Announcements et al

Hey!! We are enjoying some beautiful fall weather this week in East TN-hope you are elsewhere in the state!

Next week is a short week-students will be returning home Wed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Wednesday morning we will be attending the TSD all you can eat pancake and sausage breakfast to be followed by a guest speaker, Jon Bethard, to speak on the forensic anthropological side of genocide for this months module, Modern Genocide. Although this might seem like an illogical choice for around the holiday time-we are hoping it will educate our students and make them more thankful for their home, family, and opportunities.

When we get back from the break we have some fun activities planned by TGA and the Student Gov't-as well as exams. Students will return home for Winter Break Dec 11 and will be returning to TGA on January 4 (a Monday-not a Sunday)...

This week in classes:

In Mandarin I this week, we will finish Lesson3, dialogue 2 including how to ask about other's availability and arranging appointments. We will have a unit quiz on Thursday.

In Mandarin II this week, we will review how to invite others to an event, how to ask and tell time, and the vocabulary on planning to go to a party. We will have a quiz on Monday.

This week in U.S. History, we will have a reading check on the new republic on Monday, then a Unit II exam on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we will move into the Jeffersonian era, followed by the post-War of 1812 years.

This week in Calculus I we will continue our thorough investigation of optimization problems. We will also look at applications of differentiation to economics. I will be gone on Thursday and Friday, during which time you will have time to work on your Maple Projects.

This week in Calculus II we will our look at series and various tests for convergence. . I will be gone on Thursday and Friday, during which time you will have time to work on a new Maple Lab.

Giving you a heads up, this week in Precalculus we are going to be looking over types of series, arithmetic, geometric, power, binomial series. We will also examine the concept of a limit and what it means to have a series that converges. Test three will be given on Thursday and on Friday a mathlab will be given.