Teacher
Taylor: Algebra
EXPLORER Team Homework WEEK OF September 21st – 25th
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
1. Review RC #10, 11 1. Mental Math #13
1. Reward Challenge
1. Mental Math #14
2. Notes: solving
2. Warm-up #5
#13
2. Reward Challenge
equations (part 2)
questions
2. Work on Homework #14
3. Finish reward
3. Review HW
#5 (due 9-28)
3. HW: Warm-up #6
challenge #12
4. Examples: Writing
3. Work on Warm-up
(due 9-29), AI HW #5
#6 (due 9-29)
4. HW: Warm-up #5, Equations
& Quiz #4 (due/ on 95. Reward Challenges 4. Quiz Challenge #4 28)
Skill Builder #7 WS
#12, 13
(due tomorrow)
(9-28)
6. HW: Warm-up #6 5. Algebra Island
(due 9-29), AI HW #5 Post-test (10-1)
(due 9-28)
Friday
1. Mental Math #15
2. Examples of
3. Finish RC #14
4. Reward Challenge
#15
5. HW: Warm-up #6
(due 9-29), AI HW #5
& Quiz #4 (due/ on 928)
COMMENTS:
Taylor: Pre-Algebra
1. Starter Problems
2. Review 6 CLT
Problems
3. Notes: CLT
4. HW: Combining
Like Terms WS
(odds only)
1. Starter Problems
2. Questions on HW?
3. Due by the end of
class: CLT WS evens
4. HW: Unit 1
Review sheet
1. Starter Problems
2. Review game (w/
review sheet)
3. HW: gather notes,
review for test!
1. Starter Problems
2. Begin Unit 1 Exam
3. HW: KF-1 (due
Monday)
1. Starter Problems
2. Wrap up Unit 1
Exam
3. Continue working
on KF-1 (due
Monday)
“An Hour with
Abuelo”
Finish literary analysis
review.
Introduce “theme”
HW: None
Bellwork (Journal)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
video.
Themes in “Hour with
Abuelo”
Universal themes
Begin moral story
brainstorm
HW: Prewrite #4 (AF)
Bellwork (DOL)
Finish brainstorm and
begin rough draft of
moral stories
HW: Moral stories
due Fri.
Computer Lab
Thurs.
NO Bellwork
Computer Lab (Room
110)
Type “moral stories”
HW: Moral stories
due Friday (no late
papers accepted)
SSR books due Fri.
Bellwork (Journal)
Silent Sustained
Reading (30 minutes)
“Theme of your book”
writing assignment
HW: None
Newspaper
Fan letter update
Grammar (17-18)
Intro: Novel (MBSID)
Lecture + notes
Newspaper
Grammar (19-20)
GET NOVELS and
reading schedule!
Begin reading Ch. 1
HW: Grammar (19-20) +
Newspaper
Grammar (21-22)
Quiz: Ch. 1
Review + notes
Begin Ch. 2
HW: Grammar (21-22) +
Newspaper
Weekly Writing 1-4
Analysis
Quiz: Ch. 2
Begin Ch. 3
HW: Finish Ch. 3
Newspaper
Quiz: Ch. 3
Parts of speech quiz
Weekly Writing #5
(no news copies)
HW: Ch. 4. Catch-up with
COMMENTS:
Roszczyk: L. Arts
COMMENTS:
McCracken: Read &
Write
EXPLORER Team Homework WEEK OF September 21st – 25th
HW: Grammar (17-18) and
(16-17) for extra credit
finish Ch. 1
finish Ch. 2
HW: Grammar (21-22)
HW: Grammar (23-24)
the reading over the
weekend if you need to.
COMMENTS: We are beginning to read My Brother Sam is Dead, by J.L. and C. Collier
Help and extra info about the novel, go to: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/brothersam/ or http://www.historyofredding.com/HRmbsd.htm
Teacher
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1. Review explorers
1.
In-class
Explorer
Due: Character
Due: Vocab
Comic book strip or
from Friday
Timeline
sketch of Cortez
Journal DUE
2. Hernando Cortez &
1. Bellringer
2. Hernando De
Montezuma – Fall of
1. Hernando Cortez & 2. Spanish Conquest of Soto/his bigoraphy
1. Bellringer
the Aztecs
Montezuma:
the Incan Empire
3. Time to work on
2. Pros/Cons to
3. In-class character
Compare/Contrast
projects
Exploration
Smith: Social Studies
analysis: Cortez
2. How were the
3. England and France
HW: Comic book
Spanish able to defeat strip or journal – due HW: Comic book
enter into the
the Aztecs?
HW: Character
FRIDAY!!
strip or journal – due exploration equation
sketch worksheet (if
TOMORROW!!
HW: page 61 –
not yet complete)
HW: None! 
chapter 2 section 1
vocabulary (terms &
names)
COMMENTS:
Debrief the Project
Work on final
submission to the
“Pump up the
Volume” publication.
Work on final
submission to the
“Pump up the
Volume” publication.
Nyffeler: Science
No HW
COMMENTS:
No HW
Group and team
evaluations
Finish Evaluation for
homework. It is DUE
at the beginning of
class tomorrow.
EXPLORER Team Homework WEEK OF September 21st – 25th