tomorrow!

Thursday, November 7: A couple of our classmates got the privilege of working in a small group led by Ms. Rosbury while the rest of us continued working on our three assignments from yesterday. Remember, have Moylan check them all in by the end of the hour!

Friday, November 8: After a quick Q and A about the reviews after bell work, we took our Unit 6 Assessment on Proving/Justifying Geometric Statements and Applying Transformations!

Monday, October 21: Preparing for Friday’s assessments, we spent the hour working with our table to develop a flow-chart proof for the Common Angle Theorem. We then discussed our ideas, what worked and what didn’t, with the whole class before trying our hand at writing another proof on our own.

Tuesday, October 22: Everything is focused on getting ready for Friday’s assessments, so we spent the hour working on the chromebooks to practice and review. We did a Bell Work assignment and then spent the rest of the hour working on Practice 2.

Wednesday, October 23: Most of the hour today was devoted to reviewing our unit 3 assessments so that we could make sure that we understood everything and prepared as best we could for Friday’s assessments. Afterward, we spent the rest of the hour working on our two reviews for the assessments.

Thursday, October 24: Most of the students spent the hour working on their two reviews, checking their work against the answer keys at the front of the room. Both reviews were due to be checked in by Moylan by the end of the hour. Make sure that you’re going to tutoring/studying your notecards tonight!

Friday, October 25: Assessments today! Make sure that you’ve studied and prepared! Last day to turn in any Unit 4 assignments!

Monday, October 14: We started Unit 4 today by looking into deductive reasoning and how it is used to support our claims and arguments as well as a few properties of equality.

Tuesday, October 15: We developed a couple of postulates which will help us to build our arguments for the rest of the unit and beyond.

Wednesday, October 16: Both Pniewski and Moylan were out of the classroom today, so students practiced their skills with the Angle and Segment Addition postulates from yesterday while also reviewing transformations and practicing their deductive reasoning.

Thursday, October 17: Picking up where we left off on Tuesday, we took our postulates and used them to prove certain things, creating our first set of theorems which will help us throughout the rest of our proofs in the future.

Friday, October 18: We needed to finish off a couple more problems from yesterday, but then students took some time to fill out an AgileMind Student Survey and then our AgileMind practice assignment which is due on Monday.

Monday, October 7: We launched into our discussion of nonrigid transformations today, focusing on how to apply dilations as well as stretches (both vertical and horizontal). We wrote a few new ordered pair rules, and were encouraged to add them to our notecards from Friday.

Tuesday, October 8: We practiced a level 4 Mastery question for our bell work today, explaining how in depth and involved an answer we are looking for in those types of questions. Most classes needed a bit of time to finish up our discussions from yesterday as well, but then we got our hands on the reviews for this week’s assessments.

Wednesday, October 9: The entire day was devoted to preparing for tomorrow’s assessments, finishing up any assignments from AgileMind and checking our work for the reviews.

Thursday, October 10: Assessments today! We are checking our standards of Applying Transformations and Vocabulary/Naming/Notation! If you didn’t get your reviews checked in yesterday, make sure to turn them in at the beginning of the hour!

Friday, October 11: Half Day, only attending 4th-6th hours! Plan accordingly!

Monday, September 30: Continuing our exploration of Unit 3, we spent most of the hour today practicing some reflections and then looking at the changes to find patterns. We used those patterns to write rules for three types of reflections as well as a rule for rotating 180 degrees.

Tuesday, October 1: Building off of yesterday, we practiced more reflections and then used those ideas to develop rules for describing our translations. One way to describe these was using vector notation (making a connection with our physics classes!).

Wednesday, October 2: We took time today to practice the skills from yesterday by writing rules for the translations of various real-world examples Moylan posted around the room. After turning those in, we worked on a new AgileMind assignment which is due tomorrow.

Thursday, October 3:

Friday, October 4: Pep Assembly today, so each class is just a bit shorter than usual. Make sure to plan accordingly!

