Key: 📝 = assessment this week | ✉️ = teacher contact
English & Language Arts
Ms. Nutt — English 10, English 11 & Theatre 1, 2 English 11: We will begin Unit 2 on Fireside Poets and Dark Romanticism. We will write horror stories in the style of Washington Irving or Edgar Allan Poe. English 10: We will finish Unit 1 by writing literary analysis essays on "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. Theatre 1 & 2: We will apply peer feedback to our playscript drafts and work toward finalization.
📝 English 11: We will take quizzes following the reading and analysis of various short texts. English 10: The literary analysis essay will serve as student assessment.
✉️ snutt@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. Montgomery — English 9 In English 9 we will be reading The Most Dangerous Game and working on character analysis, suspense, and theme evaluation.
📝 We will have a writing assessment on Friday of this coming week.
✉️ amontgomery@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. Lamb — English 11 & 12 11th grade will complete Act 4 of The Crucible and review for a test at the end of the week. 12th grade will continue reading the novel Grendel, ch 1-5, then ch 10-12 with their literature circles.
📝 Sentence Fix Quiz – open notes – for all classes on Tuesday 9/15. 11th grade Crucible multiple choice test on Friday 9/18.
✉️ slamb@rappahannockschools.us
World Languages
Ms. Loya — Spanish 2 & Spanish 3 In Spanish 2 we will continue to practice regular preterite (past tense) verbs and we will take a quiz mid-week. We will also start looking at preterite irregular verbs. In Spanish 3 we will take the Life in the Future with future and conditional tense test and we will begin our second unit, "Past Experiences." We will learn and practice with vocabulary related to talking about past experiences and we will begin our review of past tenses.
📝 Spanish 2: Quiz Wednesday or Thursday – regular preterite verbs. Spanish 3: Unit 1 Test Monday – Life in the Future with future and conditional tenses.
✉️ rloya@rappahannockschools.us
Mathematics
Ms. Stephens — PreCalculus & Calculus Pre Calc: Operations and Compositions, Inverses, Review, Test, Characteristics of Polynomials. Calc: Trigonometry, Assessment, Limits and Continuity, Properties of Limits.
📝 Pre Calc: Thursday (subject to change). Calc: Finishing up Tuesday (ongoing assessment started last Thursday).
✉️ sstephens@rappahannockschools.us
Mr. Alther — Algebra 1 & AFDA Algebra 1 will continue working with Linear Functions this week; we will specifically be learning about Standard Form and Point-Slope Form. AFDA will be finishing the unit on Linear Regression and Trends before moving on to Inequalities and then Systems of Inequalities.
📝 Algebra 1 will have a test on Friday 9/18. AFDA will have a unit test on Wednesday 9/16.
✉️ kalther@rappahannockschools.us
Science
Ms. Hill — Chemistry This week in Chemistry, we will continue with trends and learn about electron configuration. If all goes well, the flame test rounds out the week. We will also have a binder and note composition book check.
📝 Pop quiz
✉️ chill@rappahannockschools.us
Social Studies
Mr. Long — World History I & US/VA History WHI – Students will analyze primary and secondary source documents to prepare for an essay assessment on the Persian Empire. USH – Students will explore the development of the American political system in the years following the American Revolution.
📝 WHI – Performance Assessment One. USH – Common Assessment Three.
✉️ klong@rappahannockschools.us
Career & Technical Education
Ms. Atkins — Introduction to Health Science Mathematical Applications in Health Science: 1. To practice mathematical conversion between systems of measurement. 2. To analyze health science tables, charts and graphs to help identify solutions.
📝 2 Quizzes; 1 Final Assessment; Class Activities to practice calculations
✉️ catkins@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. Whited — Economics & Personal Finance Continuing Unit 4.
📝 Unit 4 test Wednesday, September 16th.
✉️ awhited@rappahannockschools.us
Mr. King — Small Engine Repair Specialty Tools and Measurements.
📝 Small assessments, then Final.
✉️ cking@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. Moore — Intro to Plant Science Continue learning about plant parts, their purpose, and propagation possibilities. We will be completing a Monocot & Dicot LAB, making observations on our cool weather plants, and the several assignments in support of plant classification and nomenclature.
📝 Plant classification and nomenclature test on Friday 9/18.
✉️ smoore@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. Segrest — Introduction to Culinary Arts Students will demonstrate culinary math skills converting a recipe then making it. They will practice following a sequence within a recipe by making chocolate chip cookies. We will move into kitchen tools identification. Students will be trained on how to use small wares and commercial kitchen equipment, followed by a two day mystery basket style lab where students will select an ingredient and each group will then be tasked with completing a recipe using a different tool.
📝 Summative test on reading a recipe, culinary math conversions and kitchen tools 9/22.
✉️ msegrest@rappahannockschools.us
Fine Arts
Ms. Pierce — Art Appreciation 100 Evaluation of an Artwork paper due. Test #1 completed. Review of Chapter 3 and associated questions. Introduction to essay assignment.
📝 Artwork Evaluation Paper, Test #1, Review Questions
✉️ spierce@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. St. John — Art 1–4, Yearbook & AP 2D Art and Design Art 1-4 have a unit final project that they will be working on and presenting this week. AP will be introduced to the required portfolio format. Yearbook will begin selecting photos and arranging them into the yearbook.
📝 Art 1-4 unit final project.
✉️ lstjohn@rappahannockschools.us
Health & Physical Education
Coach Williams — PE 10 | Drivers Education & PE 8 PE 10/Drivers Ed (DE) Schedule: 09/14 – DE | 09/15 – DE | 09/16 – DE | 09/17 – DE | 09/18 – PE. DE: Students will begin Module 2: How to Prepare the Vehicle. PE 8 & PE 10: Students will continue participating in activities that improve their physical fitness levels.
📝 Thursday, 09/17: Module 2 Test in DE
✉️ lswilliams@rappahannockschools.us
Coach Norman — PE Students continued learning and executing new teamwork skills through new games and activities.
📝 Sportsmanship, respect and participation will continue to be assessed daily.
✉️ wnorman@rappahannockschools.us
Student Support Services
Mrs. Bullard — English Language Program (ELP) Students will focus on morphology with their vocabulary words: exposition, falter, feasible, feign, mortify, niche, obscure, obsolete. Using a variety of texts, students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues. Students will also analyze practical, instructional texts for appropriate grammar and clarity for the reader's understanding. 📝 Vocabulary and grammar assessment on Friday.
✉️ mbullard@rappahannockschools.us
Ms. Feldmeyer — Transitions Class (All Subjects) English: Finish Hatchet novel; finish Reading Recipe packet; start Reading Labels; Lexia. Math: Finishing unit on Menus; start Health and Nutrition Unit. Science: Students earned S'mores (cooking) for Class Incentive Reward! (Tues) Living Systems/Ecosystem Interactions (IXL) and Living/Non-Living Organisms (food chains/webs). Social Studies/History: CNN 10 daily with notes/discussion; Famous People in History. Employ: Ch. 6 + 7 Handling Change/Stress; Staying Healthy On Your Own.
📝 Employ Unit Test moved to Tuesday of next week (many absences due to illness this week). Hatchet Novel Test on Thursday – we are almost completely done with the book! Math Assessment on Friday: totaling a bill with a tip and sales tax; price comparisons.
✉️ rfeldmeyer@rappahannockschools.us
