1. DO NOW 1. Have you taken the ACT before? Are you satisfied with your score? Did you beat Williamson? 2. What do you think the average ACT score is for students at Cane Ridge HS versus the national average? GRAB YOUR GREEN FOLDER!!! You have 5 minutes. IN YOUR SEATS. Paper and pencil out. Noise level 1. COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! Write down the I CAN’s and Agenda if you finish early.

2. DO NOW A scientist plants grass seeds into three different pots. She gives 10 mL of water a day to plant #1, 50 mL a day to pot #2, and 100 mL a day to pot #3. She uses the same soil for all three pots and give them the same amount of sunlight. She measures the growth of the grass seeds every day for two weeks. 1. What is the independent variable? 2. Dependent variable? 3. Control variables? 4. How could we improve this experiment? GRAB YOUR GREEN FOLDER!!! You have 5 minutes. IN YOUR SEATS. Paper and pencil out. Noise level 1. COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! Write down the I CAN’s and Agenda if you finish early.

3. DO NOW GRAB YOUR GREEN FOLDER!!! You have 5 minutes. IN YOUR SEATS. Paper and pencil out. Noise level 1. COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! Write down the I CAN’s and Agenda if you finish early.

4. DO NOW 1. What score did you get on the first test we took online? Get out your ACT Mastery Tracker and write your score (Final score #1). Your goal score is to get three points higher when we take another Science ACT section on Mar. 3 rd. Write that on the top of your tracker and circle it! What type of questions did you do the best in? Worst? 2. How did you do on the second practice test? Did you manage your time more efficiently? Did you have time to go through all the passages? Write TWO things to improve/remember when you actually take the test. GRAB YOUR GREEN FOLDER!!! You have 5 minutes. IN YOUR SEATS. Paper and pencil out. Noise level 1. COMPLETE SENTENCES!!! Write down the I CAN’s and Agenda if you finish early.

5. ANNOUNCEMENTS! www.mrimanatomy.weebly.com  Attend the ACT Prep Club MONDAYS after school in Room 2107 for 4 weeks in a row for TICKETS + CCR Points!!!  TAKE PRACTICE SCIENCE ACT TESTS AT HOME! http://library.nashville.org/ schools

6. TN College ACT Averages Tennessee State University: 15-20 Fisk University: 17-23 University of Memphis: 18-24 Austin Peay State University: 19-23 Trevecca-Nazarene University: 19-24 Middle Tennessee State University: 20-24 University of Tennessee-Martin: 20-24 University of Tennessee-Knoxville: 24-29 Vanderbilt University: 30-34

7. College ACT Averages Mississippi State: 20-26 University of Mississippi: 20-29 University of Kentucky: 22-28 University of Alabama: 22-29 University of South Carolina: 24-29 University of Texas: 25-30 University of Florida: 26-30 Ohio State University: 26-30 UCLA: 25-31 Boston University: 26-30 University of Chicago: 32-35 University of Colorado at Boulder: 23-29

8. College ACT Averages Top Liberal Arts Colleges Williams College: 29-34 Amherst College: 30-34 Pomona College: 31-34 Top Universities: Yale: 32-35 Princeton: 31-35 Harvard: 32-35 Columbia: 31-34 Brown: 29-34 University of Colorado at Boulder: 23-29

9. ACT College Readiness Benchmarks The benchmarks are scores on the ACT subject-area tests that represent the level of achievement required for students to have a 50% chance of obtaining a B or higher or about a 75% chance of obtaining a C or higher in corresponding credit- bearing first-year college courses. College CourseACT Subject-Area TestThe ACT ® Benchmark English CompositionEnglish18 College AlgebraMathematics22 Social SciencesReading22 BiologyScience23

10. ACT Williamson County ACT Average 2013 23.4 SCIENCE: 22.9

11. ACT Cane Ridge High School ACT Average for 2013 16.5 SCIENCE: 17.0

12. ACT Averages Cane Ridge High School 2013 average: 16.5 Antioch High School 2013 average: 17.2 Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School 2013 average: 25.2 Hume-Fogg High Academic Magnet 2013 average: 27.4 Metro Nashville Public Schools 2013 average: 18.2 Tennessee 2013 average: 19.1 United States 2013 average: 20.9 State Rankings (2011) 50. North Carolina 49. Mississippi 48. Louisiana 47. Tennessee

13. HOPE Scholarship Students must meet the following requirements: O Entering freshmen must have a minimum of a 21 ACT (980 SAT), exclusive of the essay and optional subject area battery tests OR O Overall weighted* minimum 3.0 grade point average (GPA)weighted* Award amount – Up to $6,000 per year at an eligible four-year postsecondary institution or a two-year eligible postsecondary institution that offers on-campus housing. Up to $3,000 per year at an eligible two-year postsecondary institution. The award is divided equally between fall, spring and summer semesters. Awards to part-time enrolled students are prorated.

14. PEP TALK! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlhUcSGqgs