Students: welcome back from your Thanksgiving Break. Believe it or not, we have less than three full weeks of instruction before the end of the Fall Semester, and since many of you succeeded in raising your grade significantly with your Cell Brochure (great news!), that means that hard work between now and the end of the Semester will greatly increase your chances of passing the course, or even earning an above-average grade.
WORK HARD.
Here is the syllabus for the final Unit:
Please note that the Semester Final's Study Session is after school on Monday, December 14th.
Period 2's final is (tentatively) on Tuesday, Dec. 15th; Periods 3 and 4 will have their final on Wednesday, Dec. 16th; Periods 5 and 6's final will be on Thursday, Dec. 17th.
PLAN AHEAD
The following was posted on the whiteboard in Thursday's class (today, Nov. 5th):
This timeline does not differ significantly from the Syllabus given in class a week ago (10/29). It shows just how jam-packed with activity the next week of instruction in Biology is. There are three labs: one on 'Plant and Animal Cells', one on 'Osmosis' (movement of water through a cell membrane) and one on 'Mitosis' (the series of events that precede cell division).
Most importantly, there are 220 points worth of assessments within the next eight days. Your 100-point 'Cell Travel Brochure' will be rehearsed in class TODAY (Nov. 5th), and it is DUE, without exception, a week from now: THURSDAY, Nov. 12th.
The After-School Study Session to prepare for the Unit 3 Test is the same day, between 3:15 and 5:00 in Room N-63. The Unit 3 Test follows the next day: Friday, November 13th.
