Monthly Schedule

(Geometry, Periods A and F)

M 1/7/08	HW due: Be prepared to show your progress toward your exam preparation plan. I will plan to hold a 1-minute conference with each student during class today. If you have kept a daily written log (or have a calendar on which you have written annotations), that is preferred, but an oral description of what you have done will also suffice. Here is the link to the exam tips page that was provided last month. (Practice exam and answer keys are available from that link.)
T 1/8/08	HW due: Prove that if the midpoints of any parallelogram ABCD are joined, the resulting figure is a parallelogram. Provide diagram, “Given” and “Prove” statements, and full 2-column proof. Neatness counts. While I am grading your homework, there will also be an Instant Feedback Quiz to begin to gauge your readiness for the midterm exam. Everything from the entire semester is fair game. Hint: Be sure to look at the cumulative review problems on pp. 291-293.
W 1/9/08	Instant Feedback Quiz.
Th 1/10/08	Instant Feedback Quiz.
F 1/11/08	Instant Feedback Quiz and Fun Friday (A/S/N Spelling Bee). Optional HW: If you submit a neat, accurate writeup of Wednesday’s question #4 in your own handwriting, you can earn back the points for that problem. (If you got it correct the first time, this would be a bonus.) Here are the links to Wednesday’s quizzes: A period and F period. I recommend that you look at both, since they are good sources of practice problems. Answer keys are BBDD and DCAD, respectively. Here is the link to today’s quiz: (click here). The answer key will be posted later, over the weekend.
F 1/18/08	Midterm Exam, 8:00 a.m., Lower School Music Room. The exam will last about 2 hours. Part of your preparation should include endurance training. (Seriously!) If you run out of glycogen halfway through, you will not earn the grade you desire. Your semester average will be computed as follows: 40% from Quarter I, 40% from Quarter II, 20% from midterm exam.
M 1/21/08	No school (holiday).
T 1/22/08	No school (faculty meetings). If you did not receive an e-mail message with your quarter and semester grades, please contact me.
W 1/23/08	Start of second semester. Welcome, new students! (Ben and D.J. are joining us in period A, Alexander in period F.)
Th 1/24/08	HW due: Read §9.2; write §9.1 #3, 4, 6, 7, 8; §9.2 #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10. New students should also read the HW guidelines. Remember that reading notes are required, and each diagram must include the setup and/or diagram. It is not sufficient simply to write the answer. Two examples are furnished below. Quiz (10 pts.) will be on a problem similar to #6 or #7. An inscribed angle is always half the intercepted arc, as stated at the bottom of p. 372.
F 1/25/08	HW due: Read §9.3; write §9.2 #6, 8, 9, 14, plus any leftovers from the previous assignment. Quiz (10 pts.) on “Angle Half SAD” problems like the ones we practiced in class Thursday.
M 1/28/08	HW due: Read §9.4; write §9.3 #1-5 all, 8, 9, 10.
T 1/29/08	HW due: Do as many of the angle-arc puzzles and more angle-arc puzzles as you can. Some of these can be solved by “Angle Half SAD,” but some of them require looking ahead in the textbook.
W 1/30/08	HW due: Read §9.5 (especially the bit on p. 393 concerning complete generality, what we call wlog); write §9.4 #2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 17, §9.5 #4, 5, 8.
Th 1/31/08	HW due: Read §9.6; write §9.6 #1-5 all. This is the only assignment of the year in which it is not necessary to show your work. With any extra time that you have, work on uncompleted problems from yesterday’s assignment to make the full 35 minutes.

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