Youtube clips

Youtube:
Ted Ed DNA Judith Hauck
Ted Ed DNA Joe Hanson

Meiosis The Great Divide by Amoeba Sisters (I can't even make this up :))
Mitosis by Amoeba Sisters
****these are the little critters that look like little cookie monster blobs for lack of a better term****

Station Work

Thank you all for the wonderful birthday wishes...you made my day!!

Here are the station activities:
1.  DNA Ted Ed talks...I will post links
2.  organize your journals...they are coming in tomorrow for interviews
3. p. 52 MathLinks #11-18 a,c, e
4.  ipad addition & subtraction of fractions
5.  equivalent fractions...make up at least 5 examples to show your learning
6.  ordering rational flashcards
7.  p. 60 MathLinks #6,7 abc, 8,9 ab, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17
8. estimation...make up 5 questions like the ones we did in class & solve them
9.  ipad multiplying & dividing fractions
10.  Meiosis video...I will post link
11. Mitosis video...I will post link

You will have a single period to work tomorrow, then journals will come in.  You can keep rolling along on the weekend on separate paper then paste into your journals.

Humanities

Today students finished learning about How a bill becomes law. We also watched a little School House Rock and some segments from the Rick Mercer report on how Parliament works and mock Parliament.

Students also should have their CREATIVE WRITING printed (what has been completed up until this point - a minimum of 3 pages double spaced) and handed in on Thursday.

Journal notes are looking better and I hope students are sharing their Humanities journals with adults!!

                 

VIVO forms

Please, please, please bring these last few forms in!!!  There are a few of you who need to have your last page signed as it was missed.  Thanks.

Math & Science journals

I would like to collect both your Symmetry & Surface Area and your Science journals for parent-student conferences.  Please have these ready to go for Wednesday at the end of class.

Double Science today

Double Science today...

Today we looked at Meiosis (gamete formation) and the steps of the cellular division that lead to 4 daughter cells with 50% of the genetic information.

WE Day is tomorrow & immunizations are Wednesday.

Immunization Forms & VIVO forms

Immunization forms need to be returned tomorrow please.

VIVO forms are due asap.  Thanks.

If you have not brought in the $5 for your new journal, please do so.  Thanks.

Remember any items you were supposed to bring for Door Wars!

Hope you have brought in your new journal for Rational Numbers.

Math/Science

Here is a list of tasks that need to completed by tomorrow:

-finish the adding/subtracting fraction worksheet from yesterday (2 questions per section)

-finish Real Number System handout from yesterday

-Page 51 MathLinks 9, #4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 ***textbook files on D2L under news

-finish pepping up their asexual/sexual reproduction worksheet (they have this from last week)

Plant Reproduction:

A.      Label the diagram of the flower in their journals.  

B.      Describe the function of each part

C.      Imagine that you have been shrunk by Ms. Frizzle and find yourself inside a pollen grain.  Trace the steps of fertilization from pollen to fruit.  Describe the process in a paragraph using vocabulary of the flower.  What is the order of structures that you will encounter?

Math & Science

Rational Numbers textbook files are posted on D2L under news.

We Scare Hunger

We Scare Hunger: is a Halloween food drive to help food banks stock up on everything they need to fight hunger. If students are interested they could Trick-or-Treat for non-perishable goods. To help notify family, friends, and neighbors students can pick up a message from in front of Room 12 to hand out and explain why they are choosing to participate in We Scare Hunger. If not trick or treating, students can bring in food items and drop off in the office.

Ma/Sci

Double Math today...!!

We reviewed fraction operations today & introduced the Real Number System.

Looks like you have no homework tonight again??!!  Finish up the left side of the handout if you did not finish it in class...should be 5 minutes max.

Immunization forms must be in by Friday please.  VIVO forms need to be returned asap.  If you owe $5 for your new journal, please bring that in asap.  Thanks.

CREED

Today we discussed the results of the election and our own HDC student vote.

We also worked on our personal creed projects (visuals and written). See below for work that needs to be in journals and other things we have done that you can use to help create your own creed.

Tasks to be in your journals

Things we have listened to, read, viewed and discussed…

-          Questions about CREED -          What is HAPPY? -          Response to Stuart McLean’s article about John Goddard -          Bucket list (at least 20 items) -          Chosen song or text or poem that reflects your creed with explanation -          “If” Poem analysis -          Thumbprint MCs -          Invictus response -          My Guilt response -          Desiderata response -          ARTWARS for My Creed poem or Success poem -          Other??? :-)

Songs: Fast Car – Tracy Chapman Don’t Stop believing – Journey We are the Champions – Queen You Gotta Be – Des’ree Wear Sunscreen – Baz Luhrmann Happy - Pharrell Williams Youtube: Shane Koyczan – To this day, Dear Me Kid President – Pep Talk Soul Pancake channel Poetry: If by Rudyard Kipling Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Invictus by Henley Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Do Not Go Gentle by Dylan Thomas My Guilt by Agnes Copithorne Thumbprint by Eve Merriam My Creed by Edgar Albert Guest Desiderata by Max Ehrmann Success by Bessie Stanley

Ma/Sci

Wow...what an amazing day!!  That lab was awesome!!

