Next Week

Here is next weeks schedule:

11/1/10 thru 11/5/10

M-1,2, 3

T-4, 1, E

W-2, 3, 4

R-1, 2, 3, and house*

F-4, Model Assembly Research Check #1**, E, and House Games

*panorama photo for yearbook (still in the planning stages)

**Bring 3 articles on your topic area (Crime, Family, Civil, and Agriculture) and a working bibliography for Model Assembly research only

There will be no four core rotation. The research is individual! So groups of 3 should have 9 between them and groups of 4 should have 12 between them.

Scarefaire Update!

Tomorrow is scarefaire so here is a quick reminder.

Supplies/Setup:
- Table (Cynthia volunteered hers)
- EZ Up. (Nick volunteered his.)
- Christmas Lights
- Curtains/Sheets
- Empty fish bowl/Glass Bowl
- Table Cloth
- Anything else you can think of to dress up the table.

Setup:
The people who volunteered to help set up the both are:
- Valerie D.
- Lindsey.
- Daisy
- Chris

The people who volunteered to help clean up are:
- Eric
- JP
- Sam

Our gypsy will be working in 20 minute shifts in order to evenly spread the work. Time slot sign ups will be tomorrow during second block. See me at the beginning of class. Our gypsys are:
- Denyce M.
- Izaak M.
- Kaitlyn G.
- Sierrah G.
- Jeannette M.
- Ayaa A.

We will finish decorating the classroom during second block and would like as much help as possible. If you have not signed up for anything, feel free to help at the faire tomorrow. We still need posters and a lot of other things.

Have a nice night!!

Thursday Schedule

Tomorrow, we will be having a regular Thursday schedule, meaning no 4-core. Because there is no 4-core, in conjuction with Scare Faire, there will not be a Research Check. Because Purther won't be in class tomorrow, here is the schedule for his class:

Sit in Better Budgets Groups

1. 15-20 minutes to finish #38
2. 30 minutes Bill Info
• group activity (Model Assembly)
• read only the summary
3. 20-25 minutes: How A Bill Becomes A Law
• Model Assembly
• #40 in Notebook

Here is the link to the site for the Bill Info Activity: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html

From Ms. Ortega:

1. Tomorrow is animal ear day.  You could bring Mickey ears, or some other type of animal ear headband.  You could also bring some paper (felt or other material) ears that you have cut out.  If someone can bring a bunch of bobby pins, all we'll need to do is clip the ears onto our hair.
2. Please bring Halloween Decoration materials by tomorrow.  Everyone who does will get extra credit.

From Ms. Melogno:

Google Groups has not let me upload files or change content for the past two days; not surprising because it's always been a buggy product.  I started a GoogleSite to post the documents I promised you in class:  https://sites.google.com/site/ipolyphysics/

Click on the "Science Fair Documents" tab

Spirit Week/ Scarefaire

Hey, sorry it's so late, I've had zero Internet concetion this weekend.

Spirit Week:
Mon. Pumpkin/Black and Orange.
-Note: If you choose to wear black or orange. Then you must wear both colors for it to count!!
Tues. Comic Book Day
Wed. Skull Day
Thurs. Animal Ears
Fri. Costume/Class Color

Scarefaire.

Don't forget that our free booth. We need donations in the forms of:
- ez up
- black trash bags
- sheets/curtains
- Christmas lights/electric candles
- table and tablecloth
- empty fish bowl
We also need donations to Jeannette asap so that she can buy the gypsy costume, we need 20 dollars.

Door:
We also need donations for the door competion. We need:
- gray construction paper.
- webbing
- fake spiders
- washable red paint
- rope and skeleton
- any other spooky thing you can think of.
We would like to have the donations by Wednesday. We would also like to have someone participate in the pumpkin carving contest, talk to Sam.

Model Assembly Componet 1: Dicovering your Constituents

Title: Model Assembly Component 1: Discovering your Constituency Feedback
Label: Feedback

a. Something positive
• I was impressed with the interviews students pulled off in the short period of time.

b. Questions to consider
• Did all the information each student present help them answer the DQs?
• Did your PowerPoint violate the rule of 3 on any of the slides?

c. What did work
• Many  of the PowerPoints included only photos taken by the students.
• Interviews were useful in most presentations
• The title slides looked good and in most cases the reporter did the intro effectively
• Some groups cited their source as they presented
• Speaker notes in general were fine in most presentations and everybody made the 5 minute minimum

d. What didn't work
• Concluding a paper or a presentation is significant.  Saying you are done is not a conclusion.  How should you conclude?  There is debate on this question.  When I think of concluding, I think of a conclusion including these two parts.
(1) Summarizing the essential points
(2) Finding something of value for future use
• The source slide did not work out how I had hoped. For future presentations, I will be more consistent with the senior project stuff and have you talk about three sources during the presentations versus showing a slide at the end.  I saw this happen in this presentation when you all discussed your interview.
• Not all groups used the rule of 3 (1/3 rule) and the speaker notes effectively
• Consider where you may stand in a classroom before presenting to make sure all students can hear and see you.
• Technology issues:  Check prior to school starting or the day before to make sure there are no issues.

e. Finding Value
• Remember your city!  Your job is to represent the interests of your city in future parts of the Model Assembly.    If necessary, continue to do research on your city as more questions are raised.
• The components build on each other and in the last component (Simulation), you are expected to use the 7 components before in this experience.  This is similar to how I had you work in groups of 6 or 7 at the end of the Xlandia problem and use all the information we learned from prior lessons in the one activity.

EQ Entry

Hello!  Hope you are having a good weekend.  This blog entry will be due on Wednesday, October 27th by 8 A.M.  Please also make sure to include your EQ in your blog header (so that it is always visible when someone visits your blog).


Label: Research First Semester

Title: EQ

(1) Define possible terms in your EQ (e.g. successful, effective).  

(2) So far based on your research, what are possible answers to your EQ? 

(3) What has been your most important printed source and why?

Quick Update - Physics

The lab reports are due Thursday at 11:59 PM and our test is 11/10. The binder is also due then.