Contact Info:
Stacey.Turner@mnps.org
615 329 8400, Ext. 1305





Monday

May 18-22

Week of May 18-22: (TEXTBOOKS ARE DUE ON YOUR EXAM DAY, or earlier)
  • Use this week to prepare for your exams...that means study, study, study
  • Do not come to class empty handed...have something to study
  • Exams start next Thursday, May 21st!!!
  • 1/2 days start Thursday, May 21st!!!
Mon:
  • The Chemistry power point with answers has been uploaded and placed in the class folder at 10:20 a.m.
  • Study for my exam and your others as well
Tue: AWARDS/REWARDS DAY
  • Report to 1st period classes for attendance...then the festivities will begin
  • Study for my exam and your others as well
Wed:
  • Last full day of class
  • Make sure any and all make up work has been completed and turned in before the day is over
  • Study for my exam and your others as well
Thur-Fri: EXAMS






May 11-15 and May 18-22

WHAT IS LEFT???


Week of May 11-15:
  • The Chemistry Final Review sheet has been scanned and uploaded to the class folder
  • Start working on the review now so you have enough time to study
  • Chapter 12 Test will be this Friday 5/15 (meiosis, DNA replication, translation, transcription, types of RNA, etc.)
  • There will be some hands-on/lab activities this week
  • Please remove all graded papers from your class bins
Mon- EOC talk
Tue- Class time for Chemistry review or Chapter 12/11.4 review
Wed- Cheek Cell Extraction Lab with questions
Thur- Real World  Lab (Dichotomous Keys) Page 462, Part A and Questions #1 and #4
Fri- Chapter 12 Test
Week of May 18-22:
(TEXTBOOKS ARE DUE ON YOUR EXAM DAY, or earlier)
  • Use this week to prepare for your exams...that means study, study, study
  • Do not come to class empty handed...have something to study
  • Exams start next Thursday, May 21st!!!
  • 1/2 days start Thursday, May 21st!!!







Saturday

May 4-8

May 4- 8

Mon:
  • 6.3 quick overview (Biodiversity)
  • 4.2 quick overview (Ecological Succession)
  • EOC practice test questions
  • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links
Tue and Wed:
  • Review over topics where clarity is needed
  • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links
Thur: BIOLOGY EOC...Y'all can do it!!!


Fri: SMILE and BREATHE...after all, it is MY BIRTHDAY :)


Thursday

March 30-April 2, April 6-10, April 13-17, April 20-24, April 27- May 1

March 30-April 2
Mon: NO SCHOOL

Tue:
  • PPP over 14.3
  • PPP over first half of 15.3
  • Homework-  standards review questions (for Monday and Tuesday night)
Wed:
  • Review answers from standards review questions
  • PPP over the second half of 15.3
  • Page 387 Exploration Activity ( in notes composition book)
  • Homework- standards review questions (for Wednesday)
Thur:
  • Review answers from standards review questions
  • PPP over 16.3
  • Page 408 Analyzing Data activity (How are these fish related?)
  • Homework- standards review questions (for Thursday and Friday)
  • Over the weekend, RNV sections 17.1 and 17.4


Fri: NO SCHOOL...Good Friday


April 6-10


Mon:
  • Review answers from standards review questions
  • Review over first half of 16.3
  • PPP over 16.3, the second half
  • Study sections 14.3, 15.3, 16.3, 17.1 and 17.4 (Test will cover these sections)
  • Homework-  standards review questions
Tue:
  • Review answers from standards review questions
  • PPP over 17.1 ( Learn the Eras and know what happened in them)
  • Study for your possible test
  • Homework-  standards review questions
Wed:
  • Review answers from standards review questions
  • Quick Lab, page 420 (What is a half-life?)
  • Overhead transparencies condensing 17.1 and 17.4
  • Study for your possible test
  • Homework-  standards review questions
Thur:
  • Test Day
  • Homework-  standards review questions
Fri:
  • Online practice EOC Test (document has been loaded to my blog)
  • Go to my blog...class resources link...4th term documents...EOC Practice test
  • Write your answers on notebook paper
  • Homework-  standards review questions
April 13-17
Mon:
  • Inquiry Activity, page 446- in notes composition
  • Quick Lab, page 453- in notes composition
  • RNV all of chapter 18
  • Homework-  standards review questions
Tue:
  • Section 18.1 PPP
  • Homework- standards review questions
Wed:
  • Section 18.2 PPP
  • RNV 4.1 and 4.2
  • Homework- standards review questions
Thur:
  • Section 18.3 PPP
  • Section 4.1 PPP
  • Homework- standards review questions
Fri:
  • Section 4.2 PPP
  • Symbiotic group skit
  • RNV Chapter 5
  • Homework- standards review questions
April 20-24
Mon:
  • Page 118 (Inquiry Activity)
  • Page 123 (Analyzing Data)
  • PPP Section 5.1

