Honors Alg II 2015 -2016 School Calendar
August 17
August 18
August 19
August 20
August 21
Teacher Work Day –
NO SCHOOL
Convocation - NO
SCHOOL
First Day for Students
1.2 Properties of Real
Numbers
1.3 Algebraic
Expressions
-SmartBoard Lesson
-Classifying Numbers
Activity
-Matching Activity
-SmartBoard lesson
-ICE
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph and order real
numbers.
Students will be able to
identify properties of
real numbers.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
evaluate algebraic
expressions.
Students will be able to
simplify algebraic
expressions.
Warmup on White
Boards
1.1 Patterns and
Expressions
-SmartBoard Lesson
Objectives: Students
will be able to identify
and describe patterns.
August 24
August 25
August 26
August 27
August 28
1.4 Solving Equations
1.5 Solving
Inequalities
1.6 Absolute Value
Equations and
Inequalities
1.6 Absolute Value
Equations and
Inequalities
Review
SmartBoard Lesson
Problem Piles
-SmartBoard Lesson
-1.4 Activity in Partners,
Teacher as Host
(Use Whiteboards)
SmartBoard Lesson
-Word Problems with
Partners
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve equations.
Students will be able to
solve problems by
writing equations.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve and graph
inequalities.
Students will be able to
write and solve
compound inequalities.
August 31
September 1
September 2
September 3
September 4
Review - Stations
Ch 1 Test
2.1 Relations and
Functions
2.2 Direct Variation
2.3 Linear Functions
and Slope-Intercept
Form
Objectives:
Students will be able to
write and solve
equations and
inequalities involving
absolute value.
SmartBoard Lesson
ICE
2.1 WS in groups
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph relations and
identify functions.
September 7
Labor Day –
NO SCHOOL
Guided Notes –
Independent Study
Objectives:
Students will be able to
write and interpret
direct variation
equations.
SmartBoard Lesson
2.3 Game (in groups of
3)
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph linear equations
and writes equations of
lines in slope-intercept
form.
September 8
September 9
September 10
September 11
2.4 More About Linear
Equations
Review Activity 2.12.4
2.1-2.4 Quiz
2.5 Using Linear
Models
SmartBoard Lesson
ICE
Silent Bingo WS
Objectives:
Students will be able to
write linear equations in
point-slope form and
standard form.
Concept Byte –
Piecewise Functions
SmartBoard Lesson &
Activity
Objectives:
Students will be able to
write linear equations
that model real-life data
and make predictions
from linear models.
September 14
September 15
September 16
September 17
2.6 Families of
Functions
2.7 Absolute Value
Functions and Graphs
Finish 2.8
2.5-2.8 Quiz
-SmartBoard Lesson
ICE
-SmartBoard-based
lesson.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
analyze transformations
of functions.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph absolute value
functions.
2.8 Puzzle WS
September 18
PD – NO
SCHOOL
Review on
Whiteboards (use
SmartBoard File)
2.8 Two Variable
Inequalities
-SmartBoard-based
lesson.
-Review for Chapter 2
Test
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph two-variable
inequalities.
September 21
September 22
September 23
Review
Ch 2 Test
3.1 & 3.2 Solving
Systems
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve systems of linear
equations by graphing,
substitution and
elimination.
September 24
SUB
3.1-3.2 WS
September 25
3.3 Systems of
Inequalities
*Give Chapter 4 Pre
Assessment*
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve systems of linear
inequalities.
September 28
September 29
September 30
October 1
October 2
Review
3.1-3.3 Quiz
4.1 Quadratic
Functions and
Transformations
4.2 Standard Form of
a Quadratic Function
4.3 Modeling with
Quadratic Functions
-SmartBoard Lesson
& ICE
-SmartBoard Lesson
Worksheet
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph quadratic
functions written in
standard form.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
model data with
quadratic functions.
-SmartBoard Lesson
-Group Work (mixed
ability) & Matching
Activity
Objectives:
Students will be able to
identify and graph
quadratic functions.
