Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments Feb 24-Mar 31

Online assignments for the next month. We are working on preparing for the 10th Grade Science Test so there is a lot of science for review.

Feb 25:

Watch Science Video: Cell Biology #10 Mitochondria: Cristae, Matrix... (3 min)
Watch Science Video: Cell Biology #11: Chloroplast Structure (3 min)
Watch Science Video: Cell Cycle #1 The Genome (9 min)
Watch Science Video: Sound & Light #11 Constructive and Destruction Interference (7 min)
Watch Science Video: Sound & Light #12 The Doppler Effect (9 min)
Watch Science Video: The Circulatory, Respiratory Systems #1 Multicellular Organisms (7 min)
Watch Science Video: The Circulatory, Respiratory systems #2 Types of Connective Tissue (7 min)
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #1 The Keynesian Model (9 min)
Read poem: The Bagel by David Ignatow
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: Goober Peas
Practice Banjo: Learn new song Goober Peas. View or print out tabs.
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #1 Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tension Over Slavery (8 min)

Feb 26:

Watch Science Video: Cell Biology #12: Plant Cell Structures (5 min)
Watch Science Video: Cell Cycle #2 The Structure of Chromosomes  (6 min)
Watch Science Video: Cell Cycle #3 The Cell Cycle (9 min)
Watch Science Video: Sound & Light #13 Wave-Particle Duality (7 min)
Watch Science Video: Sound & Light #14 The 7 Major Regions of Electromagnetic Spectrum (6 min)
Watch Science Video: The Circulatory, Respiratory Systems #3 Skeletal System (8 min)
Watch Science Video: The Circulatory, Respiratory systems #4 Circulatory System I (7 min)
Read Poem: What I Would Do by Marc Petersen and For My Daughter by David Ignatow
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: Goober Peas
Practice Banjo: practice playing Goober Peas. View ofrprint out tabs.
Guitar Practice: learn Goober Peas. View or print out tabs.
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #2


Feb 27:
Watch Science Video: Cell Biology #13 Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Cells (6 min)
Watch Science Video:Cell Cycle #4 DNA Packagaing (7 min)
Watch Science Video:Cell Cycle #5 Physical Features of a Chromosome (4 min)
Watch Science Video:Sound & Light #15 Diffuse Reflection (7 min)
Watch Science Video:Electricity #1 Electric Charge and Force (6 min)
Watch Science Video:The Circulatory, Respiratory Systems #5 Circulatory System II (9 min)
Watch Science Video:The Circulatory, Respiratory systems #6 Circulatory System III (6 min)
Read Poem: Bivouac on a Mountain Side by Walt Whitman
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: Goober Peas
Listen to Song: :Long, Long Ago
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #3 
Practice Banjo: practice playing Goober Peas. View of print out tabs

Feb 28:
Watch Science Video: Cell Biology #14 Viruses (6 min)
Cell Cycle #6 Mitosis I (5 min)
Cell Cycle #7 Mitosis II (6 min)
Electricity #2 Electric Force Fields (5 min)
Electricity #3 Coulomb's Law (7 min)
The Circulatory, Respiratory Systems #7 Circulatory System IV (5 min)
The Circulatory, Respiratory systems #8 Circulatory System V (6 min)
Video: Art Through Time Themes: Domestic Life
Read Poem: I've Been Known by Denise Duhamel
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: :Long, Long Ago
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #4 
Practice Banjo: practice playing Goober Peas. View of print out tabs

Mar 3:
Cell Cycle #8 Cytokinesis (8 min)
Cell Cycle #9 Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction (4 min)
Electricity #4 Electric Potential (4 min)
Electricity #5 Insulators and Conductors (6 min)
The Circulatory, Respiratory Systems #9 Gas Exchange in Respiratory System (5 min)
The Circulatory, Respiratory systems #10 Digestive System I (7 min)

Mar 4:
Cell Cycle #10  Overview of Meiosis  (6 min)
Cell Cycle #11 Meiosis I (6 min)
Cellular Respiration #1
Cellular Respiration #2
Electricity #6 Voltage Sources (8 min)
Electricity #7 What is Electric Current? (7 min)
The Circulatory, Respiratory Systems #11 Digestive System II (6 min)
The Circulatory, Respiratory systems #12 Excretory System (6 min)
Cell Cycle #12 Meiosis II (5 min)
Cell Cycle #13 Nondisjunction and Aneuploidy (6 min)

Mar 5:
Cellular Respiration #3
Cellular Respiration #4
Electricity #8 Electrical Resistance (7 min)
Electricity #9 Ohm's Law (7 min)
The Nervous System #1
The Nervous System #2
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: :Long, Long Ago

