7th Grade/2nd Period: Today we worked through Exercise #41 in the Gold Book and began #42. Weekend homework is to finish exercise #42 -- 3 points if you do it, -3 points if you don't. Monday we will also have a quiz on embedded ca's that will look like Exercise #41.
7th Grade/3rd Period: One day behind 2nd period. We worked through Chapter 30 and began Class Exercise #41. Finish Ex. 41 over the weekend, please. No quiz Monday.
8th Grade/4th Period: No class today -- floater four. Precis #1, on Leonard Sax's "Failure to Launch" article, is due Monday -- 173 word limit.
8th Grade/6th Period: We worked on the first precis in class today; it's due Monday.
HOOPER PROJECT: No one got Wednesday's electoral Hooper, so no points were awarded. For the record, though, two men won their party's nomination for president or vice president five times: Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon; George W. Bush was elected with fewer popular votes than Al Gore in 2000, and 538 electoral votes are equal to 435 members of the House, 100 Senators, and 3 extra electors for the District of Columbia.
Tonight, in honor of the last few crazy days, a Hooper three-fer about, well, craziness. Three points to the first and one to each additional Comper who can tell me: (a) What book did former Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall write about his struggles with mental illness?, (b) What Achaean warrior kills himself after a fit of insanity when he thinks a herd of sheep are his betraying comrades?, and (c) What Civil War general suffered a nervous breakdown in 1861 before recovering and leading the immortal Army of the West?
7th Grade/3rd Period: One day behind 2nd period. We worked through Chapter 30 and began Class Exercise #41. Finish Ex. 41 over the weekend, please. No quiz Monday.
8th Grade/4th Period: No class today -- floater four. Precis #1, on Leonard Sax's "Failure to Launch" article, is due Monday -- 173 word limit.
8th Grade/6th Period: We worked on the first precis in class today; it's due Monday.
HOOPER PROJECT: No one got Wednesday's electoral Hooper, so no points were awarded. For the record, though, two men won their party's nomination for president or vice president five times: Franklin Roosevelt and Richard Nixon; George W. Bush was elected with fewer popular votes than Al Gore in 2000, and 538 electoral votes are equal to 435 members of the House, 100 Senators, and 3 extra electors for the District of Columbia.
Tonight, in honor of the last few crazy days, a Hooper three-fer about, well, craziness. Three points to the first and one to each additional Comper who can tell me: (a) What book did former Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall write about his struggles with mental illness?, (b) What Achaean warrior kills himself after a fit of insanity when he thinks a herd of sheep are his betraying comrades?, and (c) What Civil War general suffered a nervous breakdown in 1861 before recovering and leading the immortal Army of the West?
