Wednesday's Homework, 11/30

Math:O'Brien (Pg 307 #15-23 in Textbook); finish exploration if incomplete. Math extra credit assignment due Monday.

English:Failey: Journals due for Period 5 (I believe) tomorrow
Oatis: Presentations continue; no Vocab. Remember to bring in Angela's Ashes and/or your vocabulary book to work on for Thursday and Friday (but again, no vocab is due).
Etheridge: Keep up with the assignment sheet.

AP World: Riggio: Read in textbook pg. 629-639; Bring in Stearn's Document Reader!
Rosequist- Read Pages 573-586. Define: 1. Isandhlwana 2. Tropical Dependencies 3. White dominions 4. White Racial Supremacy 5.Great Trek 6. Boer Republics 7. Boer War 8. Cecil Rhodes 9. Kamehameha 10. Great Mahele. Then Answer: 11. Contrast European social interaction with indigenous people before and after 1850. 12. What were the motives behind the global scramble for colonies? 13. How did 19th century European imperialists transform their methods of economic extraction?

Chemistry: Glazebrook - If not done already, finish packet up to section 6.6; finish lab if you didn't yet; complete practice sheet.
Brendel 2/3...and 3/4??- (from yesterday) 7.3 - 7.10, 7.12, 7.14, 7.15 (from today) 7.16 - 7.18

InSTAR: Nothing was assigned from last class for the BDF class, but reading the sections you havent read yet for the Pb retention article wouldn't be a bad idea.

French: Ransford: Essay (choose one topic) due Fri, typed version due Mon

German: (C) Vocabulary sheet due...?

AP Art History: Nothing for tomorrow, start reviewing for test on Mon+Tue of next week

(Edited by Yang at 4:19 11/30/05)

Update for Miscellaneous Issues

• See Next Post Below for Tuesday's Homework
  
• Flex period 9 for Pascarella is moved to Room 324 from now on.
• French Ransford classes, bring textbook again tomorrow
• The art unit in French will culminate as an independent research project of a certain artist (probably French) and his/her works, likely in French
  
• December calendar for Riggio History may be handed out tomorrow, but is only guaranteed by the end of the week
• Friday has a special period schedule: Periods 2,3, and 4 will be 55 min each for an assembly for Health students (entitled SAFE); periods after the assemblies will be 33 min long except for 9th period (30 min *thank you to Dylan for noticing a typo formerly here*) and 10th period (41 min); 1st period will remain 41 min long
• O'Brien Math test on functions will likely be returned tomorrow
• Failey Journal Assignments:
• 1. Presentation Commentary(on class project groups
  2. One page comparing King Arthur legend to modern piece of your groups
  choice
  3. Chart to show characteristics of modern romance
  4. One page on how Encounter in Illinois relates to modern romance.
  5. Distillation; how is the father a hero and is a a medieval type hero
  6. Read first SIX chapters of East of Eden and do outlines combining chapters
  of your choice; I know for a fact that this is true for period 5 but maybe
  since period 4 is handing in journals tomorrow they only have to do the
  first three? (somebody confirm)
  

Homework for Tuesday, 11/29/05

Math: O'Brien 10H: Evens on both sides on the worksheet we got yesterday, (excpet for #16?)
- Tam: Same thing as O'Brien

English: Oatis: Continuing presentations tommorow, bring in Angela's Ashes and Vocabulary books (but we dont need to do anything in them) for Thursday and Friday. Continue (or start) reading Angela's Ashes
-Failey: Journals due tommorow, vocab quiz Friday. Must include summaries of the 1st 6 (or is it 3? perhaps it depends on which period?) chapters in East of Eden.

Health H:Kost-Homework assignment due December 14th

French Ransford: Make sure you have completed the Activty A assingment from last night, print out a piece of art from your favorite artist.

Spanish C:Dwyer: Take home quiz on preterite tense due tomorrow

Chem Glazebrook: Complete questions in Chp. 6 outline up to (but not including) 6.6.; Collect everything you have that has to do with moles and staple them together; finish lab?
-Brendel: 7.3-7.10, 7.12, 7.14, 7.15 Review Questions

AP World History Riggio: Read pages 624-629, start finding your documents readers for Thursday
-Rosequist: Quiz tommorow (someone update with which specific pages this will be on)

AP Art History: No direct homework unless you havent finished any previous reading, notes can be found on the blackboard site.

