Mr. Morgan Room 113: Tuesday, 4/2/13

ACE Work Today?

Math I: Yes

Math II: Yes
Academic Calendar
Science

Inventions Due: Wednesday, April 3rd.

Writing

Song Analysis Worksheet Due: Friday, April 5th.

Math I

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Math II

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The 162/Hayes Calendar

4/3/13 Student of the Month Breakfast – 8:30 am – Cafeteria
4/8/13 Student Council Meeting – 8:00 am – Room 184
4/11/13 Mathletes – 8:00 am - Cafeteria
4/12/13 Grade Cards go home with students
4/17/13 Early Dismissal – 2:45 pm
4/18/13 Mathletes – 8:00 am - Cafeteria
4/29/13 Student Council Meeting – 8:00 am – Room 184
4/30/13 OAA Testing – 6th Grade Reading
5/1/13 OAA Testing – 6th Grade Math

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Quia Games for Wordstudy List #25: http://www.quia.com/jg/2541310.html

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Invention Convention Tomorrow!!!

Tomorrow all Invention Convention Projects will be assessed. Here is the rubric you will be assessed by:

Writing: Song Analysis.....

Link to article mentioned below: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/opinion/27brooks.html

We read an editorial written by David Brooks (NY Times) about his 'other education', which for David was Bruce Springsteen. We discussed the editorial and the description of 'other education', which is also described by Brooks as emotional education.

A great quote from the article..

We don’t usually think of this second education. For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of attention to our scholastic educations, which are formal and supervised, and we devote much less public thought to our emotional educations, which are unsupervised and haphazard. This is odd, since our emotional educations are much more important to our long-term happiness and the quality of our lives.

After discussing the article, students were given this Song Analysis paper: