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. :-)