Quadratic Equations
Students are solving quadratic equations using several methods. They have solved equations by graphing, factoring, and using the quadratic formula.
Mrs. Wong
Triangles
Students have been exploring properties of triangles. They have worked with the Pythagorean theorem and its converse, and are able to calculate distance and midpoint.
Mrs. Wong
Celebrate
After all the hard work the students did learning their dances, we decided to celebrate and have a party!
Mrs. Rosario
Christmas Program
Besides doing the basic warm ups and stretching, the students also did pushups and sit ups to be ready for certain dance moves. They also learned to do cartwheels, the splits, and handstands. They worked in small groups and as a large group to learn various dance routines. For the Christmas program the song they danced to was Incredible. Other groups also danced to Joyful, Joyful, and Holy Visitation. They used both the big and little flags in their performances. It was powerful.
Mrs. Rosario
Powerpoint Presentations
10th grade prepared for the Regents by refreshing their memory on everything from the Neolithic Revolution to the Cold War. Students made Powerpoint presentations on the various themes of history such as nationalism and imperialism, golden ages and revolutions. By teaching each other, students learned their own topic more thoroughly while other students benefitted from their knowledge.
Miss Schutz
Diversity
One of the most fun (and challenging) parts of teaching is the interaction with so many different personalities every day. What I noticed at the end of my journey with the tenth graders this year was the clear collective homeroom personalities that arose. It was cool to see groups of students go from kind of knowing each other at the beginning of the year, to being a unit at the end. One student said she was happy that her friends were in different homerooms because it gave her a chance to connect with new friends. Why is this important for English class? Because of the diversity of opinion, background, and interest, I noticed a wonderful variety between the classroom discussions of the same novels and newspaper articles. 10R usually bent towards political discussion; 10W would often become a spiritual discussion; and 10S focused more on personal experience in relation to the novel. As the year progressed, students took more initiative in the group conversations. I had one student who would come in with a current event in mind, eager to talk about it and hear other students’ opinions. It was neat to help the students find what they are interested in and help them express their thoughts, in verbal and written words, with more clarity and confidence. As their teacher I am excited to see the tenth grade move up in the high school ranks, and will be interested to hear about their growth next year–in new groups, with new novels, building upon their hard work from this year.
Miss Miller
3D shapes!
This month we built building and used dimensions to calculate area, volume and surface area of common solids. Beginning with cubes and pyramids we started laying a foundation for cylinders, cones, spheres and more. Learning by discovery helped us to simplify long equations and many formulas became similar ones.
Miss Stahler
Circles
Continuing our theme of circles, the students found patterns in secants, chords and tangents which prove true no matter the length! Our peg boards and rubber bands helped add excitement and discovery to formula riddled chapter.
Miss Stahler
π day!!!
Or approximately 3.14159… We couldn’t wait for March 14th or 3/14 to get here! The class played discovery games with cylinders and circles. We practiced area and circumference to find patterns. They even learned a song that sings the first 200 places of pi!
Miss Stahler
Geometry
Pythagorean’s theorem to the rescue! Studying trigonometry and right triangles can be very abstract. In order to make it more hands-on & relevant we calculated heights in our school’s gym and (outside) our school building’s height. We crafted sextants, with straws, protractors and string, to find the angle of elevation!
Miss Stahler