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Language Arts

Seminar on Race

Barbara Osborne, 2nd Semester 09-10

Barbara's room, 28 : Mon/Wed 14:35-15:55

Our Cult Heritage / 0.5

Seminar on Race

This seminar will be an honest and deep discussion on race. We will attempt to create a space where it is safe to ask questions that expose both our wisdom and our ignorance about race. Anyone who joins this group must be willing to complete assigned readings or class assignments by the day they will be discussed. Anyone who joins must be willing to listen to others as well as contribute. There will be guest speakers. Students who participate in these discussions must be serious about wanting to explore their ideas, biases and misconceptions about race in the 21st century.

Mathematics

Geometry B

James Johnson, 2nd Semester 09-10

Room 26 : Mon/Wed/Fri 12:00-01:20

None assigned

Geometry 1A & 1B 2009-2010 Syllabus Mr. Johnson’s Geometry 1A & 1B Text: Key Curriculum Press ~ Discovering Geometry The derivation of the term geometry—from the Greek words geô, “earth,” and metrein, “to measure”—is an accurate description of the works of the earliest geometers, who were concerned with problems such as measuring the size of fields and laying out accurate right angles for the corners of buildings. In ancient Egypt, for instance, where the Nile River periodically overflowed its banks, geometry was used to re-establish boundary lines on the plots of land affected by the flooding. This type of empirical (based on experience) geometry, which flourished in ancient Egypt, Sumer, and Babylonia, was refined and systematized by the Greeks. The geometry of Babylon (in Mesopotamia) and Egypt was mostly experimentally derived rules used by the engineers of those civilizations. They knew how to compute areas, and even knew the “Pythagorean Theorem” 1000 years before the Greeks. They established the framework that inspired Greek geometry. Amazingly these ancient insights just as relevant today.

Through investigations and constructions students acquire a deep understanding of geometric concepts, develop problem-solving, and practice inductive and deductive reasoning.