New Ownership

I apologize for this not being announced earlier, but the website has been given away and is now under new ownership.

6/16/10 "Keying your brain"

Today was a strange day.. not much was accomplished other than filling in a packet that matched a power point. The difficulties with this were that many of people's packets did not have the right amount of papers and some were out of order. This, of course, was blamed on other people, like another packet we received which was blamed on a substitute teacher, although he had nothing to do with it.

This power point, of course, was saturated with every transition and sound effect MS Office has to offer and packed with irrelevant images that we were told were designed to "key your brains." In fact, we were told that Marsha was "keying our brains" 5 times in a 5 minute period.
If keying a brain is anything like keying a car, I might be able to agree with her.

To give you an idea of how irrelevant the brain keying images are, I'll describe some:

"Which of the following describes biodiversity?" = smiley face holding recycling can
"Why do scientists warn that a mass extinction is occurring now?" = brick bridge
"Why have poulations in most developed countries stopped growing?" = smiling flower
"What is a hectare?" = picture of starfish
"What is a placer deposit?" = tornado
"Which abiotic factors characterize a forest ecosystem?" = child on beach
"What might happen within an ecosystem when a keystone species is driven to extinction?"
= a nerve synapse w/ neurotransmitters
This one was my favorite, and I had to explain to her that it was a nerve synapse. I must admit, my brain feels extremely violated, almost as if someone key'd it.
After inquiring about this one and explaining to her what it was, she said:
Because everything that happens with a key species affects everything.
Stay classy, Marsha Sall.


..and to top things off, the New Paper count for today for each student is: 8
CONSERVING RESOURCES!

Monday&Tuesday tallies

Monday (6/14/10):
New Papers: 6
Tuesday (6/15/10):
New Papers: 8
Pangaea! (displaying graphic of modern continents)

Some of last week's

Monday:
New Papers: 7
Essence: 10
Tuesday:
New Papers: 3
Wednesday:
Your computer will not work - there is no Google today!
MY COMPUTER ARE BROKE!
I don't remember, when I was nine. I don't know what I knew then.
I'm not surprised, as you can't remember what you're supposed to be teaching.
New Papers: 7
Thursday:
New Papers: 1
Friday:
The last I heard, it was called, in short, The Soviet Union.
(For about 3 minutes the whole class kept trying to explain to Marsha that The Soviet Union was dissolved and that the majority of it was Russia, but she didn't believe us. She kept telling us that Russia wasn't a country and that it was The Soviet Union.)
Seriously, have you spent your whole life in a fallout shelter?

6/4/10 - essentially you eat the core of an apple

If you have an apple, it has a core that it grows from. So in essence, the core of the apple is what you eat.
The uterus is the womb from which you grow from. So in essence, you are a uterus.

PS: The reason there were no quotes from yesterday was because Marsha took her weekly vacation on Thursday (she skips once per week).

Essence: 11
Concept: 3
Recognize: 5

New Papers: 4

New Sall-Talk: prossibly, Tranobyl

6/2/10 - hydrolysis & placer deposit

..to separate water from the dioxide (explaining hydrolysis)
trioxidane?

What is a placer deposit? (displaying picture of a tornado)
(students all ask why there's a picture of a tornado)
...pictures are used to stimulate your brain (goes on to explain how 'concepts' & blah blah)
(student: So what is a placer deposit?)
It is a deposit formed.
how is babby formed

Concept: 8
Essence: 5

New Papers: 3

6/1/10 - Protons & Neutrons have opposite charges, France provides power for Europe

France.. supplies the nuclear ("nucular") energy to all of Europe... and certainly the whole country.
France, a-ah, savior of the Euroverse!

(student), may I see your pass? (student just entered the room 40 seconds ago)
(student goes up with pass)
(other student): She has already been here for 10 minutes.
Excuse me, Mr (other student), I do know that, excuse me, I know. (with 'I'm so smart smugness)
..the power of observation at its finest

...it has the protons and neutrons, which are attracted to each other because of opposite charges... it also has electrons, which...
You heard it here, folks.

Technically: 1
Concept: 3
Essence: 3
New Papers: 5

New Sall-Talk definitions added: extremendous, fridee