Curriculum Meeting

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Curriculum Meeting

• November 2006

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Prayer

• A holy man was having a conversation with the
  Lord one day and said, Lord, I would like to
  know what heaven and Hell are like...
• From e-mail received October 14, 2006

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Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

• Some people in Iraq are killing other
  peoplewould you kill other people if you were in
  Iraq
• If you say no, then are you assuming you are
  better than the people in Iraq..
• If you say yes, then is killing right

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Gauss Theory

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
• Gauss was a child prodigy, of whom there are many
  anecdotes pertaining to his astounding precocity
  while a mere toddler, and made his first
  ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while
  still a teenager

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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

• Another famous story, and one that has evolved in
  the telling, has it that in elementary school his
  teacher, J.G. Büttner tried to occupy pupils by
  making them add up the integers from 1 to 100 (or
  1 to 1000 or 3 7 11 15 19 23 27 ...
  or 81297 81495 81693 ... 100899 etc.).
  The young Gauss produced the correct answer
  within seconds by a flash of mathematical
  insight, to the astonishment of all. Gauss had
  realized that pairwise addition of terms from
  opposite ends of the list yielded identical
  intermediate sums 1 100 101, 2 99 101, 3
  98 101, and so on, for a total sum of 50
  101 5050

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Reading Classics

• What classic is on your reading list?
• Value of classics

• Website
• http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/

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Podcast

• St. Pius
• http//www.stpiuselementary.org/podcast
• Catholic High
• Alan November

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Resources

• Interactive Excel http//www.monroe.k12.la.us/mhe
  n/excel_interactive.htm
• Photo Story III
• Literacy
• http//www.google.com/literacy/booksearch.html

• Test on-line
• http//www.quizlab.com/
• Survey
• http//www.surveymonkey.com/

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St. Leo Bell Work

• Wake-Up Work Day 11. Round each amount to the
  underlined digit
• 9.34 23.67 9.76
• 2. __small____hot____ RF _____________
• big
• 3. I ride on your shoulders, and I start with B.
• I carry your homework your books ride in me.
• What am I? __________________
• JOURNAL Write about a baseball bat that is
  afraid of baseballs.

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• RF stands for Relating Factor. For example
  Small is the opposite of big as hot is the
  opposite of cold. The relating factor has to fit
  in the middle of the 2 words being compared, and
  it should make a complete sentence. Most of the
  time, the analogy only allows for one correct
  answer. However, when there are different
  options, I do allow for multiple responses (as
  long as they fit with the Relating Factor).

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Food for thought

• of grades for homework, classwork, assessment
• ASCD conference March 17-19, 2007 Anaheim,
  California
• Teaching Strategies