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QUARTERLY REPORT
2012 - 2013 School Year
Jacob XXXXX
D.O.B.:
09/XX/97
Age: 15
Grade: 10
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
Reading:"Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer 280 pgs., "Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code" by Eoin Colfer 309 pgs., "Artemis
Fowl: The Arctic Incident" by Eoin Colfer 277 pgs. 3(G) 60 hrs
English: Nitty-Gritty Grammar:
A Not-So-Serious Guide to Clear Communication by Edith H. Fine and Judith P. Josephson, Scholastic Inc. 2004 Topics Covered:
Verbs: Infinitives, Verb Tenses, Participles, Subject-Verb Agreement, Active Voice & Passive Voice, Nouns: Collective
Nouns, Compound Subjects, Prounouns: Pronouns as Subjects or Objects, as Possessives, in Compound Objects, as Objects
of Prepositions, Pronoun-Noun Agreement, Pronounds that End in "Self", Indefinite Pronouns, Who or Whom?, That or
Which?, Choosing Pronouns:Subject-Object Hints, Prepositional Phrases, Compound Adjectives, Adverbs: Double Negatives, Comparisons,
Double Comparisons, Interjections, Conjunctions. 4(E) 30 hrs
History: Topics Covered:Topics Covered: Government's
Financial Condition, Gun Control Laws & Controversy, Problems Facing the Country Today, Racism and Other Forms of Injustice
in the American System Website used: http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics?k 3(G) 50 hrs including topics covered as well as network news
coverage, watching documentaries on Netflix & InDemand, and Inauguration 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: Forces and Newton's Laws of Motion, Normal Force and Contact Force, Balanced and Unbalanced Forces, Tension,
Inclined Planes and Friction, episodes of Myth Busters, Work and Energy, Conservation of Energy, Work/Energy Problem with
Friction, Springs and Hooke's Law 2(S) 45 hrs
Math: Text used: New York Math A Semesters 1 & 2 by Merv Edwards,Review of Mathematical Foundations. Topics
covered: Dividing Signed Numbers, Mixed Practice on Signed Numbers Operations, Evaluation With Signed Numbers, Like Terms
with Signed Numbers Coefficients, Removing Parentheses, Subtracting Signed Numbers. Review: Chapters 1-2. 2(S) 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: Java Fundamentals: The Parts of a Java Program, The print and printIn Methods, and the Java API, Variables
and Literals, Primitive Data Types, Arithmetic Operators, Combined Assigments Operators, Conversion Between Primitive Data
Types 2(N) 40 Hours
Phys Ed: Elliptical, resistance training 4(E) approximately 20 hrs
COMMENTS: Jacob is doing his best though the computer science has been especially tough, but I think exposing
all the kids to this material is to their benefit even if the concepts are not necessarily mastered. Jacob just began his
online English Comp 1 course at HVCC on January 22nd.
Submitted 2013 by Daniela
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