Eight period Monday ... Oil and Honey

Today, we had our eight period day in which we meet with all of our classes.  It was a rainy gray day today but, much warmer than this weekend.

In AP Biology, we did the first part of our photosynthesis lab ... paper chromatography to separate plant pigments using acetone/ether as our solvent.  The results were good.  Tomorrow, we will finish this lab using our spectrophotometers and a chloroplast solution made from turnips or mustard.  This is the old version of this lab.  We will do another version using syringes just before our AP test in the spring.  Between lab components, we are working on Mendelian genetics.

In Selected Topics in Science we continued our study of weather (7 Days of Weather) and finished up our map reading assignment.  Wednesday will be our Rock Lab ... determining density, crinoid fossils, Chattanooga shale, geodes from Allen County and more.

In Computer Programming, we are working on problems that use FOR/NEXT, READ/DATA, SPC(), TAB() and counters.  Most students are on the baseball stat program.

This is the last week of regular season football, cross country regionals and volleyball regionals.  Our band was ninth in 3A state.  Basketball is just around the corner.  Lots of things going on at school.

Bill McKibben (350.org) has a new book out titled Oil and Honey.  I have read a few reviews and his interest in beekeeping is one of themes of the book.  Maybe a winter read ...