Kristy Chimera
MED 300
Journal # 5

	I’m not sure how I feel about Lafayette this week. It felt like we got through more than usual and that the students were understanding it, but we were still short about four students all week from our group. Our attendance was very low this week, due to the number of suspensions that our group has. I think we are down to about six students in our group, two of which are still suspended. Jose and Marquel are the only ones still suspended (we think), but we still have only had two students come to class. On Thursday we thought we weren’t going to have anyone! When the bell rang at the start of the period, we did not have any students. Lisa from Heather, Sara, and Bill’s group came over to our group so Nichole and I had someone to teach. Then about five minutes later, Alex and Yesenia came to class. So we had three total on Thursday, but only two were actually from our group. 
	Even though our attendance has been low, we have gotten through a lot of material, and I really think the students are understanding it. I guess we will find out when they take the test tomorrow. We are now a week and a day behind with the lesson plans, but I think if we rushed ahead, the students wouldn’t understand the material well enough for the math A exam. 
	I think the students really understood the “rise over run” for slope. Even for the problems where we were supposed to use the slope formula, we used rise over run to check it to see if we did it correctly. I hope that they remember rise over run when they get to the math A test!