Sunday, November 16, 2014

Week of 11/17 - 11/21

Monday
  • Monohybred cross Lecture.  We will learn how to do basic punnett square problems.
  • Homework: Study Guide Ch. 11-2
Tuesday
  • Blood type Lecture.  We will predict the blood type of children given parents blood type.    (Honors Classes only - Leaf Project will be turned in no later than today for full credit.)
  • Homework: Study Guide Ch. 11-3.
Wednesday

Thursday

  • Magazine 
  • Homework: Work on the magazine

Friday
  • Magazine.  Today is a flex day.
  • Homework: Work on the magazine
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Week of 11/10 - 11/14

Monday
Tuesday
  • No School
  • Homework: No Homework   

Wednesday
  • Test Meiosis Chapter 11 section 4
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  • Homework: Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 11 sections 1, 2, 3, & 5 only.
Thursday

Friday
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Week of 11/3 - 11/7

Monday
  • Test Review
  • Homework: Study for the Test on chapter 12.
Tuesday
  • Test Chapter 12
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  • Homework: Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 11 section 4 only.

Wednesday
Thursday
  • Magazines
  • Homework: No homework

Friday
  • Lecture Meiosis Chapter 11-4
  • Homework: No homework
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Week of 10/27 - 10/31

Monday

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
  • Protein Synthesis Game.
  • Homework: No Homework.
Friday
  • Magazine Happy Halloween
  • Homework: complete documentary film review 
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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Week of 10/20 - 10/24

Monday

Tuesday
  • Mitosis Test
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  • Homework: Ch. 12 Vocabulary and Key concepts.   

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday
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Week of 10/13 - 10/17

Monday


Tuesday

Wednesday
  • Mitosis Lab   
  • Homework: Lab Questions.   
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Thursday
  • Mitosis Lab
  • Homework:  Lab Questions.   

Friday
  • Students will work on their magazine.
  • Homework:  Study the stages of mitosis.  
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Week of 10/6 - 10/10

Monday


Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday
  • Students will work on their magazine.  
  • Homework:  Study for the quiz.   

Friday
  • Quiz Ch. 9 
  • Homework:  Ch. 10 Vocabulary and Key Concepts (page 256).  Write in cornell note format.  Do the 10 Key concepts first numbering them 1-10, then do the 15 vocabulary words numbering them 11-25.  
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Week of 9/29 - 10/3

Monday


Tuesday

Wednesday
  • Students will work on the Magazine.  
  • Homework: Complete Ch. 8 Vocabulary Review Worksheet .

Thursday

Friday
  • Quiz Ch. 8
  • Homework: Ch. 9 Vocabulary and Key Concepts   
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Week of 9/22 - 9/26

Monday

  • Lecture Ch. 7-4
  • Homework:  Study for Test  

Tuesday
  • Osmosis and Diffusion Lab  
  • Homework: Lab Write-up.   

Wednesday
  • The honors class will work on their magazine project.  The biologu class will do an activity 
  • Homework: Study for the test  
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Thursday
  • Cell Test Review    
  • Homework:  SStudytudy for Test 

Friday
  • Cell Test    
  • Homework:    Do Ch. 8 Vocabulary and Key Concepts page 216.  Do 8 key concepts and 12 vocabulary definitions.  Do in cornell note format and number 1-20. 
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Week of 9/15 - 9/19

Monday


Tuesday

  • Cell Lab.  The students will look at plant cells under the microscope.  They will see cholorplast streaming
  • Homework:  Complete lab questions for todays part of the lab.

Wednesday

  • Cell Lab.  Students will look at animal cells and compare them to plant cells. 
  • Homework: Complete the lab questions.

Thursday
  • Cell Lab Questions.  The Honors Biology Students will work on the magazine project.  The biology students will complete the Study Guide Ch. 7 
  • Homework: Complete the lab questions.

Friday

  • Student will do the Reviewing Content Questions 1 - 10 on Page 196, and Standardized Test Prep questions 1 - 11 on page 199.  The student is to write the complete question in one color and the correct answer in another color.  (ex. write question in black ink and the answer in pencil. 
  • Homework:  Complete the question. 
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Week of 9/8 - 9/12

Monday
  • Quiz Ch. 2.     
  • Homework:  Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 7 page 196. Students are to do this assignment in Cornell Note format. They will copy the 14 key concepts on the right side of the page and write a question for each key concept on the left side of the page. They will then define the 37 vocabulary words. They will write the vocabulary word on the left side of the page and the definition on the right side of the page. Students should number the key concepts 1 - 14 and the vocabulary 15 - 51. 

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday
  • Microcope Lab part 1. Students will learn how to use a compound light microscope.
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  • Homework: Complete the lab questions.

Friday
  • Microcope Lab part 2.
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  • Homework:  Complete the lab questions. 
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Monday, September 1, 2014

Week of 9/1 - 9/5

Monday
  • NO SCNOOL
  • Homework: Enjoy the day off and do something fun.

Tuesday

Wednesday
Thursday
  • Magazine the Honors class will work on their magazine.  The Biology class will do an activity in class.  Today is a minimum day we are out at 12:15.  Please plan to attend Back to School, your child will receive extra credit if you attend.
  • Homework: Complete the activity    

Friday
  • Students will do a pH Lab.  They will check the pH of common foods.  
  • Homework: Complete the Lab Write-up.    
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Sunday, August 24, 2014

Week of 8/25 - 8/29

Monday
  • Check Lab.  Students will play the role of Forenic Scientist  and learn to form hypothesis. 
  • Homework: Complete Study Guide Chapter 1-3. 

