About Brian Riley

2013-2014 is my 19th year teaching in the Dearborn Public Schools. Graduate of Michigan State University. B.S. Civil Engineering. Graduate of California State University. Secondary Teaching Certificate Graduate of Wayne State University. M. A. Sports Administration. Prior to Teaching at the Early College I taught for 13 years at Fordson High School where I coached baseball for 16 years. Born and raised in Rochester, Michigan Graduate of Rochester Adams High School

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Today’s bellwork consisted of PLAN test questions from last year’s test.  Students will be taking the PLAN test in the Spring of 2014.

The remainder of the period we discussed Sec 9-2, Reflections.

Hwk #1 is due tomorrow (graph paper needed).

Hwk #2 will be due on Monday, Sept. 16 (graph paper needed).

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 9-12-13

Bellwork answers 9-12-13

Notes (Sec 2-1) 9-12-13

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Bellwork reviewed vocabulary from Ch 1 and reviewed topics discussed yesterday from Sec 9-1.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Sec 9-2, Reflections.  Students began an exploration from the book to discover the properties of the Line of Reflection.

Hwk #1 is due on Friday (sheet of graph paper is needed)

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes from today’s lesson:

Bellwork 9-11-13

Bellwork Answers 9-11-13

Notes 9-11-13 Chapter 1 vocabulary and begin 9-2 with an exploration.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Today’s bellwork reviewed finding the intersection of lines and planes and naming them with the correct letters and symbols.

The remainder of the period we began discussing Transformations, specifically Translations and the related vocabulary (Sec 9-1).

We then continued introducing vocabulary from Chapter 1.

Hwk #1 is due on Friday.

Click on the links below for today’s bellwork, bellwork answers, and notes from Sec 9-1:

Bellwork 9-10-13

Bellwork answers and Notes Sec 9-1, 9-10-13