Mr. Rott's Classroom: For the Week of September 20

Howdy Partners!!!

This week we will need cowboys and cowgirls with guts and a horse! After we moseyed through the Class Blog Friday... I hope that now each of you Cowboys and Cowgirls reckons what to look for and how to post your answer to this weeks blog question! ... Get it POST... like fence post .. Hahahhaah oh I do crack myself up!

If you’re yearning for an answer as to how to post your answer... all you need to do is wander on over to the right side of the blog because.. My favorite cowboys and cowgirls... there are steps listed for your grazing... oh get it ... graze .. !! On how to post your answer!

OLD WEST FACT:
THE CAMP COOK

A camp cook was also known as "cookie. He was the cook on the range when cowboys drove cattle. He was the most important person in camp and had to be quite resourceful in roviding three hot square meals a day, rain or shine, cold or hot. Most were older white men, retired from cowboying but blacks, and foreign born men also fit the bill if they could cook up a storm. They were also called among other things, biscuit shooters, bean masters and belly cheaters.
A cook's work was never done, as so it was true on the cattle drive. Since all the directions a drive took were guided by the North Star, it was the camp cook's duty each night to look up, note the North Star and turn the tongue of the chuck wagon toward it. That way, the next morning, the drive would know which way to head out.

1st and 6th Period:
This week we will be focusing on prime and composite numbers... along with friendship bracelets for Ebay? Huh??? Also, we will be checking out to see if you still have a CRUSH on him??? Lots of rootin tootin fun at the old corral! Tighten that cinch! Let er buck!

1st and 6th Period BLOG QUESTION:
In 1877, Congress passed the Desert Land Act which permitted settlers to purchase up to 640 acres of public land at 25-cents an acre in areas. If you lived in the Old West and you bought 640 acres, and your brother bought another 640 acres and your sisters family bought 640 acres and your parents bought 640 acres.. #1) How many total acres did all these people buy together_________? #2) How much did your 640 acres cost at 0.25 cents per acre_______? #3) Since you all live near each other... well as close as you can get within 640 acres.... what is the total cost for all of you and your family to buy their land...__________?

4th Period:
This week Cowboys and Cowgirls I will be helping you learn a way to make millions on Ebay... well ok.. maybe .. well . .maybe not but it still will be fun... and of course im interested... does she still have the crush? Along.. With .. How many shoes are to many pairs of shoes?

4th Period BLOG QUESTION:
Today there are over 40,000 wild horses that are related to the wild horses of the Old West. #1) If each mare (a female horse) has 2 foals (baby horses) a year, and there are 10,000 mares how many foals will be born_________? #2)Some people think that all wild horses should be rounded up and sold or destroyed... what do you think? Should they be free to roam the hills or should they be captured? Yes? No?

Also, you are to answer the questions for 1st and 6th Period.. see ABOVE