Here is the First Exam; Get Ready! / Aquí está el Primer Examen; Prepárate!

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Evaluation Criteria October: 

40%  Exam  

20%  Oral Practice

20%  Classwork

20%  Homework

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Guías de Examen de Octubre por Materia, Grado y Nivel.

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Guide to October Quiz

Module 1.- Communication

Elements of communication
Conversation: small talk.
Autobiogrgaphy
- Creating a biography based on profile
- Grammar review: subject-object pronouns, possessive pronouns and adjectives,
   articles
Module 2.- Communication Development

Inventions about oral and written communication:
- Telephone, television, radio, cell phone, skipe
- Newspaper, magazines, books

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Guide to October Exam

Unit 1.- Decision Point

Reading Strategies analysis
Lecture: A lion hunt (autobiography)
Key words and academic vocabulary (analyze)
- Definition and use in context
- Suffixes (use in context)

Lecture: From Kenya to America and back again (profile)
Key words and academic vocabulary
- Definition and use in context

Unit 2.- Stand or Fall

Reading Strategies review and use.
Lecture: The Three Chicharrones (modern fairy tale)
- Key words and academic vocabulary (definiton, affect)
- Definition and use in context
- Cognates (words similar in English and Spanish)

Lecture: Dragon, dragon  (short story)
- Key words 
- Definition and use in context


Critical point of view development

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Guide to October Exam

Chapter 1.- Studying Space

Section 1. Astronomy, the original science
- General data:
   * Astronomy
   * Year, month, day
- Astronomers: Names and contributions.
  * Ptolemy, Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, 
     Issac Newton, Edwin Hubble.

Section 2. Telescopes
- Optical telescopes
   * use, focal point definition, 
- Refracting telescopes
   * definition and diagram (figure 2, page 9)
- Reflecting telescopes
    * definition and diagram (figure 2, page 9)
- Optical telescopes and the atmosphere
   * how atmosphere affects the light gattered by telescopes
- Electromagnetic spectrum
   * James Clerk Maxwell
   * Electromagnetic spectrum
   * Color of light definition; wavelengths definition
   * Speed of light: 300,000 km/s on air; 225,000 km/s though water 
   * Visible light wavelength 
   * Invisible light wavelength: 
         A) bigger than visible: radiowaves, microwaves, infrared. 
         B) Shorter than visible: ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays.

Section 3. Mapping the stars
- Constellations
   * definition and examples
- Astrolabe
   * Elements (zenith, altitude, horizon) and definitions
- Celestial sphere
   * Elements (celestial equator, ecliptic, right ascencion, declination)
      and definitions
   * Measuring right ascencion in hours; declination in degrees
   * Vernal equinox
- Nicolaus Copernicus discovery
- Measuring stars
   * light year definition
- The doppler effect (redshift and blueshift)

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