Syllabus

LYNN PUBLIC SCHOOLS                                                                                   

GEOMETRY SYLLABUS

2010-2011

 

QUARTER 1

MAPPING

TOPIC

STANDARDS

TEXTBOOK/ RESOURCES

 

Weeks 1, 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Points, Lines, Planes, and Angles

  • Identify points, lines, and planes, and describe their intersections
  • Draw and label sets of points such as lines, segments, and rays
  • Use correct geometric notation
  • Apply postulates about segments and angles
  • Identify segment and angle bisectors
  • Use angle pair relationships to find angle measures

G.G.1

G.G.6

 

McDougal Littell:

Chap. 1, pp. 10-50

 

Prentice Hall:

Chap. 1, pp. 12-38, 48-52

 

Weeks 3

Coordinate Geometry

  • Use the Pythagorean Theorem to derive the distance formula
  • Calculate midpoints of segments and distances between two points

G.G.7

G.G.12

 

McDougal Littell:

Chap. 1, pp. 17-25, 34-42

 

Prentice Hall:

Chap. 1, pp. 53-57

Chap. 5, pp. 256-262

 

 

Weeks 4, 5

Reasoning and Proof

  • Use inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Recognize and analyze conditional statements and form the converse, inverse, and contrapositive
  • Identify and use algebraic properties of equality

G.G.2

McDougal Littell:

Chap. 1, pp 3-9

Chap. 2, pp. 71-78, 87-101

 

Prentice Hall:

Chap. 1, pp. 4-10, 46-52

Chap. 4, pp. 182-187

 

 

Weeks 6, 7, 8

Parallel, Perpendicular Lines and Coordinate Geometry

  • Identify parallel, skew, and perpendicular lines
  • Identify angles formed by transversals
  • Relate the measures of angles formed by parallel lines and a transversal
  • Solve problems about parallel or perpendicular lines and transversals
  • Use slope to identify parallel and perpendicular lines in a coordinate plane
  • Explain the significance of positive, negative, zero or undefined slope
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between various representations of a line
  • Find the equation of the line when given the graph or two points
  • Find the equation of  the line parallel or perpendicular to a given line
  • Determine a line’s slope and x- and y- intercepts from its graph, two points or from a linear equation that represents the line

G.G.2

G.G.6

G.G.11

G.G.12

G.G.13

 

McDougal Littell:

Chap. 3, pp. 129-134, 143-156

               pp. 165-178

 

Prentice Hall:

Chap. 1, pp. 18-22

Chap. 2, pp. 83-88

Chap. 7, pp. 363-376

 

Week 9

Quarterly Test

 

 

 

Quarterly Project / Writing Assignment

 

 

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