CVHS 9th grade email update for January 23rd, 2009
General Info:
- RECYCLING: Please bring all paper recycling (we recycle paper, magazines,
phone books, junk mail, etc…) to school and either drop it in the
green and yellow dumpster in the back of the school or ask your child to
bring it to the dumpster or to Mrs. Matsu. In order to keep our wonderful
recycling dumpster, we have to hit our quota. Thanks for helping us. We
take catalogs and magazines!
- Mrs. Matsu is sponsoring a 12 day trip to Australia and New Zealand
during July 2009. If you are interested in this trip please see this website
for a detailed itinerary and price information: http://www.gradientphil.com/matsu/index.htm.
Students, Parents, and siblings are welcome to join us.
From Mrs. Bibeau (Theatre & Comm Apps):
From Mr. Swenson (World Geography):
- Finish Russian Domain Unit - Test Monday and Tuesday Jan 26th and 27th
- Start Subsaharan Africa Chapter
- Second outside assignment “Economic Geography” Assigned.
Due Wednesday Feb 4th
From Ms. Bullis (English I):
- Thesis statement due - 1/30
- Vocabulary Quiz - 2/2
- Poetry test - 2/9
- Graphic Novel Project Due - 2/18
- Please refer to the English I website at: www.freewebs.com/hbullis
From Mrs. Matsu (Biology):
- Students should have already read pages 240-253 and should read pages
275-278 for next week
- Monday’s Mitosis worksheets are due Tuesday
- Test (Mitosis, Meiosis, Karyotypes) on Friday 1/30
- Class website: www.gradientphil.com/matsu
From Ms. Alcoriza (IPC):
- 1/26 – Test on Chapters 17 and 18
- 1/27-1/28 – Presentations re: Baby Element Scrapbook
- 1/29 – Start of lessons on Chapter 19
- Reminder: 1/24th is the last day to take the quiz on Chapter 18
- IPC website: www.freewebs.com/planetamy
From Mr. Li (Geometry):
- We will learn Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 from Mon. to Wed.
- Focusing on Angle Measures in Polygons & Parallelograms
- Thursday we will have a review for 8.1—8.3 and EOC practice;
- Friday has a quiz for 8.1—8.3
- All the assignments are on the Snapgrades
From Mr. Barnes (Algebra I):
- Quiz next Friday 1/30
- Test over Chapter 7 on Friday 2/6
- Students will be assigned the project for this grading cycle next week.
From Mr. Smith (Spanish I):
- Monday we will recap chapter 4, roughly halfway through. THEN, we will
have a "banquete de lectura" for the rest of the week with the
ton of first and second grade level books I have been hoarding! During this
time I will be "cooking up" inumerable reading strategies. Please
encourage them to read/speak ALOUD at home.
From Mr. Falco (Spanish 2):
- We will continue to go over the grammatical concepts in Chapter 3B. Students
will be evaluated over the material on Thursday. We will begin chapter 4A
and learn the vocabulary. We will also continue with A Succinct History
of México.
From Ms. Huffman (Latin):
- Latin 1 has done the worksheet portions of Stage 10, and we should be
ready for the multiple choice by Wednesday
From Ms. Heno (French):
- French 1 will have a mega verb review and oral and written test next Wednesday.
French 2 will design their dream car, write a story using all of the expressions
with the verb “faire” that we have studied and read for fun
and meaning “Je quitte la maison”.
From Mr. Rodriguez (Art):
From Mr. Lamane and Ms. Terry (P.E.):