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Students enter the class,
collect their materials from the back of the
room, and take their seats.
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8:22
- 9:55
7th
Grade Math
1st Block
At
8:15, Ms. Serda leaves her classroom to get
her students who have been gathering in the
auditorium. The first bell rings at 8:22, and
the students spill into the classroom and take
their seats, some still wiping sleep from their
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"Your warm-up's on the board, guys"
Students
sharpen their pencils, get out notebook paper,
and quietly begin working on the exercise
written on the board. Meanwhile, Ms. Serda
takes roll and advises two more students who
enter the room late. "Sit in groups of
four today, if you can. If not, I'll move
you around," Ms. Serda instructs. The
class is purposefully small, with 6 boys and
5 girls. A paraprofessional enters the room
as the announcements sound. Students rise
to say the pledge of allegiance.
Today
Ms. Serda will teach the same lesson to each
of her three 7th grade math classes. Ms.
Serda explains that 7th grade is a pre-algebra
curriculum and she feels her students need
to work on graphing skills.
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Students
work on warm-up. |
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"Remember,
the x-axis is the way I sleep, and the y-axis
is the way I stand," Ms. Serda reminds
students as they go over the warm-up exercise.
"Write down what we've just discussed."
Students finish their papers and turn their
attention to the overhead projector at the
front of the room.
Students
will be doing a project in which they measure
their endurance by doing jumping jacks over
several periods of time. They will count the
number of jumping-jacks completed in timed
intervals and note the results. Team members
at each student's table will keep time with
stop-watches and count the number of jumping
jacks jumped during each interval. The students
will then graph the results.
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