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Updated June 2, 2015 at 2:14 p.m.

Science Olympiad

Semester 2, Week 19: June 1-4 (Finals Week)

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Calculus Preview - Exam Review #1 - Review is Here - Answers are Here - Class Notes
Tuesday - Exam Review #2 - Review is Here - Answers are Here - Class Notes
Wednesday  - Exam Review #3 - Review is Here - Answers are Here
Thursday - Final Day for Questions and Answers - Semester 2 Exam Formula Sheet - Trig Identities
Friday - EXAMS BEGIN - HAPPY SUMMER!
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Wrapping all Statistical Inference Up - HW Quiz 19 - Differences of Means - Finish the review - Notes
Tuesday - Chapter 18-20 - Statistical Inference Test
Wednesday  - Finish up the test - Exam Review Part 1
Thursday - Exam Review Part 2
Friday - EXAMS BEGIN - HAPPY SUMMER
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Narrative Writing Due - Wrapping up "The Tao of Pooh" - last reading and questions
Tuesday - Book Talks Round 1 - Tao of Pooh Test - Tao of Pooh Discussion Questions Due
Wednesday  - Book Talks Round 2 - Finish test, begin review
Thursday - Book Talks Round 3 - Finish review
Friday - EXAMS BEGIN - HAPPY SUMMER!

Semester 2, Week 18: May 25-29

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Memorial Day
Tuesday - Finishing Solving Systems Unit - More Linear Programming problems - Begin Review - Notes - Review
Wednesday  - HW Quiz 18 - Linear Programming - Solving Systems Review Day - Notes - REVIEW ANSWERS
Thursday - Solving Systems Test - Notes
Friday - Finishing tests, Previewing Calculus - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Memorial Day
Tuesday - Comparing Proportion problems to Mean problems - Notes
Wednesday  - HW Quiz 18 - Differences of Proportions - Differences of means - Notes
Thursday - Finishing several examples of Comparing Means - Notes
Friday -  Begin Chapter 18-20 Review - Wrapping everything up.
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Memorial Day
Tuesday - SSR - Peer editing Narrative Writing
Wednesday  - Last work day for Final Draft of Narrative Writing
Thursday - SSR - Read and Discuss Chapter 7 of "The Tao of Pooh"
Friday - Read and Discuss the conclusion of "The Tao of Pooh." - Reading Logs MP6 Due

SEMESTER 2, Week 17: May 18 - 22

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Traffic Story Problem - Nonlinear Systems - Pg. 824, #1-6, 23, 24, Pg. 825, #29-34 - Notes
Tuesday - HW Quiz 16 - Inconsistent and Dependent Matrices - NonLinear Systems - Notes_
Wednesday  - More NonLinear Systems, NonLinear Systems of Inequalities - Notes
Thursday - Begin Linear Programming - Traffic Problem - Notes
Friday - Continue to Practice Linear Programming - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Brochure Project - Notes
Tuesday - Brochures Due - Mean and Standard Error of Differences - Pg. 486, #5-7, 21 - Notes
Wednesday  - Practicing Means and Standard Errors of Differences - Pg. 487, #23, 24 - Notes
Thursday - HW Quiz 16 - Paired Data - Beginning Proportion Differences - Notes
Friday - Continuing to discuss proportion differences and standard error - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Read Chapter 4 of "The Tao of Pooh," - Cottleston Pie Discussion - A PDF of the Novel can be found here.
Tuesday - SSR - Work on Personal Narrative Writings
Wednesday  - Discuss Chapter 4 Questions from "The Tao of Pooh," Read and answer questions from Chapter 5 
Thursday - SSR - Work on Personal Narratives
Friday - Finish Draft of Personal Narrative - Due Monday

Semester 2, Week 16: May 11-15

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Sub Day - Chapter 6 Test
Tuesday - Begin Solving Systems - Strategies with 3-variable systems - Pg. 742,  #43-46, 67, 68  Pg. 754, #31 - Notes
Wednesday  - Writing Systems for Story Problems - Notes
Thursday - Inconsistent, Dependent, and Non-Square Matrices - Notes
Friday - HW Quiz 15 - Solving Systems - More Examples of Inconsistent and Dependent Matrices - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Sub Day - Practice Packet
Tuesday - Discuss practice packet questions - More examples of Paired Data - Pg. 455, #53, 54 - Notes
Wednesday  -  HW Quiz 15 - One-Value t-tests - Even More Paired Data - Notes -  Pg. 455, #55
Thursday - Still more process with Paired Data - Notes - Pg. 453, #41, 56
Friday - HW Quiz 16 - Paired Data - Begin Brochure Project - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Sub Day - History of Asia Video
Tuesday - SSR - Discuss Personal Narratives and Final Writing Assignment 
Wednesday  - NWEA Testing
Thursday -  SSR - Personal Timeline and Choosing a Topic for Narrative
Friday -  Begin Reading "The Tao of Pooh," discussion questions

