This is the year-long plan for Geometry H for the school year 2015 - 2016. These are the units broken down by topics. Each unit is also split up into the quarters that it will be covered.The Geometry curriculum at Malden High School follows the topics and standards addressed in the Five District Partnership (5DP) curriculum alignment. This alignment follows the Massachusetts Common Core Frameworks.
QUARTER 1
Unit 1: Language of Geometry (3 weeks approx 9/8 to 10/2)
New geometry vocabulary
Constructing parallel and perpendicular lines on a coordinate plane
Identify the slope parallel and perpendicular
Transversals and relationships of its angles
Transversals vocabulary
Unit 2: Proofs with Lines and Angles (3 weeks approx 10/2 to 10/23)
Bisectors
Constructing bisectors
Translate points
Translate segments
Line segments and segment addition
Angles and angle addition
Quarter 1 end date 10/23/2015
QUARTER 1 ENDS: 10/28/216
QUARTER 2
Unit 3: Triangle Congruence (2 weeks approx 10/26 to 11/20)
Classifying triangles sides and angles
Exterior and Interior angles of a triangle
What it means to be congruent
Congruent Triangles
SSS, SAS, ASA
Transformations reflection, translation and rotation
Isosceles Triangles
Unit 4:Triangle Similarity (2 weeks approx 11/23 to 12/11)
Ratios and Proportions
Problem Solving in Geometry with Proportions
Similar Polygons (scale factor only)
Similar Triangles
Proving Triangles are Similar
Proportions and Similar Triangles
Similar Right Triangles
Dilation
Spirit week is in between these two units.
Unit 5: Special Right Triangles (2 weeks approx 12/14 to 1/15) NOTE: This is the hardest unit
Pythagorean theorem and its converse
Special right triangles (45-45-90 and 30-60-90)
Embedded triangles within a square
Real world application
Trigonometry--SOHCAHTOA
Real world Application
Trigonometry Inverse
Expected Quarter 2 end date is 1/15/2016
MIDTERMS: Martin Luther King Jr. week
QUARTER 3
Unit 6: Parallelogram and Polygons (interior and exterior) (3 weeks 1/25 to 2/12)
Interior and Exterior angle sum of polygons
Prove measurements of interior and exterior angles
Properties of Parallelograms
February Break in between these two units. Introductory project for Circles Recommended. If
Unit 7: Circles (4 weeks 2/22 to 3/18) This gives us one week of project and a week of snow days.
Similarity of circles
Relationships between inscribed angles, radii, and chord
Relationship between central, inscribed, circumscribed angles
Tangent line made by intersecting with radii
Circles on a coordinate plane (?)
QUARTER 4
Unit 8: Volume and Surface Area ( 2 weeks 4/4 (or before) to 4/22) NOTE: We can start this unit earlier, since there are 2 weeks built in to Quarter 3 for snow days and project.
Explanation of Surface Area not using formula
Determine volume formula from diagram (use concept of Base*Height)
Identify spheres, cylinder, cones, pyramids, and prisms in context of world problems
MCAS can be between MAY 9 - 24, 2016
MCAS PREP 4/25 to 5/6 (2 weeks)
Unit 9: Probability (2 weeks 5/23 to 6/3)
And, Or and Conditional probability (no notations, for example P(green AND yellow)
Two way tables
Tree diagrams
Independent events and use conditional probability to prove it
Finals Exam Review 6/6 to 6/10
Final Exams 6/13 to 6/16 NOTE: this could be later if we have snow days
This is the year-long plan for Geometry H for the school year 2015 - 2016. These are the units broken down by topics. Each unit is also split up into the quarters that it will be covered. The Geometry curriculum at Malden High School follows the topics and standards addressed in the Five District Partnership (5DP) curriculum alignment. This alignment follows the Massachusetts Common Core Frameworks.
QUARTER 1
Unit 1: Language of Geometry (3 weeks approx 9/8 to 10/2)Unit 2: Proofs with Lines and Angles (3 weeks approx 10/2 to 10/23)
Quarter 1 end date 10/23/2015
QUARTER 1 ENDS: 10/28/216
QUARTER 2
Unit 3: Triangle Congruence (2 weeks approx 10/26 to 11/20)Unit 4:Triangle Similarity (2 weeks approx 11/23 to 12/11)
Spirit week is in between these two units.
Unit 5: Special Right Triangles (2 weeks approx 12/14 to 1/15) NOTE: This is the hardest unit
Expected Quarter 2 end date is 1/15/2016MIDTERMS: Martin Luther King Jr. week
QUARTER 3
Unit 6: Parallelogram and Polygons (interior and exterior) (3 weeks 1/25 to 2/12)
February Break in between these two units. Introductory project for Circles Recommended. If
Unit 7: Circles (4 weeks 2/22 to 3/18) This gives us one week of project and a week of snow days.QUARTER 4
Unit 8: Volume and Surface Area ( 2 weeks 4/4 (or before) to 4/22) NOTE: We can start this unit earlier, since there are 2 weeks built in to Quarter 3 for snow days and project.MCAS can be between MAY 9 - 24, 2016
MCAS PREP 4/25 to 5/6 (2 weeks)
Unit 9: Probability (2 weeks 5/23 to 6/3)Finals Exam Review 6/6 to 6/10
Final Exams 6/13 to 6/16 NOTE: this could be later if we have snow days