Mr. Fodchuk has left Tom Baines a bit early because of an illness. He is working to get caught up on the assignment and projects that he did while he was here with the students. Ms. McAuley and myself are working hard to finish off the projects that he had begun so that we can
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November 17
701-707 we started the storytelling and current events units. The story telling unit centers around presenting a story to the class. The current events unit centers around finding national and international events and reacting to those events. 804 we worked on Ito Japan worldview and personal worldview. We also worked on getting ready for the
November 2
707/701: reading response, storybook and memoir are due on November 10. Topic Choice – Family Unit Storybook – Canadian history from 1867 LA 7 – Reading Response Journal Rubric Humanities7 – Memoir Rubrics 804: watching a film that explains edo and meiji Japan.
November 2
701/707: We played another turn of risk and punched through into Europe. Congratulations! After, we read for about 15 to 20 minutes. I explained the reading response expectations and rubric. The reading response is due on Thursday, November 10. I am able to work with you if you have any questions or concerns at the
November 1
701 and 707: worked on a new draft of our memoir; everyone was working on improving their memoir by adding details and making changes to your memoir. In social studies, we worked on the storybook assignment. Most people were still working on their planning. 804 Created groups of three or four; each group selected a topic
Tuesday November 1
Scholastic Book orders for November are due on Monday November 7. 8-04 Create a 30 second to 1 minute speech, no shorter, no longer, that you will be giving to the class on Thursday November 3. Remember to use the suggestions from class to help you prepare as that is how you will be assessed.
October 31
7-01 and 7-07: In the reading workshop, we took down notes on author purpose and theme. In social studies, a new project due on November 10. 8-04: student-teacher introduction and Edo Japan unit introduction.
October 28, what has been accomplished this week?
7-01 and 7-07: *Please have your book in class on Monday We completed a peer review of everyone’s memoir on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, the class created criteria to evaluate another persons work. On Thursday, I handed out criteria to evaluate memoirs in another peer review. Throughout this week we chose a topic in Canadian
Thursday Oct 27
8-04 Today our Reading Response Journal entry was due. Your next response is due two weeks from today, Thursday November 10 Since many of you seemed really excited about the possibility of doing some slam poetry I decided to show off some other examples. If you are interested just do a google search and I
Wednesday October 27
8-04 Please check your online marks for comments about your Middle Ages project. Today we spent some time working on writing and exploring poetry. It is great to see so many more people wanting to share their work with the class. I was even more surprised when you asked about doing a Poetry Slam after