Math 10- Week 16

Substitution VS. Elimination Both of these methods are used algebraicly for finding solutions of 2 equations of lines. Step 1: Pick ONE equation & re-arrange so it is x=____ or y=____ Step 2: Substitute this into the OTHER equation (use brackets!) Step 3: Solve equation Step 4: Substitue the number just found back into the […]

Narrative Essay Corrections

Chelsea Davis Narrative Essay English 10 H D Paused Pocket Watches As our group of keen students crowd in through the small entrance of the museum, the feeling of gloom silences our animated conversations. As the tour guide speaks on the tragedy of this village, massacred by the Nazis, thoughts of confusion whirl inside my […]

Week 15- Math 10

This week, we explored equations and patterns of lines on a graph. Hint: parallel lines = same (m1 = m2) perpendicular lines = reciprocals of eachother (m1 x m2 = -1)* -The 2 equations we can use to find lines given a few clues are: y = mx + b  OR m = y-y / x-x […]

Water For Elephants- Book Review

Water For Elephants- Sara Gruen A travelling show filled with misfits, freaks, and glamorous performers becomes a new home to Jacob Janowski, who unexpectedly runs away from his future plans in the midst of a mental breakdown after his father’s death. Immediately given the job of the show’s new veterinarian, he gets with the “in crowd” […]

Water For Elephants- Connection

  An era in history that negatively affected nearly the whole of humanity: The Great Depression. The novel Water For Elephants displays the obscure perspectives of the world that people perceived as reality. As Jacob enters the Ringling Brothers in the late 1920’s, he discovers the broken and hopeless world of the circus. The explination […]

Inquiry Post #2- Water For Elephants

What may lead to toxic relationships? An ignorance of mistreatment and honesty. The book Water For Elephants displays the importance of many moral values that are essential to relationships. What factors ignored can lead to toxic relationships? Mistreatment and honesty. Circus performer, Marlena and her abusive husband, August find that the ignorance of mistreatment can […]

Compare & Contrast Essay- TKAM

Chelsea Davis Compare and Contrast Essay- TKAM Block D An Essential Connection   Relationships are not only beneficial, but an essential key to human life. Both stories To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, and The Help directed by Tate Taylor explore the same question: how do relationships help us grow? During the civil […]

Week 10- Math 10

Polynomials Something that stumped me this week was figuring with “method” to use for each polynomial question. I was mixing up product and sum, GCF, and double distributing. During the lesson, we came up with questions as a “flow chart” to decipher which method to use: If you can say yes to any of the […]