Capital High School

Monday. 

• Work day

Tuesday.  

• Strong and Weak Acids/Bases PowerPoint

Wednesday."I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."  -  Paul Anderson

• Titration PowerPoint

Thursday.  

• Titration lab

Friday.  

• Titration lab

Week #9. 4/9 - 4/13

Monday. Art is I, science is we.

• Hand back Equilibrium quiz
• Work on book questions

Tuesday.  You matter.  Until you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared.  Then, you are energy.

• Powerpoint- The pH Scale

Wednesday. I would rather attempt to do great things and blow it, than succeed at meaningless things and just get by

• PhET Acids and Bases.  Due today or tomorrow.

Thursday.  Failure is never as scary as regret.
          PhET Acids and Bases due.
          pH of substances lab
         
Friday.   The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.  Horace Greeley

• pH of substances

     Week #8. 3/26 - 3/30

Monday. “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” - Malcom X

• Equilibrium quiz Wednesday
• LeChatelier's Principle lab
• Enthalpy for the Combustion of Ethanol due today (turnitin.com and hard copy)
  • Either a hard copy and through Turnitin.com are due Monday by midnight.  Turnitin.com classes below.
    • 5th period:  16112742
    • 6th period:  16112769
      • Enrollment key for all classes is Jansen

Tuesday.  Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.  We have guided missiles and misguided men.  Martin Luther King

• Quiz tomorrow
• Work day

Wednesday.  The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

• Review for quiz 
• Equilibrium quiz

Thursday.  No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.  -  Albert Einstein

• Theories of Acids and Bases PowerPoint

Friday.  Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.  Ozzy Osbourne 
        Modern Marvels - Acids

Week #7. 3/19 - 3/23

Monday.  If everything is important, then nothing is.

• Equilibrium PowerPoint
• Enthalpy for the Combustion of Ethanol due Monday

Tuesday.  “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”  - Kurt Cobain

• Finish Equilibrium PowerPoint
• Hand out Equilibrium worksheet (not graded)

Wednesday.  “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”  - Dr. Seuss

• Work on yesterday's worksheet

• Lesson 2:  p. 576: 2

  Lesson 3:  p. 583: 1, 2, 3, 5 

  Lesson 4:  p. 589: 3, 4 

  Lesson 5:  p. 594: 3 

  Section I Review Exercises:  p. 596: 4, 5 

  Lesson 6:  p. 602: 3, 4

  Section II Review Exercises:  p. 612: 2

  p. 425: 2,3,5

  p. 430: 1,3,8

  p. 435: 1,4,6,7

  p. 438: 1,2

  p. 444: 7

   

Thursday.  “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”  - Margaret Mead

• Le Châtelier’s Principle PowerPoint

Friday.  “If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” - John Lennon

• Work day.  (Chrome books available)
• Enthalpy for the Combustion of Ethanol due Monday (turnitin.com and hard copy)
  • Either a hard copy and through Turnitin.com are due Monday by midnight.  Turnitin.com classes below.
    • 5th period:  16112742
    • 6th period:  16112769
      • Enrollment key for all classes is Jansen
• Quiz Tuesday or Wednesday

 

Week #6. 3/12 - 3/16

Monday.  A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  -  Walter Gagehot

• Work day

Tuesday.  The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

• Work day

Wednesday.  (Mr. Jansen absent)

• Work day

Thursday.  “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” - William Faulkner

• Energy and Kinetics Test

Friday.  “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”  Leonardo Da Vinci

• Start new unit with Equilibrium tub activity
• Rate of Reaction lab due
• Book questions due

Week #5. 3/5 - 3/9

 Monday.  Excellence is not being the best, it is doing your best

• Work day
• Analysis checked- day 2
• Hand out review for test

Tuesday. “I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.”

• Finish PowerPoint- Kinetics
  

Wednesday.  

• Work day
  

Thursday.   “Though we have the courage to raise our daughters more like our sons, we’ve rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters.” — Gloria Steinem 

• Rate of Reaction lab
  

Friday.   It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.  Frederick Douglass

• Rate of Reaction lab

Monday.  What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Quiz on Wednesday
• Formative assessment to prepare for quiz
  

Tuesday. 

• Mr. Jansen absent- work day
  

Wednesday.  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.  Winston Churchill 

• Energy Quiz (no ozone)

Thursday. Please not do confuse your Google search with my science degree.  Unknown

• Kinetics PowerPoint
• Check raw data and one calculated trial tomorrow
  

Friday.  

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  Week #3.  2/19 - 2/23
      

Monday.  

• No school
  

Tuesday. 

