Saturday, October 30, 2010

IB Chemistry, Alkenes, PowerPoint

IB Chem, Organic, Alkenes (3)

IB Chemistry, Fermentation Lab, Information from Mrs. Atkins

Remember to also draw the structure of each alcohol tested, identify what type of alcohol it is (primary, secondary, tertiary), and discuss what each test should have produced.
Yeast Fermentation Lab Information, From Mrs. Atkins

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Weekly Update!

This week's agenda:

Wednesday -
  • IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - From Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry, complete 3.23, 3.25, 3.26, 3.30, 3.38, 3.39, 3.45, and 3.49, which begin on page 103.

  • IB Biology IV (Mrs. Bidwell) - The Soil Lab is due.
Thursday -
  • IB Spanish IV (Señor Alemañy) - There is a vocabulary quiz on "Los Problemas Sociales."
  • IB HL/Further Math (Mr. Bobbitt) - There is a Calculus option.
  • IB English IV (Mrs. Peteranecz) - There is a quiz on Chapter One of Heart of Darkness. Turn in 5 text cards from Chapter One (4 if you turned one in last week).
Friday -
  • IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - The Yeast Fermentation lab is due.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

IB Chemistry, Organic Test, October 20

Read and review the Chemistry Course Companion:

If you have the 1st edition, the pages are:
  • Pgs. 193-195
  • Pgs. 199-203
  • Pgs. 204-208
  • Pgs. 219-223
If you have the 2nd edition, the pages are:
  • Pgs. 207-209
  • Pgs. 214-217
  • Pgs. 219-224
  • Pgs. 234-238

There are 4 handouts corresponding to tomorrow's test:
  1. Polymerization (accompanied the polymerization lab)
  2. Alcohols (goes along with the detailed alcohols PowerPoint), a question may be included from the Maker's Mark Bourbon Distillery video (see below posts)
  3. Free Radical Substitution, connects to ozone material in Environmental
  4. Alkanes

IB Chemistry, Alkanes Packet

IB Chem, Alkanes Packet

Monday, October 18, 2010

Weekly Update!

This week's agenda:

Tuesday -
  • IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - The Environmental Chemistry Take-Home Test is due.
Wednesday -
  • IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - There is a test on polymers and alcohols.
Friday -
  • IB Biology IV (Mrs. Bidwell) - There is a test on F1, F2, and F3.

IB Chemistry, Organic, Detailed Alcohols PowerPoint

IB Chem, Organic, Alcohols-Detailed (4)

IB Chem, Alcohols, Maker's Mark Bourbon Distillery

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Weekly Update!

This week's agenda:

Monday -
  • IB Theory of Knowledge (Mr. Butcher) - Have a good idea of what topic you would like to have for your presentation (IA).
Tuesday -
  • IB Biology III/IV (Mrs. Bidwell) - Complete your field guide research and bring it on the trip to Big Lagoon. Be there by 8:30 in the morning--we should be done sometime around 2:30 in the afternoon.
Wednesday -
  • IB English IV (Mrs. Peteranecz) - There is a test covering the Frost/Yeats poems: Matching section on literary devices, Multiple-choice on mostly Frost poems, Short-Answer of 3-4 sentences per poem--choose 2 Frost poems out of 4, choose 4 Yeats poems out of 8.
Thursday -
  • IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - The Polymerization lab is due. Write an introduction and answer questions 1-4 on the sheet.
  • IB Spanish IV (Señor Alemañy) - There is a test covering the material in the practice packet we have been working on.
Friday -
  • IB History of the Americas (Mr. Jones) - There is a test on Nicaragua: the Nicaragua sections of Chapters 10 and 11 in Modern Latin America, Jaguar Smile, and Children of Cain (Ch. 5: The Triumph).
  • IB English IV (Mrs. Peteranecz) - Have a rough draft of your comparative essay, which is due Monday (10/18).

Thursday, October 7, 2010

TOK, Syllabus

This is the actual syllabus--what I had posted before as the syllabus was the Introductory Lecture.
TOK, Syllabus

Monday, October 4, 2010

Weekly Update!

This week's agenda:

Wednesday -
  • IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - Assessment Statements 20.4 are due.
Friday -
  • IB Spanish IV (Señor Alemañy) - There is a vocabulary quiz.
  • IB Theory of Knowledge (Mr. Butcher) - The TOK Journal is due: remember to have at least 10 entries. The Emotional IQ assignment counts as an entry.
  • IB Biology (Mrs. Bidwell) - There is a quiz on reflex arcs.