Homework and Notes from 10/7/14

Homework:

Math 

Math Connects textbook page 55 #s 49-57
Dividing Integers (Negative and Positive Numbers)

English:
Answer in your English notebook

After Twenty Years
Questions #1-6

page 196-201

Questions: 

1. What promise did Bob make twenty years ago?

2. What does Bob's physical reaction to the note tell you about his emotional state? Explain.

3. How has Jimmy been both more successful and less successful than Bob?

4. How does the mood change over the course of the story? Support your answer with examples.

5. Review the predictions you made as you read. Which predictions were true? What did predicting add to your experience of reading the story? Explain.

Notes:



In English, we read the story After Twenty Years by O. Henry. We discussed the theme of loyalty and how it is important to be loyal. We also discussed how an author can set a mood. The setting helps set the mood of the story and we talked about how it change throughout the story.

"Bob: I was at the appointed place on time. When you
struck the match to light your cigar I saw it was the face of
the man wanted in Chicago. Somehow I couldn't do it
myself, so I went around and got a plain clothes man to do
the job. JIMMY."



In Science we discussed geocentric and heliocentric theories of how the solar system works. The geocentric model was developed thousands of years ago by Greek philosophers and was the accepted model of the Solar System for centuries. Geocentric actually means earth centered. This model is also called the Ptolemaic system in honor of the Greek scientist and philosopher Claudius Ptolemy, although the theory was around years before him. The geocentric model places the Earth at the center of the universe with the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets circling it. The heliocentric model, which means sun centered, gradually replaced the geocentric model. This new system places the Sun at the center of the Solar System with the Earth and all the other planets orbiting it. This theory revolutionized everything because it reversed centuries of established opinion. Although the idea of a heliocentric model had been around as early as 200 B.C., it did not gain popularity until the 16th century.