Mar 6:
Cellular Respiration #5
Cellular Respiration #6
Electricity #10 Electric Circuit Fundamentals (9 min)
Electricity #11 What is Electric Power? (6 min)
The Nervous System #3
The Nervous System #4
Read Poem: The Moon by Robert Bly and Watching the Mayan Women by Luisa Villani
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: :Long, Long Ago


Mar 7:
Cellular Respiration #7
Cellular Respiration #8
Magnetism #1
Magnetism #2
The Nervous System #5
The Nervous System #6
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #2 Supply and Demand Curves (7 min)
Read Poem: By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame by Walt Whitman
Read Poems: Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted by Shosuana Shy and The Space Heater by Sharon Olds
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost
Listen to Song: John Brown's Body
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #5 


Mar 8:
Cellular Respiration #9
Classification #1
Magnetism #3
Magnetism #4
The Nervous System #7
The Nervous System #8
Video: Art Through Time Themes: Cosmology and Belief
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #3 Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand Model (14 min)
Read Poems: Hush’d Be the Camps Today by Walt Whitman
Memorize: The Road Not Taken by Frost. Perform poem orally today.
Listen to Song: John Brown's Body
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #6 
Read CK12 Biology chapter 6 on Gregor Mendel and Genetics 
Take SBA Test in Science--do only questions 18-32 today

Mar 9:
Classification #2
Classification #3
Magnetism #5
Magnetism #6
The Nervous System #9
The Nervous System #10
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #4 Marginal Propensity to Consume (5 min)
Read Poems: Sentimental Moment by Robert Hershon and Smoking by Elton Glaser
Listen to Song: John Brown's Body
Watch History Video: Sectional Crisis #7 
Read CK12 Biology chapter 7 on Molecular Genetics: From DNA to Proteins
Online flashcards and review vocabulary for Chapter 7.1 and 7.2
Take SBA Test in Math -- do questions 1-31 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 10:
Classification #4
Classification #5
Earth Science & Geology #1
Earth Science & Geology #2
The Nervous System #11
The Nervous System #12
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #5 Government Spending, GDP... (8 min)
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #6 Sticky Wages and Prices (8 min)
Read CK12 Biology chapter 8 on Human Genetics and Biotechnology
Take SBA Test in Math -- do questions 32-66 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 11:
Classification #6
Classification #7
Earth Science & Geology #3
Earth Science & Geology #4
The Nervous System #13
The Nervous System #14
Watch Economics Video: Aggregate Demand #7 Favorable Supply Shocks (5 min)
Watch Economics Video: Macroeconomic Equilibrium #1 The Business Cycle (11 min)
Read CK12 Biology chapter 9 on Life:From the First Organism Onward

Mar 12:
Genetics and Evolution #1
Genetics and Evolution #2
Earth Science & Geology #5
Earth's Spheres and Structures #1
Health Issues and Concerns #1
Health Issues and Concerns #2
Watch Economics Video: Macroeconomic Equilibrium #2 Recession vs Depression (7 min)
Read poems: Gratitude to Old Teachers by Robert Bly and Love Song by Carol Muske-Dukes
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Listen to Song: John Brown's Body
Read CK12 Biology chapter 10 on The Theory of Evolution

Mar 13:
Genetics and Evolution #3
Genetics and Evolution #4
Earth's Spheres and Structures #2
Earth's Spheres and Structures #3
Health Issues and Concerns #3
Health Issues and Concerns #4
Watch Economics Video: Inflation and Unemployment #1
Read Poems: Near the Wall of a House by Yehuda Amichai and To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Watch History Video: American Civil War #1
Read CK12 Biology chapter 11 on The Principles of Ecology

Mar 14:
Genetics and Evolution #5
Genetics and Evolution #6
Earth's Spheres and Structures #4
Earth's Spheres and Structures #5
Health Issues and Concerns #5
Health Issues and Concerns #6
Watch Economics Video: Inflation and Unemployment #2
Read Poems: Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Listen to Song: Old Kentucky Home
Watch History Video: American Civil War #2


Mar 15:
Genetics and Evolution #7
Genetics and Evolution #8
Minerals and Rocks #1
Minerals and Rocks #2
Ecology #1
Ecology #2
Video: Art Through Time Themes: Writing
Watch Economics Video: Inflation and Unemployment #3
Read Poems: June 11 by David Lehman and A Birthday Candle by Donald Justice
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Listen to Song: Old Kentucky Home
Watch History Video: American Civil War #3
Read CK12 Biology chapter 12: Communities and Populations