Semester 2, Week 15: May 4-8

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Vector Physics and Dot Product between Angles - Notes
Tuesday - Dot Product and Work - Notes
Wednesday  - HW Quiz 14 - Dot Product and Work - Begin the Chapter 6 Review - Notes
Thursday -  NWEA Testing
Friday - Finishing the Review, Begin Chapter 6 Test - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Students' t-values and 95% confidence intervals - Notes
Tuesday - More practice with adjusted confidence intervals - Notes
Wednesday  -  HW Quiz 14 - Students' t-values - T-tests and Testing Hypotheses  - Notes
Thursday - Testing Hypotheses using T-values and tCDF - Notes
Friday - Testing change using Paired Data - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Final Essays Due - Begin Standardized Test Prep
Tuesday - SSR - NWEA Goal-Setting - Standardized Grammar Test - 
Wednesday  - Discuss Grammar Exercises, Read "East Asia Background" from the text 
Thursday -  NWEA Testing
Friday - Read "The Woman Warrior," discuss, answer questions

Semester 2, Week 14: April 27 - May 1 (Senior Trip Week)

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Vectors - Notes
Tuesday - Applications of Vectors - Notes
Wednesday  - Finishing Vectors - Notes
Thursday -  Junior Awards Ceremony
Friday - HW Quiz 13 - Vectors - Dot Products and Angles - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Board Games Project
Tuesday - Board Games Project
Wednesday  - Board Games Project
Thursday -  Finishing Board Games Project
Friday - Population Means and Sample SD's - Notes 
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Finish Prompt #2 and begin Prompt #3
Tuesday - Finish Prompt #3
Wednesday  - Rough Draft of ATSS Essay Due -
Thursday -  Sophomore Awards Ceremony - Write Thesis, Conclusion, and Introduction
Friday -  Final day to work on ATSS Essay - DUE MONDAY

Semester 2, Week 13: April 20-24 (End of Marking Period 5)

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Graphing Polar Equations and Limacons - Notes
Tuesday - Chapter 6 Part 2 Review - Notes
Wednesday  -  Chapter 6 Big-Kid Quiz 
Thursday -  Sub Day - Pg. 696, #7-14, 20-23, 29-32
Friday - Polar Complex Numbers - Notes _- Pg. 696, #37, 38, 45, 46, 60-62
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - P-Values and Conclusions - Notes - Pg. 416, #35, 37, 50, 51
Tuesday - HW Quiz 13 - P-Values - Notes
Wednesday  - Finishing P-Values and Chapter 18 - Notes
Thursday -  Chapter 17 / 18 Review
Friday - Chapter 17 / 18 Test
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Begin Prompt #1 - First "chunk" of ATSS Final Essay
Tuesday - SSR - Finish first "chunk," begin typing
Wednesday  - Finalize the first three-paragraph chunk of ATSS essay
Thursday -  SSR - Prisoners of Tradition Video - Begin Prompt #2
Friday -  Finish writing and typing Prompt #2 Draft

Semester 2, Week 12: April 13-17

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Polar Coordinates - Notes
Tuesday - MSTEP Testing Day - Pg. 673, #39-43, 59-63 
Wednesday  -  More Polar Coordinates Practice - Notes
Thursday -  Polar Coordinate Stations - Notes
Friday - HW Quiz 12 - Polar Coordinates
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Chapter 17 Mini-Project
Tuesday - Finishing Chapter 17 Mini-Project
Wednesday  - Success vs. Coincidence - Pg. 414, #23, 26, 30 - Notes
Thursday -   Practicing Success vs. Confidence - Pg. 415, #25, 29 - Notes
Friday - HW Quiz 12 - Success vs. Confidence
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Part 4 Questions Due - Part 4 Quiz
Tuesday - Video - History of Afghanistan
Wednesday  - Book Talks / SSR
Thursday -  Book Talks / SSR
Friday - Book Talks - Two readings regarding the history of Afghanistan

