Presidents Clues

Our first attempt at online presidents study was moderately successful, with about a dozen students getting points for discovering the identity of the president that matched the following clues:
1)Brown vs Board of Education
2)Polio vaccine discovered
3)Sputnik launched
4)1st president to run a TV commercial

The correct answer was Dwight Eisenhower, #34. For more information about Ike, I refer you to the Wikipedia article on him. I've also linked other articles dealing with the clues above.

The clues for Monday evening's practice are listed below. I will post more clues later in the week for Friday, so there are multiple opportunities to earn points. Reember that to earn a point, students only need to bring the presidents's name written or typed on a sheet of paper in. If they explain the clues in any manner, they get two points.

Clues for Monday:
1) U.S. invaded Grenada
2) Only president to be a president of a union
3) Fired the nation's air traffic controllers
4) Strategic Defense Initive (SDI)

Good luck!

Friday Results, 1/30

We played a mix of games at Friday's tournament, with tables split evenly amongst Ling, Equations and On-Sets. The overall results do not include points earned from the Linguishtik worksheets, which will be added later this weekend. The do include the one or two point bonuses earned from last week's President's clues.

Results:
Next Prime Suspects 76 points, 4.47 average
No Names 71, 4.44 avg
Smurfs 58, 3.87 avg
Get Smart 51, 3.64 avg

Overall Standings:
No Names 1395, 85.88 average
Next Prime Suspects 1342, 78.70 avg
Get Smart 1289, 76.40 avg
Smurfs 1193, 70.03 avg

Top Individuals:
Shwetha 114
Renee 110
Luke 105
Lorna 102
Chelsea 102
Andrew G. 102
Alan 101
Topher 101
Wendy 96
Jiaao 95
Michael 95

Presidents Clues

A quick reminder that Ling packets, Presidents questions and Prop Examples are due next Friday.

As I mentioned at practice, after each practice I will post some presidents clues. If you find out the president, type it up, and bring it to the next practice, I'll add a point to your next friday tournament. Explain the clues a little, and you'll get two points. So for example, if the clue was "The Louisiana Purchase", you'd get one point for knowing Jefferson was the president when we purchased it, and you get an additional point for knowing who we purchased it from (France), how much we paid ($15 million dollars, or less than 3 cents per acre), or what land it encompassed (part or all of 15 different states).

So the clues for next Friday, January 30:

1)Brown vs Board of Education
2)Polio vaccine discovered
3)Sputnik launched
4)1st president to run a TV commercial

Good luck, see you on Friday

Friday Results, 1/23

We played a mix of games at Friday's tournament, with tables split evenly amongst Ling, Equations and On-Sets

Team Results:
No Names 55 points, 4.23 average
Next Prime Suspects 67, 4.19 avg
Smurfs 64, 3.76 avg
Get Smart 42, 3.50 avg

Overall Standings:
No Names 1316, 81.00 average
Next Prime Suspects 1260, 73.89 avg
Get Smart 1138, 72.51 avg
Smurfs 1138, 70.03 avg

Top Ten Individuals:
Shwetha 108
Renee 103
Luke 99
Lorna 98
Alan 96
Chelsea 96
Wendy 96
Topher 95
Andrew G. 94
Jiaao 91

Friday and Saturday Tournament Results

Friday's Ling Tournament:
Get Smart 65, 4.06 average
Next Prime Suspects 61, 4.36 avg
Smurfs 60, 4.00 avg
No Names 58, 4.14 avg

Overall:
No Names 1261, 76.77 average
Next Prime Suspects 1193, 69.42 avg
Get Smart 1096, 69.01 avg
Smurfs 1156, 66.39 avg

Saturday:
24 students braved the snow to attend the tournament at the inappropriately named Winterhalter school. We finished with a 91 Top 5, which placed us second, and a 15.33 average, which was best in the tournament. For the year, we lead top 5 by 13 points, and average by .84 points.
High scorers at the tournament were:
Topher, Andrew, Deniz, Jiaao, Graham, & Harith.

New postings:
I have posted the Elem and Middle Ling packet, along with the answer key for the On-Sets worksheets. The Ling packet will be due by January 30.