Journals 1-4

Posted on April 16, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
J1- Make a list of at least 3 things you rely on when faced with a challenge. (Skills, character traits, people, etc.)

J2- Describe an alternate reality you would find interesting.

J3- Have you ever met someone truly extraordinary? Describe them. (If not-describe the closed thing…)

J4- What are your first impressions of Meg?
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Health Triangle Extention Activity

Posted on April 11, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
Health Triangle Extension Activity

This is an optional extra credit activity.

Due April 25th

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Health Journals 1-5

Posted on April 11, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
HJ1- List 3 short-term and 3 long-term effects of alcohol.

HJ2- Define and describe FAS.

HJ3-Are drugs good or bad. Explain your stance.

HJ4- What is the difference between drugs and medicine? Give 3 examples of each.

HJ5- Explain the difference between drug misuse and abuse.
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Health Journals 1-5

Posted on April 11, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
HJ1- Have the dynamics or definition of what makes a family changed over time? How?

HJ2- Discuss a recent disagreement in which you applied the Win-Win Negotiation tactic.

HJ3- What are some characteristics of a healthy and functional family?

HJ4- Discuss how many food ads you come across on a daily basis. Where do you see these ads and how do they influence your diet/food choices?

HJ5- Name the 3 nutrients in which we get the majority of our energy (fuel). Circle the main nutrient.
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“Wrinkle” Vocab 1

Posted on April 10, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
  1. Assimilate- incorporate. Integrate new knowledge (or person) with what is already in place.
  2. Avid- eager or enthusiastic about something.
  3. Dilapidated- run down, ruined or decay; result of neglect.
  4. Frivoling- to spend or waste something in a foolish, or frivolous, way.
  5. Gamboled- to leap or skip around playfully.
  6. Scudded- to move swiftly and smoothly.
  7. Supine- lying on the back, face upward. Palm of had facing upward or away from body. Passive or inactive.
  8. Corporeal- relating to or involving the physical body rather than the mind.
  9. Ephemeral- short-lived; lasting for only a short period of time, leaving no permanent trace.
  10. Ineffable- indescribable. Unable to express in words.
  11. Inexorable- impossible to stop.
  12. Enfolded-to surround or enclose somebody or something. To embrace.

 

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Your Health Triangle

Posted on April 9, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
Here is the health triangle power-point for those that need it:

_Your_Health_Triangle ppt
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Six Traits: Types of Sentences

Posted on April 7, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
In this packet, go to the Compound-Complex Sentences Exercises and, starting backwards (#4-#1) do an exercise for every day missed. (One exercise equals the whole page!)  Example- if you missed 1 day, you would do #4, if you missed 2 days, you would do exercise #3 and #4. If you missed 3 days, you would do #4, #3, and #2, and so on.

*Be sure to label each and specify day missed.

Link to packet:

SentencePacket
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How to Write a Column PPT

Posted on March 26, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
How to Write a Column
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Spelling 11

Posted on March 26, 2014 by felicia.kucharski

 

Group A

  1. Malfunction
  2. Detour
  3. Metaphor
  4. Disadvantage
  5. Decompose

 

Group B

6. Malevolent

7. Dissatisfaction

8. Metamorphosis

9. Distort

10. Decanter

 

Group C

11. Metabolism

12. Dissolve

13. Decline

14. Maladjusted

15. Dispute

 

Group D

16. Descendant

17. Malice

18. Deception

19. Deplete

20. Deceased

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Journals 17-21

Posted on March 21, 2014 by felicia.kucharski
HJ17- List 3 reasons teenagers start smoking.

HJ18- List 5 things you learned about tobacco that you didn’t know.

HJ19- List 1 effect of tobacco on each body system you researched. 4 total

HJ20- List 5 ways to say “no” to tobacco.

HJ21- Why do teenagers start drinking alcohol?
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