Wednesday, March 6

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

8-23

  • Life Skills Results Reporting – To help determine all of the awesome stuff you are doing around the school and to help me report this on your report cards please fill out this form.
  • Human Sexuality forms are due by this Friday, March 8 and so far I only have 5 of them turned in.
  • Please continue to research for the current project we are working on. We will discuss a due date tomorrow or Friday.

9-27

  • Not that you have selected your project please start doing some research on it. We will discuss a due date tomorrow or Friday.

Robotics

  • Today we started playing around with a drag and drop programming language called Scratch. The nice thing about this is that it is open source which means you can download it for free at home. There is also another program that we may look at called Alice. It is also open source so check them out.
  • Scratch Video Tutorials – I would start on Video Lesson 2 as we basically covered all of the stuff in Video Lesson 1 in class.

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Tuesday, March 5

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

8-23

  • Please make sure you have finished your Life Skills work on Kidblog as I will be checking again soon.
  • Continue to gather information for the Aztec Codex and Conquistador Compass project.

9-27

  • The Immigration questions are due tomorrow. See yesterdays post for a list of the questions.
  • Think about which project you are going to do and if you are doing it by yourself, with a parter, or in a small group.

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Monday, March 4

Monday, March 4, 2013

8-23

  • Start thinking about how you are going to approach your first Reading Response as it is due on Wednesday, March 20.
  • Today the Aztec Codex and Conquistador Compass project was handed out. Make sure you take a close look over this so that you will be ready to go for tomorrow.
  • If you have an Apple or Android phone or tablet download the free Aurasma app to enhance your Social Studies Textbooks. Once you have downloaded the app click on this link (http://auras.ma/s/oyZ45) to access the items for both of the textbooks.

9-27

  • Start thinking about how you are going to approach your first Reading Response as it is due next week on Wednesday, March 13.
  • I have had numerous requests for some individualized traditional style work so today we started working on some questions from the textbook. The “Q” denotes which page the question(s) is on. If there is more than one question on that page please be sure to answer them all.
    • Pg 183(Q)-184
    • Pg 187-188(Q)
    • 189-190(Q)
    • 191(Q)

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Friday, March 1

Friday, March 1, 2013

I cannot believe it, but it is already March. Pretty soon it will be Spring Break and before you know it, the year will be over. Please make sure that you are keeping up with your work.

8-23

  • I hope that everyone has handed in Task 2 and Task 3 of the Age of Exploration project. I appreciate the overall respect and maturity that many of you showed to Mr. Kuwahara while I was away.

9-27

  • You were given about 25 minutes today to work together to discuss the information that was presented yesterday so that you can work on “Recognizing Patterns” from the eight different immigrant groups. Please finish this for Monday, March 4.
  • I appreciate the awesome effort and focus that everyone showed today in the Round Writing activity. We will share more of these next week.

Robotics 9

  • Please continue to think about the Three Laws of Robotics and how this might impact the designs that you will be moving forward with in the next few weeks.
  • Make sure that you have handed in your first design assignment (the paper towers) and also the Programming a Human assignment as it was due today.

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Thursday, February 28

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Sorry for not posting homework since Monday, but I have been away on the Grade 9 Outdoor Education camping trip. I hope that all went well and everyone is caught up on their work.

Mr. Lang

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Monday, February 25

Monday, February 25, 2013

8-23

  • Please continue to work on the Ship Log / Journal entry (Task 3). You will be given two periods of class time tomorrow, and possibly a little bit of time on Wednesday. Task 2 and Task 3 are to be handed in by the end of the day on Friday, March 1.

9-27

  • I am starting to become very frustrated by a number of people in this class. Not because of how you are acting or your behaviour but because of your lack of self worth and value with respect to your learning. Many of you did not take the activity we were doing seriously, even though I have provided as many opportunities as possible to allow all of you to have an input into your learning including, providing textbook work, a test, individual work, group work, selecting groups for you, allowing you to select your own groups, and now a scenario. It was not until I asked all of you to do something individually and that I would be collecting it by the end of the class that you took yourselves seriously. However, the next attempt at the scenario seemed to go much better so thank you. If this style of learning does not work for you then you need to let me know so I can adapt what I am doing to meet your needs. Please be aware that this is not about your marks, but about your learning and that much of what I do is based on current research on how people your age develop and learn. If you are ever unsure about what we are doing or why we are doing it please ask and I will be happy to explain it to you.
  • For tomorrow remember to have your novels.
  • Also, think about the Task 4 activity that I had you start as individuals today. We are going to finish this as a class tomorrow.

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Thursday, February 21

Thursday, February 21, 2013

8-23

  • Tomorrow you should be finishing Task 2 and starting to work on Task 3. We will discuss a final due date then.
  • Please try and get caught up with the Life Skills work as many of you are behind.

9-27

  • Remember your novels for tomorrow.
  • I appreciate that more of you are getting involved with the discussion even if it is forced.

Robotics 9

  • Awesome work today. If you have not already done so please work on the appraisal process that you are recording on Kid Blog.

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Wednesday, February 20

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

  • Sorry for the late update, but I started working on something and forgot to do this after school 😉
  • All marks will be updated by 8:00 pm based on all material I have received from you.

8-23

  • Please remember your novel for tomorrow.
  • You should be able to finish, or be close to finishing, Task 2 tomorrow with the time given in class. If you are not at this point then I encourage you to do some extra work at home to get caught up and so that you are reading to start Task 3 on Friday.

9-27

  • Today we began exploring Immigration and its impact on Canada and its people. I encourage all of you to advocate for your learning be informing me of your learning needs throughout the class. A part of this is to also try and become more involved in the discussion and topics that are being brought up in class. You will likely find that you will become more engaged, learn the content and skills better, and in turn, improve your learning.

Robotics

  • Please make sure that you come tomorrow with the first part of the design process completed as tomorrow we will finish this, and then begin building our structures.

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