-Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
This has been another great week at University High! It was Homecoming Week, so it has been spirited and thrilling. Yesterday, we had our Homecoming parade downtown for the community which included the bands, sports teams, Homecoming court, and many students. It was great to see the students out of the element of school. Everyone seemed so happy and excited for the Homecoming game that will be tomorrow. Wednesday we had twin day, Thursday was "Back in the Day" day, and Friday will be school spirit day. The students and the faculty have participated in these themes for each day. It is motivating to see everyone so involved.
Even though it has been a high-spirited week, we have still had to teach and learn. Monday I had my Honor Pre-Calculus students complete a group work activity related to average rate of change. On Tuesday, we reviewed for their quiz. Wednesday, they completed their quizzes. Today, we began learning about transformations of functions. We just discussed vertical and horizontal shifting for today. Tomorrow, we will talk about vertical and horizontal stretching and compressing. We have been quite busy with moving along in our Pre-Calculus studies. For my seventh and eighth period Pre-Calculus classes, we have been working on more application problems with word problems dealing with mixture, sharing a job, and distance, rate, and time. This has been a challenging section for the Pre-Calculus students. It is a lot more problem solving than they are used to. We will be finishing up this section on Wednesday or Thursday of next week. It has been a learning experience this week for all of the students and me. Altogether, I have felt that this week has been a success, and I am well-prepared to begin teaching all five classes next week. Wish me luck! (:
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