Summary for January 21st

The first day of the new semester!

By: Jordan C.

Mrs. Friedmann started off the class with her unique life-view on choosing next year's classes. She made it evident that the class levels should depend life's balance rather than doing everything possible. However, it is ultimately up to the student. She made a point to say her experience in college was overwhelming in the sense that she took 18 credits the first year on top of other rigorous activities. This led to fatigue by the end of the year. It is important to take into account the balance in classes for the upcoming junior year.

We then led off to the next part of class with some review notes on ionic bonding. The majority, if not all, was review from the first semester. This can be viewed on the Moodle page or using this link below. Her commentary went along with the notes quite nicely.

Notes

The next part of the class was time set aside to start on the homework. The homework is the following:

1) Complete the Intro to Ionic Bonding worksheet -- due tomorrow.
2) Complete the ChemThink tutorial and question set for Ionic Bonding. You have already done this ChemThink, so the program might not recognize that you've completed it for a second time. Don't worry, just complete it to refresh your memory on the fundamentals of ionic bonding.

As a side conversation, the decision has not yet been made on whether we will study nuclear or organic chemistry. 

Elayna M. will be the next blogger! :D