InSTAR Brendel: If you haven't read the discussion yet, read it. (Ethan, what's the BDF class' work?)

(Edited by Yang at 3:07 11/29/05)
(Edited by Ganesh at 3:37, 11/29/05)

Homework for Monday, 11/28

Math-O'Brien: 1st page (Laws of Exponents) all odds, 2nd page (Exponents and Functions) 1-15 odds

Chem-Glazebrook: finish problems in packet up to Section 6.5 (2nd and 3rd pages)

AP World History-Riggio: Read pg. 617-624

English-Oatis: Presentations continue, work on notecards for them if necessary; no vocabulary assignment for this week!

French-Ransford: Les Beaux Arts 1. pg. 138 copy and define words in English; 2. using text on pg. 139-141, do Activité A on pg. 142

German-Aweh H: Test tomorrow on vocabulary.

AP Art History-Dietz: nothing unless you need to make up work

InSTAR-Brendel: Read discussion section of Pb retention article

Note: For those wondering what the Failey homework was, allow me to remind you that I'm not in her class. It is the responsibility of contributors in the class (i.e. Ganesh) to edit posts not including their classes.

(Edited by Ethan at 6:14 PM, 11/28/05)

Homework for Thanksgiving Vacation

That's right, we have work during vacation.

AP World History-Riggio: Read Chapter 25 on Latin America, quiz Monday (it is suggested to make sure you know the bold words for this chapter).
Rosequist: Read the 2nd third of chapter 24 (Thanks to Sean Burton for this information).

AP Art History-Dietz: Read from Gardner's: pg. 235 Dining in the Afterlife, pg. 240 Mythical Etruscan Animals, pg. 243 The End of the Etruscans, pg. 247-248 (the blue section), pg. 265-266 the Son of a God Rules Rome, pg. 268-271 (all of it), pg. 273 A new Arch for a New God

Spanish C:-Dwyer-The sheet with the two pictures on it (story w/ 15 sentences, must include gustar and encantar, and also needs to have a sentence with estar+ a feeling)
-Prochilo- watch Spanish TV for approx. 30 mins. Write down unfamiliar words and then define them.

Math-O'Brien: WEA #9 due next Monday

InSTAR-Brendel: ACE class: read discussion of article

English-Eaton[H]: Essay on Antigone due Monday the 28th
- Oatis: Myth Project due the Tuesday we get back (at least, this is what he said for 3rd period).
-Failey: Journals due the week we get back (Period 2-Tuesday, Period 4-Wednesday, I believe)

Mandarin-Yu: Essay on Mulan due Monday the 28th

Chem-Schoen[H]: Quiz Tuesday the 29th

Asian Culture Club-Yearbook pictures on Monday the 28th (wear stuff that looks hot)

Monday's Homework

Math-O'Brien: Test tomorrow

English-Failey: Journals due November 30th (must have summaries on first 3 chapters of East of Eden)
Oatis: Myth Project due 11/29, tomorrow is another day at the library

AP World-Riggio: Test tomorrow-chapter 24 (know the notes you took in class, and everything in the textbook)

Chem-Glazebrook: Watching Spiderman (tritium fusion thingy-ma-bobber) or THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (we must watch this one!) *It turns out we watched "Spaceballs," which kinda looses its funniness the 50 billionth time you watch it*

French-Ransford: Test tomorrow (yea, three of them for some of you or perhaps four if you have Brendel, O'Brien, Ransford, and Riggio)

German-Aweh (Honors): Test tomorrow on past tense verbs. Honors packet due.

AP Art History-Dietz: nothing?

InSTAR-Brendel-ACE class: read Discussion for Monday; BDF class: I'm assuming you got that assignment already


Feel free to add more assignments

Edited by Yang at 5:36 PM 11/21/05
Edited by Ethan at 7:11 PM 11/21/05

Chem Test Format

Since I'm such a nice guy, I'm going to post the format of Brendel's chemistry test for all the people in periods 2+3.

