To this year's incoming Freshmen:
I am very excited to have you in my class this year! A few notes about the class that may be helpful:
-Book assignments are intended as background; read the assigned reading and try your best on homework problems. If you haven't done the reading, you may find yourself lost in class.
-If you need help, ask! I am around before and after school, plus most of you probably have Facebook accounts. Find "Mr. Freeman's Classroom" and get updates from class, links to this page, and ask questions on there. If you don't get a homework question, ask online and I bet one of your classmates will answer it before I do.
-Homework assignments are given with 2 days' notice. If you can't get work done by the assigned time, a 50% late penalty will be assigned and you can still turn it in one day late. After that, there will be no credit assigned unless I am contacted by your parent to explain why you can't finish homework within 3 days.
-Have fun! I will try to get you involved as much as possible; hands-on demonstrations and activities are a great way to learn science.
This page will be updated daily as a resource for you and your parents. Links to additional assignments (optional assignments) that you may do to buffer your grade, copies of notes and handouts, homework listings, and all sorts of fun things will appear here. I do try to post links to this page on my Facebook page too so you can keep informed.
-Mr.F.
This year's first stuff to know:
Lab Journals: We will do lots of labs in this class; one official lab per unit will go into your lab journal. You will need one by Thursday, August 23. This should be a bound composition book-type journal, with graph paper. I sell these for $2.15 and have 40 available. If you continue on to Honors Chemistry next year, you can re-use your graph paper lab journal. If you aren't going into Honors Chemistry, I am flexible on the journal you use and I can even give you graph paper to glue in when you need it. Lab reports must be done in these journals, in pen, according to guidelines, but if not done properly, your grade will not be penalized; the lab will not be graded at all. The same goes if you are absent and can't make up a lab activity... this does weight your test and homework grade more heavily though!
Online textbook: please log into edline and go to our class page to see the access code for the online textbook; this is a public site and I had overseas people accessing it last year.
Digital copy of the textbook: Bring in a flash drive to school and I will copy the textbook for you - we have lots of CD copies but they don't always work well. (I will need a few volunteers to do this since we are short on texts)
Syllabus - sign (Parents) and return by Friday, Aug 17 please. You must have this signed and returned to participate in labs
1st assignment: List of 10 metric measurements + Metric vs. Standard argument- Due Friday, Aug. 17:
--> Argue for the use of either Metric or Standard units' measurements of a particular item.
-->Find ten items around the house and record the metric, or S.I. (International System) units of measurement on their labels. Units should be based on liters, grams, or meters mostly, and many will use a prefix, like mL for milli-liters or cm for centi-meters.
Examples:
Item Measurement
1. Head & Shoulders Shampoo 400 mL
2. Canned corn 375g
3. Aluminum Foil 7.5 m^3
Argument example: Yards make more sense than meters to me because there are 36 inches in a yard, which is easier to remember than 100 cm in a meter.
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