It looks like things are running a little more "normal" now.  We are on our standard schedule now that the first week is over.

My "homework" site through the district seems to be working now, so please feel free to visit it if you would like to know/verify the assignment for any particular day.  Here is the link to the school's directory (my name is about two-thirds of the way down).

I hope that this page will help keep the parents of my students aware of the main things happening in class throughout the year.  I generally try to update it a couple of times a week, so please stop in every so often to see what is coming up in class.

Please note that I am generally available before and after school for additional help.  No appointment is necessary... you just have to find me!  I am a "roaming" teacher, so I don't really have a permanent location.  I'm usually either in D219 or D223.

Students can expect their second quiz over the trigonometric ratios involving the special right triangles and some simple right triangle applications on Thursday, 8/21.  We will spend a little extra time reviewing the day before, just to make sure everyone is ready.

A good portion of the recent material isn't hard, but requires a considerable amount of memorization.  Students who master these facts now usually do quite well later, so a little extra effort on learning these facts is suggested.

The next thing we are going to tackle is the unit circle.  It basically expands what we are doing to angles beyond 90 degrees.

In case you missed the last few updates, the first quiz has been returned and the grades for a vast majority of the students were very good.

One thing we'll be doing in this class is an informal portfolio (not to be confused with the portfolio requirement in the honors-level courses).  My intent is to help the students develop a resource that will be useful not only this year, but also when they head off to college.

We are currently reviewing the concepts of functions and linear equations.  For those that need a little extra help recalling the algebra, I have several resources on the Algebra 2 page.

The Chapter 1 test has been graded and posted.  The overall scores were disappointing, but hopefully this will give the students and myself a place to work from as we head off into the next chapter.  I did spend time with each student today going over his/her test to look at ways to improve performance in the future.

I'm really hoping that we can introduce the first component of the portfolio work in the near future with the work we are doing in these first few chapters.  More on that later...