David Murphy; 7th Grade Mathematics & Social Studies

Social Studies: We graded the chapter review. The worksheet will be due tomorrow before the test.  YES!!!, we have a test over chapter 22 tomorrow.

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Math: I did not count the assignment from last night.  I wanted the students to realize that they did not understand.  This is sometimes the best way to get their attention.  We modified the assignment for tonight.  Students are to work pages 244-245; every other odd problem, i.e., 1, 5, 9, 13, … After they complete the homework assignment, they need to determine what the 1407th term of the homework sequence is.

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Social Studies: We completed the end of the chapter 22 review today, or at least we were supposed too.  This should have been completed for HW.  We will spend Tuesday reviewing and getting ready for the TEST on Wednesday over Vietnam.  We also have a worksheet that compares Vietnam and India.  Believe it or not the two countries have quite a bit in common.

Math: Today was a day of blank stares and starry gazes.  I could almost hear the crickets chirping at times.  The content in question is section 4-5: Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences. This is a difficult concept to get them to understand.  However, I never said that the concept itself was difficult.  Rather, it is pretty simple.  The students just wig out, because they do not understand the relevance.  This too will come pretty soon. The assignment is Pgs. 244-245; Problems 2-40 even.  We will certainly go over the problems tomorrow before we check the HW.  Following that, The students will get a study guide to work for the Test on Thursday.  Yes, I put it off one day.

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Sorry to all my peeps out there in posting-land.  I’ve been extremely busy and have forgot about posting these past two days.  Any-who, it’s been like a ride on the Oriental express around here.  Everything has been a blur lately.  THANKS to my avid posters.  It’s nice to have the responses, and I haven’t been ignoring any of you.

Social Studies: We have been “visiting” Vietnam this week.  We should test early next week on it.  Today we finished reading Chapter 22 and used the remainder of class time to begin answering the questions at the end of the chapter.  We will watch a video on Vietnam and continue answering the questions.

Math: I believe that the students are about to shoot me.  I am shoving so much at them that isn’t even funny.  However, they understand a great deal more than they realize.  I just have to help them put all of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle together.  That is the main reason that we are doing so much at one time.  This way they get a visualization of what is and what is to come.  Otherwise, my experience has been that the fragmented learning remains fragmented and unclear.  The assignment for 2nd and 5th period is page 240; problems 1-13.  The assignment for 4th is functions 1-3 of the graphing project.

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Social Studies: The TEST is tomorrow over the economic systems and India in gerneral.  You should study your notes and the chapter review, because the test will come from those two resources.

Math: We are beginning a study of Patterns and Functions.  This will approach the algebra that we have been working on from a different angle.  I think that this study will fill some of the existing gaps for the students.

The Assignment for 2nd and 5th Period is Pgs. 226-227; Problems 13-36, 39-48 (36 problems).

The Assignment for 4th Period is Pgs, 226-227; Problems 13-36, Pgs. 230-231; Problems 7-14 a and b, Pgs. 234-235; Problems 5-8 a and b (42 problems).

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Today is a half-day for parent conferences. However, first and second periods will attend their nomal schedules.

Social Studies: We are reading Chapter 21 today and are going to start on the questions at the end.  There will be no homework over the weekend, but we will pick back up on Monday.  Also, I have moved the test to Tuesday.

Math: Second period is the only math class that I will see today, but we will continue with the Reworks, Make-ups, and Accelerated Math.

Everyone have a good and safe weekend!!

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Social Studies: We are just about through with the economy portion of the unit.  I believe that I may let anyone that responds to this post use their notebooks on the test.  Would that be acceptable?  The test will be on Monday.  However, I hate Monday tests, but we are behind the other classes by almost a week.

Math: We had our equations test today and the scores are still not what I had hoped for seeing.  The class averages for the test are as follows:  2nd period = 68.5;  4th period = 85;   and   5th period = 70.  Although the class averages are or almost are passing, some students made extremely low scores.  Then again, several students made A’s on the test.  We will be moving on next week into Chapter 4.  As for this week, we are redoing and making up assignments.

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Social Studies:

We pretty much did nothing except review the different types of economies.  It has been a week and a half since we went over this in class. Therefore, I wanted to review the content in class today, and we will continue tomorrow.  The slides covered today were #’s 79-89.

Math:

The equations test on the Thursday before fall break did not yield the results that I had hoped.  We spent the day correcting the original test and are now using it as a study guide for a REPEAT TEST on this Wednesday.  The test will be the same test with different numbers in the problems and the problems scrambled.

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I thank all of you that posted, but only a few got the extra points.  The cut-off was at 7:00 this morning.  However, keep an eye out for bonuses in the future.  I am not promising points for every test, but there will be rewards if you look for them from time to time.  All of them will have a cut-off time.  So, be diligent in using the resources that I am providing for you.

Social Studies: We continued with our study of economic systems today.  However, I am not attaching the pdf. of the PowerPoint, because we only got through 4 slides.  I will add these with the slides covered on our next class concerning economic systems. Tomorrow is the Gandhi movie.  I really like this movie, because it wraps up our study of S. Asia while covering an entire standard on Mohandus Gandhi.  Regardless of one’s theological view of the man, he was a man that lived a life of serving, loving, and helping others.  He was a man among men.

Math: Several people did not finish the TEST today.  Also, many of the ones that I graded were not as good as I had hoped.  We will probably be spending a little more time on this after FALL BREAK.

HAVE A GREAT FALL BREAK!!!!   There will be no blogging tomorrow.

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Social Studies: We began our study of various Economic Systems.  The students are supposed to be taking notes as we use the S. Asia PPT [Slides 79-85].

Math: Equations TEST Review. We will have an equations test tomorrow.  The test will be nothing but solving equations with integers. decimals, and fractions.  GOOD LUCK!

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