Weekly Update!

It's time for our two weeks of vacation to come to an end...at least it was great while it lasted.

Learning Connection is hosting a Study Skills Session: Exam Version on Wednesday, after school in the Media Center.

School will resume as usual tomorrow, with exams beginning next week. The 5th period exam will take place on Tuesday in the time slot for 4th and 5th period. Wednesday: 1st/2nd, Thursday: 3rd/4th. Friday: 6th/7th. Dismissal is at 12:00 p.m. from Wednesday through Friday.

Some things to prepare for, other than exams:

• IB English IV (Mrs. Peteranecz) - Individual oral presentations begin January 7th: Click the appropriate links for the Schedule and Instruction Packet. Material covered: Yeats ("Adam's Curse," "The Wild Swans at Coole," Easter 1916," "The Second Coming," and "Sailing to Byzantium"), Frost ("After Apple Picking," "Out-Out," "Birches," "Design"), Hamlet, and Heart of Darkness. Autumn McConnico created guides on the Yeats and Frost, as well as a summary of Hamlet, which are accessible via the Document Index. The Assessment Criteria are also accessible via the Index.
• IB Spanish IV (Señor Alemañy) - Individual oral presentations begin January 19th, after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on the 17th and the teacher planning day on the 18th.

This week's agenda -

Tuesday -

• IB Theory of Knowledge (Mr. Butcher) - There is a quiz on Chapter 10: History. Come to class with a list of 10 quotes that resonate with you; ones that you either highly like or dislike. Update: Put the quotes as a journal entry.

Wednesday -

• IB Biology IV (Mrs. Bidwell) - The Hardy-Weinberg population simulation lab is due. If the handout is no longer in your possession [Anthony...], access it here. The instructions for the simulation can be found in the handout and additional info is from the simulation's own instructions.

Thursday -

• IB HL Math (Mr. Bobbitt) - Paper III, Statistics.
• IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - The Protein/Amino Acid Lab is due.
• IB History of the Americas (Mr. Jones) - There is a quiz on Cuba.

Friday -

• IB HL Math (Mr. Bobbitt) - Paper III, Calculus.
• IB Biology IV (Mrs. Bidwell) - The DNA Extraction lab is due.
• IB Chemistry (Mrs. Atkins) - Bring along materials [Orgo book, IB guides, etc.] to work on worksheets, assessment statements, etc. as Mrs. Atkins will be absent.