Northern Disaster

Projects due on Monday November 19th

For the last week and a half, students have been working on a project entitled "Northern Disaster." As an extension of their learning for our study of the Renaissance, students are exploring a possible change in worldview if 50% of the population in Canada died. Further information can be found in the "docs" section of our website.

Students are also starting on the term 2 free-reading challenge. Again, further information can be found in the "docs" section, in the 'Litspiration Blogs - Free Reading Challenge' section.

Thursday, November 1 - Free-reading Challenge Information

Tomorrow (November 2) is the deadline for the term 1 Litspiration Challenge. It should be submitted as follows:

1. At the minimum, you must have three book reviews and one litspiration challenge on your blog. These should be easy to find, not buried under a lot of other stuff. You can make them easy to find by creating separate pages for reviews and challenges. You can also use the "tags" feature to tag reviews and challenges so we can easily search them up.

2. After you have gone through the peer editing process on Friday and made any changes suggested by your peers (if necessary), you must post the BEST of your two new book reviews as journal entry 15 for detailed assessment and feedback.

**Proposals for the Northern Disaster project are due TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6. You will have two periods on Monday to work on them. The timeline has been posted, check it out!

Happy Halloween! Wednesday October 31st

Today we wrote the quiz on the plague and society reading from last week. We will be taking it up in class tomorrow!

We also began a new and exciting project: Disaster in the North. Project details are available in the usual place.

8.2 and 8.4 partners have been chosen and approved - most groups have also decided on the cause of the disaster and should be moving onto formulating the questions that will help them answer our essential question:

Half of the Canadian population has suddenly died… 

How is this going to affect the worldview of the survivors?

8.1 and 8.3 partners will be confirmed tomorrow in class so you can get moving!

Remember that your Litspiration projects need to be completed by this Friday, November 2nd.

Have fun tonight and don't eat too much candy.

Feudalism and Worldviews Mini Presentations

Quiz on "Plague_Society_Reading" that you just finished Talking to the Text on will be Wednesday!

Today in class, students formed groups and began working on the mini-presentation project investigating how the plague may have affected the worldviews of feudal Europeans. Check out the "docs" section for further information, and below for more information on this.

8.1/8.3

**NON-BAND PRESENTATIONS DUE TUESDAY PERIOD 2 (YOU WILL HAVE 3 FULL CLASSES OF PREP.)

**BAND PRESENTATIONS DUE FRIDAY PERIOD 7 (YOU WILL HAVE 2 FULL CLASSES OF PREP.)

Katie, Megan, Grace, EJ,  - CROWN

Curtis, Mac Justin, Daniel, Omar , SEAN- CLERGY

Aidan, Matt F., Phil, Darren - Knights

Jen, Alyssa, Ali, Dorothy- Commoners

Michael, Sanchit, Aman, Amanda, Jada, Jacqueline- Nobles

Evan, Steven, Drew, Isaac, Adrian, TONG- Crown

Jack, Anthony, Sam, Cody, Rylan - Commoners

Jared, Yashvin, Will, Richard, Kelsey - Knights

Paige, Danika, Ivanna, Brianna, Alyssa - Clergy

Haniya, Lauren, Osereme, Inaara, Alex - Nobles

8.2/8.4

-NON-BAND PRESENTATIONS DUE TUESDAY PERIOD 4 (YOU WILL HAVE 3 FULL CLASSES OF PREP.)

-BAND PRESENTATIONS DUE FRIDAY PERIOD 5 (YOU WILL HAVE 2 FULL CLASSES OF PREP.)

Crown - Aidan M., Leandro, Arth, Aaron, Logan J.

Clergy - Makenna, Lauren L., Ally, Quinn, Matt D.

Nobles - Nick, Reuben, Azhar, Garret, Logan K.

Knights - Sean, Arya, Alex, Vlad, Ivan

Commoners - Julia, Kristin, Jessica, Jami, Heather

Crown - Liam, Joel, Luke, Noah, Jonathan

Clergy -Maanasa, Maggie, Daniel, Kellan

Nobles - Kirsten, Kalindee, Maitri, Dannika

Knights - Peter, Maxwell, Jack, Cole, Brendon

Commoners - Emma, Leah, Juliana, Angel

Crown - Maren, Paul, Lauren M.

Quiz on Monday, October 22

The quiz on Monday will be on the following:

• Worldview
• review the icon (below)
• review the Talking to the Text reading from the beginning of the year
• Silk Road
• review your Talking to the Text notes in the reading from this week
• review the discussion notes and your inquiry notes on the silk road website

Keep in mind that this is a QUIZ, so it will be quite short!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a great fall break!

Upcoming due dates:

Thursday, October 18 - Journal entry 11
Friday, November 2 - Litspriration blogs completed for term 1

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Today in Humanities...

We studied characterization by participating in a mini-lecutre, students taking notes and participating in discussions. Then, we read a short story aloud and started working on journal entry 11. Once you have all worked through journal entry 11 we will discuss the story in the large group.

The story was emailed to you in .pdf form. It was also posted on the evernote ("docs" on the Humanities page). Check out the talking to the text pamphlet for information on how to do talking to the text digitally using Adobe.

The Quebec current events study is due tomorrow (Thursday) first thing.