Scribe November 9th 2010

H.W.: study for test: characters, study guide, map.

Class:

Practiced vocabulary word: Benevolent, root Bene, meaning good, part of speech: adjective, meaning: intended for benefits rather that profit, antonym: maleficent, picture: Robin Hood giving money to poor people.

Read the Odyssey pg.562- pg.566

Took quiz on books 21, 22, 23.

PLN 17

What happens to us when we grow up? how does it connect to what we learn in school: math, english, history, etc...? In Mr. Fisch's "Can't We just Memorize A Formula To Plug Stuff Into?", Mr. Fisch used a quote talking about a child creating an amazing amount of things in ten minutes while his adult mother talks on the phone drinking coffee. I find that as we grow older some of the great ideas we had as kids get completed by other people first and we give up when we could keep going and improve on the original idea and complete our goal. Instead we give up and say, "It's already been done, what's left to add?" All we need to do is listen to what the inventor did wrong and we can do it right then we can be the person who didn't stop and completed our goal.Mr. Fisch goes on to talk about how yes we have to learn the equations that just require us to "plug in" what we need to and be done as well as the equations that take extra steps and extra work to complete. These different equations match lots of different world philosophies because it connects to how we do things and how we get things done as well as how we act and proceed through life.

Connor B Scribe 11/5/10

Hello, it is November 5, 2010 on this awesome Friday morning. It is awesome of course because it is almost the weekend but also today the ski resorts Keystone and Copper open! This is pretty sweet because it’s finally ski season. Today in class we start of my turning in our vocab cards for the word maleficent and also people turn in their other work that is due today because it is the end of 6 weeks. Things that are due are Pln’s up to 16, Google Earth Entries, essay redo’s (if you did them) and all the other missing work you have, if any. We also get back our group quizzes that we took in class yesterday for Book 10 in Homer’s The Odyssey. Today we worked in class on finishing up this work and doing the homework for this weekend. Homework for this weekend is to do Pln 17, and get reading finished for book 12 in The Odyssey and finish the study guide for book 12, if you didn’t finish in class.

Scribe 11/3/2010

The day started out like any other, music playing and going over our homework today which was to turn in the Google earth entries, by Friday everyone should be through PLN 16.  After that we reviewed our vocab word, Maleficent which means: to have a harmful or evil intent, make sure you have this for Friday. After that all we did was read from book 10 of the odyssey if you have your book it starts on page 513. We did finish book 10 so if you were gone you will need to read it and do the study guide that goes with it.

Connor B Scribe 11/1/10

It’s November 1, 2010, the day after Halloween and we shouldn’t have school today because it’s the day after Halloween, and people have probably stayed up late like I did, and other schools don’t have school today. On this rainy morning and we start off in Ms. Smith’s class by getting the new vocab word, maleficent. We then continue reading Homer’s epic, The Odyssey, out of the big brown book at page 490. After reading to the end of book nine we went over a little about what we read and some of the characters. We then got a sheet that we filled out with 12 of people’s names that will be partners for the partner quiz tomorrow over book nine of The Odyssey on page 486 in the big brown book. We then watched a video that was about what we just read. We didn’t finish the video before class ended so we had to stop it and leave for the rest of our day.

PLN 15

In the article "School would be great if it wasn't for students" by Alfie Kohn, it states that instead of blaming teachers for students failing, we need to start blaming the students. I think this is important to me and to education, because it's not always the student’s fault that they are failing. Sometimes the teachers don't go over what the student needs to know enough or they somehow give a student false information, causing the student to fail. Or in every school a lot of students are failing, because not every student is getting the opportunity to choose what they want to be educated in. I think this matters to society, because if we educate these students in what articulate paths that they want to take, we could help out the world and the economy much more efficiently. If we start focusing on what the kids and students want to have as professions, I believe that it would be better for us.

RyanL2014

(I posted this kind of late so sorry about that)Today in Smith's class we didn't do much. We started out going over what we will be doing, and I happened to get Monday. We got our vocab word, malevolent. This word is do Friday so make sure you get that done. After the vocab fun we did some very exciting class room reading with chapter fourteen I believe. If you missed this chapter I would try to get that done because we will be reading sixteen through eighteen pretty quick. We also were told to finish PLN12 and to try to have PLNs 8-12 done. Those Google Earth entries that you are all having so much fun with will be due on Monday of next week so remember to get those completed as well.