Welcome to Bravo's Chemistry Department

Hello and welcome to Morganchem, the home of all things NErDy at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School and the official web presence of Michael Morgan.

I take your child's education very seriously. It is with that intention that I have provided this webpage for you and your child to help get a better understanding of what goes on in their Chemistry class. Here you will find our weekly and semester long schedules, copies of all the homework assignments and laboratories, daily announcements, and important information to help parents keep their children on track. 

To learn more about my academic activities and the success of my students view my biography under the "about" menu. For those interested in the many different academic activities that my students are involved in on a daily basis outside normal class hours look at the Chem Club page on the "about" menu.

 

 

Album of the Week

Over the past twenty years music education has disappeared from our schools. This becomes obvious when listening to new music on the radio only to hear music that is  unoriginal or even bad. Most of today's so called artists do not write their own music or even play their own instruments.

So in the spirit of teaching you everything we can, this page features an Album of the Week. These are not ordinary albums in the history of music. These are the groundbreaking pieces of music that truly shaped how music was presented, recorded, and how it influenced other musicians and the public.

A few notes about the choices.  They are albums and not collections of single songs thrown together willy-nilly. They were meant to be played in order. They often told a story or set a mood. Some of them defined a genre and some defined a generation. I strongly recommend that you ask your Parents/Grandparents to dig through their record collections and find their old copies of these and put them on the turntable and experience them the way they were meant to be experienced.

Current Album

 

Tubular Bells is the debut studio album by English composer and songwriter Mike Oldfield. It was released on 25 May 1973 and is important historically as the first album ever released on Virgin Records, with the catalogue number of V2 001.

Mike Oldfield was only 19 years old when the album was recorded and he played most of the instruments, on the mostly instrumental album, himself.

The album sold slowly at first but gained world-wide recognition in December 1973 when its main opening theme was used for the sound track of the horror film The Exorcist. This caused a huge surge in sales, which increased Oldfield’s profile around the world. The album stayed in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart for a year from March 1974 during which is it was number one for one week. In the US it reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was also number one in Canada and Australia.

The album has sold over 2.7 million copies in the UK and about 15 million worldwide.

A number of different versions of Tubular Bells have been issued over the years including sequels and remastered editions. 

Its importance and contribution to British music and culture was...(continued)