Ninth Grade, Fourth Six Weeks
January 31 - March 17, 2000
English (World Lit.) A
Geometry A
World History A
Biology A
Spanish A
Physics A
English
Grammar: Identifying gerunds and gerund phrases and functions, diagramming gerund phrases as subjects, direct objects, and objects of prepositions, editing sentences
Spelling: Spelling tests and vocabulary exercises
Writing: Original illustrated children's book on the Spanish Armada, research paper on sleep and dreams, start of mystery story
World Literature: Ten chapters in Don Quixote, four acts of Shakespeare's As You Like It, two chapters of Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution, by Langguth
Geometry - Exercises proving angles or sides equal, constructions
English History/Geography - Test over Tudor times, drew British Isles from memory; Stuarts, Great Civil War, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, and test; Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo
Biology - Blood, heart, circulation, respiration
Lab: Dissected cow's heart and tongue
Spanish - Creative dialogs about apartment hunting, football game, details of usage in original dialogs; vocabulary of shapes, math operations mas, menos, and por, adjectives, and
courtesies
Tennis - Fundamentals