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November 16, 2013 - January 21, 2014 Quarterly Report

QUARTERLY REPORT
2013 - 2014 School Year
Jacob XXXXX
D.O.B.: 09/XX/97
Age: 16
Grade: 11
 
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: 37 for the 2nd quarter

 
Math - Continuation of New York Math A Semesters 1 & 2 (by Merv Edwards). Topics Covered:Chapter 9 Coordinates of Points in a Plane, Plotting Points, Polygon and Triangle Classification, Congruent Polygons, Manipulative Discovery for Lesson 9.6, Isosceles Triangles, Similar Polygons, The Triangle Inequality Theorem, Review Chapters 1 - 9.  2(S) 25 hrs
 
English - English Composition 2 at HVCC via Online Blackboard; Texts used: Patterns for College Writing; A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. Twelfth Edition, Hudson Valley Community College Edition, by Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell; The Bedford Handbook Eighth Edition, Hudson Valley Community College Edition, by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers. Topics Covered: Developing a Thesis, Writing First Draft, Revising, Editing and Proofreading, Cause and Effect Oral and PowerPoint Presentation.  (Final Grade was B) 23 hrs
 
American History - HVCC Online Blackboard; Text Used: "Give Me Liberty!" and American History, Volume One by Eric Foner. Seagull Third Edition. Copyright 2012. Topics Covered: Chapter 13 A House Divided 1840 - 1861; Fruits of Manifest Destiny, A Dose of Arsenic, The Rise of the Republican Party, The Emergence of Lincoln, Voices of Freedom: From the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, The Impending Crisis. Chapter 14 A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War 1861 - 1865; The First Modern War, The Coming of Emancipation, The Second American Revolution, Voices of Freedom: From Speech of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy (March 21, 1861), and From Abraham Lincoln, Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore (April 18, 1864), The Confederate Nation, Turning Points, Rehearsals for Reconstruction and the End of the War. Chapter 15 "What is Freedom?": Reconstruction 1865 - 1877: The Meaning of Freedom, Voices of Freedom: From Petition of Committee in Behalf of the Freedman to Andrew Jackson (1865), and From a Sharecropping Contract (1866), The Making of Radical Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction in the South, The Overthrow of Reconstruction. (Final Grade was B) 35 hrs
 
British Literature - Prentice Hall Literature; Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes The British Tradition. 1st Edition. Excerpts from various British authors - once again bolstering what Jacob was learning in his Interpretation of American History course at HVCC. 3(S) 25 hrs
 
Physical Education: Recumbent Bike,  Resistance Training 3 (G) 15 hrs
 
Teacher Comments: Jacob was able to pull his grades up in his college courses after mid-terms last semester, which was wonderful. This semester he is bound and determined to not let his grades slip. He is keeping a steady pace with homework assignments and focused on achieving academic success.

Submitted 2014 by Daniela