Wednesday Feb 3

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

We are very fortunate to be hosting a Citizenship Ceremony at our school on February 10 to welcome roughly 85 new Canadians. A great deal of planning has gone into the ceremony to ensure that it is a wonderful and real learning experience for our Grade 9 students. We have also been given permission by Judge Way, the Citizenship Judge, and Ms. Lemieux, Citizenship Officer for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, to do a live broadcast of the ceremony onto our Pod televisions so that the whole school can witness this amazing event. We are also lucky to have representatives from all three levels of government as well as dignitaries from the Calgary Board of Education attending this event.

7-13

  • Get your field trip forms in. I need them by Friday Feb 5 to confirm how many students will be going. The field trip is on Thursday February 18.
  • Please make sure that you bring all required materials to start working on the making and constructing of your costumes, props, and backgrounds. Remember that everything should be well organized as you spent two classes putting your lists together. We will now spend the next week or two making what we need.
  • You do not need to bring any of your costumes or props that you have at home as we will not be filling for a while yet.
  • Your next reading response journal is not due until Wednesday February 24 because of the start of the term. However, you now have almost four weeks to complete it so I am expecting that it is of a high level.
  • Please come prepared tomorrow with your short stories as we will continue working on them.

7-16

  • Please make sure that you bring all required materials to start working on the making and constructing of your costumes, props, and backgrounds. Remember that everything should be well organized as you spent two classes putting your lists together. We will now spend the next week or two making what we need.
  • You do not need to bring any of your costumes or props that you have at home as we will not be filling for a while yet.

8-CHA

  • Continue working on your questions for the Hernan Cortes trial as they are meant to give you a basic understanding of the Spanish Conquest so that you will be able to approach the trial with knowledge.
  • Come prepared to work on your essays tomorrow.

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Tuesday Feb 2

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

7-13

  • Continue working on your short stories as it is expected that you start doing some work at home as  your time at school to work on them is not unlimited.

8-CHA

  • Remember that there is no reading response journal due this week because of the start of the new term. Having said this though you will now have almost a month to complete your response and I am expecting that they are done well.
  • If you did not hand in your Job Application for the Cortes Trial please get it into me by tomorrow as I need to sort through them to determine who will be hired for which jobs.
  • You should have a good portion of your essay’s completed for Tuesday February 9. You have already been given one week to plan your essay, two weeks to do research, and we have no been working on the essay itself for about a week and a half. Please make sure you are working on these at home as well and that you are using all of the class time that you are given.
  • Please think about the pop quiz that I gave you today regarding the Spanish worldview that is based from the textbook questions and the reasons that I gave it to you.

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Monday Feb 1

Monday, February 1, 2010

7-13

  • Make sure all of your sketches for your props, scenery, and costumes are completed and ready to go for tomorrow Tuesday Feb 2. You should also have your scripts because I will be collecting them tomorrow as you will no longer need them.

7-16

  • Make sure all of your sketches for your props, scenery, and costumes are completed and ready to go for tomorrow Tuesday Feb 2. You should also have your scripts because I will be collecting them tomorrow as you will no longer need them.

8-CHA

  • Take a look at the Trial of Hernan Cortes Project so that you can figure out what role you would like to play and also start working on your Job Application forms.

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Thursday Jan 28

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Marks have been updated for assignments that were handed in on time and were due as of yesterday. Therefore, if you have handed in assignments late or have redone some assignments they will not show up yet.

7-13

  • Try to get the field trip forms back ASAP so that we can get the rest of it organized.
  • Another awesome job today working on your short stories. It is amazing what you are all able to do with a bit of planning on some quiet time to write. Keep up the great work.
  • Monday February 1 will be the last class given to work on your documentary sketches. Therefore, it is important to do some work over the weekend if you are behind. I will be collecting your scripts on Tuesday February 2 so make sure they are done and ready to go.

7-16

  • It suprised me today how many of you do not enjoy reading. Personally, I think that this might be because you are not finding the right book to read. Please feel free to talk to me so that I can give you some suggestions. Also, look at the suggested books on our D2L shell and also the Graffiti door that is in my class with suggestions from 7-13 and 8-CHA. Remember you can borrow books from my class just ask me how to sign them out first.
  • Monday February 1 will be the last class given to work on your documentary sketches. Therefore, it is important to do some work over the weekend if you are behind. I will be collecting your scripts on Tuesday February 2 so make sure they are done and ready to go.

8-CHA

  • Next reading response journal is due on Wednesday February 17 not February 3. Please make sure that all of the text book questions are finished for Monday February 1. If you used your class time you should have very little homework or none at all since we worked on them all week. I reminded you to write down the questions also so that if you had to do them for homework you could have so hopefully you did.
  • Come prepared on Tuesday with your information organized and your outline ready to go so that we can start working on our essay leads.

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Wednesday Jan 27

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

7-13

  • Your Canadian Documentary sketches are due on Tuesday February 2. Your last day to work on the sketches are Monday February 1. Please make sure that you are doing sketches for your props, costumes, and your sceneries / backgrounds.
  • Continue working on your short stories as your leads should be close to being finished.

7-16

  • Your Canadian Documentary sketches are due on Tuesday February 2. Your last day to work on the sketches are Monday February 1. Please make sure that you are doing sketches for your props, costumes, and your sceneries / backgrounds.

8-CHA

  • Please make sure that you are recording down the text book questions that you have not finished in class so that you can complete them at home. Remember to get to the textbook either go to the Tom Baines Parent and Community Website or else our Humanities 8-CHA shell. The expectation is that you should have very little or no homework if you are using your class time wisely. All of the questions will be due on Monday February 1.
  • Please have all of the information and research for your essay done and ready to go for tomorrow. We will be working on organizing our information and creating your outline prior to writing the essay itself.

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7-13 – Reading Response

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Remember that I am not interested in hearing about the story as I can read it myself. I would like you to talk about your opinoins of the story. This of course can be backed with evidence from the story or your life. Make sure to read the comments I have left on your response so that you can improve. You can now also see the comments that I have left for you by logging into your marks.

Please refer to your Reading & Writing Workshop duo-tang for further information on how to approach your Reading Response Journal. If you need help please come and see me well before the due date so that there is time for me to talk things over with you.

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Tuesday Jan 26

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

8-CHA

  • Most of the textbook questions that we started yesterday and continued today should be done for tomorrow. Part of this is to show you how much you should be able to get finished if you use your class time as effectively as you can. I will be having you complete a brief survey at the end of these questions as well to get a better idea of your learning and also so that you can see the reason that we do things in the class in a certain way.

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8-CHA – Aztec Codex

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Please make sure to look over the assignment sheet as well as the rubric for this project. We went over some of the art features and colours as well as some techniques on how to approach this assignment. It was up to you to ensure that you were using your class time appropriately and completing some of this work at home for homework. If you have any questions please make sure that you talk to me prior to the due date.

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