Week of March 17, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Starter activities:
The Man in the Elevator
A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every morning he takes the
elevator down to the lobby and leaves the building. In the evening, he
gets into the elevator, and, if there is someone else in the elevator - or
if it was raining that day - he goes back to his floor directly.
Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of
stairs to his apartment. Can you explain why?
Philosopher's Clock
This is an old logic puzzle. One philosopher had a clock, which he had
forgotten to wind up. He had no other clock, watch, radio, TV, phone or
any other device telling the time. So when his clock stopped he went to a
friend (road from one house to another is flat plane only), stayed there
the whole night and when he came home, he knew the right time.
How could he know?
Their assignment is to read 4 articles and tell me the following
information for each:
Title:
Newsweek cover picture and date:
Main Idea:
Summary:
5 Cause and Effect Relationships from the article:
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Starter Activity:
1.Farmers problem
A farmer is standing on one side of the river and with him are a wolf, a goat and a box with cabbages. In the river there is a small boat. The farmer wants to cross the river with all the three items who are with him. There are no bridges and in the boat there is only room for the farmer and one item. But if he leaves the goat with the cabbages alone on one side of the river the goat will eat the cabbages. If he leaves the wolf and the goat on one side the wolf will eat the goat. Only the farmer can seperate the wolf from the goat and the goat from the cabbage.
How can the farmer cross the river with all three items, without one eating the other ?
2. Lost
You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In villageA live only liars, they always lie. In village B people always tell the truth. You want to go to village B. Then you see a man from village A or B. You can ask him only one question.
Which question will you ask him to know for sure where village B is ?
Complete pages 113-130 in the Red Sourcebooks. Only page 23 can be done in pairs. The rest should be completed individually.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Starter activity:
There are 7 boys on a soccer team. Each boy has a different position, jersey number, and height. Find out each person's height, position, and number.
* Justin is the goalie
* The right forward is #10
* The goalie is 6' 4''
* Joe is 6' 1''
* Ryan is right forward
* The person next to Ryan is #14
* The person who is 6' 4'' is #16
* #10 is 5' 8''
* The left forward is #15
* Brad is right defense
* Brendan is #20
* Michael is 7' 1''
* Miguel is #6
* Michael is left forward
* #42 is right defense
* Brad is 6' 2''
* #6 is center defense
* #15 is 7' 1''
* #20 is 6' 7''
* Miguel is 5' 10''
* #14 is 6' 1''
* The person who is 6' 7'' is left defense
* Joe is center forward
Practice Activity: Finish yesterday's Sourcebook assignment, pages 114-130. Begin pages 131-148. As you are reading, consider the passages they are reading and the possible connections to the upcoming elections.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Starter: Freedom Writers' Thursday
Practice Activity: TeenBiz