20 Multiple Choice on:
-Simple q=mc (delta)t problems
-Differences between endothermic and exothermic reactions
KNOW That Exothermic=Increase in energy=Formation of Bonds and Endothermic=Decrease in Energy=Breaking of Bonds
-Some gram-mole and mole-mole conversions
-Relationship between energy and temperature
-Enthalpy
-The Table with all the reactions on it

6 Full Response:
-2 Standard q=mc (delta T)
-1 Bomb Calorimeter
-2 Enthalpy
-1 Calorimeter Dissolving Salt Question

And a naming bonus question.

Imperialism Outline

Important Edit: I (Ethan) typed up my notes from class on imperialism and uploaded them. Maybe it's because I was bored, or I wanted to study, or I'm just a nice fella, or I did it to repay any debt to Ganesh, or I want to see Riggio squirm when the grades for the test come back as good, or maybe its just because I like hearing the nice clicky sounds from my new wireless keyboard. Either way, I typed up my notes from class and uploaded them for your convenience. Remember, these do not substitute in any way for information from the book, and I in no way can guarantee they cover everything that Riggio said in class. Do not rely on these alone, don't even substitute them for your own notes. They are pretty substantial, and I think they cover a lot of the information Riggio talked about but wasn't in the book, but there are no guarantees. Also, I'm not perfect, so if I made a typo somewhere in there and wrote a date or something wrong, I cannot be held responsible for the possible repercussions (but I don't think that happened). Remember, these are different than the outline you can find on blackboard. Here is the download link:

Imperialism Notes

___________________________
In order to study for the Imperialism now-changed-to-a-test-for-some-reason (Tuesday, not Monday), those of you who have Riggio can download an outline from blackboard, remember the username is apwh and the password is student. There's also some links and stuff up there too, though their usefulness for the test is questionable.

The outline is 7 pages, but has a good amount of information in it that should be useful for the test. Also, studying Chapter 24 might not be a bad idea, and you could also try School Island. Admins, to add information regarding this upcoming test, edit this post, preferably do not create a new one. Make sure that you look over the notes we took in class-there are a few things that the chapter doesn't cover.

Edited by Ganesh at 4:53 PM, 11/20/05

Homework for the Weekend

Homework/Assignment List:

Chemistry

• Brendel -
  
• p2+3 class: Review problems, and study for the test on Tuesday.
  And you better bring stuff in for the secret party. >_>
• p3+4 class: I assume review problems also, and study for the test on... Monday?

• Glazebrook - Part II of test on Monday
  

Math

• O'Brien - Function Test review ditto; WEA due Monday after Thanksgiving
  
• Tam - Graphing Project due Tuesday
  

AP World

• Rosequist - None (Andrew/Jon please confirm)
  
• Riggio - Imperialism debate Monday-Make sure you know everything that your team is responsible for; Imperialism reaction paper due Monday
  

English

• Failey -Nothing
  
• Inners -
  
• Oatis - Myth project due 11/28, we'll be in the library Mon and Tue for that; Start reading Angela's Ashes (write responses and include the passage you're responding about)
  
• Eaton -
  
• Etheridge - Read Chapter 3 in Jekyll and Hyde... and find a quote? Keep up to date on journals, also.

InSTAR-Brendel: both classes-read the results (refresh me on whether we need to read the discussion section as well)

AP Art History: Nothing

Edited by Ethan at 8:36 PM, 11/18/2005

Edited by Ganesh at 6:24 PM, 11/18/2005

Edited by Yang at 6:55 PM, 11/18/05

Homework for Thursday

Ganesh's Homework List

Spanish C-Dwyer: Read the sheet he gave us (because there may be a quiz)

English-Failey: Unit 2 Vocab Quiz Tomorrrow
Oatis: Vocab Quiz #4 tomorrow

Math-O'Brien: Pg 145 #1-4,13-19 odd, 29,31,35,58,59,63,69,71,72
Project due tomorrow

Chemistry-Glazebrook: Test tomorrow Part I, concentrate on the sheet of Regents-style questions

AP World-Riggio: Imperialism debate tomorrow. Whether or not this is really happening is an uncertainty. Wednesday, she said that it depends on whether or not the class prepares on Thursday. For the 6th period class, there wasn't any preparation, so maybe not. Also, prepare for an Imperialism Reaction Paper (not of the range of an essay according to Riggio) due on Monday.