Tue:
  • Review answers for pages 118 and 123
  • PPP section 5.1
  • Homework- standards review questions
    • RNV the rest of Chapter 5
    • RNV 6.1-6.3
Wed and Thur:
  • Page 128- Issues in Biology
    • Rancher/Farmer  viewpoint
    • Conservationist viewpoint
    • Stakeholder viewpoint
  • PPP section 5.2
  • Quiz
  • Homework- standards review questions
Fri:
  • Quiz 
  • PPP 5.3 
  • Pick groups for 6.1 in class assignment
  • Homework- standards review questions
April 27-May 1

            Mon :
            • Section 6.1 group skits
            • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links
            Tue:
            • Section 6.1 group skits finished
            • 6.1 and 6.2 PPP
            • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links
            Wed:
            • Quiz over 6.1 and 6.2...with a partner (formative assessment)
            • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links
            Thur:
            • Go over answers from Wednesday's quiz
            • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links
            Fri:
            • In class- DEA practice test (#1-40)
            • HOMEWORK- STUDY FOR YOUR EOC...look for uploads in Class Resources/Helpful Links

            Monday

            March 2-6 and 9-13 and 16-20

            Mar 2-6
            Mon:
            • PowerPoint lecture 13.2
            • Quiz over 13.1 and 13.2
            Tue:
            • PowerPoint lecture 14.1
            • Quiz over 14.1
            Wed:
            • PowerPoint lecture 14.1 continued
            • Quiz over 14.1
            Thur: SNOW DAY
            • PowerPoint lecture 14.1
            • Quiz over 14.1
            Fri:
            • Worksheets to complete in class over 14.1 and 14.2...scanned and placed in 3rd term folder. 
            Mar 9-13

            Mon:
            • Make SURE your notes for 13.1, 13.2 and 14.1-14.3 are complete.  From there, get a  workbook and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper for those sections. Keep the workbooks in my room and put them up neatly at the end of class. 
            Tue and Wed:
            • PowerPoint lecture on sections 14.1 and 14.2
            Thur:
            • 9 Autosomal Disorders Quiz...know which disorders are caused by recessive, dominant, and co-dominant alleles
            • Last day to review before the test
            • Note that section 14.3 will not be on the test
            Fri:
            • Chapter Test over 11.1-3, 13.1-2, 14.1-2


            Mar 16-20
            Mon:
            • EOC Practice Test 1 Biology I Practice Test (white and purple booklet #10023)
              • ( #1-65), answers only, on notebook paper...the answers are in the back of the test booklet, but don't cheat yourself by looking at them
            Tue and Wed:
             I will scan the lab and add it to the 3rd term folder, but there is a hard copy in class as well.
            • Lab (complete the write up in your composition notebook)
            • Make sure you include these things in your write up:
              • problem
              • pre-lab discussion
              • materials
              • procedure
              • analysis and conclude questions
              • sources of error
            Thur and Fri:
            • EOC Practice Test 2  TN Standardized Test Preparation Workbook
              • (#1-62), answers only, on notebook paper
            ** If you finish early or want to work ahead, start your 14.3, 15.3, 16.3, 17.1 and 17.4 RNV


            ENJOY YOUR BREAK...BE SAFE and HAVE FUN!!!


            Wednesday

            February 2-6 and 9-13 and 16-20 and 23-27

            Feb 2-6
            Mon:
            • Joint class lecture over the 2nd half of section 12-3
            Tue: 9th grade Writing Assessment
            • 1st-3rd periods were affected due to the writing assessment, so periods 4th-7th worked on their notes and made up labs
            Wed:
            • Joint class lecture over section 12.4...final lecture
            • Review (3 types of RNA, 3 differences between DNA and RNA, nucleotides, 5 nitrogenous bases, helicase, DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, transcription, start and stop codons, exons and introns)
            • Lab scanned and uploaded to my blog
            • Copy lab in your composition notebook and be ready to complete in class tomorrow
            • DO NOT WRITE OUT THE CODON CHART...I WILL MAKE COPIES
            • Study for Friday's test (Section 11.4 and Chapter 12...omit 12.5)
            • There are scanned review sheets for the test in the resource folder
            Thur: Lab Day!!! (What can happen when things go wrong?)
            • Answer the questions to the lab and finish your write up
            • Study for Friday's test (Section 11.4 and Chapter 12...omit 12.5)
            Fri: TEST DAY
            • Chapter Test Section 11.4 and Chapter 12...omit 12.5
            • Test moved to Monday, February 9th

