We have enjoyed another successful day on the other side of the ocean from Philly.  Today we visited the city of Chester, about 45 minutes from Liverpool.  It's a walled city that we walked around for a few hours.  The SLA students had time to shop and eat.  We have been buying lots of fun English googies.  The teachers have been telling us all about the education system here and about the differences in culture, language, mortgages, proms, etc.  We also had a delightful afternoon with our friends from the school.  We went bowling and had dinner at an "Italian American" restaurant.  Tomorrow we're off to London which is a 3 to 4 hour bus ride from here.  It will be a long but exciting day.

Take care and enjoy the weekend. 

After 12 hours of traveling, we've arrived safely in Liverpool.  We are all tired but excited to be here.  Broughton Hall picked us up from the airport and took us back to the school.  We got lunch, a tour and met many students.  Everyone at Broughton Hall is friendly and welcoming.  They wanted to hear our accents and, for some reason, are curious to know how hot it is in America (we think they equate Florida to America since some have been there).  Tomorrow will be a day of sightseeing in Chester followed by bowling and dinner.  Hello to everyone back in the States.

This unit focused on inductive and deductive reasoning.  Students
were answering delving in to logical arguments and how to form them. 
This unit was a great introduction to writing formal proofs by starting
with logic puzzles and games.  Students completed a benchmark project
to complete this unit.  Their projects included writing 3 types of
puzzles, a color-square puzzle, a crossword puzzle and a puzzle of
their choice.  Then the students exchanged puzzles and solved their
partner's puzzles.  The student who was solving the puzzles had to use
syllogisms and conditional statements to prove the solution.  Their
written proofs were submitted with their puzzles in a portfolio format.