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Music Appreciation Class

October 4- 8, 2010
    Topic: Jazz Music and Artists
           Rythm & Blues Artists

First Block Class: The students will research famous musicians in the field 
of jazz music from the past and today. Before the students can study jazz 
music, they must know the African american history of jazz music and how it 
was brought to the United States in the south. The student will know the 
instruments used to create the syncopated rythm in the music. Some of the 
artists they will research are Dr. Herbie Hancock, Etta James, Ella 
Fitzgerald, and Jeff Lorber. Contempory jazz artists the class will study 
next week October 11-15, 2010, will be George Duke, Joey Defrancheco, and 
Chick Corea.

October 11-15,2010
Topic: Jazz and Carribean Music

First Block: The class will look at Fusion Jazz music and how jazz influence 
the Carribean Islands and other artists. Some of the artists are Count Basie, 
Clark Terry, Lousie Armstrong, Duke Ellington,Tito American Jazz artist of 
music and dance. Some artist are Chick Corea, Tito Puente, and Celia Cruz.
The class will study Latin dances as well as swing  which made the time era 
of 1940s-1950s popular.
October 11, 2010: The students research Celia Cruz and Tito Puente answering 
teacher-made questions.

October 4-8, 2010         General Science Class
Topic:Chapter 8 Genetics The code of life
      Chapter 9 Evolution

Second Block: Chapter 8 is the study of passing genetic traits from one 
generation to the next. The class will study the meaning of heredity and how 
many chromosomes to reproduce a human being.
Chapter 9 is the study of evolution. The class will answer teacher made 
questions about the theory of evolution and know the theory of evolution 
between Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

October 11-15,2010
Chapter 10 The Human Body
Chapter 11 Energy for Life

Chapter 10: The class will learn the different systems that helps the human 
body function daily. Circulatory, Digestive, Nervous, Respiratory, Muscular, 
and Skeletal.

Chapter 11: This chapter talk directly about the digestion system and how the 
digestion system works to process food the human body eats.

Life Science Class
October 4-8, 2010
Chapter 8 Types of Plants
Chapter 9 Plants at Work

Chapter 8 discusses the difference between a vascular and non vascular plant. 
The class will study the vocabulary words and learn the different seeds to 
produce neww plants.
Chapter 9 study the parts of a plant and the two types of roots that grows 
from a plant.

October 11,2010: The kids worked on chapter 10 Seeds and Reproduction. The 
class answered questions from the topic for class grade.

October 18-22, 2010 Music Appreciation Class
The class will be learning about the history of Hip Hop Music. The class will 
be doing research on the history of hip hop music in the computer lab. The 
teacher will have questions to respond with the topic. The class will discuss 
the different styles of hip hop music and the people who made it popular.

Test on hip hop music Wednesday October 27, 2010.

Music Appreciation Class: Country Music and Bluegrass Music
During this week, the class will be talking about the history of country and 
bluegrass music. The class will read  about country music legends Hank 
Williams, sr.,Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Raplh Stanley and Bill Monroe.

Test will be Tuesday November 2, 2010

General Science October 18 - 22, 2010

THe class will be discussing the ciculatory system and the respiratory system.
The teacher will give the class resource materials to work in class that 
relates to the chapter 11.

Life Science October 18-22,2010 : The class will know the different between a 
warmblooded animal and coldblooded vertebrate animals.

October 25-29,2010: The class will continue to study Warn and coldblooded 
vertebrates.

November 8-12, 2010 General Science: Chapter 14 The Properties of Matter
The students had to learn some elements of the periodic table.The class had 
to do internet research work in the library on an element of their choice. 
After each student have selected an element, the student had to write a 
paragraph and tell how the element benefit society.

Chapter 15 Energy and Matter: The students had to study the different forms 
of energy that man use to make life pleasant. The class had to complete 
resource work from the chapter and had to discuss in class for grade.
ALso, the class had to reseach a nuclear power plant in Virgina and a 
hydroelectric dam.The research was done in the library. The answer to the 
both research Mecklenburg county and North Anna.

November 15-19 2010, Chapter 16 Force and Motion. The class studies the 
different kinds of forces that man use to create motion. The class had to 
discussed the difference between force gravity. Teacher made questions were 
prepared for the students.

November 22-30, 2010, Chapter 17&18. Chapter 17 talks about how machines 
makes life easier for human life. The chapter talks about the pros and cons 
of machinery and the use of man made devices to help move heavy boxes.
Chapter 18 Heat, Light, and Sound are the elements man uses to survive in 
everday living. this chapter talk about changing solid to liquid and the use 
of heat source to keep people warm. Sound is used to help adults in many ways 
from danger or to alert safty.

Life Science November 8-12, 2010 Unit The Human Body
Unit 5 is totally about the human body. This unit begin with the system that 
make the body function properly in everybody's life. The class will talk 
about chapter 14 on muscular and skeletal system. The muscula system help the 
body to move and the skeletal system is the framwork of the human body.
 
November 15-19 Chapters 15 and 16. Chapter 15 talks about the circulatory, 
repiration, and excretion systems of the human body. Chapter 15 the 
circulatory system deals with the flow of blood in the human body. The 
students had to study and work on resouce that relate to the chapter. The 
Respiatory system deals with breathing and the lungs. Thew class had to    
name all the body parts of each system they discuss in class. The excretion 
system deals with the waste system of the body.The class had to learn the 
part of this system and known how each part function inside the body.

Oral or written quiz will be given.

Music Appreciation class November8-12, 2010

The music class will studying the different dances from countries around the 
world. Some dances are Waltz, Minuet, Square Dance, Polka, Line Dance,and 
Hungarian Dance. The students will research information on each dance. They 
will participate in a class activity of performing various line dances.

November 15-19,2010, the music class continue with the dance.The class had to 
tell the meaning of the dance and why dances were performed.

November 22-24,2010, the class begin to study Rock-N-Roll and Heavy Metal 
music. The students will look at some bands from the British invasion to the 
best in american music.

December 1-3,2010, The music class will investigate the rock bands of this 
century.

January 10-14, 2011, Environmental Science class will have an introduction 
from the teacher on ecology. The teacher will have a lecture and a verbal 
feedback on the information taught in class. Chapters 1 and 2 will be the 
opening lesson.

January 10-14, 2011, Life Science class will open with a lecture on the 
different branches of science and their function. The class will read 
chapters 1 and 2.

January 10-14, 2011, General Mathematics Class will be about whole numbers by 
addition and number value. The teacher will demonstrate each lesson on 
chapter 1 and chapter 2.

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