Mr. Joss - Pre-Algebra (Regular)  - Class Record
	BEGIN FIRST QUARTER
	Per 3	Per 4	HOMEWORK DUE	Announcements	AGENDA	COMMENTS
Week 1	Mon,8/27					This week we are working with the students to define the skills they'll need to work effectively in groups. In addition, we'll be doing a variety of exercises to remind ourselves about fractions, decimals, and (especially) graphing.
	Tue,8/28				Birthday Graphs Syllabus Discussion
	Wed,8/29		Intro Letter (GO - Day 1)		Favorites & Good Graphs
	Thu,8/30	Fri,8/31	GO - Day 2 - Probs 12-16		Guess & Check Tables
Week 2	Mon,9/3				#REF!
	Tue,9/4		GO - Day 3 - Probs 21-26	Mental Math Lunch Detention for Missing Work Hand out books	Mean, Outliers, and Range
	Wed,9/5		GO - Day 4 - Probs 33-39	Mental Math	Median, Mode, and Stem & Leaf plots
	Thu,9/6	Fri,9/7	GO - Day 5 - Probs 45-52	TURN IN NOTEBOOKS	More Medians + Box & Whisker Plots
Week 3	Mon,9/10		GO - Day 6 - Probs 54-57	Hand Back Week 2 Notebooks	Do GO-56 together 2 Toolkit entries Diamond Problems	We have our first quiz next week. SUGGESTION: Check in with your student end of the week & ask them how they're going to use their notebook to prepare for the quiz. Help them understand that they need to DO problems rather than just READING them in order to be well prepared. They will need to study with someone over the weekend.
	Tue,9/11		GO - Day 7 - Probs 61,62,66-69	Hwk Discussion	Investing in a Car (GO-71) - Part I
	Wed,9/12		GO - Day 8 - Probs 72-78 (Period 4 only)		Investing in a Car (GO-71) - Part II
	Thu,9/13	Fri,9/14	GO - Day 8 - Probs 72-78 (Period 3 Only)	Turn in Notebooks & Toolkits Materials check (pencil, calc, graph paper)	Summarizing the Chapter
Week 4	Mon,9/17		GO - Day 9 - Probs 80-86	Quiz Topics	Pairs "Quiz" (answers posted to the web) (N)	This is a good week to check your child's grades online. Yes, BEFORE the quiz. Look to see if s/he is up todate on the homework going in to the quiz. SUGGESTION: EVEN IF you don't remember much about graphs or mean/median/mode, ask your student to explain what all should be on a good graph, or how they remember the difference b/w mean/median/mode.
	Tue,9/18	Wed,9/19	GO - Day 10 - Probs 89-95		Quiz on Getting Organized
			Study for Quiz		Discovering Patterns Group Graphing
	Thu,9/20	Fri,9/21	FT - Day 1 - Probs 3-9	Hwk Discussion	Big Tree Park (N)
Week 5	Mon,9/24	Tue,9/25	FT - Day 2 - 18-25	ERB Block Schedule	Per 3 - Graph of Big Tree Park Per 3 & 4 - Quiz return & correction Modelling Negatives with Number tiles	The students will be getting their first quiz back on Monday or Tuesday (depending on the class they're in). SUGGESTION: Look for it by Tuesday and ask them to explain Mr. Joss's policy on quiz/test retakes.
	Wed,9/26	Wed,9/26	FT - Day 3 - 31-36	Reminder about Quiz Redo's	Wolves in Big Tree Park (N)
					Counselor visit
	Wed,9/26	Thu,9/27	FT - Day 4/5 - 48-51,58,59,63 (Cancelled. Due MONDAY instead)		More Wolves Subtracting Integers
Week 6	Mon,10/1	Mon,10/1	Bring in a signed grade report FT - Day 4/5 - 48-51,58,59,63	TURN IN - Signed Grade Reports TURN IN - Extra Credit Hwk If you got less than 28/35, have you retaken your quiz??	The hike in Big Tree Park Multiplying integers	Warning notices come out this week. SUGGESTION: Be sure that you know how to check your students grades and homework completion by looking on the grade section of my website. You'll need to put in their LAST NAME<comma><space> and then LAST NAME (e.g. "Joss, Randy") for a user name and then their STUDENT ID number for a password. This way you can double check to see if they are getting assignments in.
	Tue,10/2	Wed,10/3	FT - Day 6 - 70-76		The hike in Big Tree Park (continued)
	Thu,10/4	Fri,10/5	FT - Day 7/8 - 80-85, 93-97	Write next week's HWK in your BINDER REMINDER	Discovering a shortcut!
Week 7	Mon,10/8		Finish Classwork (FT 90,91)		Explaining Multiplication Notes on Add/Sub with Integers (N) Multiplication with Integers (two methods) (N)	We had a test last week and one of the BIGGEST problems I have is getting students who didn't do well to be sure to come in for a makeup. They can raise their grade UP TO an 80% (B-) on the makeup, but they have to show up for it. The makeup will probably be given on FRIDAY. Check with your student about whether s/he needs to take it. The average on the test this year was a C+, so there are a number of kids who could benefit from the makeup. NOTE: Because only 50% of their grade comes from tests & quizzes this quarter, if your student got a D or F on this test their grade may still be in the B range. . . In 7th grade, the temptation will be to hide the test grade from you in the belief that it won't happen again. However, chances are, if it happened once it'll happen again. The class isn't going to get easier in the next two months. SUGGESTION:  Checking in with your student can help him/her confront reality before their grade gets to a crisis point.
	Tue,10/9	Wed,10/10	FT - Day 9/10 - parts of 107-128	Quiz next Tues/Wed on the Field Trip Unit (negatives)
	Thu,10/11	Fri,10/12	Finish classwork		3rd period only - Review Field Trip Problem Write problems with Negative Integers
Week 8	Mon,10/15		FT - Day 11 - 122, 134-140	Topics for Tomorrow's Quiz	Pairs "Quiz" (answers posted to the web) (N)	This week we start a unit on fractions and probability. Fractions are perhaps one of the most important basic skills the students can have going into Algebra, yet they are often the most feared. We hope to get past that fear by using something they should already be familiar with (probability) as a context for looking at fractions again a different way.
	Tue,10/16	Wed,10/17	Study for Quiz	Starting a New Unit today: The Mystery of the Dual Spinners	Color-Combo-Grido Game (N) Quiz on The Field TripUnit
	Thu,10/18	Fri,10/19	MD - Day 1 - 05-10		Intro to Area Models (N)
Week 9	Mon,10/22		MD - Day 2 - 17-23	Return Quizzes Collect Notebooks	Equivalent Fractions (N) Mario's Closet (N)
	Tue,10/23	Wed,10/24	MD -Day 3 - 31-39		Multiplying Fractions Game Adding Fractions & Mario's Model
	Thu,10/25	Fri,10/26	MD - Day 4&5 - Parts of 46-51 & 57-65		CWK - MD-68-70 (N) Adding Fractions Game
	BEGIN SECOND QUARTER
Week 10	Mon,10/29		MD - Day 06 - 71-79	Return Papers	Fractions Decimals & Percents
	Tue,10/30	Wed,10/31	MD - Day 07 - 85-90		Finish Number Lines Tic-Tac-Toe Subtraction The Weather Monkey Problem (N) Classwork & Chapter Summary (N)
	Thu,11/1	Fri,11/2	MD - Day 8&9 - Parts of 97-103 & 112-118	Quiz next Tues/Wed on Probability, Fractions, and any old material
Week 11	Mon,11/5		Finish Classwork + MD - Day 10 - 122-125 ONLY	Finding p