• No school
  

Wednesday. Success comes from having dreams bigger than your fears  --  Terry Litwiller

• The Ozone PowerPoint

Thursday. 

• No school- snow (minimal KE in the air allowed the intermolecular force, hydrogen bonding, to bring the dihydrogen monoxide molecules together and form a solid)!

Friday.   I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

• Work day
• Quiz Tuesday
  

Week #2.  2/12 - 2/16

Monday.  Why?  Why not?  Why not you?  Why not now? 

• Hand out "help" for Enthalpy of Ethanol Combustion lab
• Return Ionic vs. Covalent
  

Tuesday.  You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.  -  Wayne Gretzky

• Work on Enthalpy of Ethanol Combustion lab
  

Wednesday. “If life was not meant to be a puzzle it would have come with an instruction manual.”

• Work on Enthalpy of Ethanol Combustion lab
  

Thursday. Danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark. -Michaelangelo

• Bond Enthalpies powerpoint
  

Friday.   Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” – Charles Swindoll     

• Hand out Enthalpy worksheet (not graded and answers provided) 

• Lesson 2- p. 480:  2, 4

  Lesson 3- p. 485/6:  2,3,5

  Lesson 4- p. 492:  1

  Lesson 5- p. 497:  2,4

  Lesson 8- p. 511:  3

  Lesson 9- p. 515:  1,2

  Lesson 10- p. 519:  1,3,6

  Lesson 11- p. 526/7:  6

  Lesson 12- p. 531:  2,5

  Lesson 13- p. 534/5:  1,2,3,5,6,

  Lesson 14- p. 540:  2

  Review Exercises- p. 565:  3,7,15

Week #1.  2/5 - 2/9

Monday.  I never expect to lose.  Even when I am the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.  -  H. Jackson Browne

• PowerPoint.  Measuring energy changes
  

Tuesday. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. -Benjamin Franklin

• PowerPoint.  Measuring energy changes
  

Wednesday.  When you are born into a world you don't fit in; it's because you were born to help create a new one.

• Work on Enthalpy of Combustion for Ethanol practice problem (not graded)
  

Thursday. 

• Enthalpy of Combustion for Ethanol lab
  

Friday.   If you are not going to think big, don't bother thinking at all.  -  Thomas J. Vilord

• Enthalpy of Combustion for Ethanol lab

Week #20.  1/29 - 2/2

Monday.  The expert in anything was once a beginner.

• Check Mole lab and Magnesium Oxide lab
• Review for Stoichiometry test Friday
• Hand out Stoichiometry worksheet #2
  

Tuesday.  Spectacular achievement is always preceded by painstaking preparation. - Roger Staubach

• Check Mole lab, Magnesium Oxide lab, and book questions
• Review for Stoichiometry test Friday
  

Wednesday. 

• No chemistry today
  

Thursday. 

• No chemistry today
  

Friday.  Don't stress.  Do your best.  Forget the rest.

• Stoichiometry test

Week #19.  1/22 - 1/26

Monday.  

• Stoichiometry ppt.
  

Tuesday.  Education is not preparation for life;  Education is life itself.  John Dewey

• Finish Stoichiometry ppt.
  
• Hand out another Stoichiometry worksheet (not graded and solutions provided)

Wednesday. Effort equals results

• Work on Stoichiometry worksheets
• Check the Mole lab and the Magnesium Oxide lab
  

Thursday. Excellence is attained when you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.  - Jim Gentil

• Work on Stoichiometry worksheets
• Work on MC review for the test next week.
  
• Work on book questions
• Check the Mole lab and the Magnesium Oxide lab
  
  

Friday.  Let's do this. - Home Depot

• Solutions ppt.
• Work on lots of stuff 
  

Week #18.  1/15 - 1/19

Monday.  

• MLK no school

Tuesday.  Step by step.  I can't think of any other way of accomplishing anything. -  Michael Jordan.

• Empirical Formula of Magnesium Oxide lab
  

Wednesday.  When you in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

• Calculate and Conclude Empirical Formula of Magnesium Oxide lab

Thursday. If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.

• Chemical Equations PowerPoint
• Hand out Balancing Equations worksheet (not graded, answers provided)
  

Friday.  The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Mary Pickford 

• Work on Balancing Equations worksheet
• Hand out Stoichiometry worksheet and introduce limiting reactants (cookies!)
  

Week #17.  1/8 - 1/12

Monday.  A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  - Walter Gagehot

• Finish Number, Moles, and Mass PowerPoint
• Molar Volume of  a Gas PowerPoint
• Either a hard copy or through Turnitin.com are due today by midnight.  Turnitin.com classes below.
  • 5th period:  16112742
  • 6th period:  16112769
  • Enrollment key for all classes is Jansen

Tuesday.  There are those who see an opportunity, and those who seize an opportunity.