Mar 16:
Genetics and Evolution #9
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #1
Minerals and Rocks #3
Minerals and Rocks #4
Ecology #3
Ecology #4
Watch Economics Video: Inflation and Unemployment #4
Read Poems: Doing Without by David Ray and My Life by Joe Wenderoth
Listen to Song: Old Kentucky Home
Read CK12 Biology chapter 13: Microorganisms: Prokaryotes and Viruses

Do basic percentages word problems

Mar 17:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #2
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #3
Minerals and Rocks #5
Minerals and Rocks #6
Ecology #5
Ecology #6
Watch Economics Video: Free to Choose part 4, first 20 minutes
Read CK12 Biology chapter 14: Eukaryotes: Protists and Fungi

Do markup/markdown word problems

Mar 18:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #4
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #5
Minerals and Rocks #7
Minerals and Rocks #8
Ecology #7
Ecology #8
Read CK12 Biology chapter 15: Plant Evolution and Classification
Do increase/decrease word problems
Take SBA Test in Writing -- do questions 1-22 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 19:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #6
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #7
Minerals and Rocks #9
Plate Tectonics #1
Ecology #9
Ecology #10
Video: Free to Choose part 4, second 20 minutes
Read Poems: Reckless Poem by Mary Oliver and After Years by Ted Kooser
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Listen to Song: Old Kentucky Home
Read CK12 Biology chapter 16: Plant Biology
Do probability problems
Take SBA Test in Writing -- do questions 23-43 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 20:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #8
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #9
Plate Tectonics #2
Plate Tectonics #3
Ecology #11
Ecology #12
Video: Free to Choose part 4, last 20 minutes
Read Poems: This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams  and To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Watch History Video: American Civil War #4
Read CK12 Biology chapter 17: Introduction to Animals
Do midpoint formula practice

Mar 21:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #10
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #11
Plate Tectonics #4
Plate Tectonics #5
Ecology #13
Ecology #14
Video: Economic Growth and Productivity #1
Read Poems: The Changing Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and The Book of Questions, III by Pablo Neruda
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Listen to Song: Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Watch History Video: American Civil War #5
Read CK12 Biology chapter 18: From Sponges to Invertebrae Chordates
Take SBA Test in Science--do only questions 33-56 today

Mar 22:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #12
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #13
Plate Tectonics #6
Oceanography #1
Ecology #15
Ecology #16
Video: Art Through Time Themes: Portraits
Video: Economic Growth and Productivity #2
Read Poems: Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov
Memorize Poem: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Thomas
Listen to Song: Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Watch History Video: American Civil War #6
Read CK12 Biology chapter 19: From Fish to Birds

Mar 23:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #14
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #15
Astronomy #1
Astronomy #2
Ecology #17
Ecology #18
Video: Economic Growth and Productivity #3
Read Poems: In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
Listen to Song: Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Read CK12 Biology chapter 20: Mammals and Animal Behavior, section 20.1 and 20.2
Take SBA Test in Reading -- do questions 1-21 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 24:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #16
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #17
Astronomy #3
Astronomy #4
Animal Behavior #1
Animal Behavior #2
Read CK12 Biology chapter 20: Mammals and Animal Behavior, section 20.3 and 20.4
Take SBA Test in Reading -- do questions 22-43 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 25:
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #18
Anatomy Reproductive Systems #19
Astronomy #5
Astronomy #6
Animal Behavior #3
Animal Behavior #4
Read CK12 Biology chapter 22: Introduction to the Human Body, section 21.1 and 21.2
Take SBA Test in Reading -- do questions 44-65 only today
(Main page for SBA Test)

Mar 26:
Animal Reproductions #1
Animal Reproductions #2
Astronomy #7
Astronomy #8
Animal Behavior #5
Animal Behavior #6
Video: Economic Growth and Productivity #4
Read Poem: The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
Memorize Poem: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Listen to Song: Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Read CK12 Biology chapter 22: Introduction to the Human Body, section 21.3 and 21.4

Mar 27:
Animal Reproductions #3
Animal Reproductions #4
Astronomy #9
Astronomy #10
Genetic Engineering #1
Genetic Engineering #2
Video: Money and Banking #1
Read Poem: When Lilac’s Last in the Dooryard B loomed, section 1-8 by Whitman
Memorize Poem: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Watch History Video: American Civil War #7
Read CK12 Biology chapter 22: The Nervous and Endocrine Sytems:

