2017 – 2018 Trimester 2 Agenda

Click the appropriate navigation option to view this week's agenda. BIS students looking to be organized and more efficient might find it useful to bookmark this page in your preferred browser.



Week 1: December 4 – 8

December 4

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. Worldviews – Free Reading Grade

December 5

Assembly Schedule – Assembly is at 12:00

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. Truth – Free Reading Grade – 15 minutes

December 6

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. Truth
    • In a new Word doc, write a half-page response to the following prompt: (1) What does Dewitt mean when he says: "In short, we have no way of knowing, for sure, what reality is really like"? (2) Explain why the Correspondence Theory of Truth feels incomplete in explaining truth.
    • Submit via Dropbox in Synergy

December 7

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. Fireside Chat: Truth

December 8

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital

Week 2: December 11 – 15

December 11

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. Your Worldview
    • In the center of a notecard, write down your core belief about the world – this is the central tenet of your worldview; the one you believe will NEVER alter – circle it
    • Surounding this core belief, write in 5 more beliefs that are central to your worldview – ones you believe would be DIFFICULT to alter – draw in a circle surounding those beliefs
    • Surounding the 2 inner circles, add 5 more beliefs that are peripheral to your worldview – ones you believe COULD be influenced or altered

December 12

  1. Switch Lab Electric Car – we got one, and it's coming today at lunch
  2. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  3. E4 Literature

December 13

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. E4 Literature

December 14

  1. E4 Skills – 12 Days of Digital
  2. E4 Literature

December 15

  1. Alumni Day

Christmas Vacation: December 18 – 29

Week 3: January 1 – 5

January 1

New Year's Day – No School

January 2

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Reads

January 3

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Literature

January 4

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. code.org

January 5

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Literature
Back to Top

Week 4: January 8 – 12

January 8

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Literature
  3. E4 Internships

January 9

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Internships
  3. E4 Literature

January 10

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Internships
  3. E4 Literature

January 11

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Literature

January 12

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. E4 Literature
  3. E4 Internships
Back to Top

Week 5: January 15 – 19

January 15

Martin Luther King Jr. Day – No School

January 16

  1. Internships
  2. Internship Makeup (IMU) #1
    • Internship Make Up (IMU) #1 – upload to the Synergy Dropbox under the Internship Mini
    • People w/out an internship:
      1. Issac E.
      2. Kianna E.
      3. Levi K.
      4. Ryan K.
      5. Kameron L.
      6. Andrew L.
      7. Malika P-S
      8. Matt P
      9. Cooper R.
      10. Dillon S.

January 17

  1. Winter Formal Court Finalists
  2. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  3. Turn in your internship timesheets and contracts

January 18

  1. Internships
    • ATTENTION E4 PEEPS: you WILL STILL GO to your internship today even though we are an assembly schedule. You will be excused from 4 period.
    • Internship Makeup (IMU) #2

January 19

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. Turn in your internship timesheets and contracts
  3. Open Lab
    • Writing Skills in Action
    • Coding The Cop and the Anthem
Back to Top

Week 6: January 22 – 26

January 22

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action

January 23

  1. Internships

January 24

PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT UPLOAD .AI OR .PSD FILES TO THE SYNERGY DROPBOX

ACTION TO TAKE: in Synergy, delete the .psd or .ai files you uploaded. save as or export as a .jpg, .png, or .pdf (least preferable)

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. Funny Papers

January 25

  1. Internships

January 26

PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT UPLOAD .AI OR .PSD FILES TO THE SYNERGY DROPBOX

ACTION TO TAKE: in Synergy, delete the .psd or .ai files you uploaded. save as or export as a .jpg, .png, or .pdf (least preferable)

  1. E4 Skills – Writing Skills in Action
  2. Funny Papers
Back to Top

Week 7: January 29 – February 2

January 29

  1. Teacher Professional Development – No school

January 30

Assembly – Late Start Schedule – GO TO YOUR INTERNSHIP

  1. Internships

January 31

  1. Funny PapersDue today

February 1

  1. Internships

February 2

  1. Turn in your internship timesheets
  2. Working Lab
Back to Top

Week 8: February 5 – 9

February 5

  1. E4 Lit Cranes

February 6

  1. Internships
  2. Internship Makeup #7

February 7

  1. How Much Do You Know about South Korea?
  2. E4 Lit Cranes

February 8

  1. Internships

February 9

  1. Winter Olympics
  2. E4 Lit Cranes
Back to Top

Week 9: February 12 – 16

February 12

  1. E4 Lit Harrison Bergeron a little dystopia for your Monday

February 13

  1. Internships

February 14

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies
    • Where Should We Go?
    • Notecard:
      1. First and Last Name
      2. Answer this: what region do you want to learn more aobut? (1) China (2) Africa (3) Middle East
      3. Which book sounds intersting to you? Why?
      4. What is your second choice?
  2. E4 Lit Harrison Bergeron

February 15

  1. Internships – last one!

February 16

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies
    • Drumroll... We are going...
  2. Internships
Back to Top

Week 10: February 19 – 23

February 19

President's Day – No School

February 20

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies
    • Ghost Wars: Prologue
    • On a Notecard, answer the following:
      • What is an operator?
      • What are "clandestine services?"
      • Why do you think the CIA pumped a tremendous amount of cash to a guerilla commander like Masoud? What was the ROI – Return On Investment?
      • What was the "Stinger Missile Re-purchase" program?

February 21

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies
    • What Do We Know About 9-11?

February 22

  1. Snow Day!

February 23

  1. E4 Internships
    • Thank You Post Cards
      1. Thank you for your time...
      2. I really enjoyed...
      3. I found...
      4. I enjoyed...
      5. Sincerely...
  2. Working Lab
Back to Top

Week 11: February 26 – March 2

February 26

  1. Working Lab – Sinks is out with the flu

February 27

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies

February 28

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies
    • At the onset of WWI, the Ottoman Empire enters the fray with the Axis powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria)
    • But at the time, the Ottoman Empire was unified in name only, not in mind and spirit.
    • This was well known to the British, so they exploited the divide.
    • Read the following articles:
      1. The Rise of Arab Nationalism
      2. The Arab Revolt
      3. Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment
    • Using the 3 articles you just read, write a 1/2 page Critical Response to following prompt:
      • How did the Sykes-Picot agreement set a collision course for future conflict in the Middle East? How did this agreement establish mistrust of the western powers? How does the rise of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) parallel the rise of Arab Nationalism in 1908?
      • Submit via dropbox in Synergy

March 1

  1. E4 Lit & Global Studies

March 2

  1. Exhibition Night is March 14
    • What do you want to showcase?
  2. Working Lab
    • End of the Trimester is NEXT WEEK!!! YIKES!!!
Back to Top

Week 12: March 5 – 9

March 5

Reminder: Trimester 2 Ends Friday

  1. Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13

March 6

  1. Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13

March 7

  1. Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
    • Your Exhibit: "Building a Personal Brand" – from the Careers Unit
    • Save in the P drive under: handins\BIS\Sinks\E4\2017-18\Exhibition Night
    • Photoshoot: Sharted Drive P/handouts/Sinks/2017-18/E4/Exhibition Poster Shoot

March 8

  1. Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13

March 9

End of Trimester 2

  1. AWEPA + HoM + E3
  2. Exhibition Night Prep – Exhibition is March 13
Back to Top