GED at The People's Share

Homework and Bulletins!

Find your subject below and read only that. Nobody is doing all of this. Some of you are working on one subject, some on two, some on all four, and at your own pace. If you are not sure what to work on next, the Kaplan book is the map: open it to your subject and go in order. And ask me.

For everyonewhatever you are working on

• Friday, September 18The daytime classes have begun Ken Burns’s The American Revolution, and we will keep going with it in class. If you are in another class and would like to see it, more showings may come — a Saturday morning, perhaps. Watch this board.

Mathif you are working on the Mathematical Reasoning test

• Wednesday, October 7
  If you are working on Math: signed numbers, after today’s class with Mazarine. Everything for signed numbers is gathered on one page, Family 2: Signed Numbers. To search for anything else, use Look it up. Here is the order.

  1. Back to Mazarine, about 20 minutes. Open the Math Path and keep it on “I decide.” Press “New problem” and work 10 problems. Before she walks, tap where you think she will land, and say out loud why she faces the way she does and why she walks forward or backpedals. Then work 5 problems in the Ballast or the Temperature Vat. Try at least one that subtracts a negative number, such as 4 − (−3), and watch what the zero pairs do.
  2. Drills, in this order. Each one starts with worked examples. 2.05 Name the case; 2.06 the four cases with small numbers; 2.07, 2.08 and 2.09, adding; 2.12, 2.13 and 2.14, subtracting; 2.15, adding and subtracting mixed. If a drill goes badly, go back to Mazarine for five problems of that kind, then try the drill again.
  3. On paper. Signed Numbers Practice, Parts 2, 3 and 4: Naming the case, Adding, and Subtracting. Work them with pencil and paper, then check yourself with the answer key at the end. Print it if you can.
  4. When the drills feel steady, take Quiz 21, Adding and Subtracting Signed Numbers.
• Thursday, September 24
  If you are working on Math: the Kaplan book, Chapter 5: Algebra Basics, Expressions, & Polynomials.

  1. Lesson 1: The Number Line & Signed Numbers
  2. Lesson 2: Powers & Roots
  3. Lesson 3: Scientific Notation
  4. Lesson 4: Order of Operations
  5. Lesson 5: Absolute Value
• Friday, September 18
  If you are working on Math, here is the homework, in this order. Everything is on the Math door.

  1. Diagnostics. The Flyover Diagnostic (the one we looked at in class), then Flyover II, the same idea with different questions, then the Signed Numbers diagnostic.
  2. Times tables. Times Tables for Grown-Ups, and its new second page, Squares, Roots, and Powers.
  3. Order of operations. Quiz 6, with the leafy seadragon. That one is enough.
  4. Signed numbers. Mazarine’s three rooms, all three redone with the four cases at the top: the math path, the ballast, the temperature vat. In the Kaplan book: Unit 2, Chapter 5, Lesson 1, The Number Line and Signed Numbers (page 316; page 835 of 2029 in the digital edition).
  5. Exponents. The Rules, One Page, which we talked about in class, and the Exponent Machine for practice. Then the exponents pages of the McGraw-Hill Mathematical Reasoning Workbook for the GED Test.
  6. Algebra. The three apps, in order: The Thing Called x, The Balance, The Share. Then Algebra Practice 1.

Language Arts and Social Studiesif you are working on Reasoning Through Language Arts, Social Studies, or both

• Thursday, September 24
  If you are working on Language Arts, here is the homework. Everything is on the Language Arts landing page.

  1. Sparkle English Video Playlist. Video 1: 13 Basic Punctuation Rules. Video 2: 8 Comma Rules. Video 3: ’S & S’ Possessive Nouns.
  2. Kaplan Book, Unit 1, Chapter 4: Lessons 1–4.
  3. The People’s Share: Writing Skills — The Language Trail Quizzes.
  4. Writing. Pick a standard GED essay (the Weighing) or another writing assignment, as we discussed. Your Writing: use your code, write there, and send it to me with “Submit.”
• Friday, September 18
  If you are working on Language Arts, here is the homework. Everything is on the Language Arts door.

  1. Writing skills. Start on Sparkle English · English Writing Essentials, the playlist that follows the Kaplan book’s writing chapters. A few videos at a time.
  2. Essay writing. Write in the way you choose and send it to me on Your Writing: write about yourself; or write about someone or something you know very well; or choose one of the five GED-style argumentative essay topics here.
  3. Reading. Two things. Merit or Diversity? First, open Start Here and write your own answers in it before you read anything else; then read the article, Merit or Diversity? A False Choice, and argue with it. And in Rights on Paper, the current reading is Dollree Mapp at the Door, Level 2: the right to a warrant, the Fourth Amendment. Both readings count for Social Studies too.

Social Studiesif you are working on the Social Studies test

• Wednesday, October 7
  If you are working on Social Studies: civics, after last week’s class on the social contract. Everything is on one page, What Democracy Is, and What It Values, in this order.

  1. Read ushistory.org, 1c. What Is a Democracy?
  2. Watch Mr. Byrd, Enlightenment Thinkers (12 minutes), and fill in the table.
  3. Read ushistory.org, 1d. Democratic Values: Liberty, Equality, Justice.
  4. Watch Khan Academy, Democratic Ideals of US Government (9 minutes).
  5. Check yourself and write to me. Seven questions, then one short piece of writing.
• Thursday, September 24
  If you are working on Social Studies: the Kaplan book, Unit 3.

  1. U.S. History: Chapter 2, Lesson 1, pages 438–439. Write to me what you learned of American history from 15,000 years ago to the American Revolution, and of two attempts to set up a government for the United States of America. What was in the text? What questions do you have? What do you want to know more about?
  2. To see it in order. Open When Was That?, the new timeline app, at Part Three, when people reach the Americas. Tap an event, then press Later to walk forward, event by event, to the Declaration of Independence in Part Seven. It may help with your writing, and with your questions.
  3. Civics. Continue or restart the Khan Academy course: US Government & Civics.
• Friday, September 18
  If you are working on Social Studies, begin in the Social Studies Flyover, in this order.

  1. Set one, The American Story. Movement One: Two Worlds Collide, then Movement Two: Revolution and the Problem of Power.
  2. Set two, The Civics Flyover. Question One: Where does the government get its power?

  The two readings under Language Arts above, Merit or Diversity? and Rights on Paper, count here too.

Scienceif you are working on the Science test, starting with Life Science

• Thursday, September 24
  If you are working on Science: the Kaplan book, Unit 4, Chapter 2, Life Science.

  1. Lesson 1: Cell Structures & Functions
  2. Lesson 2: Cell Processes & Energy
  3. Videos. Organelles of the Cell, Updated (Beverly Biology); Cell Organelles (Siebert Science); Photosynthesis Overview (Beverly Biology); Cellular Respiration Overview (Beverly Biology).
• Friday, September 18
  If you are working on GED Life Science, this week is the introduction. Four apps, worked with your hands: Change One Thing (the scientific method, for all of science), then the three rooms of Life Science in order, Alive or Not?, Two Kinds of Cells, and Made to Order. Then three things to read, and they are plenty: the Life Science Walkthrough, the Intro and Review with video lists, and the Video Roadmap. All three are now together on one page, Life Science: Start Here. The whole Life Science sequence, and what comes after it, is on the Life Science door. Look ahead if you like; it is not necessary. You already have a lot to read and do.