Monday, June 04, 2007
Mon-Day 4
Today was the final day of morning extra help: ONE student showed up at any time before the first period.
Honors: we reviewed parts of the Reference Tables...be sure to look at Table S and see all of the information available including the DENSITY data; write the formula for density (D = mass/volume) at the top of that column so that you can solve the density question.
We then finished reviewing January 2007. Tomorrow, we will look at Aug 2003 and Jun 2004 from the weekend assignment.
Regents: we finished the nuclear unit with a look at the applications of various radioisotopes. These isotopes are ALL listed on Table N; your job is to know the uses of the isotopes that we discussed. Once again, I encountered a generally unprepared class that did not do its requisite homework. What are you doing? Where is your work ethic???!!!!!
You have a QUIZ on the nuclear unit for the last 15 minutes of class tomorrow. Be prepared!
We continued our "review" of, curiously, part A questions. These are MULTIPLE CHOICE questions! Almost all of the answers/information for those questions are directly in the review book AND in your class notes (where the given topic is even explained). Where were your written response questions (the questions that make or break your Regents score)??? There weren't any because MOST of you aren't doing them. You don't even know what you DON'T know!!! School is over and most of you have wasted most of the past two weeks. This degree of negligence is completely unprecedented among REGENTS classes that I have taught.
I only had TWO Regents students taking a bonus after-school Regents today. This is also unprecedented. Most of you aren't even trying to improve your averages!
I had better see STANDING ROOM ONLY at every review session over the next two weeks.
Honors: we reviewed parts of the Reference Tables...be sure to look at Table S and see all of the information available including the DENSITY data; write the formula for density (D = mass/volume) at the top of that column so that you can solve the density question.
We then finished reviewing January 2007. Tomorrow, we will look at Aug 2003 and Jun 2004 from the weekend assignment.
Regents: we finished the nuclear unit with a look at the applications of various radioisotopes. These isotopes are ALL listed on Table N; your job is to know the uses of the isotopes that we discussed. Once again, I encountered a generally unprepared class that did not do its requisite homework. What are you doing? Where is your work ethic???!!!!!
You have a QUIZ on the nuclear unit for the last 15 minutes of class tomorrow. Be prepared!
We continued our "review" of, curiously, part A questions. These are MULTIPLE CHOICE questions! Almost all of the answers/information for those questions are directly in the review book AND in your class notes (where the given topic is even explained). Where were your written response questions (the questions that make or break your Regents score)??? There weren't any because MOST of you aren't doing them. You don't even know what you DON'T know!!! School is over and most of you have wasted most of the past two weeks. This degree of negligence is completely unprecedented among REGENTS classes that I have taught.
I only had TWO Regents students taking a bonus after-school Regents today. This is also unprecedented. Most of you aren't even trying to improve your averages!
I had better see STANDING ROOM ONLY at every review session over the next two weeks.
# posted by C @ 5:08 PM 