Semester 2, Week 11: April 6-10

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - SAS Area Formula for triangles, Law of Sines story problems - Notes - (Pg. 654, #53, 55, 56, 57, 77)
Tuesday - HW Quiz 10 - Law of Sines - Law of Conises - Notes - (Pg. 661, #9-16, 31, 41)
Wednesday  -  More Law of Cosines, SSS - Notes - (Pg. 661, #19-25, 43-45, 48)
Thursday -  HW Quiz 11 - Law of Cosines - Polar Coordinates - Notes
Friday - Reviewing Online Test Procedure 
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - More Confidence Intervals - Dress Code vs. Lunch - Notes - (Pg. 392, #23, 25, 24, 26)
Tuesday - HW Quiz 10 - Confidence Intervals - Margins of Error - Notes - (Pg. 392, #23, 25, 35)
Wednesday  - More Margins of Error - Notes - (Pg. 392, #32, 38, 40)
Thursday -   HW Quiz 11 - Margins of Error
Friday - Finish Bubbafish Project - Begin Chapter 17 Stats Project
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Discussion of Part 2 / Part 3 - Begin Quick Theme Project
Tuesday - SSR - Continue Quick Theme Project
Wednesday  - Quiz - Part 3 - Part 3 Questions due - Continue Quick Theme Project
Thursday -  SSR - Sharing themes with other groups, coding the novel
Friday - Poem about Kabul assignment

Semester 2, Week 10: March 23-26

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - CHAPTER 5 TEST DAY!
Tuesday - Finish Chapter 5 Test - Begin Law of Sines - Notes
Wednesday  -  The Curious Case of SSA - Notes
Thursday -  Super Fun Fire Drill - More SSA examples - Notes
Friday - Happy Spring Break!
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - Last day to work on Chapter 16 RAFT Assignment - RAFTS DUE
Tuesday - RAFTS DUE - Confidence Intervals Introduction - Notes
Wednesday  - Confidence Intervals and Sample Populations - Notes 
Thursday -   Do you enjoy Sushi? - More Confidence Intervals - Notes
Friday - Happy Spring Break!
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Russians in Afghanistan - Additional Questions
Tuesday - SSR - Collect Part 2 Questions - Part 2 Quiz
Wednesday  - Presentations - Distribute Part 3 Questions
Thursday -  SSR - Final Presentations
Friday - Happy Spring Break!

Semester 2, Week 9: March 16-20

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Solving Trig Equations Day 2 - Notes
Tuesday - HW Quiz 8 -Solving Trig Equations Day 3 - Notes
Wednesday  -  Solving Trig Equations Day 4 - Notes
Thursday -  HW Quiz 9 - Solving Trig Equations Day 5 - Notes
Friday - Chapter 5 Review - TEST MONDAY! - Review can be found here - Answers can be found here - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - HW Quiz 9 - Normal Approximations - Finishing up Chapter 16 - Notes
Tuesday - Chapter 16 Review - Stations Activity - Notes - Station Questions
Wednesday  -  Stations Review - Chapter 16 Test 
Thursday -   Begin Carnival Games Project - Notes
Friday - Continue Carnival Project - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Continue Research Project - Develop Slides
Tuesday - SSR - Questions and Quiz over Part 1 of "A Thousand Splendid Suns"
Wednesday  - Continue Research Project
Thursday -  SSR - Continue Research
Friday - Complete Research Project - Focus on Works Cited and Outline

Semester 2, Week 8: March 9-13

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Reviewing Chapter 5 so far - (Pg. 611, #1-11) - Notes
Tuesday - Chapter 5 Part 1 Test - Notes
Wednesday  -  Sum-to-Product and Product-to-Sum formulas - Notes
Thursday -  Solving Trig Equations Day 1 - Notes
Friday - Sub Day - Solving Trig Equations ALL DAY!
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - More Beroulli Trials - (Pg. 364, #12, 15) - Notes
Tuesday - HW Quiz 8 - Bernoulli Trials - Average and Standard Deviation of binomial situations - Notes - (Pg. 364, #13, 14, 16, 18)
Wednesday  -  Large-numbered Bernoulli trials - (Pg. 364, #30, 31, 33) - Notes
Thursday -   Normal Models for predicting Bernoulli Trials - Notes 
Friday - Sub Day - Prepare for HW Quiz and Chapter 16 Test
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Begin Comparison and Contrast Essay - Notes - Part 1 of "1000 Splendid Suns" to be read for next Tuesday!
Tuesday - Finish Comparison and Contrast Essay
Wednesday  -  Flood Essay Due - SSR - Assign Research Project
Thursday -  SSR - Begin Preliminary Research
Friday - Video - Islamic History

