Geometry
Click on the links below for this nine weeks' lesson plans and make-up work.
Lesson Plans January 12 - 16
Lesson plans for January 5 - 9
Lesson plans for December 8 - 12
Lesson plans November 17 - 26
November 10 - 14

Click here to view Lesson Plans for the first nine weeks .

Homework.
While completing homework assignments, write down any questions you have and give them to me at the beginning of the period.  Skip that exercise and move to the next. If you cannot move on unless your question is answered, look for the explanation and examples at the homework section of this web site.

Definitions:
If you do not know the terminology, then you will not understand the explanations.  You may do the definitions section by section or all at one time.  If you do them all at one time, make sure you have them when you are working on your exercises and activities.

Theorems, postulates, corollaries, and conjectures:
These are "rules" that help prove procedures are valid.  Many of them are common sense.  You do not have to memorize them as they are written in the text, but you must be able to logically and coherently state the concepts in your own words.  This means you must understand them to use them.

 Lesson Plans January 12 - 16

Monday,
January 12
Last weeks lesson plans were altered to give students more time to review Unit 4A. So we will pick up last Thursday and Friday's plans this week.
Give students progress report handouts from Easy Grade Pro.

Begin unit 4B
This is a review.  Most of the material was covered in chapter 3.
Explain "My geometric approach."
Homework review. Exercises 9 -30 pages 246 - 247.
Review counts as classwork.
"My geometric approach" is an exercise in which the students work a problem on a new concept.  They use prior knowledge to figure out how to solve the problem.  They write their thought processes on one side of the paper and solve the problem on the other."

See:  Thinking Through Mathematics, by Edward A silver, Jeremy Kilpatrick, and Beth Schelsinger.
Tuesday.
January 1  3
Review homework
Give homework quiz
Homework quiz 20%
Wednesday
January 14
Give homework quiz test on unit 4.5
Quiz 20% of final grade
Thursday,
January 15
Review for final and give make up tests and retests
Friday,
January 16
Review for final and give make up tests and retests

 Lesson plans for January 5 - 9
Monday,
January 5
Review:
Show powerpoint presentation on Triangle Congruence.
Give practice test to students
Practice test counts as a homework grade - 10%
Tuesday.
January 6
Review and explain practice test
Class activity/homework 10% of the final grade.
Wednesday
January 7
Give test on unit 4A
Test 50% of final grade
Thursday,
January 8
Begin unit 4B
This is a review.  Most of the material was covered in chapter 3
Homework review. Exercises 9 -30 pages 246 - 247
Review counts as classwork.
Friday,
January 9
Review homework
Give homework quiz
Homework quiz 20%

 Lesson plans for December 8 - 12
Monday,
December 8
Return quiz on 3.6
Give feedback and explain universally incorrect problems.
Explain coordinate plane, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, horizontal and vertical lines, slope, and midpoint
Homework: page 194 exercises 12 - 50
Homework 10% of final grade
Tuesday.
December 9
Review and explain homework problems that students had trouble with.
Supplemental practice on graphing geometric figures on a coordinate plane.
Class activity/homework 10% of the final grade.
Wednesday
December 10
Homework quiz on 3.7
Homework quiz 20% of final grade
Thursday,
December 11
Review for test on unit 3B
Practice test.
Review counts as classwork.
Friday,
December 12
Test on Unit 3B.
Test 50% of final grade.


 Lesson plans November 17 - 26
Monday,
November 17
Review converse theorems relating to parallel lines and transversals
Students will complete exercises
on page 164 - 167
Class activity/homework 10% of final grade
Tuesday.
November 18
Homework quiz
Practice for test on 3.1- 3.4
Click the followng link for extra help and a bonus: Bonus section begins here.
Home work quiz:  20% of the finalgrade
Class activity/homework 10% of the final grade.
Wednesday
November 19
Test on 3.1 - 3.4
Tests are 50% of final grade
Thursday,
November 20
Begin section 3.5: The triangle sum theorem
Complete activities in teams
Homework
Team activities 20%
Friday,
November 21
Review homework
Begin 3.5 Triangle Sum Theorem
Homework quiz 20% of final grade
Monday
November 24
OGT: Geometry  and Spatial Sense
H.  Establish the validity of conjectures about geometric objects, their properties and relationsips by counter-examle, inductive and deductive reasoning, and critiquing arguments made by others.
Students will complete exercises 9 - 45 pages 173 - 175 as a following up to show they understood the activities completed on Friday.
Give study guide for 3.5
study guide: classwork 10%
homework 10%
Tuesday
November 25

OGT: Geometry  and Spatial Sense
H.  Establish the validity of conjectures about geometric objects, their properties and relationsips by counter-examle, inductive and deductive reasoning, and critiquing arguments made by others.
Begin 3.6 Angles in polygons
Study guide handout for 3.6
Internal measures of angles of polygons
team activity pages 177 -179
Guides skills practice 1 - 8 orally.
Homework pages 180 - 182 exercises 8 -43.  
Team activity 20%
Homework 10%


Wednesday
November 26
Review homework
Homework quiz on 3.5 and 3.6
Study guide handout on 3.7
Study guide: classwork 10%
Homework quiz: 20% of grade
Happy Thanksgiving Break


 Lesson plans November 10 - 14
Monday,
November 10
Collect late quilt pieces!  Points will be deducted for being late.
Return quiz on 3.2
Give feedback and explain universally incorrect problems.
Explain parallel lines and transversals.
Students will take notes on the material.
Homework pages159 - 161 exercises 9 - 44

Tell the students the quilt top will be ready tomorrow.
Tuesday.
November 11

Bring completed quilt top.  Any student who has not contributed will earn a zero for the project.
Students will complete the activity on page 156.
To further explain the concepts have them cut through the center of the interior section of the parallel lines.  Have them place the corresponding angles on top of each other.  Have them rotate the cut away section of their illustration 180 degrees.  Then have the line the angles so that they are congruent.
Class assignment:  Guide the students as they complete exercises 9 - 21.
Homework assignment: Show the students how to complete exercises 22 - 32 and include proofs for each step.  The students will complete exercises 34 - 44 on their own.
Team activity:  20% of the finalgrade
Class activity/homework 10% of the final grade.
Thursday,
November 13
After answering any questions the student may have on the homework assignment, give them the quiz covering the material from exercise 9 - 33.
Homework quiz 20% of final grade
Friday,
November 14
Provide supplemental material on transversals and parallel lines.  Discuss converses of the theorems dealing with parallel lines and transversals.  These are covered in unit 3.4, but the students can discover them through class discussion
No homework.
Classwork activity 10 percent of final grade.
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