nov 15 novel study

Novel Study: Seedfolks follow-up to Gonzalo and Leona

Gonzalo introduces us to his immigrant uncle, Tio Juan, who feels disconnected by his new surroundings and cannot speak English.  What does Gonzalo compare his uncle's behaviour to? What finally enables Tio Juan to connect to his new neighborhood?

What do you learn about Leona's character in her quest to rid the vacant lot of its waist-high garbage problem?  How is she like her grandmother?

What effect do you think the vacant lot is having on this Cleveland neighborhood?

Hand in these 3 questions above with the 3 questions about Kim, Ana and Wendell assigned yesterday on Nov 19th all together.

nov 15 take home test yourself

Work on U4 Chapter Self-Test in text pg.143 - to be corrected on Mon as a prep for final in-class unit test

 

 

Test yourself workbook corrections below:

 





nov 14 science

begin working on the solvent & solutes handout
remember: solutes are added to solvent which does the dissolving to form a solution i.e. sugar (solute) is dissolved in water (solvent) with stirring and possibly heat

nov 14 math 4.5

4.5 scatterplot corrections below from text & workbook.
Test Yourself workbook for homework - to be corrected tomorrow.

nov 14 seedfolks

Novel Study: Seedfolks

Kim, Ana, Wendell follow-up

 

By deciding to plant lima beans in her neighborhood’s vacant lot full of garbage, what do you think Kim hopes to show her late Vietnamese father?  What’s your opinion of this act?

 

Ana, a Romanian immigrant, one of the original tenants in building, talks about the many different ethnicities that have come and gone and of the many changes that have taken place over the years in the neighborhood.  What’s your opinion of her watchful eye over the community, her suspiciousness of others and of the realization she made?

 

After his son was shot and his wife was involved in a car accident, what does Wendell (former Kentucky farmer turned school caretaker) come to realize and do?  What’s your opinion of the idea that it was a child having a positive effect on an adult in this situation?

nov 14 novel study link

below is the link to read the text of our next novel, Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman

http://weread.com/view/browsebookframe.php?productid=BOK-10033256-3&isbn10=0064472078&refuid=VISITOR_9956F682-5522-41CB-AB8C-32AE1FD6D269&src=bookdetail.

nov 13 4.4 patterning corrections

nov 13 creative writing

continue working with partner on poetry: giving voice to 10 inanimate objects using verse prompt "If voice were _____, then it would be _____"  focusing on action verbes and colorful adjectives as examples provided below:

If voice was a maple tree, then its branches and leaves would be rustling in the wind of a cold October night and scratching the windows of the old haunted house.

If voice was my dad’s muscle car, then it would be breathing deeply and menacingly upon ignition and roaring ferociously when seeing a green light.

If voice was my driveway, then it would be begging me  for moisturizer to fix its grey cracked skin and make-up to conceal its other imperfections.

nov 13 math quiz corrections

U4 Patterning

Using the variables provided, identify the patterning rule relating the term number “n” to the term value “v” for each table below.  Next, use that rule to calculate the value of the 8^th term for each table.  Do not continue the table.

Term Number (n)	Term Value (v)
1	9
2	10
3	11

Rule: n + 8 = v         8 + 8 = 16

Term Number (n)	Term Value (v)
1	9
2	18
3	27

Rule: n x 9 = v          8 x 9 = 72

Term Number (n)	Term Value (v)
1	4
2	6
3	7

Rule: n + 5 – 1 = v              8 + 5 – 1 = 12

Term Number (n)	Term Value (v)
1	4
2	7
3	10

Rule: n x 3 + 1 = v               8 x 3 + 1 = 25

Term Number (n)	Term Value (v)
1	7
2	12
3	17

Rule: n x 5 + 2 = v               8 x 5 + 2 = 42

Term Number (n)	Term Value (v)
1	1
2	4
3	9

Rule: n²                                  8² = 64

nov 12 science & math

Science: Unit 1 Review

The 3 states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases.  Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.

Chemistry can often imitate or copy matter found in nature using artificial  chemicals producing man-made flavors, scents and even colors.

All matter is made up of tiny, microscopic particles.  They have empty spaces between them and are moving randomly all the time.  They move faster  and spread father apart when they are heated.  They are also attracted to each other and stay together instead of flying apart.

A solid has a definite shape and a definite volume.

A liquid has a definite volume and takes the shape of its container.

A gas does not have a definite volume or shape; it expands to fill the shape and volume of its container.

As liquid water is heated, the water particles move farther apart causing the water to change to water vapour or steam.

A pure substance is made up of only 1 type of substance.  3 examples include salt, sugar, baking soda.

A mixture is matter that is made up of 2 or more pure substances.  3 examples include milk, water, fat.

2 examples of hazardous or dangerous pure substances that should never be discarded into regular garbage include mercury, uranium.

A mechanical or heterogenous mixture is one where you can see the different parts of the mixture because the particles weren’t evenly mixed such as garden soils or omelettes.

A solution or homogenous mixture is one that looks like 1 pure substance but is really made up of different particles that were evenly mixed such as shampoo or   stainless steel.

 

 

 

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