Please remember to bring a new journal for Rational Numbers...thank you!!

No homework tonight...woo hoo!

Humanities

On Friday, the grade 9s voted! Results will be revealed tomorrow.

Today we worked on our personal CREED task...some have completed a visual but will need to finish a written competent in their journals.

Answer the following questions in relation to Desiderata:
1. How does the poem make you feel?
2. What lessons can be found within this poem?
3. Which lessons connect to you and why? Are there specific lessons that you need to learn more about or practice or accept? Explain your answer.

Read the following 2 poems, MY CREED by Edgar Albert Guest and SUCCESS by Bessie Stanley. Choose 1 and complete an ARTWARS poetry anaylsis.

A - ABOUT - what is the poem about?
R - REPETITION - repeated words or sounds? Why?
T - TONE - feeling of the poem, emotions conveyed, mood
W - WORDS - the purpose; the effect of the words on the reader
A - Alliteration and FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: what is used, why and what do they mean?
R - RHYME and RHYTHM - how is it used in the poem?
S - STRUCTURE - how is the poem designed? (stanzas, line structure)

AND answer the following question...how does this poem connect to your creed?









And, continuing on from last week, we discussed political spectrum, the political horseshoe, ridings from 2011 and the electoral process, as well as a brief look at the role of Media in government. Check D2L for PPTs with all the information we've covered in the last couple of weeks and beef up your journal notes.

 

New Math journal please

Please remember to bring in a new Hilroy notebook for our Rational Number unit.  Please bring this new journal in for Monday!!

PE trip forms

Please get your VIVO forms in asap.  We need this paperwork to organize activities.  Thank you.

Please bring the $5 you owe for your new Science visual journal.  I need to reimburse the Science budget.  Thanks for taking care of this asap.

Enjoy your weekend.

Math & Science

Wow...very impressive today!!  I thought you were fantastic the way you embraced pushing beyond grade 9 into how mitosis really works.  I am very proud of you for being open-minded and rolling with this challenge.  Please do not do any Science this weekend.  I want to guide us through this next bit of curriculum if you don't mind.  Hoping to do a lab on Monday if all goes to plan.

For Math, hope you were able to work through the Frayer Models for the Fraction vocabulary.

-improper fraction
-denominator
-numerator
-proper fraction
-equivalent
-lowest terms
-reciprocal
-common denominator
-common multiples

Please ensure that the ones that you are responsible for are complete & well done so you can share them in your groups.

Hum

1. D.I.R.T response - was to be completed today in journals, or in google docs and printed off and glued into journals. If not completed today, please make sure I have it for tomorrow
- Novel Title:
- Author name:
- How long have you been reading this novel?
- How far along in the book are you? (chapter 12 out of 28 / page 112 out of 198)
- THEME: What is the underlying message of the book you are reading? AND What evidence from the novel gives you clues to its theme/message?

2. Creed - you are to complete your own personal Creed (ideally everyone will have something to put up in and around our classroom, however creating a digital representation is fine too)
- this will need to be completed for next Thursday (minimal class time will be given for this)

3. Chapter 1 overview - please make sure you have completed the treasure hunt for Monday as next week we will review government structures, how a bill becomes law and the role of media and lobby groups.

4. Political spectrum: students recieved 2 handouts today (1 with 2 quizzes and 1 with spectrum visuals). These need to be in journals for tomorrow by the end of period 1. We will revisit spectrum tomorrow, complete some notes on the board and into journals, and do a quick review of the electoral system in Canada.

5. Tomorrow we VOTE in period 7!!!!! Are you ready for this????
- please finish your spectrum quizzes and see how they compare to your Vote Compass results and your own personal views AND review the following candidates for our riding, Calgary Confederation:
Conservative: Len Webber
Green: Natalie Odd
Liberal: Matt Grant
Marxist-Leninist: Kevan Hunter
NDP: Kirk Heuser

Read here for information about Our riding in the news and from today

PE trip forms

Please get these forms in asap.  They are due Friday.  Thank you.

The vast majority of you have not reimbursed the school for the $5 you owe for your visual Science journal.  Thanks for taking care of this matter asap.

Watson & Crick Activity

Please have this completed for tomorrow so it is not the first time that you are hearing about DNA.  Thanks.  I have posted it as an attachment in D2L under news if you need a copy.