• Continue to work on worksheet from yesterday
• Mole quiz Friday
  
• Book questions 
• Mole 

• Lesson 8 - p. 383- 4,10

  Lesson 9 - p. 386- 2,4

  Lesson 10 - p. 391- 7

  Lesson 11 - p. 394- 3

  Lesson 12 - p. 398- 1

  Chemical equations

  Lesson 1 - p. 351- 1

  Lesson 2 - p. 356- 4

  Lesson 3 - p. 359/360- 1,4,5

  Lesson 4 - p. 364- 1,4,7

  Lesson 5 - p. 368- 1,2,4

  Stochiometry  

  Lesson 25 - p. 464- 1,2,3

  Lesson 26 - p. 468/469- 2,5

  Molarity  

  Lesson 13 - p. 405- 1,6,8,9,10

  Lesson 14 - p. 412/413- 2,3

  
  

Wednesday.    The very essence of leadership is having vision.  -  Ludwig van Beethoven

• "Mole lab"

Thursday.  The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds that there is no top.  -  Nancy Barcus

• Continue working on worksheet and the Mole lab
• Quiz tomorrow

Friday.  Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough and i can single-handedly move the world.  -  Archimedes

• Mole quiz

Week #16.  1/1 - 1/5

Monday.  

• No school

Tuesday.  “Change doesn’t come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.” - Toni Sorenson

• Work on Ionic or Covalent lab write up.

Wednesday.  It is not enough to have a good mind.  The important thing is to use it well.  Rene Descartes  

• Work on Ionic or Covalent lab write up

Thursday.  Remember the Titans

• Numbers, Moles, and Mass PowerPoint

Friday.  We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.  Aristotle

• Last chance to work on and get help for Ionic or Covalent lab.
  • Both a hard copy and through Turnitin.com are due Monday by midnight.  Turnitin.com classes below.
    • 5th period:  16112742
    • 6th period:  16112769

 

Week #15.  12/11 - 12/15

Monday.  Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.  Pablo Picasso

• Ionic or Covalent lab
• Review for test

Tuesday.  "The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." John E. Southard

• Ionic or Covalent lab
• Review for test
• Book questions due tomorrow

Wednesday.  "What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" Robert Schuller

• Ionic or Covalent lab
• Review for test
• Book questions due

Thursday.  "Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy." Jimmy Spithill

• Bonding Test

Friday.  My religion is very simple.  My religion is kindness.  Dalai Lama

• Go over Ionic or Covalent lab.  Due 1/8

 

Week #14.  (12/4 - 12/8)

Monday.   Being male is a matter of birth.  Being a man is a matter of age.  Being a gentleman is matter of choice.  -  Vin Diesel

Hand out review for test

Tuesday.  Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.  -  Vince Lombardi

 

• Electrolysis of Water lab

Wednesday.  You can't depend on the eye when your imagination is out of focus.  Mark Twain

• Metallic Bonding PowerPoint

Thursday. Enthusiasm is contagious.  Start an epidemic

• Ionic vs. Covalent lab

Friday.  Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.  Charles R. Swindoll

• Ionic vs. Covalent lab

Week #13.  (11/27- 12/1)

Monday.   It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. Confucius  Molecular Models lab
 Tuesday.  Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.  -  Mark Twain.

• Molecular Models lab

Wednesday.  Life is change, growth is optional.  Choose wisely.  -  Karen Kaier Clark

• Molecular Models lab
• Work on book questions

Thursday.   Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

• Intermolecular Forces PowerPoint

Friday.  Impossibility is an opinion, not a fact.

• Intermolecular Forces PowerPoint
• Molecular Models lab

Week #12.  (11/20- 11/24)

Monday.   I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.  -  Thomas Edison  
Crystal Growing lab due Work on Ionic or Covalent exploration- hard copy due tomorrow
Tuesday.  

• Finish Covalent Bonding PowerPoint
• Hard copy Ionic or Covalent exploration due

Wednesday.  

• Thanksgiving break

Thursday.   

• Thanksgiving break

Friday.  

