Please check your infinite campus- EOC/Final exam scores have been posted!
Also make sure that all late/missing work is in by MONDAY and that you work on your study guide (mark out 47-50).
I hope those of you who took AP tests did well. Have a great weekend!
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This is a new article that came out today: Asteroid Killed Off Dinosaurs? New Study Suggests Comet Instead Caused Extinction Event
Another article posted on the BBC News
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Courtesy of Facebook.
Do you agree with this?
Other interesting article that has surfaced this week can be found here and Here
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Reblogged from Schools of Thought:
By John Martin, CNN
(CNN) -- Years ago, maybe years upon years ago, you probably sat in a classroom and learned how chemicals combine to form new substances. You watched your teacher write on the board, drew a few pictures and completed a worksheet. Maybe you read the textbook at home and studied images of electrons being shared and transferred to form chemical bonds.
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The stem cell argumentative essay is due November 8th (November 9th for B Day). The rubric for this paper can be found on the class pages. If you have any questions please contact me via email (sarah.mcnurlan@fayette.kyschools.us) BEFORE the due date.
Argumentative stem cell essay rubric
Some Help from Purdue Online Writing Lab on writing an argumentative thesis statement
Example of an argumentative thesis statement:
High school graduates should be required to take a year off to pursue community service projects before entering college in order to increase their maturity and global awareness.
The paper that follows should:
present an argument and give evidence to support the claim that students should pursue community projects before entering college
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Reblogged from Translation and Interpretation Services Blog:
A recent butterfly study in Japan has found significant links between exposure to radiation after the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima last year and the mutation of butterflies in the area, establishing the first recognised link between the radiation emitted as a result of the disaster and physical deformity in living organisms. The scientists involved in the study collected a sample of butterflies, still in the larvae stage of development and analysed instances of deformity that occurred in the insects, which ranged from eye and wing problems to abnormality in their colouring.
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