Tuesday 2.21.12 - Tuesday 2.28.12

General Chemistry:

Tuesday 2.21 - Review for the district assessment on the Periodic Table (which is tomorrow)
Wednesday 2.22 - Periodic Table Assessment
Thursday 2.23 - Grade assessment; start notes on bonding.  Quiz tomorrow!
Friday 2.24 - Quiz, journal, grade update, activity (gold pennies)

Monday 2.27 - sub day - notes over formula mass and percent composition and a video over black holes.  HW = p. 114 and 124 in your binders
Tuesday 2.28 - catch up from yesterday.  Grade quiz from Friday, notes over Molecular names and formulas, time to work.  HW = p. 114 (finish - sort them and name the molecular compounds); p. 124 (finish all for formula masses, for #'s 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 - calculate the percent composition (#12 is extra credit for % composition)); textbook p. 235 #'s 10 and 11.  For more help with molecular naming and formulas, please see p. 211-213 in your textbooks.

AP
Tuesday 2.21 - Test over Chapter 17
Wednesday 2.22 - Start Chapter 18
Thursday 2.23 - Lab #18 on Ksp
Friday 2.24 - Quiz, more notes over Chapter 18

Monday 2.27 - Sub day - time to work on Chapter 18 problems and finish up lab reports and make up work.  New MMQ material is flame test colors.  See your 5 in 5 for these.
Tuesday 2.28 - work Chapter 18 problems.  Test over Chapter 18 coming up on FRIDAY.

Monday 2.20.12

General Chemistry:
Today we got new seats, checked the quiz from Friday (grades are updated in Campus), took notes over Periodic Trends (p. 140 in the textbook), and then honored President's Day by cleaning pennies with ketchup (yes, it works) and making hollow pennies.  For tomorrow, please have done p. 105 in the binder #'s 4-12 only.  If you want, you can try p. 107-108... those will be tomorrow's homework. 

Tomorrow, we will finish up the periodic table information and review EVERYTHING.  Wednesday we will take the District Assessment on the Periodic Table.  Thursday we start our next topic... bonding!

AP Chemistry:
For those few present, we worked through a VAST majority of the problems for Chapter 17 (#'s 23-63).  Your TEST over Chapter 17 is TOMORROW!!

Update...

First off, apologies for dropping off the technology-updating blog-radar... here is a recap of what we've done since the last posting... this is for 1.26.12 - 2.17.12 so read to the bottom!!

General Chemistry:
1.26.12 = Check p. 80; Create a Table Activity (p. 78-79); reminders about due dates for posters, missing work, etc.; review of topics for the weekly quiz

1.27.12 = Quiz; journal; show grades; finish p. 78-79; activities (ooblick and instant snow)

1.30.12 = New seats; check quiz; reminders of due dates for posters, missing work, etc.; notes over History of the atom (p. 82-83); HW is p. 85-87 (omit #14 through 21 on p. 87) - due 1.31.12

1.31.12 = Grade HW; Notes over Atomic Structure; HW is p. 88-90 - due 2.1.12

2.1.12 = POSTERS DUE TODAY; grade HW; Notes over Isotopes; HW is p. 91-92 - due(formatively) on 2.2.12; Activity tomorrow is p. 94

2.2.12 = Go over p. 91-92; HW is p. 93 - due 2.3.12; review topics for the QUIZ (which will be 2.3.12); Isotope Activity p. 94

2.3.12 = ALL MAKE UP WORK DUE TODAY; Models of the Atom (optional) due TODAY; Video - the birth and death of stars; activity (chromatography)

2.6.12 = New seats; IA Assessments on 2.8.12; Conferences on 2.8.12; Video - The Eyes of Nye (over Nuclear Chemistry) with notes; Notes over Nuclear Reactions; HW is textbook p. 744 # 33, 34, 35, 40 - due 2.7.12

2.7.12 = IA Assessments on 2.8.12; Conferences on 2.8.12; show grades; review lab reports; finish and check HW; turn in HW and video notes; ACT Prep Questions

2.8.12 = IA Assessments - no classes; Conferences 3:10-5:30

2.9.12 = Hand out grade sheets for parent signatures; hand back papers; review the topics on the QUIZ (which will be 2.10.12)

2.10.12 = Quiz; journal; show grades; activity (silly putty)

2.13.12 = New seats; check quiz; review (briefly) nuclear chemistry reactions; Notes over Core & Valence Electrons; HW is p. 95-97 - due 2.14.12

2.14.12 = Happy Valentine's Day; check p. 95-97; Notes over Subshells and Electron Configurations; HW is p. 98-100 - due(formatively) 2.15.12

2.15.12 = Go over p. 98-100; more help and practice with subshells and electron configurations; Notes over Noble Gas Notation on p. 101; HW is to study these for a BELL RINGER QUIZ on 2.16.12 and to finish p. 101

2.16.12 = Bell Ringer Quiz; check the quiz; Review p. 101 answers; Flame Test Lab (write-up is due on MONDAY 2.20.12); HW is to study for the QUIZ (which will be 2.17.12)

2.17.12 = Quiz; journal; show grades; activity (gold pennies); HW is the LAB WRITE-UP for the Flame Test Lab

AP Chemistry:
Very briefly, we have continued our memorize me quizzes every Friday and have 4 labs graded thus far for the term.  These include Experiments #13, 5, 15, and 8.  We did Experiment #17 on 2.9.12 (due TOMORROW on 2.17.12) and did Experiment #16 on 2.16.12 (due 2.24.12).  The Quiz over Chapter 14 (solutions) took place on 1.20.12 and the Quiz over Chapter 16 (equilibrium basics) took place on 2.6.12.  We are almost done with Chapter 17 (acid-base equilibrium) and plan to test over this on 2.21.12 (next Tuesday).  The new topic for this week on the MMQ is the electromagnetic spectrum (see textbook p. 299) and it WILL include reaction prediction (see the bottom of this blogpage).

Tomorrow, then, Lab 17 write up is due, we have a memorize me quiz, and we will finish up material in Chapter 17.