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.

Extra Practice...Reinforcement

Link to class files:






https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9rYsyuJWyyuS0laOG1SekNESWs&usp=sharing

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!!!

October 20-24 and October 27-31

Mon: STEM Slam Poetry Workshop


Tue:

• Review and answers for Cell Membrane, Osmosis/Tonicity, Active Transport packet

Wed:

• PowerPoint lecture over 7.4
• Study for chapter 7 Test

Thur:

• Chapter 7 review during class...ask questions

Fri:

• Chapter 7 Test
• RNV section 12.1 over the weekend

NEXT WEEK...October 27-31
Mon:

• PowerPoint lecture over 12.1

Tues:

• Finish 12.1 PowerPoint lecture

Wed:

•  9th Grade Field Trip (Career Fair)

Thur:

• 12.1 Review

Fri:

• Section 12.1 Quiz/Test (summative-counts as a grade)
• RNV Chapter 10 over the weekend

October 13-17

Mon: NO SCHOOL...Columbus Day


Tue:

• EOC Practice Test

Wed: School wide PSAT Test/Food Trucks

• Grade Permeability Lab

Thur:

• Lecture and video over hypo-, hyper-, isotonic solutions

Fri:

• Cell Membrane, Osmosis/Tonicity, Active Transport packet...complete over the weekend if you do not finish during class

September 29- October 3

Mon:

• 7.2 PowerPoint lecture

Tue:

• Finish 7.2 PowerPoint lecture

Wed:

• 7.2 Vocabulary Quiz (summative assessment...this will count for a grade)

Thur:

• Permeability Model Lab (starch, iodine, water, sandwich bags)
• Lab write up due Friday

Fri: (Double Activity Day- Awards Assembly and Pep Rally)

• Students verify grades during class time
• Turn in lab write up in composition notebook

September 22-26

Mon:

• 7.1 PowerPoint lecture

Tue:

• Grade Enzyme Lab in class
• Discuss Enzyme Lab results

Wed:

• Notes on lab write ups in assignment composition notebook
• View prepared slides under the microscope and familiarize yourself with the microscope

Thur:

• Double Lab Day
• Directions for Using Compound Microscope (view newspaper letter 'e' and a prepared slide)
• Observing the Cheek Cells (preparing your own slide with iodine stain)

Fri: ( I am out)

• Finish lab write up in class
• Turn in lab composition notebook to the black top
• Complete notes on sections 7.3 and 7.4
• Have a great weekend

September 15-19

Mon:

• PowerPoint lecture over 2.4 (Enzymes)

Tue:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Test Review

Wed:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Test

Thur:

• Enzyme Lab with post activity lab questions

Fri: (Flag football/Afternoon activity schedule)

• Class time to work on Chapter 7 RNV or look over Chapter 1 and 2 Test

September 8-12

Monday:

• Lab discussion on Analyze and Conclude question #8

Tuesday:

• Discussion/correction of lab data (place the corrections in your assignment composition notebook with a grading pen)
• 2.3 PowerPoint notes on carbohydrates

Wednesday:

• 2.3 PowerPoint notes on lipids and nucleic acids

Thursday:

• 2.3 PowerPoint notes on proteins
• Start on macromolecule flipchart (bring your own paper and supplies)
• Student workbooks handed out (KEEP AT HOME)

Friday:

• Finish and turn in flipchart during your class period

September 1-5

Monday: LABOR DAY...NO SCHOOL

Tuesday:

• Finish PowerPoint lecture over 2.1

Wednesday: 

• BRING COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK #2...the one for your assignments
• Chemistry of Life Lab introduction (procedures, materials, set up, safety, etc)
• HW: complete the handout given for the pre-lab

Thursday: Lab Day (Remember safety in the lab...wear the right shoes and have your hair pulled back)

• Chemistry of Life Lab 
• Collect data and share with the other groups
• Fill in your data chart
• Make sure you have completed your pre-lab questions
• Finish your lab write-up for HW
• Add your data table to the lab write-up

***Don't forget that all lab inquiries must be written in your composition notebook in black or standard blue ink!!!

Friday:

• Lab due in your class period...must be submitted in your assignment composition notebook...in BLACK or STANDARD BLUE INK
• Pre-lab questions (Q and A format)
• Lab write up
• Data table
• Analyze and Conclude questions (Q and A format)

THINGS TO KNOW FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. Your Chapter 1 summative test will be next Tuesday, September 9th
2. Monday, September 8th will be used as a discussion day...come in with questions

August 25-29

Monday:

• Finish dodecahedron presentations
• Hand out Instructor's Info sheet
• Students sign up to follow me via blog
• Discuss Chapter 1 (RED SCOUR)

Tuesday:

• Absent students presented their dodecahedrons
• PowerPoint lecture over sections 1.2 (Redi, Needham, Spallanzani, Pasteur) 1.3 (RED SCOUR: 8 characteristics of living things and levels of organization) 1.4 (common metric units)
• Study for Wednesday's quiz over RED SCOUR and the common metric units table on page 24

Wednesday:

• Chapter 1 Quiz #3 RED SCOUR and the common metric units

Thursday: I AM OUT

• Class time to work on Chapter 2; sections 2,3 and 4 (RNV-reading, notes, vocabulary)

Friday:

• PowerPoint lecture over the first half of section 2.1
• Finish the remaining notes for all of Chapter 2 over the weekend

August 18-22

Mon:

• Work on dodecahedrons during class

Tue:

• Chapter 1 Vocabulary Quiz #1
• Work on dodecahedrons during class

Wed:

• Chapter 1 Quiz #2
• Work on dodecahedrons during class

Thur: OPEN HOUSE, 6 pm-8 pm

• Chapter 1 Quiz #3
• Chapter 1 Quiz #2 (pg. 21 Levels of Organization)
• Dodecahedron presentations

Fri: 

• Dodecahedron presentations

August 6 and 8/ August 11-15

Wednesday 8/6:

• First day packets
• Schedules

Friday 8/8:

• Flinn Lab Safety Sheet handed out
• Student Safety Contract handed out
• Classroom jobs and procedures covered
• Freshmen Tips PowerPoint

Monday 8/11:

• Flinn Safety Sheet due 
• Student Safety Contract due
• Location of safety equipment and safety procedures discussed in class
• Passed out textbooks

Tuesday 8/12:

• Lab Safety Test

Wednesday 8/13:

• Lab Safety Test corrected and filed in student folders

Thursday and Friday 8/14-15:

• Group work (Worksheets on data collection, graphing, creating tables, lab drawings and interpreting/analyzing data)
• Note Taking PowerPoint 
• HW: Chapter 1 Reading, Notes and Vocabulary (RNV)...due Monday

2014-2015 Honors Biology Supply and Wish Lists

Class Supplies Needed:

· 3 ring binder (1-inch) and 2 composition notebooks (any color)

· External drive (example: thumb drive/flash drive)

· Assortment of colored pens (black and standard blue for assignments…red, purple, green, etc. for grading)

· # 2 pencils

· Colored pencils

· Loose leaf notebook paper

· Sharpies (dark colors)

Wish List Items:

· Kleenex (really needed)

· Hand soap (really needed)

· Paper towels (really needed)

· Sanitizing wipes (really needed)

Remember:

ü  Wednesday, August 6, 2014 –First day of school, ½ day

ü  Thursday, August 7, 2014- NO SCHOOL

ü  Friday, August 8, 2014- First full day of school