French-Ransford: Subjunctive ditto

InSTAR-Brendel ACE class: read Results and Discussion for Monday. BDF class: I assume everything is a day alter



(Ethan or Yang, please add w/e you need to)

(edited by Yang at 6:50 PM 11/17/05)

Alex's Homework list

Ok homework due tomorrow is:

Chem (Schoen)- complete lab with the cutouts
Orchestra (Symphony Preddice)- sell cheese to appease mr preddice [lame] [optional]
Math (10A Schwartz)- both dittos she handed out
English (Eaton)- essay due monday *i think*
Mandarin (Yu)- (like anybody in mandarin is reading this) quiz tomorrow, character sheet due tomorrow


i made this post hard to read on purpose dont change it ethan.

Cool, Alex. Hard to read. (=

(Edited by Ethan, merged by Yang)

Homework for Wednesday

Health H-Kost: Chapter 22 Alcohol Test Tomorrow (50 multiple choice)-look over study guide

Spanish C-Dwyer: If you didn't finish that worksheet he gave us, it would be good if you did it tonight

English-Failey: Nothing, just make sure journals are up-to-date

Homework for Wednesday

Math O'Brien: See textbook work from yesterday if you didnt finish, graphing project due Fri.

Chem Glazebrook: pgs. 143-144 #60, 66, 82, 88, 93, 98, 102, 104, 106. Test Friday

English Oatis: Vocab unit 4 due tommorow, quiz Fri.

French Ransford: Period 7, no hw. Earlier periods, ?worksheet?

AP World Riggio: Finish reading from yesterday if you havent done it.

AP Art History Dietz: 6.1, 6.2 quiz tommorow. See blackboard for notes.

Homework for Tuesday

Math: O'Brien: text pg. 135 #57, 59, 61, 63 pg. 146 #55, 56, 57 (just show one-to-one via algebra)
Chem: Glazebrook: text pg. 116-123 prac ex 17-21; Lab due Thurs; pg. 143-144 #60, 66, 82, 93, 98,1 02, 104, 106; Mole Test Fri

Art History: Dietz: 6.3+questions due Fri, 6.1+6.2 quiz Thurs

English: Oatis: Vocab due Thurs, quiz Fri, Myth project due 11/28

History: Riggio: Read pg. 576-586

French: Ransford: text pg. 181 Activity A

InSTAR: Brendel: ACE class-methods due Thurs; BDF class: methods due Wed

Homework for Monday

Math: pg. 134, #35-43 odd, 65, 66, 67, 70, 76

English Failey: English Romance project due tommorow
Oatis: Vocab Unit #4 for this week

French Ransford: Finish subjunctif worksheet (I, II, III, IV)

Chemistry Glazebrook: First 4 pages of formulas packet. For Period 4/5 class, she said everything but she never went over the last page, so I assume that we'll do that tomorrow

InSTAR: Methods due Wednesday for BDF class, we will also be starting a new scientific article. Methods due Thursday for ACE class

History Riggio: Calendar says pg. 573-575; also, the imperialism activity+maps are due tomorrow

If I didnt say anything for a class, then theres no homework for it. Yang, update this if nescessary.

(edited by Yang at 7:59 Pm 11/14/05)

Function Graphing Website

The following link directs to an extremely useful website for plotting/planning your logo for your graphing calculator project. It is a Java applet which can graph unlimited functions virtually instantly, so you can understand why it has a huge functional advantage over the calculator for planning purposes. Be sure to read the instructions on how to use it (which can be found on the page), and remember when using decimal values to put a 0 before the decimal point (i.e. 0.5 or 0.67701).

Function Grapher

Additional Homework Assignments for Veteran's Day Weekend

Note: the site will display only the 5 most recent posts on the front page. To access older ones, there is a link to the archive on the side bar, as well as links to individual previous posts (posted by Ethan at 7:11 PM).

Here are some other assignments to add to whatever Yang has posted.