• Thanksgiving break

Week #11.  (11/13 - 11/17)

Monday.  When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.  -  Eric Thomas  

Ionic Quiz
Introduce Ionic Crystal Growing lab

Tuesday.  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -  Confucius

•  Ionic or Covalent Substance exploration due Tuesday.
• Crystal GrowingLab

Wednesday.  The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.  -  Ayn Rand

• Conclude Crystal Growing lab- due Friday
• Start Covalent Bonding PowerPoint

Thursday.   To enter a theater for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.  -  Simon Callow

• Covalent PowerPoint

Friday 

• Crystal Growing lab due
• Covalent Bonding PowerPoint

Week #10.  (11/6 - 11/10)

Monday.  If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

• PowerPoint - Ionic Bonding

Tuesday.  “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

• Finish Ionic Bonding PowerPoint 
• Hand out Ionic Bonding worksheet (not graded, answers provided in class)
• Ionic questions
  Lesson 19- p. 100:  1,13
  Lesson 20- p. 105: 3,4,5,7
  Lesson 21- p. 110: 3,7,8
  Lesson 22- p. 113: 1-5,7
  Lesson 24- p. 116: 1-4
  Covalent questions
  Lesson 4- p. 163: 1,4,5,6
  Lesson 5- p. 167: 1,2,5
  Lesson 6- p. 172: 3
  Lesson 10- p. 196: 2,4,7
  Lesson 11- p. 200: 1,3,6
  Lesson 15- p. 219: 1
  Lesson 16- p. 228: 1,2,4
  Lesson 17- p. 231: 1,4
  Lesson 19- p. 240: 2,3
  A combination of questions
  Lesson 15- p. 219: 2
  Lesson 26- p. 134: 2,3,4,8,10
  
  

Wednesday.  Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.  - Martin Luther King, Jr

• Work on Ionic worksheet, book questions, and/or exploring Ionic or Covalent lab

Thursday.   Always stay humble and kind.  -  Tim McGraw 

• Work on Ionic worksheet, book questions, and/or exploring Ionic or Covalent lab
• Ionic Quiz Monday
• CLICK HERE for more practice on naming

Friday 

• Veterans' Day.  No school
  

Week #9.  (10/30 - 11/3)

Monday.  Dream on, dream on, dream on, dream until your dreams come true...   -  Aerosmith

• Measurement lab/work day/review for Wednesday's test.

Tuesday.  

• Happy Halloween!

Wednesday.  The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell.

• Introduce Ionic or Covalent lab 
• Measurement Test

Thursday.  The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

• PowerPoint - Ionic Bonding

Friday

• • Last minute change of plans- started doing research today on laptops to determine what to do in order to determine which unknown substances are ionic compounds and which are covalent compounds.
  • Back to the PowerPoint on Monday.

 

Week #8.  (10/23 - 10/27)

Monday.  Chemistry pays—become a mole-ionaire

• Mole Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Check Periodic Trends lab today

 Tuesday.  To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.  -  Michael Korda

• PowerPoint  Measurement and Data Processing

Wednesday.  If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead  -  Justin Sims

• Periodic Trends due 
• Measurement lab
• Assign Unit 2 book questions
  • Lesson 8.  p. 383 - 2, 11
  • Math Spotlights Practice Exercises
    • p. 619:  1-4
    • p. 627:  1-3
    • p. 632:  1-3

Thursday.  Failing to plan, is planing to fail.  -  Effie Jones

• Measurement lab or book questions

Friday.  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.  -  Babe Ruth

• Measurement lab or book questions
• Unit II Test Wednesday

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Week #7.  (10/16 - 10/20)

Monday.  Have a dream so big that you cannot achieve it until you grow into the person who can.

• Work day or Periodic Trends lab

Tuesday.  The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.  -  Winston Churchill

• Work day or Periodic Trends lab

Wednesday

• Work day or Periodic Trends lab
• Book questions due 
  • Lesson 1: p.5 - 1,3
    Lesson 3: p.12- 3,5
    Lesson 6: p.25- 1,3,4
    Lesson 8: p.37- 2
    Lesson 9: p.42- 1
    Lesson 10: p.50- 1,2,4,5,6
    Summary: p.51- 1,3
    Lesson 11: p.57- 2,4
    Lesson 12: p.62- 1-5
    Lesson 13: p.66- 1-5,6,7,9
    Lesson 14: p.70- 7,9,11
    Lesson 17: p.89- 2,5
    Lesson 18: p. 94/95- 1-4,7,9,10
    Lesson 19: p.100- 1-7,10,12-15
    Lesson 20: p.105- 1,2
    Lesson 24: p.122- 1,2,4,9,11,13
    Summary: p.123- 1-4
    Unit Review: p.142- 1,3,5

Thursday.  Success depends upon our previous preparations, and without such preparations there is sure to be failure.  -  Confucius

• Unit I Test

Friday. If your ship does not come in, swim out to it.

• PowerPoint  Measurement and Data Processing