            ***Here are the remaining sections we have to complete before the end of the term. Make sure you RNV all of these sections prior to February 27th.!!!
            • 11.1
            • 11.2
            • 11.3
            • 13.1
            • 13.2
            • 14.1
            • 14.2
            • 14.3
            Feb 9-13 (Heavy lecture week)
            Mon: TEST DAY
            • Chapter 11.4, 12 and 2 Test
              • HW- RNV 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 
            • Make sure your labs are complete. They will be graded in class tomorrow.
            Tue:
            • Grade labs in class
            • Make up labs and tests
            Wed:
            • Grade second lab in class
            • Lecture over 11.1
            Thur: NO LAB TODAY
            • Finish 11.1 lecture
            Fri: combined class lecture
            • Review lecture over 11.1
            • Lecture on 11.2
            • Over the weekend prepare for 11.3 lecture
            • RNV 11.3 if you haven't already completed this
            • RNV 13.1, 13.2 over the weekend
            • All grades are updated and entered
            Feb 16-20
            Mon: President's Day/Planning Day/No School :)


            Tue: SNOW DAY/No School
            • Make sure you RNV for sections 11.1-11.3 and 13.1-13.2
            • Expect a quiz our first day back over section 11.2
            • Look at your Gradespeed account and check for discrepancies with your grades
            Wed-Fri: School or No School  NO SCHOOL
            • While we are out, please RNV (read, take notes and complete the vocab) for the remaining sections of the 3rd term:
                         11.3
                         13.1
                         13.2
                         14.1
                         14.2
                         14.3
            • We will have a quiz our FIRST day back over 11.2, with 11.3 following shortly
            • Please use your time wisely and prepare for class-we have a lot to cover


            Feb 23-27


            Mon, Tue: SNOW DAYS
            Wed:
            • 13.1 PowerPoint Lecture
            Thur: SNOW DAY
            Fri:
            • 13.2 PowerPoint Lecture










            Tuesday

            January 5-9 and 12-16 and 19-23 and 26-30

            Jan 5-9

            Mon: Inservice Day...NO SCHOOL

            Tue:
            • Assign group members for Food Web/Biome Project...random pulling of biome names (PBL#3)
            • Look up info on your biome (Chapter 4 in your textbook)
            • Start taking notes on Chapter 3
            Wed- Fri: (Thursday was a snow day)
            • Research/printing/collection of materials for food web/biome
            • Construction of project
            • Work on presentation
            *** Make sure you are studying for your Chapter 3 Test (Jan 15th)

            Jan 12-16 (Block Schedule due to Practice Writing Assessment)

            Mon: 
            • Periods 1, 2, 7 Food Web Presentations and Lab
            Tue:
            • Periods 3,4,7 Food Web Presentations and Lab
            Wed:
            • Periods 5,6 Food Web Presentations and Lab
            Thur: Normal Schedule
            • Chapter 3 PP presentation 
            • Balancing Interactions Lab due
            Fri:  Double Activity Schedule...Homecoming Ceremony and Faculty/Student basketball game
            • Chapter 3 Test (modified)


            Jan 19-23
            Mon: NO SCHOOL...MLK Day
            Tue:
            • Start PP presentation over section 11-4
            • Take notes on section 11-4 for HW
            Wed and Thur:
            • Grade lab in class (Balancing Interactions)
            • Mitosis vs. Meiosis in class activity...The Battles of Reproduction
            Fri:
            • Finish working on the Mitosis/Meiosis class activity
            Jan 26-30
            Mon: (out for a half day...Leadership)
            • Begin working on section 11.4 notes and 12.2-12.4
            Tue:
            • PowerPoint lecture over 11.4
            Wed:
            • PowerPoint lecture over 12.2 and review of 12.1
            • Homework...Go to my blog and write up your lab for tomorrow's class in your notebook...you will not be able to use a printed lab
            • The lab is located in the Helpful Links tab...Class Resources...3rd Term folder
            Thur: Lab Day (DNA Replication- Paper Clip Activity)
            • Lab
            • Complete your lab questions. Make sure to add Analysis, Conclusion and Sources of Error at the end of your report
            Fri: (Lectures will double in size due to Mrs. Jarrell's classes coming in)
            • Lecture over 12.3 ( the first half)
            • Finish  lab over the weekend

            Chapters and sections we are covering for the 3rd term:


                              January 6-16 (Chapter 3)


                         January 19-23 (Chapter 11.4)


                         January 26-30 (Chapter 12.2, 12.3 and 12.4…12.1 was completed 1st semester)


