Monday, October 6, 2014

• Texting while driving makes a driver 23x more likely to crash.
• Drivers talking on a cell phone are 4x more likely to have a car accident.
• Talking on a cell phone while driving can make a young driver's reaction time as slow as that of a 70 year old.
• Answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. That is enough time to travel the length of a football field.
• Studies have found that texting while driving causes a 400% increase in time spent with eyes off the road.
• 94% of drivers support bans on texting while driving.
• 74% of drivers support bans on hand-held cell phone use.
• 3,331 people were killed and 387,000 were injured in accidents involving a distracted driver.
• 48% of teens have seen their parents use a phone while driving
• 11 teens are killed every day in the U.S. from distracted driving.

8L
1. Cell phones: just a reminder to all families that cell phones are not permitted in class or the halls, or at recess, or on the roof...If a child NEEDS a cell phone, it must be in the locker at all times.

2. Math: 1.4 homework: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13*, 14
*13 is particularly nasty.  Have fun.

2.5 Math: there will be a unit test this Thursday: 9.6, 9.7, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4

3.  English: 8L has a "broken lit. log" test tomorrow: they will be given a very basic response which requires revising and editing.  They can review their notes on the four types of errors taken up in class.

7F: 

Math: 
1. A number of students had difficulty logging on to Pearson E-text.  Here are some possible solutions:  a. try a different browser (chrome, IE, Safari, Mozilla Firefox)   b. Google: "Pearson e-text"     c. try this link:  http://etext-sms.navajo.pearsoncanada.ca/ebook/viewerLogin.do?scenario=1&languageid=1&errorCause=6

2.  Math 1.4 homework: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

3.  Math: there will be a unit test this Wednesday: 9.6, 9.7, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4