Tuesday
  • Students will continue with the Check Lab and draw their final hypothesis. Students will turn in the Lab at the end of the period.
  • Homework: Complete Study Guide Chapter 1-4.

Wednesday
  • Quiz Chapter 1.
  • Homework: Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 2 page 56.  Students are to do this assignment in Cornell Note format.  They will copy the 14 key concepts on the right side of the page and write a question for each key concept on the left side of the page.  They will then define the 41 vocabulary words.  They will write the vocabulary word on the left side of the page and the definition on the right side of the page.  Students should number the key concepts 1 - 14 and the vocabulary 15 - 55.
Thursday

Friday
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Week of 8/18 - 8/22

Monday
  • Magazine Project
  • Homework: students need to think about there magazine and plan what they want to do with this project. 

Tuesday
  • Lecture Chapter 1-1   (Chapter 1- Section 1)
  • Homework: Vocabulary and Key Concepts for chapter 1 page 30.  Students are to do this assignment in Cornell Note format.  They will copy the 7 key concepts on the right side of the page and write a question for each key concept on the left side of the page.  They will then define the 23 vocabulary words.  They will write the vocabulary word on the left side of the page and the definition on the right side of the page.  Students should number the kep concepts 1 - 7 and the vocabulary 8 - 23.

Wednesday
Thursday

Friday
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Week of 8/11 - 8/15

Monday
  • Welcome to Biology.  We will get our biology books today.  I will begin discussing the class rules starting with the cell phone policy.     
  • Homework: Students and Parents need to sign and return the Cell phone policy.

Tuesday
  • We will continue to discuss class rules, class expectations, grading policy, and how all student should conduct themselved in class.  Students are expected to keep a notebook of ALL their work done in this class.  Notebook requirements are outlined in the Notebook Requirement handout.
  • Homework:  Students and Parents need to sign and return the Class Procedure and grading policy.

Wednesday
  • We will discuss how students will be expected to conduct themselves during Labs and Lab safety.  Students will read and highlight important Lab safety procedures.  
  • Homework: Students and Parents need to sign and return the Lab Safety Contract.   

Thursday
  • We will discuss the six steps of the scientific method while discovering how student learn.  We will do the Learning Styles Lab.  Each student will discover how they learn and what types of assignments they learn best from and what assignments they dislike.   
  • Homework: Complete todays portion of the Lab.   

Friday
  • We will continue with the Learning Styles Lab.  We will collect our data, analyze the data, and draw our conclusions.
  • Homework:  Write half page in complete paragraph no less that 3-5 sentences in each paragraph.  Student needs to include the name of their learning style and a discription of that learning style.  They need to discuss the types of assignments they learn best from and the types of assignments they dislike the most.      
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Week of 3/24 - 3/28 Spring Break

This is Spring Break; Enjoy the time off and recharge.  Be ready to return to the fun and excitement of Biology
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Week of 3/17 - 3/21

Monday

  • Overview of the Human Body Pg. 892 - 893.  Create a chart with three columns titled System, Structures, and Function.  Numbering each system 1-11.  
  • Homework: Complete the Chart.        
Tuesday 
  • Ch. 35 Vocabulary and Key Concepts.  CAHSEE Testing for 10th graders. 
  • Homework:  Complete Ch. 35 Vocabulary and Key Concepts.   

Wednesday
  • Lecture Standard 9A.   CAHSEE Testing for 10th graders     
  • Homework: Study Guide Ch. 35-1.     
 Thursday

Friday
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Week of 3/10 - 3/14

Monday

Tuesday 

Wednesday
  • Magazine / Ecology Review for the Test.     
  • Homework: Work on the Review worksheet.     
 Thursday

Friday
  • Test Ch. 3, 4, 5 & 6   
  • Homework:   No Homework.   
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Week of 3/3 - 3/7

Monday

Tuesday 

Wednesday
 Thursday
  • Yeast Lab.   
  • Homework:  Yeast Lab questions.   

Friday
  • Quiz Ch. 5   
  • Homework:   Ch. 6 Vocabulary adn Key Concepts.   
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Week of 2/24 - 2/28

Monday

  • Movie The Realm of Snakes  
  • Homework:  Enjoy the Day off.       
Tuesday 
  • Magazine / Crash Course of Community of Ecology students outlines the video. 
  • Homework:  No Homework.  

Wednesday
 Thursday
  • Quiz Ch. 4.   
  • Homework:  Ch. 5 Vocabualry and Key Concepts.   

Friday
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Week of 2/17 - 2/21

Monday

  • No School.  
  • Homework:  Enjoy the day off     
Tuesday 
Wednesday
  • Quiz Ch. 3.  
  • Homework:  Ch. 4 Vocabulary and Key Concepts.  
 Thursday

Friday
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Week of 2/10 - 2/14

Monday

  • Ch. 3 Vocabulary and key Concepts .  
  • Homework:  Complete the Ch. 3 Vocabulary and key Concepts.     
Tuesday 
Wednesday
 Thursday

Friday
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Week of 2/3 - 2/7

Monday

  • Magazine Activities .  
  • Homework:  Complete the Activity.     
Tuesday 
Wednesday
 Thursday
  • Review for Test  
  • Homework:  Study for test.

Friday
  • Test Evolution.  
  • Homework:  No Homework.  
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Week of 1/27 - 1/31

Monday

Tuesday 
  • Battle of the Beaks Lab.
  • Homework:  Lab Questions.

Wednesday
  • Quiz Ch. 16. 
  • Homework:  Ch. 17 Vocabulary and Key Concepts. 
 Thursday

Friday
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