Prompt 1:

A city sports team gives everyone a sense of unity, accomplishment,

presense and hope.   Its an oportunity to feel signifigant and be happy in

victory with hundreds of other people.  It hasn't happened since 1980.  

For quarter three, our ninth grade class conducted a research on permeability.  We were split into pairs an given an egg to experiment with.  The idea was to put the egg into three different substances to see how permeable the egg mebrande was.   The active study of the egg took about two weeks.  After that we had to write a research lab paper on what we found. 

The class conducted a quarter long project about how American laws have affected African American history.  We were split into groups of two and given a US colony. The group had to research, analyse and summerize three colonial and three state laws.  In adition to that, the class made a timeline, an iWeb website page, a recorded and finally, this reflective paper on the whole project.  There was a rough draft and a finl draft of the paper.  Admitedly, neither was some of my best work.  If I could re do it, I would have put alot more time into the paper.

For this project we had to research an assigned topic with a group and find ways in which that topic or that person's work related to geometry and how geometry relates to the real world. 

The Q1 benchamark for Biochem also had two parts. There were two labs we had to do involving yeast. We put yeast in multiple viles with water and different amounts of sugar. Then we covered them with balloons and observed the changes over a couple of days. Then we wrote about observations, exprectations, analysis, definitions, refelctions and more. That was the first lab. For the second part we changed a variable. My partner and I chose to use selzer instead of water for some of the viles and see what happened. Then we wrote a new lab about that experiment and compared it to the previous lab. This benchmark was done with one partner, and I would not change anthing that we/I did.

This was a group project with both written and Oral parts. WE had to construct a dinner scence with the Ancient Egyptian king, Tutankhamen and create a script to establish societal structure during that time. It was then acted out in front of the class, with each person in the group playing a different role, wheather the farmer, the nobel, the women, or the king himself. We also had to make a seating chart, menu, invitations and press release. I think I did this project fairly well, so there is not much I would want to change.

The Q1 benchamark assignment wa to write a 5 paragraph essay about one of three choices or our own Idea. I chose to talk about different levels of power women had in the book, Kindred, compared to the men/ power over the men. We wrote most of the essay at home, but then had a full class of editing time.  The teachers told us which words we should not use, to make our language more powerful. The project took about a week or a little more. I would not change anything if I could go back and re do it. The only thing I might change would be the corrections that Ms. Weinraub and Mr. Chase made when they graded it.