Health H Kost: The major hw assignment (with the vocab and summaries) are due Monday
English Failey: No written work, get familiar with the romance story you have chosen
Spanish C Dwyer: Theres a quiz on the most recent article that he gave us (about the albums)

(Edited by Ethan at 7:11 PM [limited redundancy from Yang's post])

A C E - B D F

Alex here.

Because nobody is intelligent enough to understand the oh-so-complicated pattern that the school uses, heres a schedule.
Its a scanned-in photocopy of a cut and pasted reprint of a photocopied scanned printout;
Ill try to upload a better one when i find my original.

Congratulations to Joyce, our first ever commenter! You all should take a tip from her and leave comments, it makes us webmasters feel special.

Popular WEA Problems

WEA #8 is due Monday, in in response to popular difficulties with certain problems, this post will serve to explain concepts or give examples so that you can solve the problem. It will not provide the direct answer to the problem, it will teach you how to solve it.

Finding the magnitude of a complex number seems to be a difficult questions for some, simply because there is doubt as to what exactly the problem is asking. The magnitude of a complex number is defined as the positive square-root of the complex number times its complex conjugate. There is an credible website here that explains how to find the magnitude step-by-step (take note, this website uses j as a denotation for an imaginary number, not i like we do).

Yang, feel free to add something on any other questions you think might be difficult, and if anyone has questions, commenting has been enabled for everyone, so leave a comment on this post with a question.

A Reminder for the Three Day Weekend

For those of you in our classes, here's what you'll have to do for the long weekend:

Math-O'Brien: -WEA #8 due Monday
-Calculator Logo Project due anytime next week, up to Friday
Chem-Glazebrook: -nothing really, work on the continuation of the lab if you want and take a look at the rest of Chapter 3 (*snicker* yeah right, Yang...)
History-Riggio: -Imperialism Packet (calendar states that it's due Monday but I heard Tuesday from her, so correct me Ethan if you have anything else to add)
-Reading in Stearns Text, pg.563-573
English-Oatis: Nothing, M+M movie next week
French-Ransford: -Nothing, have 15 words per category (emotions and actions) ready with a partner for Monday
Art History-Dietz: -Readings (pg. 89 Mycenae, pg. 105-107 Greek Kouros, pg. 112 Blue section, pg. 114-117 Vases) due Mon
InSTAR-Brendel: -Start Methods section for article *(Due Wednesday for BDF class)
-ACE Class: New article unit w/ future quiz (tell me if the BDF class also has to do this)
*Yang this was not assigned with the BDF class as of yet.

Ethan, correct and/or add things as necessary (Edited by Ethan Thursday, 9:16 PM)

Happy Veteran's Day!

Of Mice and Men English Test

For those you in Mr. Oatis, we have a final M+M test tomorrow.
Preliminary Questions:
-20 MC
-15 Matching
-Unknown # True and False
-Paragraph Response*
Perhaps you may have received a sheet detailing some of the characters. This was actually taken from SparkNotes, in the characters list.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/
It's actually quite useful and includes a quiz of 25 MC that could potentially be on test (well, that's my reasoning). Do yourself a favor and take a look at it.

*For those of you in a shortened period, i.e. 8th period, Oatis said that the paragraph response won't be part of this test, so we won't have to finish it or work on it for that matter. It'll be worth a quiz or part of a quiz sometime in the near future. Perhaps Ethan would like to tell me that this applies to other classes, but we'll see.

Additionally, Of Mice and Men is indexed on Google Print, so you can search for any quote or paragraph in the book. Be warned, however, it does not let you read the whole book through due to copyright restrictions, but you should be able to search the entire text. Link

Excellent History Review Website

This website is great since it gives relevant questions for every chapter in the Stearns AP book, including multiple-choice, true/false, and flashcard review. The outlines are good for having a general idea for each chapter, so that you're not lost during the day that discussions are held in class. Reading the book is the best way to review for a quiz, not to rely solely on the outline.

InSTAR questions

The only reason im putting it up here is because I can do it by pushing only one button, so despite my laziness its here for all of you who lost it (Ganesh Thippeswamy).