Semester 2, Week 7: March 2 - 6

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Power-Reducing and Half-Angle Identities - Notes
Tuesday - Juniors gone - Study period
Wednesday  -  No CLass- Homeroom
Thursday -   HW Quiz 7 - Double Angle Identities - Practicing Half-Angle and Power-Reducing Identities - Notes
Friday - More Practice with Half-Angle Identities - (Pg. 615, #41-43, 48-51, 56, 57) - Notes
STATISTICS
Monday - Random variable means - Notes - (Pg. 363, #1, 2, 5a, 6a)
Tuesday -  Random variable standard deviations - Notes - (Pg. 363, #5b, 6b, 8)
Wednesday  -  No class - homeroom
Thursday - Practicing standard deviation - Notes - (Pg. 364, #7)
Friday - HW Quiz 7 - Random Variable Means - Bernoulli Trials - (Pg. 364, #9, 11) - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - SSR - Read "Gilgamesh" - Chapters 4 and 6 of this document closely match our textbook
Tuesday -  Gilgamesh Analysis
Wednesday  -  No Class / Further Analysis.
Thursday -   SSR - Gilgamesh Quiz
Friday - Read "The Flood," (Noah) and "The Story of the Flood" (Utnapishtim), begin comparison. - Comparison Organizer - Chapter 5 of this document contains "The Story of the Flood"

Semester 2, Week 6: February 23-27

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - No School - Snow Day
Tuesday -  Application of Sum and Difference formulas - Notes
Wednesday  -  Tricky Sum and Distance Applications - (Pg. 604, #41, 44, 61, 62, 67, 75) - Notes
Thursday - Double - Angle Identities - (Pg. 614, #1-8) - Notes  
Friday - More Double-Angles - Notes
STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Monday - No School - Snow Day
Tuesday -  General Multiplication Rule and Tree Diagrams - Notes - 
Wednesday  -  More Tree Diagrams - (Pg. 340, #44, 46, 48, 52) - Notes
Thursday -   Chapter 15 Review - HW Quiz 6 - Notes
Friday - Chapter 15 Test - Begin Binomial Probability 
ENGLISH 10
Monday - No School - Snow Day
Tuesday -  SSR - Begin writing Letter to the Editor
Wednesday  -  Finish Webquest - Complete Letter to the Editor - Webquest link can be found here. - Sample LTTE - More Sample LTTEs
Thursday -  LETTER TO THE EDITOR DUE - Survey for School Improvement can be found here.
Friday - FINAL LETTER TO THE EDITOR DUE - Preview "Giilgamesh" - Link to the video can be found here.

Semester 2, Week 5: February 17-20

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - No School
Tuesday -  Additional Sums and Differences - (Page 603, #9, 11, 13-16,   25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 35) - Notes
Wednesday  -  HW Quiz 5 -Sums and Differences - (Pg. 604, #22, 23, 45, 57, 58, 60) - Notes
Thursday -   No School - Snow Day
Friday - No School - Snow Day
STATISTICS
Monday - No School
Tuesday - More Independence Examples - (Pg. 338, #31, 33, 35) - Notes
Wednesday - HW Quiz 5 - Independence - (Pg. 338, #21, 23, 37, 38) - Notes
Thursday - No School - Snow Day
Friday - No School - Snow Day
ENGLISH 10
Monday - No School
Tuesday - SSR - Continue Webquest - Webquest link can be found here. 
Wednesday - Finish Character Profile sheet, begin writing final letter
Thursday - No School - Snow Day
Friday - No School - Snow Day

Semester 2, Week 4: February 9-13

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Even More Identities - Notes - (Pg. 594, # 37, 42, 47, 53)
Tuesday -  HW Quiz 3 - Trig Identities - Double-Angle Identities - No HW - Notes
Wednesday  -  Mr. Ford out - work on Pg. 594, #17, 23, 28, 36, 39, 45, 49, 54, 57, 58, 61-64
Thursday -   See above
Friday - HW Quiz 4 - More Trig Identities - Begin Double-Angles - (Chap. 5.2, #1-8) - Notes
STATISTICS
Monday - Conditional Probability - Notes - (Pg. 337, #7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15)
Tuesday - More Conditional Probability - Notes - (Pg. 337, #17-20, 25)
Wednesday - Read Pages 326-329. - (Pg. 338, #21-24, 27)
Thursday - Practice Packet
Friday - Independence - Notes - (Pg. 338, #29, 30, 32)
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Discuss "fairness." - Socratic Semeinar - Act 3  - Notes
Tuesday - SSR - Begin Webquest - Webquest link can be found here. - Alternate link for Upper-class Gentlemen Behavior
Wednesday - Watch "A Doll's House" movie
Thursday - Finish "A Doll's House" movie
Friday - Continue Webquest and Summative "A Doll's House" assignment.

