1. Warm Up 3-21  What are your goals for the last nine weeks?  What habits and behaviors do you need in order to reach your goals?

2. Announcements  Quiz on Thursday

3. Parts of a Parallelogram  Key Points:  A base of a parallelogram can be any one of its sides.  An altitude is perpendicular to a base and is drawn from the side opposite the base.  The height is the length of the altitude.

4. What do you notice?

5. Example 1: Find the area of each parallelogram. A=bh A=5(4) A=20 A=bh A=2(3.5) A=7

6. A=bh A=13(9) A=117

8. P A=1/2 bh A=1/2 (13)(12) A=78

9. Find the area of the composite figure. 4 A=1/2 bh=(1/2)(3)(4) =6 A=bh=4(6)=24 =(1/2)(3)(4) Total Area = 6+24+6=36

10. Classwork/HW Page 523-524 #2-10 evens, 16-18 all