Upper School Announcements

Biology Course Expectations

 

THIS WEEK: 11/17 through 11/21

Date

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignment

Biology Exam

Review Guide

Monday

11/17

Wrap up book.  List major themes.

EF/MP/NTM Project.

Biology Exam

Review Guide

Tuesday

11/18

EF/MP/NTM Project.  

Wednesday

11/19

EF/MP/NTM Project.

 

Thursday

11/20

Exam Review  

Friday

11/21

Exam Review

D Bolinsky shows his animated

cell - the last 3 minutes are awesome in

the true sense of the word:

 

 

 

 

EXAM WEEK: 11/24 through 11/27

 

 

Date

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignment

Biology Exam Review Guide

Monday

11/24

Math Exam 8:15 - 10:15

English Exam 10:30 - 12:30

Early dismissal at 12:30.

 

Tuesday

11/25

Biology Exam 8:15 - 10:15

History Exam 10:30 - 12:30
Early dismissal at 12:30.

 

Wednesday

11/26

Holiday Break

Eat Food.  Mostly Plants. Not too much. 

Thursday

11/27

Holiday Break  

Friday

11/28

Holiday Break  

 

 

ARCHIVES

 

November

11/10 through 11/14

Date

Class Schedule


Homework

Assignment

Biology Exam Review Guide

Monday

11/10

Discussion.

In class reading time.

Read IDoF

p. 89 - 106.

Tuesday

11/11

Discussion.

In class reading time.

Hwk: Read 106-124.

Wednesday

11/12

Watch Pollan lecture video.

Read in class.

Read IDoF

124 - 136.

Thursday

11/13


Irony of Omega-3 discussion

Nutrional inflation

Read in class.

Read IDoF

p. 139 - 161.

Friday

11/14

QUIZ

Read in class.

Finish Book.

 

 

11/3 through 11/7 (2.5 to 3 hours)

 

Date

Class Schedule


Homework

Assignment

Biology Exam Review Guide

Monday

11/3

*Discuss results of liver + hydrogen

peroxide studies.

*Reflect and discuss premise

of In Defense of Food.

Read IDoF p. 19 - 40.

You must highlight/underline/make notes

in the margins on every page.

I will check your book in class on Tues.

(30 min)

Tuesday

11/4

In Defense of Food discussion.

Michael Pollan on Plant's

Eye View:

Read IDoF

p. 40 - 58.

(30 min)

Wednesday

11/5

*Epheurema Greek Project

Work Day

*Short In Defense of Food discussion

*Full text of Hu et al.'s Critical Review of Dietary Fat and CHD.

Study for QUIZ

(30 min)

Thursday

11/6

Book QUIZ

Discussion & in class reading time.

Read IDoF

p. 58 - 89

 for Monday

 (60 minutes)

Friday

11/7


 

 

 

October 2008

10/27 through 10/31 (2 to 2.25 hours of homework)

Date

Class Schedule


Homework

Assignment

Monday

10/27

Hydrogen peroxide + Liver:

close observation &

development of questions.

Test Review Guide

Choose 2-3 questions from

the board today that you would like

to try to answer.  Edit to make the

questions as specific as possible.

(15 minutes)

Tuesday

10/28

Hydrogen peroxide + Liver:

designing studies to

answer questions.

Study for Test

(1 hour)

Wednesday

10/29

Review for TEST

Study for Test

(30 minutes)

Thursday

10/30

TEST

 For Mon 11/3, read

In Defense of Food

p. 1-15.

(20-30 minutes)

Friday

10/31

Pompeii Field Trip  

 

 

10/20 through 10/24 (50 minutes of homework)

 

Date

Class Schedule


Homework

Assignment

Monday

10/20

Protein review.

Hemoglobin case study.

 Review the

"Tour of hemoglobin"

activity on

Molecular Workbench.

(20 minutes)

Tuesday

10/21

Catalysts & Activation Energy.

 (College 101 Tonight @ 6)

Wednesday

10/22

Enzyme form and function.

 Read p. 103-104.

(20 minutes)

Thursday

10/23

Apples and digestive enzymes.

Study for quiz.

(30 minutes)

Friday

10/24

QUIZ  

 

 

10/13 through 10/17, 2008

 

Date

Class Schedule


Assignment

Monday

10/6

Columbus Day

No school

 

Tuesday

10/7

 Quiz corrections due.

