Vocabulary
- metaphysics
- essentially
- unchanging
- static
- expanding
- observation
- infinitesimally
- dense
- preclude
Reading
Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills.
Read passage from "Froggie Apocalypse".
Class Reading Assignment
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking; continued reading chapter 1, pages 8 - 11.
Writing
Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Cat and Dragon Share the Food"
Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see!
"A Brief History of Time" writing assignment
- Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
- Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.
- Why was the question, of the universe having a beginning, looked at as metaphysics and theology back in the day?
- Who made a landmark observation that changed they way those thought about an unchanging universe? What was that observation and what did it suggest?
- What what the difference between Hubble's observation of a big bang beginning our universe and what people currently believed was the beginning of our universe?
- What two requirements make a good theory?
- Why are theories always provisional, and how are theories disproved?
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