It is going to be a severely weird week at school, due to the pilot PARC testing and various other things, but we will strive to forge ahead. I aim to have the section of the website for the Revolutionary War up by the end of tonight, if everything goes well. In any case, as for today:
In Science, we returned the graded Genetics Research Papers. Overall, scores were decent, but I am willing to give anyone whose grade is on the edge a chance to push themselves up into the next bracket: I will regrade and change the grade for any papers resubmitted by the beginning of class tomorrow. Take it or leave it!
We then moved on to start discussing the weirdness of the Big Bang. The definitions for that handout will be due Wednesday, and the CAR response will be due Thursday.
In social studies, we read through and interpreted the Declaration of Independence, and also went through the associated summative assessment. At the end of this unit in a few weeks time, it will be your job to take two specific events from the Revolutionary period that led to the colonies declaring their independence, and explain how they are a related to two specific complaints written into the actual Declaration of Independence. (You can find a copy of the declaration with a translation into modern English here.) The rubric that was handed out today will be the same rubric used on that future assessment. Keep that in mind.
declaration_discontent_and_revolution_summative_assessment.docx |
declaration_of_independence_plain_large_print.docx |
the_big_bang.docx |