Day 80

Hi class,

The take-home midterm as well as the bonus assignment must be in my box by noon on December 18. As a reminder, the penalty for late assignments is losing 10% of the total points per day late.

Day 79

Hi class,

The homework for chapter 21 is due tomorrow.

Day 78

Hi class,

Tomorrow is a free period. You can work on the homework for chapter 21 and your take-home midterm. The chapter 21 homework is due on Friday.

Day 77

Hi class,

As a reminder, the homework for chapter 21 is due Friday.

Here is the Exam 2 Key.

The bonus assignment worth five points will be due by noon on December 18. I want 750 words on a nuclear power plant meltdown. Be sure to describe the mechanics of what went wrong. Since I have not taught ACS format yet, you may use MLA format.

Day 76

Hi class,

The homework for chapter 21 will be due on Friday.

Day 74

Hi class,

Prepare for tomorrow's exam.

Day 73

Hi class,

Please make sure you have read sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 21 for tomorrow.

The exam on chapters 7-9 will be administered during class on Friday. To prepare for the exam, rework quizzes 7 and 8 and review your lecture notes and homework for chapter 9. Here are blank copies of Quiz 7 and Quiz 8. Here is the Quiz 7 Supplementary document. Here is the Quiz 7 Key. The key for Quiz 8 is located below. If you are struggling with Lewis structures, rework the Lewis Structures Practice Worksheet. If you need extra help, I am available seventh period.

Day 72

Hi class,

Here are the Chapter 9 Solutions.

Please read sections 1 and 2 of chapter 21 for class tomorrow. Here is a link to the pdf version of the Chapter 21 Reading.

Thursday will be a review day, and the exam on chapters 7-9 will be administered during class on Friday. The topics covered by the exam are periodic trends, lewis structures, resonance structures, electron configuration of ions, bond polarity (dipole), exceptions to the octet rule, molecular geometry, molecular polarity (dipole), hybrid orbitals, molecular orbitals, and energy of bond formation.

Day 71

Hi class,

The homework for chapter 9 is due tomorrow. Hopefully, you have already completed problems 25, 27, 31, 33, 39, 43, 49, 51, 53, and 55, which were posted last Friday. The rest of the problems are 59, 67, 69, 71, 72, 79, 80, and 83. We will go over the homework tomorrow, and Wednesday will be a review day. The exam on chapters 7-9 will be administered during class on Thursday.