Monday, September 23: We started off the week by recapping last week’s guest speaker and checking our work from last week’s reference packet. Then we started looking ahead in Geometry, laying the foundation to use our rigid transformations to support our claims or applying the patterns we’ve worked to find. We did SAS 4, pages 1-2.

Tuesday, September 24: After bell work, Moylan gave a brief rundown of what to expect for the rest of the week, and then we jumped into the last bit of Agile Mind for the unit: Symmetry. We talked about two kinds of symmetry and worked with a few examples before getting a review sheet for our Unit 1 Reassessment.

Wednesday, September 25: Late Start today, plan accordingly! Today was all about reviewing and practicing for tomorrow’s Unit 2 Assessments. We had some Agile Mind assignments to help review (make sure that both are done for tomorrow!), we’ve also got a Vocabulary Quizlet and an Application Quizizz for additional support.

Thursday, September 26: Unit 2 Assessment today on both standards! Also the last day to turn in any Unit 2 assignments for late credit!

Friday, September 27: We’ve got our Unit 1 Reassessment today, make sure that your Review from Tuesday is done and ready to be turned in! If you’ve got any questions, make time for after-school tutoring in the Media Center or ask Moylan before school starts because we don’t have time during class! Afterward, we’re also starting into our third unit of Agile Mind today!

Monday, September 16: Today was the start of our second unit, Rigid Transformations, so we recapped the 4 types of transformations and focused on Reflections, Translations, and Rotations. We also looked into how we could possibly use these to help solve real-world problems. We did SAS 1 and the first page os SAS 2, covering the Overview and beginning of our first Exploring.

Anyone who missed Friday’s quiz needs to make it up either before or after school tomorrow in Moylan’s room. Plan for 15-20 minutes to take the quiz.

Tuesday, September 17: Today was a chance to finish our first exploring of the topic, finding out how reflections and translations can be related to one another. Students who missed last week’s quiz came by to make it up.

Wednesday, September 18: We powered on through the second exploring section of our Rigid Transformations topic, folding more patty paper to see how we can use reflections to create rotations of a figure.

Thursday, September 19: We spent a good deal of the hour today talking about last week’s assessment, going over each question and the possible struggles/confusions related to them. We then also got a small packet to fill out so that we could review our rigid transformations.

Friday, September 20: 1/2 day, only going to hours 1-3 today, plan accordingly! Students in first and second hour went right to the auditorium to listen to our guest speaker’s presentation!

Monday, September 9: Today was a long day, rushing through a discussion of Angle Bisectors, Incenters, and Inscribed Circles.

Tuesday, September 10: Today was a bit better than yesterday, quickly reviewing some of the topics from yesterday and adding on Perpendicular Bisectors to create a Circumcenter, then comparing and contrasting those with the Incenters from yesterday.

Wednesday, September 11: We are spending today getting ready for Friday’s quiz. We worked on Constructed Response 2 (from Agile Mind) and also on a Quiz Review. We will go over the review before the quiz on Friday.

Thursday, September 12: Moylan was out of the building at a meeting all day today, so students worked through a breakdown of their PSAT/SAT data to set some goals for the current school year.

Friday, September 13: Unit 1 Quiz today! We’re assessing your mastery of the vocabulary, naming, and notation we’ve practiced so far.

Monday, September 2: No school; happy Labor Day!

Tuesday, September 3: We explored patterns and inductive reasoning today in the Chapter 1 Overview.

Wednesday, September 4: We began a deep dive into the key vocabulary of geometry in the Exploring “The Language of Geometry”, getting through page 1.

Thursday, September 5: Today continued our exploration of “The Language of Geometry”, pushing through the rest of the the pages in this section. There’s also a Practice Assignment on Agile Mind, so make sure that you log in and complete it. Open House Tonight, 6 – 7:30!

Friday, September 6: We took a breath today and slowed down a bit, working with our table groups to review some of the vocabulary terms we’ve learned and their examples on a . After the vocab, we worked on another assignment on Agile Mind. While we were doing that, Moylan worked with small groups of students to discuss specific problems from last night’s homework.