OBSERVATION:
Mods 12-14
October 5
October 6
October 7
October 8
October 9
4.4 Factoring
Quadratic
Expressions
Review – Factoring
Stations
Review – Worksheet
Factoring Quiz
4.8 Complex Numbers
-SmartBoard Lesson
(Use Kuta Software
Worksheets and
Whiteboards)
*Difference of
Squares Geometric
Proof
*MAKE FOLDABLE
Objectives:
Students will be able to
factor quadratic
expressions.
October 12
October 13
October 14
October 15
October 16
Parent-Teacher
Conferences
8:00 – 3:00
4.5-4.9 Solving
Quadratic Equations
4.5-4.9 Solving
Quadratic Equations
Review
4.5-4.9 Quiz
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve quadratic
equations by factoring,
taking square roots,
completing the square
and the quadratic
formula.
Students will be able to
solve systems of
quadratic equations.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve quadratic
equations by factoring,
taking square roots,
completing the square
and the quadratic
formula.
Students will be able to
solve systems of
quadratic equations.
Parent-Teacher
Conferences
5 – 8 p.m.
October 19
October 20
October 21
October 22
Review
Ch 4 Test
5.1 Polynomial
Functions
5.2 Polynomials,
Linear Factors and
Zeros
NO SCHOOL
Objectives:
Students will be able to
classify polynomials,
graph polynomials and
describe end behavior.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
analyze the factored
form of a polynomial
and write a polynomial
from its zeros.
5.2 Made in the Shade
WS
Parent-Teacher
Conferences
5 – 8 p.m.
End of 1st Nine Weeks
October 23
Teacher Exchange Day –
NO SCHOOL
October 26
October 27
October 28
October 29
October 30
5.3 Solving
Polynomial Equations
5.4 Dividing
Polynomials
5.4 Dividing
Polynomials
Review
5.1-5.4 Quiz
Smartboard Lesson &
ICE
Objectives:
Students will be able to
divide polynomials
using long division and
synthetic division.
Problem Piles
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve polynomial
equations by factoring
and graphing.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
divide polynomials
using long division and
synthetic division.
November 2
November 3
November 4
November 5
November 6
5.5 Theorems About
Roots of Polynomial
Equations
5.6 The Fundamental
Theorem of Algebra
5.7 The Binomial
Theorem
Review
Objectives:
Students will be able to
use the FTA to solve
polynomial equations
with complex solutions.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
expand binomials using
Pascal's Triangle and
the Binomial Theorem.
5.8 Polynomial
Models in the Real
World &
5.9 Transforming
Polynomial Functions
SmartBoard Lesson &
5.5 WS
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve equations using
the Rational Root
Theorem and be able to
use the Conjugate Root
Theorem.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
fit data to polynomial
models.
Students will be able to
apply transformations
to graphs of
polynomials.
November 9
November 10
November 11
November 12
November 13
Review
Ch 5 Test
6.1 Roots and Radical
Expressions
6.2 Multiplying and
Dividing Radical
Expressions
6.3 Binomial Radical
Expressions
Objectives:
Students will be able to
find nth roots.
Mods 9-11
(9:41-10:45)
Objectives:
Students will be able to
multiply and divide
radical expressions.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
add and subtract radical
expressions.
Mods 12-14
(12:00-1:03)
November 16
November 17
November 18
November 19
November 20
6.4 Rational
Exponents
Review – Stations
with Kutasoftware
worksheets
Compass Testing in
Library
6.1-6.4 Quiz
6.5 Solving Square
Root and Other Radical
Equations
Objectives:
Students will be able to
simplify expressions
with rational exponents.
(Use Kutasoftware
worksheets on
whiteboards?)
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve square root and
other radical equations.
November 23
November 24
Interval Notation
Notes
Review WS
6.6 Function
Operations
November 25
November 26
November 27
Thanksgiving Break
NO SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Break
NO SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Break
NO SCHOOL
Objectives:
Students will be able to
add, subtract, multiply
and divide functions
and find the composite
of two functions.