Semester 2, Week 3: FEBRUARY 2-6

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Finish Chapter 4 Review - Answers can be found here - Blank review can be found here - Notes
Tuesday -  Chapter 4 Test
Wednesday  -  Beginning Trig Identities - Notes
Thursday -   Continuing Trig Identities - Notes
Friday - HW Quiz 3 - Basic Identities - More proofs with identities - Notes
STATISTICS
Monday - Applications of Laws of Probability - Pg. 316, #7, 9, 11, 8, 10, 12 - Notes
Tuesday - Practicing Laws of Probability - Pg. 316, #19, 21 (look at 17 for percentages),  25, 26, 27 - Notes
Wednesday - Even More Practice with Laws of Probability - HW Quiz 3 - (Pg. 316, #18, 20, 22, 38) - Notes
Thursday - Practice for the Big-Kid Quiz - Notes
Friday - Big Kid Quiz (Test Grade) - Fundamental Adding Principle - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - Finish Act 2, prepare for Socratic Seminar - (A PDF of the play is public domain and can be found here)
Tuesday - SSR - Socratic Seminar over Act 2 - Socratic Seminar of Questions from Acts 1-3
Wednesday - Preread questions for Act 3, Begin Reading
Thursday - SSR - Finish reading Act 3
Friday - Discussion about Moral Philosophy - Questions over Act 3

Semester 2, Week 2: January 26-30

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - Performance Task - Viewing Angles in a Movie Theatre - Notes
Tuesday -  - Trig Applications and Story Problems (Pg. 564, #93-96 Pg. 575, #13-16, 29-31) Notes
Wednesday  -  NWEA Testing
Thursday -   HW Quiz 2 - Inverse Trig Functions  - Right Triangles and Bearings (Pg.  574, #13-16, 45, 46, 50-53, 56, 57) Notes
Friday - Simple Harmonic Motion (Pg. 574, #17-22, 59-62, 70, 71) Notes
STATISTICS
Monday - How to Count - (Pg. 302, #26, 28, 29) - Notes
Tuesday - Permutations and Combinations - Notes
Wednesday - HW Quiz 1 - More Permutations and Combinations - Notes
Thursday - Probability with Permutations and Combinations - Notes
Friday - HW Quiz 2 -  Laws of Probability - Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - NWEA Testing
Tuesday - NWEA Testing
Wednesday - Finish Reading Act 1 of "A Doll's House" (A PDF of the play is public domain and can be found here)
Thursday - SSR - Socratic Seminar of Questions from Act 1
Friday - Assign roles, read as much of Act 2 as possible

Semester 2, Week 1: January 20 - 23

PRE-CALCULUS
Monday - No School
Tuesday - Tangents and Additional Trig Functions -  (Pg. 546, #1-6, 31-34) Notes
Wednesday  -  Inverse Trig Functions - (Pg. 563 #1-18) Notes
Thursday - HW Quiz 1 - Tangents and Additional Graphs-  More Inverse Trig Functions - (Reassign Pg. 563, #1-18)  Notes
Friday - Even more inverse trig functions - (Pg. 563, #10-15, 31-36, 47-49, 63-65) Notes
STATISTICS
Monday - No School
Tuesday - Continue to work on Winter Stats Project - Meet in Class - (Link to the video outlining the basics of experimentation)
Wednesday - Continue to work on Winter Stats Project - Meet in Library
Thursday - Continue to work on Winter Stats Project - Meet in Library
Friday - Beginning Probability - The Law of Large Numbers and the Nonexistent Law of Averages (Pg. 301, #9, 10, 17, 25) Notes
ENGLISH 10
Monday - No School
Tuesday - SSR, Crocodile Story  (The story can be downloaded here)
Wednesday - Henrik Ibsen Biography Video
Thursday - SSR, Finish Biography and Crocodile Assignments
Friday - Assign Roles and Begin Reading "A Doll's House."  (A PDF of the play is public domain and can be found here)

EXAM WEEK:

PRE-CALCULUS
Here are the answers to the Exam Review, Part 1 and the Exam Review, Part 2:

Download Part 1 here.
Download Part 2 here.

In addition, below you can find blank Word documents of both parts of the review (2013-2014 edition):

Exam Review Part 1
Exam Review Part 2

STATISTICS
Monday - Comparing Box Plots
Tuesday - 
Wednesday - 
Thursday - 
Friday - 

ENGLISH 10
Monday - No School
Tuesday - 
Wednesday - 
Thursday - 
Friday -
Watashi wa sensei dessu.