Homework and Notes from 9/30/14

Homework and Notes

Math:
Complete Absolute Value worksheet
#s not done in class for HW
(Worksheet completed)

Notes:



In English we worked on our reading comprehension skills. We worked on finding the main idea and underlining details. We also worked on writing sentences that are fact and opinions. Here are two examples of our questions in class.

Read the paragraph to help you complete the question.

3.  The roads were icy. Philip's father was returning from a business trip. Philip could tell his mother was concerned about the ride home. "What if he gets in an accident?" Philip's mother said. "Bite your tongue," Philip said. "He'll be fine. Don't say bad things like that." Bite your tongue means __________.

Read the paragraph and answer the questions.

4.  My aunt is getting married! She got engaged on Valentine's Day and is so excited. She has always wanted to plan a holiday wedding. Now, she is absorbed in loads of details. We are already looking at decorations and dresses. Everything we are analyzing has a festive theme, and the colors are usually red, green and gold. Some have holly leaves. The men may wear plaid bow ties. It is going to be a beautiful wedding. When might the wedding be occurring?

In Current Events we read the article  MIT's Robotic Cheetah Gets Ready To Take On The World (And Usain Bolt) from Dogo News! At first sight, MIT's recently unveiled "Cheetah", may look like an assortment of gears, batteries and motors, but watch it in action and you will soon be reminded of its spotted namesake that also happens to be nature's fastest land predator. Though the robot cannot attain speeds of 60 mph like the real cheetah, the researchers believe they can bring it to race at least 30 mph making it the world's fastest quadruped robot and also, the fastest human (if it were one), since it would easily outrun Usain Bolt's maximum speed of 28 mph!



Picture Day is on October 29th, 2014!