November 30
December 1
December 2
December 3
December 4
6.7 Inverse Relations
and Functions
6.8 Graphing Radical
Functions
Review
NO SCHOOL
Objectives:
Students will be able to
find the inverse of a
relation or function.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph square root and
other radical functions.
December 7
December 8
December 9
December 10
December 11
Review
Ch 6 Test
7.1 Exploring
Exponential Models
7.2 Properties of
Exponential
Functions
7.3 Logarithmic
Functions as Inverses
December 14
December 15
December 16
December 17
December 18
Review
7.1 – 7.3 Quiz
(Use parts or all of the
Mid-Chapter quiz on
page 461)
7.4 Properties of Logs
Review
Review
December 21
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 22
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 23
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 24
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 25
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 28
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 29
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 30
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
December 31
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
January 1
Christmas
Break – NO
SCHOOL
Thanksgiving Break
NO SCHOOL
January 4
January 5
January 6
January 7
January 8
Review for Midterm
Review for Midterm
Review for Midterm
Review for Midterm
Midterm
January 11
January 12
January 13
January 14
7.5 Exponential and
Logarithmic
Equations
7.6 Natural
Logarithms
Review
Review
January 15
PD – NO
SCHOOL
January 18
MLK Day – NO
SCHOOL
End of 2nd Nine
Weeks
January 22
January 19
January 20
January 21
Review
Review – Work Day
Review – Questions
from Review and
partner review on
white boards
Ch 7 Test
Teach Interval
Notation and any
missing topics from
Ch 7.
January 25
January 26
January 27
January 28
January 29
8.1 Inverse Variation
8.2 The Reciprocal
Family Function
8.3 Rational
Functions and Their
Graphs
8.3 Rational
Functions and Their
Graphs
Review Activity
Objectives:
Students will be able to
identify properties of
rational functions and
graph rational
functions.
8.3 WS
Guided Notes
Review 8.1-8.3 on the
Board.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
recognize and use
inverse variation and
joint variation.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
graph reciprocal
functions and
translations of
reciprocal functions.
February 1
February 2
February 3
February 4
February 5
8.1-8.3 Quiz
8.4 Rational
Expressions
8.5 Adding and
Subtracting Rational
Expressions
8.6 Solving Rational
Equations
Review
ICE
Objectives:
Students will be able to
simplify, multiply and
divide rational
expressions.
February 8
February 9
Review
Ch 8 Test
February 15
Teacher
Exchange Day
– NO SCHOOL
February 22
Objectives:
Students will be able to
add and subtract
rational functions.
Objectives:
Students will be able to
identify properties of
rational functions and
graph rational
functions.
Put students in groups
to play the game:
GRAPHIONARY
Objectives:
Students will be able to
solve rational
equations.
February 10
February 11
Parent-Teacher
Conferences
5 –8 p.m.
Evaluation: Mods 12-14
Parent-Teacher
Conferences
5 –8 p.m.
February 12
February 16
February 17
February 18
February 19
February 23
February 24
February 25
February 26
Ch 12: Matrices
February 29
March 1
March 2
March 3
March 4
March 7
March 8
March 9
March 10
March 11
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
Ch 13: Periodic
Functions and
Trigonometry
March 14
March 21
March 22
March 23
March 24
SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
– NO SCHOOL – NO SCHOOL – NO SCHOOL – NO SCHOOL
March 28
End of 3rd Nine
Weeks
March 25
SPRING BREAK
– NO SCHOOL
March 29
March 30
March 31
April 1
April 4
April 5
April 6
April 7
April 8
April 11
April 12
April 13
April 14
April 15
April 18
April 19
April 20
April 21
April 22
Ch 14: Trigonometric
Identities and
Equations
(Come back and do
3.4-3.6 after this.)
April 25
April 26
April 27
April 28
April 29
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12
May 13
May 16
May 17
May 18
May 19
May 20
May 23
May 24
May 25
May 26
May 27
Last Day for
Students
End of 4th Nine
Weeks
May 30
Memorial Day
– NO SCHOOL
May 31
Last Day for
Teachers