 

Wednesday

10/8

 Overnight Trip:

Leave Woodlawn at 8 am.

 

Thursday

10/9

 Overnight Trip  

Friday

10/17

 Overnight Trip:

Return from Longbranch

at 5 pm.

 

 

10/6 through 10/10, 2008

 

Date

Class Schedule


Assignment

Monday

10/6

Molecular Workbench

Proteins and nucleic acids: pages 1-6.

Print report and

color atoms.

Tuesday

10/7

 

Molecular Workbench

Proteins and nucleic acids: pages 7-end.

 Submit report to

MrsFitzgerald.

Wednesday

10/8

 Final wrap-up of Proteins and Nucleic Acids.

Review for quiz.

 Study for Quiz:

see quiz topics in class

notes from today.

Thursday

10/9

Hemoglobin & Sickle Cell Anemia

Protein Case Study.

 Bigger-Than-Usual QUIZ

 Quiz Corrections due

Tues 10/14.  For each incorrectly

answered question, write the

correct response.  You may earn up to

half of your missed points back.

Friday

10/10

Teacher Work Day

No school

 

 

September 2008

 

Date

Class Schedule


Assignment

Monday

9/29

 Active Transport

and neuron function.

Read 

121-122.

Have your up-to-date

Grade Record Sheet

signed by a parent.

Tuesday

9/30

Overview of protein synthesis

pathway in cells.

 Read

124-127.

Wednesday

10/1

 Amino acid structure.

Protein structure.

 Read

100-102.

Thursday

10/2

 QUIZ

Concord Consortium

Molecular Workbench

Proteins and nucleic acids:

pages 1 & 2.

 

Friday

10/3

Fitz away with 8th graders.   

 

Date

Class Schedule

UNIT: Cell and Cell membrane

Assignment

Monday

9/22

Review for Test

 Test Review Guide.

Tuesday

9/23

Ring Ceremony / No Biology

Pick up the your graded Lab questions

before you leave school today.

 

Wednesday

9/24

TEST  

Thursday

9/25

Overnight Trip Planning:

meals, etc.

Download Molecular Workbench.

 

Friday

9/26

 Cholera and its treatment in

history.

 

 

 

Date

Class Schedule

UNIT: Cell and Cell membrane

Assignment

Monday

9/15

 Modeling a semi-permeable membrane (Lab 1A).

 

Tuesday

9/16

Record and analyze qualitative results from Mon. 

Modeling the effects of solute

concentrationon osmosis (Lab 1B).

 Answer your analysis

Q's for Lab 1A.

Check out the

Test Review Guide.

Wednesday

9/17

Record results from Lab 1B.  Compile class data

and graph results.

Determine molarity of potato cells.

Answer your Analysis

Q's for Lab 1B.

Study for quiz!

Thursday

9/18

QUIZ

 

Friday

9/19

Wrap up data collection and graph results.

*Please feel free to

come in before or after school any day

to discuss concepts or labs.

Read p 121-122.

Answer Lab 1C

questions.

Test Review Guide.

 

 

Date

Class Schedule

UNIT: Cell and Cell membrane

Assignment

Monday

9/1

Labor Day

No School

 

Tuesday

9/2

Scope of Biology  Read Chapter One in text.

Wednesday

9/3

Varieties of Cells & General Structures found in cells

Read 81-86 on Water.

(Optional read 74-80 for

chemistry review.)

Study your notes. 

Thursday

9/4

Structure and Properties of Water

QUIZ

 

Friday

9/5

 No class scheduled.  

 

 

Date

Class Schedule

UNIT: Cell and Cell membrane

Assignment

Monday

9/8

Properties of Water, continued

 Read p. 90-94

(organic molecules)

Tuesday

9/9

Characteristics of organic macromolecules.

Carbohydrate structure & function.

Read 95 - 97 in text

(carbohydrates)

Wednesday

9/10

Lipid structure & function.

Read 98-99

(lipids)

Study for quiz.

Thursday

9/11

QUIZ

Diffusion.  Molecular Workbench Modeler.
 

Friday

9/12

Movement of small molecules

across the cell membrane.

Read 115-117

(membranes)

 

 


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