Geometry

August 21, 2009 Amanda, Jenelle, Jen, Mary, Molly Midterm exam is current with what we teach the first semester. We planned the opening week and discussed how we are going to infuse DI into our lessons. One emphasis we have for this year is to help our students learn to read and use the book as a valuable resource. We will give them a book scavenger hunt and discuss the results with them. We will also have them register for the on-line text and explore the different options available. Amanda and Janelle might have a bit of a problem with computer access, so we discussed the possiblitie of moving rooms when computer use is warranted. We will continue to plan next week and hopefully come up with a plan for the first chapter.

September 9, 2009 Amanda, Janelle, Jen, Mary, Molly We met before school to plan the week and to plan the pacing for the rest of the chapter.

September 16, 2009 Amanda, Jenelle, Jen, Mary, Molly We met before school and discussed reading strategies for our kiddos. Jen and Amanda are having Kelly H, come in on Friday and demonstrate some of the strategies. I am going to try tomorrow. Molly and I also did a truly differentiated lesson on geo vocab. It worked well but was hectic.

September 24, 2009 The Geo girls met twice this week - Monday during second period and before school on Wednesday. We discussed the chapter test we are giving this week and we planned chapter 2. We decided to change things a bit- we will not do the "Mouse a Cookie" project and will replace it with an inquiry project "What would happen if..." Since we are building the formal structure of the geometric math system, we want our students to think of other systems and the consequences of changing one of the rules.

September 29, 2009 Met to finish planning Chapter 2. Decided on a jigsaw activity that students will do regarding some theorems and properties in two sections of this chapter. Presentation will be by powerpoint or poster.

October 5, 2009 Met to discuss our time line for the end of this chapter - began planning chapter 3.

October 12, 2009 We decided to give the kids a group test - or at least part of the test with a partner. We also decided not to tell the students of our plans because oftentimes they do not study as diligently if they know they will be working with someone. We revised test questions and also discussed differentiating the first part of chapter 3.

October 19, 2009 Planned for the week and beyond. I collected all the tests to do some error analysis.

Oct. 26, 2009 Decided to try a review project for this chapter. Moll, Amanda, and I will attempt the project on wikispaces, Jen will use Moodle, Jenelle will have the kids do it by hand.