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!!!

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 :)

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

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!!!

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

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)