Thanksgiving Break Work

Anything in RED is required.   
Anything in BLUE is extra credit.   
Anything in PURPLE is suggested based on your grade in the class.


Throughout the week, every day at a random time
See how you did here!

• A Unit K Concept 3 problem will be automatically sent out on Edmodo every day.  Text or email Mrs. Kirch the proper general term to rack up some extra credit points... and get extra practice in the meantime!
• You can also snap a picture of what you did and text or email it to me if you don't want to have to type it out
• In your text, state: "EC #___: (answer). Give a one or two sentence explanation of your thought process.

#1-8 since some of them errored on Edmodo

Due SUNDAY 11/24 by MIDNIGHT

• Fibonacci Haiku - on blog
• TITLE: "Fibonacci Haiku: _______________" (make a title for your Haiku)
• LABEL "Fibonacci"
• REQUIREMENTS:
• Write a “Fibonacci Haiku” with a minimum of 6 lines (1,1,2,3,5,8, etc syllables or words). 
• Present on a blog post with appropriately cited illustrations or clip art. (This means you must include a link to where you got the image as the caption of the picture). VIDEO DIRECTIONS FOR INSERTING IMAGE
• Content choice is up to you (make sure it is appropriate for school). 
• Haiku must make sense from line to line, meaning that the end of the line should be a natural pause or break in the poem.
• TURN IN: Submit Link here

Due SATURDAY 11/30 by MIDNIGHT

• Fibonacci Haiku voting
•  You will be ranking the other 5 members of your table (where you sit in class) from least favorite to favorite.  Go to their blog before the deadline and read their Haiku.  Submit the form here.
• Need to know your group members' names?  Check out the seating chart list here.
• Fibonacci Beauty Ratio Blog Post (Extra Credit)
• LABEL "Fibonacci"
• Directions: "Put together a well-organized blog post with all of the measurements for your five friends (do not include pictures of them, unfortunately). At the end, decide which of your friends/relatives is the most “beautiful” based on the Beauty Ratio. Make sure to include units! Reflect on the results in a few sentences. Reflect on your opinion of the “Beauty Ratio” and the validity of it in a few sentences each."
• EMAIL OR TEXT MRS. KIRCH DIRECTLY TO HAVE YOUR EXTRA CREDIT BLOG POST GRADED.
• Fibonacci Beauty Ratio Reflective Essay (Extra Credit)
• LABEL "Fibonacci"
• You must watch the FIRST video & read through the FIRST website. Then, pick ONE MORE VIDEO and ONE MORE WEBSITE from the list to watch/read. In 4 labeled paragraphs (use the title of the video/website as the title of the paragraph), summarize the information and interesting facts presented. Then, in a 5th paragraph, respond and reflect personally to the information you watched and read. Word count required at top of page. This is posted on your blog. LINKS TO ALL VIDEOS AND WEBSITES ARE FOUND ON THE CONCEPT 4 WSQ OR THE UNIT K HOME PAGE IN THE MENTORMOB PLAYLIST! 
• EMAIL OR TEXT MRS. KIRCH DIRECTLY TO HAVE YOUR EXTRA CREDIT BLOG POST GRADED.

• "Work Ahead" to Concept 11 - WPP's 7 and 8 (Extra Credit)
• must preview Concepts 5-9 to be able to do this
• EMAIL OR TEXT MRS. KIRCH DIRECTLY TO HAVE YOUR EXTRA CREDIT BLOG POSTS GRADED.

Due MONDAY 12/2 by CLASS TIME

• Unit K Concept 5 WSQ
• Test Corrections for any unit you have yet to pass.  Email Mrs. Kirch if you did not get a copy of the test questions before you left.  Once you do your test corrections, do all the problems from the other version of the test.  Answer key will be provided upon request (text or email me).
• (REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS WHO DID NOT RECEIVE AN 'A' OR A 'B' ON THE TEST)       
• Test corrections for Unit J Test + extra practice by doing the other TWO versions for each problem that you didn't do in class.  Full answer key will be provided upon request (text or email me).
• You must print out THREE copies of the test template to do your corrections on.  Label each copy with Version 1, 2, 3, respectively.
• You must fill out the UNIT J RE-ASSESSMENT HALF SHEET (print copy here) while doing your corrections.
• You must make corrections on your original problems FIRST.  Label these as your original questions by putting a STAR next to them on the template.  (This is because you will be doing corrections on different templates based on which versions you used).
• For the other versions (that you did not take in class), do the following:
• If you got the ENTIRE concept correct, you do not need to redo those problems
• If you missed ANY PART of the concept, you need to do ALL the problems from that concept even if you got that specific problem # right on the original test.
• Test questions: Version 1      Version 2          Version 3
• ****VERSION 1 AND 2 #8... ADD A "X" TO THE DENOMINATOR SO THERE ARE THREE FACTORS TOTAL ONCE YOU FACTOR OUT THE X AND THEN Factor the trinomial.

 

 

 

• Preview all songs (there is a playlist of them below, or they are on each WSQ.  Some of them on the WSQ were recorded more recently and are different than those below) for concepts 5-9.  Singing the song to me is worth extra credit.