Homework for 11-19 and 11-20

Hi everyone - this is coming to you from my house, since I stayed home sick today and will be out tomorrow as well. I think the flu finally caught up with me!

Today I left a set of videos and some work packets and colored pencils for the sub. If everything went according to plan, you should have had a quiz on noble gas configurations, and then watched episodes 401 and 402 of the Georgia Public Broadcasting chemistry course. We did several of these before - these are the videos with the bells that play when a chalkboard graphic goes up, and you take notes on it. There were some notes to take, some problems to complete, and a periodic table for you to fill in and color to learn about families/groups and periods, as well as some of their properties.

For A day classes, since I will see you next Monday, you have the packet to finish. For B day classes, since I won't see you until after vacation, you have the homework to eat lots of food on Thanksgiving and get lots of rest so you're ready to dive back into the periodic table when we return - I'll give that homework to the A day students when I see them on Monday.

Hopefully I'll be feeling better by then!

Thanks for checking here, and have a good night!

Mr. Rinke

Homework for 11-17 and 11-18

Sorry I didn't get this up until now - I wasn't feeling well the last couple of days and it slipped my mind.

Today we did a whole bunch of stuff, including:

1) A quiz on orbital box diagrams and Lewis dot diagrams.
2) We went over the Unit 3 test - Retests must be completed before Christmas for those who wish to do so.
3) We talked about the spectrophotometer lab and what is due for it (all of the questions in the packet need to be answered, as well as a graph made. The details of the graph were given in class)
4) We did a small periodic table puzzle, and I gave a second one of these for homework.
5) I checked and gave a grade for, and then we went over, the set of worksheets which were due today from 2 classes ago, as well as answering any questions on any of them.
6) I taught lesson 19. This took about 10 minutes, and covered the history and regions of the periodic table.

Phew! Lotsa stuff today - haha.

For homework:

1) There will be a quiz on Noble Gas Electron Configurations.
2) The periodic table puzzle - the back side of the one we did in class - is due.
3) The one worksheet after Lesson 19 is due.
4) The spectrophotometer lab packet and graph is due.

Most of these are relatively short - the only thing which should take a few minutes is the graph for the Spec lab.

Have a great night!

Homework for 9/28 and 10/1

This is the homework for 9/28 and 10/1. We are taking a test on 9/29 and 9/30, so the B day classes won’t receive their homework until Thursday, 10/1.

Students need to write out, type out, cut-and-paste, or make flashcards for all of the vocabulary words in Unit 2, which is lessons 10-13. I gave the A day students all of the terms today (they had to fill in the blanks in those lessons, and those are the words they are looking for), and B day students will get them on Thursday (or can get them after the test if they wish). This homework is due 10/6 and 10/7, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

Also, make sure you’re studying! And this is also a reminder to the B4 students – I still owe you candy from the review game – remind me so you can snack during part of the test.

Good luck!

Homework from 9-24 and 9-25

You have a test coming up Tuesday (B-Day) and Wednesday (A-Day) - Because of the early dismissal on Monday, you will start covering new material from Unit 2 on Monday, and then have your test on Wednesday.

In class today I collected the graphing assignment, and we spent most of the period playing a review game. Please make sure if you had some reason not to turn in your graph today, you get it to me in the next couple of days.

Make sure you are studying and reviewing for the test - you can come in Friday after school or Monday after school to practice with the balances or Bunsen burners, or just go through your lab station to make sure you know what the various equipment is. Don't assume you remember everything - come in and check them out!

Have a great weekend!

Homework from 9-22-09 and 9-23-09

Hello! There is a test coming up on 9-29 and 9-30 for my chemistry classes - For the A day students, it is actually after the B day students because of the early dismissal day on 9-28. Start studying now if you haven't already!

The only written homework you have today is to complete the graphs from lesson 9. You have to make sure to make all the graphs are done correctly, and cut and pasted onto a word document. You can print them out and turn them in that way, or send them to my GoogleDocs, which is at docs.google.com. Publish them to your GoogleDocs account, and then invite rinkeref@yahoo.com, which is my home email address, to it.

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