Pre-Plan today Plan test tomorrow ... Farm Inc

No Genetics first block today ... Seniors were sent to the auditorium for breakfast, a prep up for their field trip to WKU for college day (well, sort of) and some kind of fund-raiser for "Up All Night" / after Graduation.  All underclassmen were preparing for the test tomorrow ... a version of the ACT.

We did have Selected Topics and after four days we have gotten everyone through the Earth Science test ... attendance remains a problem in this class.  Today we continued our Astronomy unit.  Our constellation of the day was Pegasus which is out now somewhere above the clouds.  Close by is M31 - Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 ... million light years away from earth, the closest galaxy to our Milky Way ... estimated 1 billion stars.  We also worked on star classification using an H-R diagram and continued to work on our Solar System Modeling lab.  Tomorrow's constellation is Cassiopeia ... the Astronomy unit only lasts 7 class days ... unfortunately!



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In Computer Programming most students are finished with our gradebook program and we are on to writing a multiple choice program using countries and capitals.  Students will try to keep me from making an A when I test the program.

Other...

Watched Farm Inc this evening ... not eye-opening having been raised around farms and knowing about slaughter houses ... Cargill, Tyson and etc. ... unfortunately, we are back to Upton Sinclair's - The Jungle ... new immigrants same story by big business.  Add Monsanto with transgenic products and systemic pesticides to the mix and I am glad I am isolated out here in Holland ... actually Pioneer corn just over the hill ...

Continues to rain off and on today ...  my cover crop legume projects looks to be getting a good start this fall if, I can keep the deer away.