Remember...tomorrow (Oct 15th) is picture day!

Ma/Sci

Try to have an important conversation with your adults around the PARTY program experience.

Math exam tomorrow.  You need a calculator...no phones will be allowed.

See previous blog entries for the format.  

Review materials & textbook answer key posted on D2L under news.

Math & Science

Happy Thanksgiving!!  Please take this long weekend to enjoy some much needed family & friend time.

I heard that Mrs. Wensley was sick yesterday...thanks for being flexible & rolling with the day.

Math exam is on Wednesday:  multiple choice for symmetry & transformations; written/performance based for composite SA questions.

Science:  please don't do anything this weekend...I know you're very sad about that.

Gobble, gobble!!

HUM

Thursday, October 8

We've started discussions around political parties, ideologies and platforms. As a result, students have been looking at the parties in Canada and their beliefs on the various portfolios...

Homework - complete the chart....choose 4 issues and the how the parties view those issues (or what they plan to do about the issues)

https://pollenize.org/canada

This website gives you a more in-depth look at the party platforms:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-parties-platforms


Also, once your chart is completed, make a decision of which party you would vote for on October 19.

Then, check out the following quizzes to see where you fit on the spectrum... Share with your adults too and compare notes :-)

https://canada.isidewith.com/political-quiz

https://votecompass.cbc.ca/

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/this-or-that-figure-out-your-vote-with-macleans-policy-face-off-machine/

Math & Science check up

Hi Everybody,

Great work on the gizmo today...nice to check in with most of you around your math.

Math exam is next Wednesday after the long weekend & PARTY.  Multiple choice for symmetry & translations and written format for composite surface area.

You absolutely need a calculator for Math class...fancy that ;)  Phones will not be allowed for any unit exams.

Our new journals have arrived!!  Please bring your $5 if you received a new journal from the school.  Thanks for your prompt attention to this detail.

Let's leave the gizmo for now as Learn Alberta is password protected at home.  We can pick it back up as a review when we get to topic 6 near the end of Biodiversity.

Best choice tonight is to work on Math review.  I have just posted the chapter review & practice test on D2L under news as jpeg files.

Humanities

sorry for the late post... I'm at gymnastics with my girls and the wifi is spotty!!

So, today you were introduced to the amazing poem INVICTUS by William Henley.

Read it again, listen to recordings, think about what it means... Unconquerable...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=__XawMZcSLU (Nelson Mandela reciting the poem)

And from the movie INVICTUS with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FozhZHuAcCs

And how could not hear this poem read by Tom O'Bedlam
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vUV2xyA339c

Ma/Sci

Please no Science...there is method to my madness with this fantastic curriculum we are working towards.

Please solve the house with windows & a door question for tomorrow.  Unit exam is next Tuesday.

Hum - Monday, October 5

Today we read "My Guilt" by Agnes Copithorne and students have a handout they are to complete for tomorrow (After Reading....).

• Also, in journals students were to write about the following: What is guilt? What makes people feel guilt? and Why do some people say that guild is the worst feeling in the world?
• students may also SKETCH images connected to the 6 stanzas to better show their understanding of the poem

Tomorrow:
Period 1 - creative writing = SHORT STORY
- this is anything you want it to be about, as long as it is a short story and properly incorporate the elements of stories
- some story starters for you if you are stuck for ideas.. check here, and here, and here too :-)

Humanities

Today - groups were to complete their YOUth Vote Advertisement and have it handed in by the end of period 3 (some asked for an extension until Monday but tasks will not be accepted after this)

- check D2L in the content section for all the Social Studies pieces we have covered thus far

Homework:

Students have to choose 1 of 4 D.I.R.T responses for their independent reading novel...

A. General reading Log Prompts
B. Personal Connections
C. Picturing Textual Details
D. Alternate Book Cover

expectations: one page worth of work that can go into your journals, must include the name of the novel along with author, pictures must have descriptions with them, do your best work, read the attached rubric to make sure you are meeting the FULL expectations of the task you chose.

** students have copies of each task and need to aim for the "I'm there now" section which represents excellent work (4) for this task **

Ma/Sci

Science quizzes look pretty good at first glance!

Please prep for your Math check in tomorrow.  Remember it is only on rectangular prisms & cylinders.  I hope you worked hard during class today with the hands-on examples.

Ensure that you are practicing cylinders with cylinders drilled out, rectangular prisms attached to other rectangular prisms...

HUM

Today we had a check-in quiz about Government and Democracy & Rights and Responsibilities.

Students continued work on their Youth Vote advertisement (one more class tomorrow to complete finishing touches and then it should be done and handed in tomorrow).

Bucket Lists should be completed in journals for tomorrow.

ALL JOURNALS will be handed in on FRIDAY. :-)