Thursday, January 31, 2008

Assignment for 1/31/08

To my students,

For those of you who did not obtain your parent's signature for the student contract, make sure you obtain the signature tonight and bring it to show me tomorrow so you will get your credit for HW #1.

Chemistry 2: HW #2 (Due tomorrow): Holt - Read pp. 302 ~ 311; Do p. 307 Practice problems # 1, 2, 3, 4

Earth Science 2: No additional HW for today.

Dr. Liu

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Welcome Back! (1/30/2008)

To all my students,

Welcome back to Spring Term 2008!!

Remember all of you should be taking Regent exams this June, and this means that the number 1 concern you all need to pay serious attention to is the labs. requirement. By the end of this term, you need to have 30 labs. in order to be qualified for the Regent exam (No exception).

All of you should have gotten a copy of the Student Contract. As HW #1, read it and have your parent/guardian read it and sign it. You do not need to rip off the bottom slip, I will be coming around to check it. It's due tomorrow.

Dr. Liu

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Update 1/20/08

So, guys and gals, this is it! The end of the semester!

For those of you that will be taking Regent Exams: Study hard, this will ensure you graduate from high school on time and move on to bigger and greater things!

For those of you that will not be taking Regent Exams: Enjoy your vacation!

For the most part, I think we have a pretty productive semester, and I enjoyed working with most of you. Let's work to make next semester even better!

I'm signing off for now, until 1/30/2008 --- Beginning of Spring Term!

Dr. Liu

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Update for 1/15/08

To my students,

now that I have my grades submitted, there's a few things that I like to remind you:

1. Return textbook promptly (tomorrow). I will start forwarding all non-returned textbook receipts to the main office so they can start sending the bill to your home.

2. While it's too late for you to pull up your grade, if you have that lab sitting somewhere in your room, it's to your best benefits to complete it and hand them in regardless. Quite a number of you have failed because you did not attend and submit the labs, and frankly, if you don't submit them, you're going to the summer school (no make up labs if number of missing labs is excessive) .

That's all for now,

Dr. Liu

Monday, January 14, 2008

Update for 1/14/08

Everyone,

Textbook return tomorrow!!!

Final submission deadline: 5:00PM in my e-mail box: drliu.iths@gmail.com

Dr. Liu

Friday, January 11, 2008

Update for 1/11/08

Everyone,

Have a nice weekend!!

Bring your textbook for return on Monday!

Dr. Liu

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Assignment Update for 1/10/08

To my students,

Following are the assignment updates for today:

Living Environment 1:
• Tomorrow is the deadline for ALL MISSING/LATE HWs and Lab. Write-ups!
• Term Final Tomorrow: 40 Multiple Choice Questions, 15 of which are on Human Body Systems & Homeostasis, the rest are going to be from previous unit exams which include scientific inquiry methods, ecology, and cells.

Regent Chemistry 1:
• Tomorrow is the deadline for ALL MISSING/LATE HWs and Lab. Write-ups!
• Term Final Tomorrow: 40 Multiple Choice Questions. Use previous exams to guide your study. Ms. Ha had posted some review sheets on her website, you can use those to get an idea of what she feels are important for each chapter.

Dr. Liu

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Assignment Update for 1/9/08

Follwing is the assignment update for 1/9/08:

Living Environment 1:
• Finish Lab. #15 write-up for tomorrow.
• All late and missing assignments due by Friday.
• Term Final on Friday!
• Textbook return next Monday.

Regent Chemistry 1:
• Lab. Report #15 due tomorrow.
• All late and missing assignments due by Friday.
• Term Final on Friday! (Study your previous exams!)
• Textbook return next Monday.

Dr. Liu

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Assignment Update for 1/8/08

Dear All,

Following are the updates for today:

Living Environment 1:
• HW #29 (due tomorrow): Glencoe - Read pp. 666-673; Do p. 673 Problems 1,2,3.
• Reminder: Deadline for All HWs and labs - This Friday!
• Lab. #15 Tomorrow!

Regent Chemistry 1:
• HW #35 (due tomorrow): Read pp. 286-289, Do p. 289 Q. 4, 6&7a-c, 10.
• Lab. Report #15: Due Thursday.
• Reminder: Deadline for All HWs and labs - This Friday!

Reminder to all students: Term Final on Friday!!

Dr. Liu

Monday, January 7, 2008

Assignment Update for 1/7/08

Dear All,

following is the assignment update for today:

Living Environment 1:
• HW#28 (Due tomorrow): Glencoe - Read pp. 621-627, Do p. 627 Problems 1, 2, 3.
• Finish that Lab. Report #14 and hand it in!
• Final Exam on Friday will include partly the new stuffs that we are going over and partially from topics covered by previous exams.

Regent Chemistry 1:
• HW #34 (Due tomorrow): Holt - p. 274 Q. 5, Read pp. 275-285, p. 285 Q. 8 a-d, 9a-b
• Lab. #15 tomorrow => Lab. Report #15 due by Thursday!

Dr. Liu

Friday, January 4, 2008

Assignment Update 1/4/08

To my students,

Here are the updates for 1/4/2008:

Living Environment 1:
* Finish Lab. Report #14 by Monday. Be sure to:
1) Answer all the questions on the lab. sheet.
2) Design an experiment (but do not need to perform) on a separate sheet of paper with the following sections: Title, Problem, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedures, and Data. Try to incorporate the answers to question raised in Part A in your write-up.
* HW #27 due on Monday!
* Cumulative Final next Friday: Part will be on new stuffs and others will be on older stuffs (particularly on stuffs covered in the last exam).


Regent Chemistry 1: HW #33 (due on Monday)
Holt - Read pp. 260-266, p. 266 Q. 5, 9.
Read pp. 267-274, p. 274 Q. 1, 4a,c
* Term Final on Friday will cover part of the new stuffs from Ch. 8 as well as from other units. Use the past exams as study guidelines for your study! (There will be no review for the final)

Reminder for all students: Next Friday is the absolute deadline for all late HW and missing lab. reports!

Have a good weekend.

Dr. Liu

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Assignment Update 1/3/08

To my students,

following are the assignment update for 1/3/08:


Regent Chemistry I: No HW today! Relax! We'll gear up for one more unit tomorrow...


Living Enviornment I: HW #27 (Due Monday)
Glencoe: Read pp. 514-523. Answer the following questions:
1. Describe how the body try to maintain a constant sugar level in the body.
2. Describe how muscle system, skeletal system, nervous system, and endocrine system help an athlete competes (give specific examples).

Reminder: Lab. #14 tomorrow...



Dr. Liu

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Happy New Year 2008!

Welcome back to school!

Living Environment 1: No HW today yet... But a little Reminder,
1. Lab. #14 on This Friday => Lab. report #14 due next Monday.
2. Lab. #15 Next Wednesday => Lab. write-up #15 due the same Friday.
3. Unit Exam #5 Next Friday.
5. Next Friday is the final deadline for all late/missing HW or Lab write-ups!

Regent Chemistry 1: Study hard for the Unit Exam tomorrow!! Holt - Chapter 7.

•If you need to find out any assignment that you missed, write me an e-mail to be send to drliu.iths@gmail.com

Dr. Liu