7-01 Worked on choosing a topic from post-confederation Canadian history. Finished peer review of memoir. 7-07 Worked on making better notes using the 4 key concepts of notetaking and students are expected to have notetaking complete on their topic by this thursday. Finished peer review of memoir.
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Tuesday October 25
8-04 There are still many of you forgetting to bring your books to class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You told me that you do not feel like you have the skills required to do research and present your findings. Therefore, I am going to work with you over the next little while to improve these
Monday October 24
8-04 I am happy to say that we have finished our presentations on the Middle Ages. I have learned a lot from these presentations. I realized that many of you need some help with developing your research and presentation skills. The majority of you agreed based on the question I asked you this morning. I
Wednesday October 19
8-04 We continued working on writing poetry and explored “alliteration” and its use in poetry. My hope is that everyone will begin to see poetry as something that they can enjoy and that it is not scary, or at least should not be. I am asking that everyone works on writing poetry. It does not
Tuesday October 18
8-04 Be prepared to present your Middle Ages projects tomorrow, Wednesday October 19. Make sure to look over the rubric to see what is expected. I will randomly select students to present so everyone must be ready. This is the only fair way to do it. I was pleased to see how things went the
Monday October 17
Mr. Fodchuk is now teaching both 7-01 & 7-07 and he will be doing so until the end of November. He will be using this Homework Blog to record his new and assignments. Beginning October 31 he will also begin teaching 8-04. To contact him please visit the “Contact” section of D2L and find his
Thursday October 13
7-01 & 7-07 We continued working on our memoir by examining the Questions for Memoirists activity that we started last Thursday. We then did a workshop that had the students narrow down their topic so that they could begin the first draft of their memoirs. We looked at some terminology and definitions related to the
Wednesday October 12
Parent Night – Wednesday, October 12, 2011, Tonight. The evening will be broken up into two sessions – the first will be from 7:00-7:45 pm with Dr. Sharon Friesen from the University of Calgary sharing her thoughts and ideas regarding formative assessment. The second session will be from 8:00-8:45 pm focussing in on accessing our school’s
Thursday October 6
Please remember that there is no school tomorrow and Monday. Also, Tuesday October 11 is a Day 7. 7-01 & 7-07 Continue working on your Questions for Memoirists as we will be looking at this on Thursday October 13. 8-04 You should have your primary research done and have started to make a list of
Tuesday October 4
7-01 & 7-07 The students finished presenting their projects for Mr. Fodchuk today and reflected on their learning. We also continued watching Freedom Writers and will finish this tomorrow. Remember to bring your novels on Mondays & Wednesdays. 8-04 Today we finished looking at the overarching idea of Worldview. I was pleased to see the