CVHS 9th grade email update for March 26th, 2010

General Info:

• Early Dismissal on Wednesday, March 31st. Dismissal is at 1:30pm.
• No school on Friday, April 2nd.
• Mrs. Matsu is sponsoring two summer international trips. Both trips are currently accepting students and parents. The day you sign up locks in the price.
  • July 2010 – COSTA RICA
    ~~~~~~Last day to sign up without a late charge is March 18th! Please sign up or talk to me if interested! ~~~~~~~
    To sign up, go to http://student-travel.eftours.com/Default.aspx and go to ‘enroll on a tour’ in the bottom right hand corner
    Enter tour # 604113 and follow the directions
    Or you can call EF tours at 1-800-665-5364
  • Summer 2011 – JAPAN
    **Special: $150 off of the price until March 31. Please let me know if you have questions.
    To sign up, go to http://student-travel.eftours.com/Default.aspx and go to ‘enroll on a tour’ in the bottom right hand corner
    Enter tour # 792923 and follow the directions
    Or you can call EF tours at 1-800-665-5364

From Mrs. Bibeau (Theatre I):

• Monday – begin blocking monologue
• Tuesday – Monologue Planning Form, character Creation Form, and Monologue copy due (stapled to a manilla folder); continue rehearsal
• Wednesday – Script – Final draft with cuts and notes (in margin) stapled to folder in front of original)
• Thursday – Practice
• Friday – No School
• Please check website for class information: www.freewebs.com/bbibeau
  

From Ms. Moumni and Mr. Swenson (AP Human Geography):

Ms. Moumni

• Monday
  Current event due
  Correction of their practice exam
  Quiz on chapter 11
• Tuesday
  Lecture on agriculture
  Read chapter 13 p 410 to 426
• Wednesday
  Read chapter 13 p 426 to 439
  Lecture on agriculture + article on the green revolution
• Thursday
  Lecture on agriculture comparison and synthesis
  Von Thunen Vs Weber
  Read Chapter 8 of the Kuby book
• Friday
  NO CLass
• For next Monday
  Do Activities 1 and 2 on the globalization of Agriculture of the Kuby book (human geography in action chapter 8) for the week end. It involves going to your local supermarket!
  Read the last chapter, i.e. chapter 14.
• My Website is CVHShumangeography.webs.com

 

From Ms. Bullis and Ms. Harris (English I):

Ms. Bullis

• Students should be finished reading Slaughterhouse-Five by 4/1.
• Reading quiz over Slaughterhouse-Five – 4/1.
• Source cards for research paper due – 3/29.
• Students are in the library continuing their research 3/29 – 31.
• Major test over Slaughterhouse-Five – 4/7.
• AP Study Packet over Slaughterhouse-Five due – 4/7.
• Continue checking class website for updates and guidelines for projects & assignments: www.freewebs.com/hbullis

Ms. Harris

• Mon 3/29: Students will need to have their 10 MLA source cards. This will be a homework grade. Please make sure your students are working on them this weekend. They have been encouraged to visit Purdue OWL for help with citations.
• Students will continue working in the library on their research paper. The research paper’s guidelines are posted on the class website. PLEASE make sure your student is conducting research/working on the paper in some way at home, and please encourage them to come see me during lunch conferences. This is the only way they will be successful in this paper.
• Students need to bring their copy of Slaughterhouse Five to class on Thursday
• There is a Forums page on the class website in which students can post questions to me outside of school hours. I will check/respond to questions from 7-8 p.m. and 8-8:30 a.m. They will need to register with the site in order to post. They can also still email me questions/concerns they (or you) might have.
• Please visit http://ewharris.freewebs.com for more info about what we are doing in class.
• I highly encourage you to contact me if you have questions/concerns about your child’s progress in the class at harris.cvhs@gmail.com or Eharri10@houstonisd.org.
  

From Mrs. Matsu and Ms. Alcoriza (Biology):

• Genetics Test on Monday
• Students will be watching GATTACA in class Tuesday – Thursday.
• GATTACA questions are due Monday, April 5th
• Newspaper Wednesday due Wednesday, April 7th
• Class websites: Matsu: www.gradientphil.com/matsu & Alcoriza: www.freewebs.com/planetamy/
  

From Mr. Li (Geometry):

• We study chapter 11.4-11.7 Mon. to Wed;
• They are Arc length and area of sectors;
  Area of regular Polygon and Geometric Probability;
• Assignment are: 11.4, #1-7,8-24 (even),31-33;
  11.5. #1-8, 12-22(even), 26-30;
  11.6. #1-7, 10-32(even), 35;
  11.7. #1-8, 14-17, 23-26.
  * Review of Chapter 11 is on Thursday;
  * Friday has the test of Chapter 11.
  

From Mr. Barnes (Algebra I):

• There is homework due Monday. It is the handout “Graphing Quadratics HW 3” (it says it was due Friday but I pushed it back to Monday).
• Quiz on Monday, March 29 over graphing quadratics. This includes the material from the first 2 homework assignments for this unit.
• The next test is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, April 7.
  

From Ms. Huffman (Latin):

• Latin 1 is in Oerberg Capitulum IX and the vocabulary quiz will be this week. Also, there will be a quiz on noun case endings of the first 3 declensions
  

From Mr. Beall (Spanish I & II):

• Span. I will continue studying Chap. 8A. There will be various reading and written homework assignments drawn from pgs. 378 - 389 during the week. There will be a test over Chap. 7A & B on Tuesday.
• Span. II will continue studying Chap. 8B. There will be various reading and written homework assignments drawn from pgs. 437 - 444 during the week. There will be a quiz on Chap. 8B on Thursday, after which we will begin Chap. 9A. On Friday we will focus exclusively on their speaking and listening skills by way of discussing current events in the world.
  

From Lamane (PE):

Lamane:

• PE: Continue on Kick ball
• Health: start the chapter about: Marijuana, Inhalants, and Steroids
  Thursday: test on Chapter 23
  Fitness testing will be given to students in all Athletics period and few health students