August 27th, 2012 - November 16th, 2012 Quarterly Report

Grading Key: Effort & Skills

4 - Advanced E - Excellent U - Unsatisfactory

3 - Proficient G - Good X - Not Applicable

2 - Approaching S - Satisfactory

1 - Below N - Needs to Improve

Days of Instruction: 60

Reading:"The Alchemyst" by Michael Scott. "Niagara and the Mississippi" (From a New Discovery of a Vast Country in America) by Father Hennepin from A Book of Famous Explorers, Edited by Edwin Erle Sparks (1945 Auxiliary Educational League, Chicago) 3(G) 50 hrs

English: Write Source 2000. A Guide to Writing, Thinking and Learning. Written and Compiled by Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, and Verne Meyer (1999 Great Source Education Group, Houghton Mifflin) 4(E) 50 hrs

History: Topics Covered: The Presidential Election Process, Electoral College, Social Security Intro, Primaries and Caucuses, Deficit and Debt Ceiling, Medicare Sustainability. Website used: http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics?k 2(S) approximately 50 hrs including topics covered as well as newspaper reading and election coverage on TV and Internet

Science: Physics - Texts used and referenced throughout this past quarter: Barron's Review Course Series Let's Review: Physics The Physical Setting Third Edition by Miriam A. Lazar, M.S.and Barron's Regents Exams and Answers: Physics The Physical Setting. Also using website http://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics?k. Topics covered: Mechanics: Kinematics, Statics, Dynamics, Momentum and Newton's Laws of Motion 2(S) 36 hrs

Math: Text used: New York Math A Semesters 1 & 2 by Merv Edwards,Review of Mathematical Foundations. Topics covered: Addition, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication, Order of Operations, Evaluating Algebraic Expressions, Exponents, Distributive Property, Combining Like Terms, Signed Numbers, Adding on a Number Line, Multiplying Signed Numbers. Lots of Review. Website used: http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic 2(N) 35 hrs

Computer Science - Texts used for Introduction to Computer Science: HTML 4 for Dummies 4th Edition by Ed Tittel & Natanya Pitts. Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Starting Out with Java; From Control Structures through Objects, Third Edition by Tony Gaddis, Pearson Addison Wesley Publishing. Also using the following websites: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/computer-science?k , http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/user-interaction, and http://www.dummies.com/how-to/computers-software/programming/HTML.html Topics Covered: Meeting HTML in its Natural Environment (The Least You Need to Know about HTML and the Web, HTML at Work on the Web, Creating Your First HTML Page), Getting Started with HTML (Structuring Your HTML Documents, Linking to Online Documents, Finding & Using Images, Top Off Your Page with Formatting), Introduction to Computers and Java (Introduction, Why Program?, Computer Systems: Hardware & Software, Programming Languages, What is a Program Made of?, The Programming Process, Object-Oriented Programming) 2(N) 30 hrs

Phys Ed: Elliptical, resistance training 4(E) approximately 25 hrs

COMMENTS:Jacob was disappointed that the online courses he was originally registered to take in the Fall were actually cancelled due to "low enrollment." He is registered for English Comp 1 for Spring of 2013 at HVCC. The Computer Science lessons were much, much more difficult than any of the children anticipated.

Submitted 2012 by Daniela