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Friday reflection, Genetics of Disease (Medical Interventions)

Week 17 of 17

Due Friday, December 18, 2026, before the end of class About ten minutes5 points in Daily work

Where we are in PLTW

Unit 4: How to Prevail When Organs Fail, Lesson 4.2 Organ Failure / Lesson 4.3 Transplant moving into Unit 4: How to Prevail When Organs Fail, Lesson 4.4 Building a Better Body.

  • Mon · 12-14Allocation debate
  • Tue · 12-15Dialysis and matching simulation
  • Wed · 12-16Compatibility and rejection
  • Thu · 12-17Allocation CER
  • Fri · 12-18Emerging-tech debate

This week's deep question

Across this semester you built one toolkit: detect, diagnose, treat, replace. Pick two tools from different units and explain how they would work together on one patient's case.

Three or four sentences. If you did this week's work, you can answer it; if you are stuck, open your Cornell notes from the days listed above. That is what they are for.

The ten-minute walk

  1. 01My grade right now, and why

    Predict it first, then open the portal or Schoology and check. Predicting first is the part that raises grades.

  2. 02My notes this week

    What your Cornell notes show you worked on, and one thing you would improve about how you took them.

  3. 03What I understand now that I did not on Monday

    Name it plainly. If nothing comes to mind, look at Monday's page and compare.

  4. 04Where we are in the PLTW curriculum

    One line. The week page prints it for you; put it in your own words.

  5. 05This week's deep question

    Three or four sentences. It is answerable from this week's work, and from nothing else.

  6. 06How I am feeling about this class and school right now

    Honest is the only wrong-proof answer. Mr. Mendoza reads every one of these.

  7. 07Anything that might get in my way next week

    Only if you want to say it. A heads-up on Friday beats an apology on Thursday.

  8. 08My SMART goal for next week

    Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound. One goal we can both check next Friday.

Turn it in

Open the reflection form

The link already carries your course and this week. Sign in with your district Microsoft account, type your student ID with all nine digits, and the thank-you page is your receipt. Your ID is there so a typo cannot lose your work. Nobody uses it as a password.

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