monday, movember 29

a reminder to all students that you can vote by donation for your favourite staff moustache tomorrow at lunch at centre court. tomorrow is the last day of movember!

* 7-09 please complete phase one of the fur trade on your timeline, and also read and respond to chapter 14 of winners for tomorrow.

advance warning: we will be having an "in-class review exercise" on first nations and the fur trade on december 15.

* 8-04 and 8-hec because I haven't yet returned your reading response journals, you will only be required to complete two entries this week - you should have your journals back tomorrow or wednesday.

your "who's who" will be due on wednesday, december 15 - no excuses. we will have class time (for sure 7 periods to work in school), but you will most likely have to work at home as well.

heads up: we will be having an "in-class review exercise" on the renaissance (just major terms and individuals) and one on literary terms and definitions on december 15.

:)

wednesday, movember 24

lucky kids, four day weekend, AGAIN.

next tuesday, november 30, we will be having a november movember moustache fundraiser in centre court at lunch. you will be able to vote for your favourite staff 'stache by donating to fighting men's cancers (prostate in particular).

*7-09 please read and respond to chapters 12 and 13 for monday.

*** please do not work ahead, as we read aloud in class and are working at the same pace as a class. if you want to read at home, take out a book from our learning commons or the public library ;) ***

*8-04 you are encouraged to start thinking about/planning/researching for your "who's who," but aside from that, no homework over the weekend. you get this week off for reading responses because I have your journals... :)

:-D

friday, movember 19

so yesterday we received our first progress reports. although I know we had some issues with uploading marks into D2L and consequently were not able to make progress known as early as we had hoped, your marks have been updated on D2L for quite some time now - there should not have been too many surprises in your term one marks.

reminder: parent-teacher interviews will be held late next week - check your progress reports for dates and times.

* 7-09 please make sure that you have read and responded up to and including chapter 8 of winners for monday.

* grade 8s the rough copies of your stories are due on monday - no exceptions. if you cannot meet up with your group over the weekend to finish the draft (because you did not make wise use of class time), have one group member type it up and email it out for other group members to change/add to/delete from/approve/etc.

* also, grade 8s, I might collect your reading response journals this coming monday... if I were to collect them, how many responses should you have? do you have all of them completed?

have a wonderful weekend, and stay safe on the icy roads and in the snowy coldness...

;-)

tuesday, movember 16

* 7-09 the good copies of your new setting comic are due thursday (no class time to work on it tomorrow).

* 8-04 and 8-hec the good copies of your black plague stories are due on thursday. please make sure to have your interview, questions, and rough copies ready to hand in as well as your typed good copy.

enjoy the snow!

:)

monday, november 15

* 8-04 and 8-hec your human interest stories are due on wednesday, november 17 - you will not have any class time to work on it tomorrow (tuesday).

wednesday, november 10

8-04 these are the questions we generated during life skills today... please respond on your life skills blog through mr. hicks' website.

1. Do extreme actions change people in positive or negative ways?

2. How do I train someone to treat me the way I want to be treated? Can you "train" someone?

3. Are there situations where one person's opinion is more important that another's?

4. Many say that violence is a learned cycle. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer.

5. If you are complicit in an abuse of power, and you responsible for the abuse of power? (look up the word "complicit")

have fun!!

:-)

tuesday, november 9

* 7-09 please read and respond to chapters 3, 4, and 5 of winners for monday, november 15.

* 8-04 and 8-hec please complete the rough copies of your human interest pieces for monday, november 15.

have a great long weekend!

;)

monday, november 8

* 8-04 and 8-hec no specific homework tonight - just make sure to stay on top of your reading responses.

* 7-09 your response for chapter two of winners is due tomorrow - I will be checking for chapters one and two.

:)

7-09 winners responses

hi kids. here is the information you will include for each of your winners responses:

* vocabulary (at least 5 words you do not know or you find interesting - please include your own definition of each word);
* prediction (what do you think will happen? what makes you think that?)
* question (about setting, character, plot, etc.)
* reflection on previous prediction (were you right? what clues made you think what happened would happen?)

you will complete one response for each chapter (please only work on the chapter assigned).

:-)

friday, november 5

happy weekend, everyone!

8-04 and 8-hec this is what we are looking for with our characters:

* where in europe? (rural? urban? village? town? city?)
* who is your character? age, gender, family situation, etc.
* socioeconomic status (class, income)
* personality (what is your character's attitude? expression?)

7-09 no homework!

tuesday, november 2

hi everyone. hopefully, the online marks are now visible to anyone. please see me if there are any inconsistencies or if you have any questions about anything. none of it should be a surprise to anyone.

reminder to all that term one ends on friday, november 5. I will accept assignments up until friday. please check the white board in class to see if your name is among those with missing assignments.

no reading responses this week, 7-09, because I still have your journals.

8-04 and 8-hec please stay on top of your reading response journals.

:)