December 9, 2015

Hello all, I will jump right into my bit given how exhausted we probably are by now:
BTW a huge shoutout to Sammykins for tackling my scribe duties yesterday as I took my final; and to all who are taking college classes, cheers to your conquests and best of luck on your finals if you have any...

HOMEWORK (second rotation)

• Ortega: do a Goodreads assignment if you wish to recieve an AE for your SSR grades this month (treat it as necessary extra credit); for next rotation, complete exercises one and two (pages 1-18) and three from exercise one on page 29 (pages 19-29) in "They Say, I Say" and make sure you are read up to page 29
• There shall be a quick notebook check next Tuesday for you long term planners

Pages 1-15 (intro)

Pages 19-29 (chapter 1)

• Piggott: none!

• Rivas: get ready to present and defend your bill as accompanied by a detailed powerpoint...your pro and con speeches (one and three minute) are due the day you and the groups you are critiquing present!

• Holt: keep up to date with the material with textbook reading (pages 10-27 so far) as we delve into new material; our video lessons shall be due next week FIRST ROTATION - MAKE THEM SNAPPY!
• Hab due the 16th (2nd rotation)

• Senior Project: none, keep your mentorship logs updated

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (second rotation)

- Ortega: As usual, we started with 20 minutes of SSR. The we were further introduced to the book "They Say, I Say" by reviewing the intro and going over what we responded to the exercises for this snippet of reading with.

- Piggott: We took a quiz on Determinants and Multiplying Matrices (initiate "pat on the back")!

- Rivas: With the hammering of a gavel, we watched two bill group presentations after which we read our pros and cons speeches, after which we debated the potential of each bill on the 'floor'.

- Holt: After watching four videos on topics in physics (misconceptions about falling, kinematics in sports, physics of weightlessness, and the physics of skydiving as gone over by MIT), we completed the '2 of three' worksheet testing our knowledge of acceleration and velocity.  We were then left to our devices, either finishing the tennis ball lab or working on our video lessons.

--> key to the worksheet:

- Senior Project: no research checks due this Friday (thanks goodness)

Some ASB Announcements...
--> Keep checking your emails for updates!
--> muffins shall be sold this tomorrow in accordance with tradition!
--> HOPE club will be hosting a blanket and stuffed animal toy drive for the homeless throughout this year's last two weeks of school - it shall be a house competition with prizes awarded accordingly!
--> HOPE club will be hosting a waffle sale for neglected horses in the Pomona area this TOMORROW ($1.25 for a waffle with fun toppings)

- Lone Wolf