Exam Prep

Thanks to everyone who has posted the answers to their assigned questions! It has made studying a lot easier! I pray that God will bring back to rememberance all the questions and readings you have studied throughout the semester and that the answer to the questions will be clear and concise. Peace to you all!

Final Exam Question

Chapter 14.3
Describe how you will remain up to date and knowledgeable about available technology to assist students with disabilities.

One way to stay up to date and knowledgeable about available technology to assist students with disabilities is to search the internet including constantly monitoring web sites of different disabilities. Also I would use the special education teacher as a resource.

The end!

Here we are at the end of the semester! Next semester I am making a vow to get these portfolios completed early! No more waiting until the last minute to finish it is making me CRAZY!!!!

Almost Thanksgiving!

There is an end! I see the light at the end of the long tunnel!

Fall !?!

I am so glad it is fall!! Only 88 degree's outside! I think that the south should have another name for fall! What do you think?

Michael Mass Day

Michael Mass, St Michael's Day
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29 September - One of the quarter days, and a celebration of the Archangel Michael.
September 29, the feast of St. Michael and All Angels or Michaelmas fell about the time of the autumnal equinox. The equinox marked the period when the nights would be getting longer and the earth would begin to die. St. Michael came to be seen as the protector against the forces of the dark and so became very popular in the Middle Ages. Many monastaries and churches were dedicated to him, usually on high places near the sea. His feast was celebrated with a traditional well-fattened goose which had fed well on the stubble of the fields after the harvest. In many places, a there was also a tradition of special large loaves of bread made only for that day. By Michaelmas the harvest had to be completed and the new cycle of farming would begin. It was a time for beginning new leases, rendering accounts and paying the annual dues. On the manors at Michaelmas, a reeve was elected from among the peasants to keep watch over the work and to assure that production was up to expectation. If rents or donations of goods fell short, the reeve had to make it up on his own. It was not a popular office. At this time of year, the Aster (Aster nova-belgii) blooms, and it has become known as the Michaelmas Daisy The Michaelmas Daisy comes in many colors, from white to pink to purple.

According to an old Irish folk tale, blackberries were supposed to have been harvested and used up by this date, too, since it is told to children that when Satan was kicked out of Heaven, he landed in a bramble patch -- and returns each year to curse and spit on the fruits of the plant he landed on, rendering them inedible thereafter. So a dessert with blackberries would be perfect.

Activities:
1. Explain 4 requirements for photosynthesis while baking backberry crumble.

Light = heat from oven
Carbon dioxide leaving the plant= smelling it baking
Water= liquid in recipe
Chlorophyll= blackberries and flour (base ingredients)

Bake the Blackberry Crumble
2 cups washed blackberries (thawed if frozen)
2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice, or juice of 1 lemon
3 tablespoons butter
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/8 teaspoon salt

Put blackberries in a 1-quart baking dish with half of the sugar. Sprinkle with lemon juice. Cream butter, remaining sugar, flour, and salt together; sprinkle over berries. Bake at 350° for 40 minutes. Serve warm or cold with cream, ice cream, or dessert sauce.

2. Make Thanksgiving Cards
After discuss the veins and how food moves through the leaves.

This semester is flying by!!!!Already Midterms! So many projects...so little time! I could get a lot more accomplished if I didn't have to SLEEP! Hey I found a really useful free site proteacher.org.

Just a little Hummmmm thought for the day!

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." -Anna Quindlen

Photosynthesis

Students, please watch the following video and answer the question below by submitting a comment.

What are the four requirements necessary for photosynthesis?

My first it365 blog

This is my first it 365 blog. I have always wanted to learn how to do this, so I am really excited!
I am going to really have to learn to manage my time. This is going to be a fun class!