How to graph more than 1 function on 1 y-editor

Since this has been a relatively common question, I will briefly describe how you can graph more than one function on one y-editor entry. This should be very helpful with the logo project. Basically, you are using the { } brackets to set coefficients for the terms in your equation. Here is an example with a simple line.

y = x + 1

In order to graph more than one line, use brackets to set coefficients like so:

y = {1,2}x + {3,5}1

What that means to the calculator is graph y = 1x +3 and y = 2x + 5

You can put as many different numbers in the brackets as you want, though make sure to have the same amount in each set of brackets, all the numbers need to correspond to numbers in the other set of brackets. i.e. first term of 1st set of brackets corresponds with 1st term of 2nd set of brackets, etc.

In order to save y-editor entries, go to Draw (2nd PRGM), then go over to STO, then go to store GDB and give it a number. To recall, go to this same menu and hit recall, then type in the number.

AP World History Test - Chp. 23

Here is a list of topics Riggio said would be on the test Wednesday (harvested this from a convo with Yang):

chapter 23 materials - cong. of vienna, age of metternich, french rev., amer. rev., industrialization, revolutions of the 1800's, inventors, NO LATIN AMERICAN STUFF DONT YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT. Also, know the "isms" on the first page of that revolutions packet, unificiation of Italy and Germany, know the general ideas of the revs of 1820's, 1830, 1848, but you dont need to know all the details of the individual revolutions. Know bismarck's "blood and iron" policy, french rev. powerpoint, nationalism, liberalism, conservatism, etc., recommended to look at some school island questions.
oh yeah and inventors too.

The test will be 50 MC AP style questions. Go to the blackboard site and under course documents theres a bunch of outlines and powerpoints that would probably be good to study from. Blackboard Site

Log On Information

The following are usernames and passwords to log on to various school-related sites:

School Island
username: wmhs-yourschoolusername *w/full last name*
password: youschoolpassword

Science Direct
username: InSTAR *mind the caps*
password: class

Blackboard Sites
AP World
- username: apwh
- password: student
AP Art History
- username: apart
- password: picasso

Infinite Campus
username: youschoolIDnumber
password: yourbirthdate (monthdaylast2digitsofyear) *no slashes or spaces*

Three Village Online Library Resources (I dont find these very useful, at all)
username: WARDMELVILLE
password: TVCSD8

SAT Online Course
Both username and password were chosen individually by you

If youre stupid enough to actually put in "youschoolIDnumber" or "yourschoolpassword" as the username or password on any of these, you deserve to get locked out of the account, which will happen if you try to log in too much.

Ward Melville Companion Website

I deicded to create a small blog-based website to facilitate your progress in homework, projects, or anything else. I created it for two reasons: A) It is fully accessible even when I am not AIM, and B) It is a much more efficient conduit of information to a wider audience than individually telling people the same information over again, only in different AIM boxes.

Hopefully, I will be able to maintain this website and keep it accurate and up-to-date, so that you can use it to find information on any current project or assignment. Also, I hope it gets a lot more viewers than the Ward Melville Student Resource page, which (IMO) is poorly designed and operated and is difficult to extract useful information from.

To the right there is a series of links to webpages that should hopefully help you out with studying or assignments or whatever. If I find that 2+ people ask me the same question on IM, I'll make a post about it here, but I'm not just gonna post what the homework is if everybody knows it already. On the top of the page, below the banner graphic, are links to some other pages on this site with commonly requested information

The following people have administrative powers on this website and can edit it and create posts:
Ethan Solomon, Yang Li, Ganesh Thippeswamy, Kalyan Ray-Mazumder, Andrew Erhart, Mike Szczupak, Emmeline Kao, Zach Matilsky, Chris Wheeler, Michelle Cheung, Shruti Tarigoppula.

Head Administrator (contact him with problems)
Ethan Solomon

Associate Head Administrators (contact them if you can't get to the head admin)
Yang Li
Ganesh Thippeswamy

Administrators (daily contributors to the website)
Kalyan Ray-Mazumder
Mike Szczupak
Emmeline Kao
Zach Matilsky
Chris Wheeler
Michelle Cheung
Shruti Tarigoppula