                         February 6-20 (Chapter 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2 and 14.3)












            December 1-5\8-12\15-19

            December 1-5
            Mon:
            • PowerPoint lecture 9.1 (Glycolysis)
            Tue:
            • PowerPoint lecture 9.1 (Fermentation)
            • Chapter 9 vocabulary quiz- summative
            Wed:
            • Copy Cellular Respiration lab write up in class
            • Worksheet over Chapter 9...start in class and finish for HW (due Friday)
            Thur: Lab Day (proper shoes, clothing, and hair)
            • Cellular Respiration lab activity (20 minutes)
            • PowerPoint lecture 9.2 (Krebs cycle)
            • Lab Report:
              • Title
              • Purpose and Prediction
              • Materials
              • Procedure
              • Data Table
              • Analyze & Conclude questions
              • Conclusion
              • Sources of Error
            Fri:
            • PowerPoint lecture 9.2 (Krebs and ETC)
            • Study Chapter 9 over the weekend...your test will be Tuesday, December 9th

            December 8-12
            Mon:
            • Chapter 9 Test Review
            Tue:
            • Chapter 9 Test
            Wed- Fri
            • Midterm Exam Review
            December 15-19
            Mon:
            • Last full day of school
            • Last review day for Midterm exam
            Tue:
            • 8-9:30 =7th period class
            • 9:50-11:20= 7th period exam
            Wed:
            • 8-9:30= 1st period exam
            • 9:50-11:20= 2nd period exam
            Thur:
            • 8-9:30= 3rd period exam
            • 9:50-11:20= 4th period exam
            Fri:
            • 8-9:30= 5th period exam
            • 9:50-11:20= 6th period exam


            ENJOY YOUR WINTER BREAK!!!!!! :)
            See you back on January 6th.











              Thursday

              November 3-7/10-14/ 17-21/ 24-28



              November 3-7
              Mon:
              • PowerPoint lecture over 10.1
              Tue:
              • NO SCHOOL...Parent/Teacher Conferences

              Wed:
              • PowerPoint lecture over 10.2
              • Collect grade on Cell Membrane activity sheet
              Thur: Lab Day
              • Mitosis Lab (Onion Root Tip)
              Fri:
              • Mitosis Lab write up due
              • PowerPoint lecture on 10.3
              • Review over section 10.1
              • For the weekend, study Chapter 10
              • We will have a test Tuesday 11/11




              NOVEMBER 10-14
              Mon:
              • Chapter 10 Review
              • Study for your test
              • Chapter 10 Quiz #2
              • Chapter 10 review
              Tue:
              • Chapter 10 Test
              • Chapter 10 Review
              • RNV Chapter 8
              Wed:
              • Chapter 10 Test
              • Homework: copy the lab from page 206 Quick Lab (What waste material is produced during photosynthesis?)
              • PowerPoint lecture over 8.1
              • PowerPoint lecture over 8.2
              Thur: Lab Day
              • Lab Report:
                • Title
                • Materials
                • Procedure
                • Analyze & Conclude questions
                • Conclusion
                • Sources of Error
              • PowerPoint over 8.2 (first 14 slides)
              • RNV all of Chapter 8 if you have not already completed this
              Fri:
              • PowerPoint lecture over 8.2 and 8.1
              • Quick quiz over the scientists in section 8.2 (van Helmont, Priestley, and Ingenhousz)
              • Over the weekend:
                • start on Chapter 9 RNV
                • study chapter 8...we will have a test next week


              November 17-21
              Mon:
              • PowerPoint lecture over 8.2
              • Read and study chapter 8
              Tue:
              • PowerPoint over 8.3 (The Chloroplast)
              • Read and study chapter 8
              Wed:
              • PowerPoint lecture over 8.3 (The Light- Dependent Reaction)
              • Read and study chapter 8
              Thur: NO LAB
              • Quiz #2 over...Light Dependent reaction
              • PowerPoint lecture over 8.3 (The Light- Independent Reaction)
              • Read and study chapter 8
              Fri:
              • Quiz #3 over...Light Independent reaction
              • PowerPoint over 8.1
              • Study Chapter 8 over the weekend in preparation for your test
              • RNV Chapter 9


              November 24-28
              Mon:
              • Chapter 8 Test
              Tue:
              • PowerPoint lecture over 9.1 (Overview of Cellular Respiration and Glycolysis)
              • Chapter 8 Test make up day
              Wed-Fri:
              • THANKSGIVING BREAK...No School
              • Finish your RNV for Chapter 9
              • We have 2 weeks of lesson left and 1 week of exams before Winter Break!!!