December 1st

Well, the following was what 9B did today, December 1st:
Presentation Tangrams!
Group 1: Beatriz, André, Phillipe & Luiza M.
History:
· The creation had no exact date
· Invented in Ancient China
· Legend: A man gave the tangrams to his fiancé before marriage
· Legend: Came from the village of the Tancus
Story:
§ There was a Kingdom named Gramland
§ King named Tan, had a son named Tentus
§ A bad wizard wanted to rule the kingdom
§ Cursed Tentus saying that he wouldn’t stop looking at his own image
§ King dies and Tentus becomes king
§ Get obsessed with his image and forget Kingdom
§ Bird destroy all mirrors into 7 pieces
§ Bird tells Tentus to rebuild a mirror so the curse is fired back
§ Tentus rebuild mirror, wizard get cursed and kingdom got happy
§ Tentus named the game after his Kingdom and his father.
§ Shapes created: Crown, Sword, Castle, Mirror and Wizards Pot.

Group 2: João, Giulia, Giovanna & Gabriel
History:
· The creation had no exact date
· Played by women and child
· Legend: The game was created by a God who got the Moon the Sun and some planets as the shape
· Edgard Allan Poe liked playing with it
Story:
§ Bobby appeared in a magical world
§ Meet a new friend named Mr. Tam who was formed by geometrical shapes
§ Bobby starts seeing many animals, such as a Mr. Tam Cat and things formed by geometrical shapes
§ Discovers he is at the Tamgram World
§ Mr. Tam explains the rules of Tamgram
§ Bobby get out of the world in a shuttle and starts creating new friends for Mr. Tam
§ Shapes created: Man(Mr. Tam), Cat and Shuttle.

Group 3: Luis, Gustavo, Luiza S. & Guilherme
History:
· No exact date
· Estimate about 4 thousand years old
· Legend: A King ordered a square of galss which accidently broke into 7 different gemoetrical shapes
Story:
§ Jeremiah was poor and had no human friends
§ His friends were animals, a cat and a bunny
§ Found a strange flower
§ When the flower got into the fire it became a powder
§ The powder transported them to a magical world
§ World had spirits with animals shapes
§ Wizard cursed everything there and turned everything in there into shapes
§ Jeremiah wants to help so he asks his dad to make class figures
§ All of the figures got broken into 7 pieces
§ Shapes created: Bunny, and Running Man
After the presentations Ms.Saatkamp returned our tests that we took last Tuesday.
Then we went over it (had little questions), then we started Chapter 6:

Parallelogram
Definition: A quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel

Theorem 6-1
Opposite sides of a parallelogram are congruent.

Theorem 6-2
Opposite angles of a parallelogram are congruent

Theorem 6-3

Consecutive angles of a parallelogram are supplementary

Theorem 6-4
The diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other

There is also HW =(... It's page 295 numbers 17-35 all
They are easy (no proving!)