Mar 28:
Animal Reproductions #5
Animal Reproductions #6
Astronomy #11
Astronomy #12
Genetic Engineering #3
Genetic Engineering #4
Read Poem: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, sect. 9-13 by Whitman
Memorize Poem: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Listen to Song; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 
Mar 29:
Animal Reproductions #7
Animal Reproductions #8
Astronomy #13
Astronomy #14
The Atmosphere #1
The Atmosphere #2
Video: Art Through Time Themes: The Natural World
Video: Money and Banking #3
Read Poem: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, sect. 14-16 by Whitman
Memorize Poem: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Listen to Song; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Watch History Video: American Civil War #9
 Read CK12 Biology chapter 23: The Circulatory, Reproductive, Digestive and Excretory Systems section 23.1 and 23.2

Mar 30:
Animal Reproductions #9
Animal Reproductions #10
Astronomy #15
Astronomy #16
The Atmosphere #3
The Atmosphere #4
Video: Money and Banking #4
Read Poems:  The Lamb by William Blake and The Tyger by William Blake
Listen to Song; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Read CK12 Biology chapter 23: The Circulatory, Reproductive, Digestive and Excretory Systems section 23.3 and 23.4

Mar 31:
Animal Reproductions #11
Animal Reproductions #12
Astronomy #17
Astronomy #18
The Atmosphere #5
The Atmosphere #6
Read CK12 Biology chapter 24: The Immune System and Disease, section 24.1 and 24.2

Apr 1:
Meterology #1
Meterology #2
Astronomy #17
Astronomy #18
The Atmosphere #7
The Atmosphere #8
Read CK12 Biology chapter 24: The Immune System and Disease, section 24.3 and 24.4

Apr 2:
Meterology #3
Meterology #4
The Atmosphere #9
The Atmosphere #10
The Atmosphere #11
The Atmosphere #12
Video: Money and Banking #5
Read Poems: We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks and Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe (link to main page)
Memorize Poem: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe
Listen to Song; My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean






Thursday, February 6, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Feb. 4-5

Lots of outside activities (dance class, snow shoveling, etc) so this work is being spread over two days.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman
  2. Review So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron if not memorized already
  3. Continue memorizing Ask me no more by Thomas Carew
  4. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 02 Ch 5-8  and Bk 3 ch 1 (Link to main page here)
  5. Read or listen to  Moby Dick Chapter 3 (Link to main page here
Music:
  1. Listen to Auld Lang Syne 
  2. Listen to Old Dan Tucker.
History:
  1. Read The Constitution, page 102-104 (PDF page number 134-136)
  2. Read the Bill of Rights, Amendments 20-27
  3. Continue section--watch video and do quiz afterward on President John Tyler
Science: 
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward How to Calculate Specific Heat
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Sound and Light: Wave Parameters
  3. Start a new section. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Cell Biology: How a Phospholipid Bilayer is Hydrophobic & Hydrophilic
Economics: TBD
  1. Watch video: Defining and Measuring the Unemployment Rate
  2. Move to Feb 5: Watch video: Milton Friedman's Free to Choose part 3. Watch the first 20 minutes. 

Monday, February 3, 2014

Grade 10 Online Assignments for Feb. 3

No online classes on Jan 29-31.
These are for Feb 3.

Language Arts:
  1. Read the poem A Primer of the Daily Round by Howard Nemerov
  2. Read the poem Love Poem with Toast by Miller Williams
  3. Review So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron
  4. Read and begin memorizing Ask me no more by Thomas Carew
  5. Read or listen to Les Miserables: Bk 01 Ch 12-13  and Bk chapter 1-4 (Link to main page here)
  6. Read or listen to  Moby Dick Chapter 1: Loomings and Chapter 2: The Carpet Bag (Link to main page here
  7. Read Romeo and Juliet, Act 5 Scene 1 &  Scene 2
Music:
  1. Practice banjo. Review Ed Haley's Rebel Raid on banjo. (Select song from left hand column.)
  2. Listen to Auld Lang Syne 
  3. Listen to Old Dan Tucker.
History:
  1. Read The Constitution, page 99-101 (PDF page number 131-133)
  2. Continue section--watch video and do quiz afterward on Manifest Destiny's Texas Annextation Problem
Science:  
  1. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Energy and Heat: What is Solar Energy?
  2. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Biomolecules: Differences Between RNA & DNA
  3. Start a new section. Watch video (main page link) and do quiz afterward Vibrations and Waves: Energy and Motion
Economics: 
  1. Watch video: Effects of Inflation on Suppliers and Demanders