HW for Wednesday

Science: Study for test by doing the assigned questions

Math 7: Definitions. Due Monday: 1) radius  2) circumference 3) diameter  4) pi  5) sector  6) irrational number  7) central angle/sector angle

*Please do the definition, example and Facts/characteristics as the 3 sections (not a non-example) this time

Math 6:  Textbook page 155-156, #1-8
Show What you know # 11-15 pg 162 and 163


English: iPods due Monday

A New Text Twist High Score

50,870. I was stumped by the word "DICKER". Not even sure what that means.

Update: Dicker means to barter/trade
 Definition: to try to arrange matters by mutual bargaining: They dickered for hours over some of the finer points of the contract.

What is Jai Alai?

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09L6_-hWy48

HW for Tuesday (yes, there's HW on the 1st day back)

Science: Study and prepare your answers for the 4 questions for Thursday's test

Socials: Due Thursday in your themebook:
 1) KW(L) What you "Know" about Ancient Rome
2) KW (L) What you "Wonder" about Ancient Rome
3) 6 definitions. Use the internet to locate (Ancient Roman) Definitions for these words
barbarians
aqueduct
Senate
Republic
plebeians
cauldarium/frigidarium/tepidarium

2001 Trip to Pompeii

Pompeii, covered by lava and the nearby town of Herculaneum, covered by the ash from the large volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 CE (A.D.)

Cast of a person buried by the lava from the volcano

                
                                              What Pompeii looks like today

      
                         Stepping stones are a cross walk but also allow carts to get by on the road

                                                           a public restroom

  
                                                 What Pompeii looked like in 79 CE

My 2001 Trip to The Colosseum in Rome

picture a floor being there

Me, Mrs. Rollins and Jeff

Me and my friend Jeff

The front of the Colosseum

Ancient Roman Websites

Maps (and other info)
http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/

Time Line 

753 BCE — In tradition, when Romulus and Remus founded the city of

Rome. 

510 BCE —The Roman Republic is established. 

241 BCE — Sicily becomes the first Roman province. 

45 BCE — Julius Caesar becomes the dictator of Rome. 

44 BCE — Julius Caesar is assassinated; civil war begins. 

31 BCE — The Battle of Actium takes place, signaling the beginning of the era of Imperial Rome. 

64 CE — Rome, under Emperor Nero, burns. 

79 CE — Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying Pompeii and killing thousands. 

200 CE — Barbarians from the North attack the Roman Empire. 

285 CE — Emperor Diocletian begins to reorganize the Roman Empire. 

330 CE — Emperor Constantine builds a new Roman capital in the East at Constantinople. 

380 CE — Christianity is declared the sole religion of the Roman Empire. 

410 CE — Roman rule in Britain collapses. 

451 CE — Attila the Hun invades Gaul and Italy. 

476 CE —The end of the Roman Empire.