You should have completed and turned in the outline for chapter 24.1 on Plant Tissue. For homework yo need to complete the IR on Flowering Plants. This was the one section from Chapter 23 that we are covering. We will cover all of Chapter 24.

Today we reviewed the IR on plant tissue and we took notes on plants. The notes are below.

Chapter23 section01 edit

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We finished the movie early today so we went ahead and started chpt. 23.4 today.

Everyone needs to finish the Chapter 23 section 4 outline and be sure to include the diagram on page 560. You need to label the parts of the flower.

I hope you scored advanced on your HSA if you took it yesterday. It looked like all of you were doing a great job.
Today the 10th graders reviewed for their HSA, which is on Thursday, and 9th graders watched a movie. Tomorrow you will finish the movie and 10th grades will continue to review.
Friday we will start a new unit on plants. There will be no homework all week and probably no additional posts this week on the homework site either. The next posting will be powerpoint notes....Most likely Friday.

Please study your HSA review packet tonight.

Please finish the HSA review packet tonight. Only about half of every class did the HSA homework last night. Sadly, 5 people failed BM 4, which is an old HSA! I hate to think that anyone in an honor's biology class even has a chance to fail the HSA. A handful of you need to seriously buckle down and get studying. Most of you are doing a great job and I want you to score advanced on the HSA. I have given you so many tools this year to study from AND you have an awesome review packet with notes at the end.

Tonight complete pages 2-5 (through protein synthesis #17), in your HSA review packet.
 Please study the review notes at the end of the packet. They are VERY helpful in summarizing up main topics we covered this year.

Today you took Benchmark 4. This is actually an old public release of an HSA, so it is a good indicator of how you may do on the HSA. We will continue to review all week for our HSA which is next Monday for all you freshman and Thursday for sophomores.

Tonight finish page 1 (front and back) and page 2 (front, cell organelle chart) for homework.

We started reviewing for BM4 today. I have attached the notes below. We will continue this tomorrow. If you are on the Six Flags trip you can get the notes you miss tomorrow from the notes below.

Benchmark 4 review

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No homework tonight!

Tomorrow we begin the task of full blown HSA review!!! What fun we will have for the next several days. Your HSA is May 21 (freshmen), May 24th (sophmores). Please start reviewing...Look over Osmosis, DNA/Protein synthesis, Genetics....just for starters.

Review your worksheets to prepare for the Unit Ecology Test this Wednesday.
Start reviewing all the topics you have learned! The HSA is fast approaching....We will start to review Thursday.

Most of you did pretty well on the computerized practice HSA. It is not a really good indicator of how you will do on the real HSA because many of the questions on it, were repeated from previous tests. It did show you what your screen will look like during testing, so that was nice.
Make sure you read the handouts of Human Impact and answer the questions in the packet that you received after the HSA quiz today.
Monay we will review human impact. Tuesday is the test review, and Wednesday is the Unit ecology Test.

We reviewed succession today and covered cycles.  Make sure that look over the cycle information. There will be at least 1-2 questions on the HSA about cycles (water, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous).
Complete the questions on the back on the cycle graphic organizer if you did not do that already in class today.
Tomorrow- Media center to practice an on line HSA.
May 9 (wed) Ecology Unit Test
Monday May 14- Benchmark 4- it is cumulative
Monday May 21 HSA 9th grades
Thursday May 24th - HSA 10th graders

Today you took the quiz on ecology. They will not be in until late today or tomorrow. They take a lot of time to grade.
After the quiz you outlined the section on cycles in your textbook. Pg. 90-93. Then you completed pg. 93 1-6. Be sure to use complete sentences to restate the question or write the question to earn full credit.

Tomorrow we will review succession and cycles. Like I said in class, you are going to be so busy up until the HSA. You will have homework every night.  We will have a nice break after the HSA.

 Keep up the great work and remember, you want to score ADVANCED on the HSA when you are an honors student, not just an average passing score.

Succession was introduced in class today. Make sure that you understand the difference between primary succession, secondary succession and a climax community. These are pretty easy concepts, but you have to take the time to read the packet. Also, complete the book work that you started in class.
I imagine that most of you finished it.
Although I was not in school today, you still have the quiz tomorrow. Succession will not be on the quiz. See you tomorrow!