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Thanksgiving [24 Nov 2009]

Everyone now has been assigned a day to be in charge of Morning Meeting. Next up? Sherif has Monday and Ruby has Tuesday.

  1. Humanities: If you are behind on any of the Over Sea, Under Stone work (reading, note-taking, and vocabulary posts), catch up over the break.

  2. Humanities: For those of you who would like to get a head start on next week, we’ll be reading OSUS chapters six through nine for homework, one chapter per night, taking notes and posting vocabulary.

  3. Humanities: Are you on schedule with your Middle Ages project? If not, you know what to do.

Have a happy Thanksgiving!

Nov
23rd
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I just love this set of illustrations made with leaves: Bio-Diversity. Art materials are everywhere you look.

I just love this set of illustrations made with leaves: Bio-Diversity. Art materials are everywhere you look.

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If we really want to integrate our curriculum in the NMY program, maybe we should convince Todd to coach Calcio Fiorentino (also Calcio Storico) while we study the Renaissance. Anyone up for joining the team?

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The image above comes from a blog post titled “Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown by Matt Jones who works as Director of Design at a design consultancy in London called BERG whose work you’ve already seen. (More on that here, and BERG’s name explained here.) Let’s get back to “Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown.” Well, that’s quite a post title, and your first reaction might be to ignore it, but you’d be selling yourself short, because there is a connection to some work you’ve done.

Earlier this year Carwai had you all making pictographs using information about yourself to determine the features of the face that represented you. (I know this because I made one too. Remember the hairiest head in the group? Ironic isn’t it?) The drawings above are schools, but drawn to represent data about those schools in more friendly icons, much like your pictograms. The post explains why this is a good choice using words like pareidolia, a video, and mention of the “Hello Little Fella” Flickr group which I showed the seventh graders last year. (Yup, Matt Jones was behind that too.) And if that’s not enough to get you to explore some more, you’ll also find some faces representing 2005 National League baseball teams including, of course, the San Diego Padres and a team David kinda likes.

PS: What would the TCS pictograph look like?

The image above comes from a blog post titled “Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown by Matt Jones who works as Director of Design at a design consultancy in London called BERG whose work you’ve already seen. (More on that here, and BERG’s name explained here.) Let’s get back to “Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown.” Well, that’s quite a post title, and your first reaction might be to ignore it, but you’d be selling yourself short, because there is a connection to some work you’ve done.

Earlier this year Carwai had you all making pictographs using information about yourself to determine the features of the face that represented you. (I know this because I made one too. Remember the hairiest head in the group? Ironic isn’t it?) The drawings above are schools, but drawn to represent data about those schools in more friendly icons, much like your pictograms. The post explains why this is a good choice using words like pareidolia, a video, and mention of the “Hello Little Fella” Flickr group which I showed the seventh graders last year. (Yup, Matt Jones was behind that too.) And if that’s not enough to get you to explore some more, you’ll also find some faces representing 2005 National League baseball teams including, of course, the San Diego Padres and a team David kinda likes.

PS: What would the TCS pictograph look like?

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Seventh graders Max, Trevor, Marcelo, and David constructed a catapult as part of their Middle Ages project. Aside from some research, all of the work was completed by the students on campus during school hours. To accompany the catapult they produced a documentary on Medieval Warfare (not the video above).

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Andrew’s mom sent me a link to this TED Talk presentation by Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry in which they demonstrate SixthSense, some new wearable technology that might make its way into our lives in the years to come. If you want to learn a bit more, there is also a more recent presentation by Pranav Mistry. Thanks, Helen.

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All kinds of pie [23 Nov 2009]

Tomorrow is Grandparents and Special Friends Day at TCS. The event will run from 8:30 to 10:30 AM. School will be dismissed at the normal 3:15 PM for the Thanksgiving break.

  1. Humanities: Similar to some previous assignments, tonight you need to: (a) Read chapter five of Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper. (b) Take notes by expanding on the example notes we took in class today on the first two pages of the chapter. (I sent a copy of those notes to you by email.) (c) Post all new vocabulary words to your blog using the format we have been using thus far.

  2. Humanities: Are you on schedule with your Middle Ages project?

  3. Math: We have been practicing two-step equations for the past couple of days. The homework is Practice 3-5. Please do all of the problems.

  4. Science: We are working on the finishing touches on your formal yeast experiment write-up. Tonight you need to finish up the Analysis and Conclusion section. Sherif posted on his tumblr the guiding questions that we brainstormed in class.

  5. Español: Estudien para su prueba mañana.

  6. Media Literacy: Call to Action 6 is due tomorrow.

Pie pie.

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Seventh graders Anthony, Sydney, and John created this documentary on castles as their Middle Ages project. Enjoy! Then click through for links to supporting documents.

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Nov
20th
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Short week ahead [20 Nov 2009]

We only have two days of class next week. Tuesday is Grandparents and Special Friends Day.

  1. Humanities: If you are behind on any of the Over Sea, Under Stone work (reading, note-taking, and vocabulary posts), catch up over the weekend. For those of you who would like to get a head start on next week, we’ll be reading chapter five for homework on Monday night.

  2. Humanities: Are you on schedule with your Middle Ages project? If not, spend some time catching up over the weekend.

¡Disfruten del fin de semana!

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