CHEMISTRY, RENO AND YOU

SINCE THIS IS RENO'S FIRST PROPER WEEK. He's going to spend the first half of the class going over safety procedures when handling lab materials. (Goggles, tying your hair back, no hanging/lose articles like ties, jewellery etc. etc.) Sassing him about and/or not listening may result in things such as mild burns, singed hair, lost eyebrows, damaged clothes and getting weird smells stuck to your person.

After that, he'll be showing and explaining all about alkali metals, (so basically it'll be this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft4E1eCUItI) interspersed with explanations and such.) How they work, what they're used for, blah blah blah.

He'll be fairly light on the workload (I think so, anyway e___e) Every student will be given an alkali metal at random and will be expected to bring back an essay on its discovery, uses, how it's formed. etc. etc. (This is mostly to gauge how good you are at doing research, so he wants to see a variety of sources. Anyone who lists wikipedia as a source loses marks. But he's not going to tell you any of this, just that he wants the work in at the start of the next class.)

He also wants class this group memorised by name and number, and any other info you can learn is totally awesome. Basically he wants everyone to have the whole periodic table memorised ASAP, so.

Ditchers will be dealt with on an individual basis, but you can bet your punishment will be leaning towards the cruel and unusual without leaving any longterm trauma/damage. Also he'll want an essay on... whatever it was he did and how/why it worked ALONGSIDE the classwork. Have fun with that.