October 7, 2015

Carry on in your survival modes as we near the midpoint of this linear week...

HOMEWORK

• Ortega: do a Goodreads assignment if you wish to recieve an AE for your SSR grades (treat it as necessary extra credit)!
• Do have your college essay in hard copy-form ready to be peer-reviewed

• Piggott: none...test coming up soon though (hence, all the recent practice and review)

• Rivas: none...focus on model assembly in class...'Law' analysis papers due tomorrow by the end of class!

• Holt: Google Andy Weir/Adam Savage Interview (homework from last week (many moons ago)) and read about the subject material we are currently engrossed in in your physics textbooks...decide how big your Hab will be, and to what scale it will exist in the materials you choose to manipulate for your architectural vision; have ready next class (third rotation) cut out foam poster boards that shall act as the walls in your Hab (scaled according to tyre blueprints your drew up), and bring a cardboard base (a non-flexible one) on which you can glue these building components!
• bring in building materials for next week (first rotation) that shall raise your Hab into reality!
• suggested reading: pg. 531-547 (test and quiz questions are taken from the chapter reviews and 'straight out of the book' information, so reading is highly recommended)
• answer review questions #1-10
• physicsclassroom.com - complete current electricity lessons #1-4
• link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SemyzKgaUU
• about 55 minutes long...
• DUE: at your own discretion

• Senior Project: Blog #8 (a write-up on what you are planning to complete for your independent component 1); the blog is due this Thursday (that's tomorrow) by 8 AM 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (second rotation)

- Ortega: After a peaceful 20 minutes of SSR, we lined up in a semicircle around the room by order of birthdate and got together with 'birthday buddies' (to be listed as number 6 on our partner notebook sheets by the way!) to peer review each other's college essay we had hard copies of on hand.  Straying away to quite places like outside benches and indoor computer tables, we read our essays out loud and then the listener was in charge of vocally giving feedback.

- Piggott: We took a test on imaginary numbers and then turned it in to this year's math guru.  Our fate is to be revealed next time we meet (keep your nerves at ease in the meanwhile - no use in assuming an outcome).

- Rivas: Alas, we have arrived to Mock Trial (I say it again because this component must be blown out of the park for it to help grades as it should - it is straightforward and has much weight).  For some background information to the senior year tradition, we watched President Barrack Obama's convincing speech made on the topic of regulated immigration for the future, focusing on hand movements and words he used in order to make the message he was getting across clearer.  We then met with out proposal brainstorming groups and reach in splintered group format other great political speeches spoken in the past, from American greats like Abraham Lincoln ("A House Divided Against Itself") and Patrick Henry ("Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"), from an antique-looking book (the older the text, the kore more intriguing - perhaps even shrouded - the ideas that came across to the reader).

- Holt: Today, we went over the Martian Quiz Holt had us take last week.  Then we took some notes on electrochemical cells - batteries that use chemicals to generate and transfer electricity from one metal plate to the next through a power grid (like that of our Hab models)-, after which he gave us time to start figuring out how to design our tangible Hab models (don't neglect in being creative and concise).

- Senior Project: 3 more research checks - you should up to number 12 by the end of this week - due this Friday...the ones posted in our working bibliographies from last Friday!

Some ASB Announcements...
--> We shall be heading out to a movie theatre this Friday after school to watch "The Martian"...refer to your emails for more details!
--> Donuts shall be sold again this Thursday (and muffins shall be sold next Monday) - each unit for $1 of course! #supportcheappromtickets
--> Discount card fundraising forms (for either selling the product or opting out of the selling venture) due TODAY (give it to your ASB representative ASAP if you haven't done so already)!
--> Keep checking your emails for updates!

Here are some messages from a vigilant Hunzeker as she helps us achieve college as not only a goal, but also as an experience worthwhile for our goals...

- Lone Wolf (taking a mid-day, mid-week nap)