Math:
Square Root Word Problems Questions #s 1-6
English:
Finish Chapter 24 (the Finale) Questions from Red Badge of Courage
Notes:
Today in English we finished the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. We will be completing a Review Sheet tomorrow with comprehension questions and vocabulary words. We will be taking the test on the whole book on Monday 11/24/14.
In Current Events, we read an article entitled World's Most Complicated Watch Auctions For Record $24 Million from Dogo News. The world's most complicated watch, a 1933 timepiece made by luxury watchmaker Patek Phillipe was sold for an astounding $24.4 million USD at a Sotheby's auction in Switzerland on November 11th. The historic price for the aptly named 'Supercomplication' masterpiece smashed the world record set by same watch in 1999, when it was bought by Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, a member of Qatar's royal family, for $11 million USD. According to Sotheby's, it took the anonymous buyer just 15 minutes to outbid the other five watch enthusiasts that were competing for the rare timepiece that started bidding at $16.8 million USD. While that may appear a lot for an old pocket watch, to collectors, the Henry Graves Supercomplication that is often described as "the most important watch in the world," "one of the wonders of the world," and "the collector's holy grail", is the best there is. (Dogo News)
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