Tuesday, May 31, 2011

May 31

What we did and what we are going to do:

- silent reading
- group work: completing the study sheet for Thursday's CE test
- went over the study sheet
- library work: finishing off our projects on World Religions

Thursday:

- 10 minutes to review your notes
- CE test (8 matching, 12 marks for long-answer, 8 marks for short-answer)
- leftover time: silent reading

Monday:

- open book test on Renaissance
- presentations and notes marking

Wednesday:

- tidying up of any leftover items

Friday, May 27, 2011

May 27

Coming up:

Renaissance test (open book)
CE test-quiz
World Religions presentations June 6 (completed notes due for marking June 2 H block)

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

What's new today?

We finally finished off our presentations!
We went over our new (last) project. It is cross-curricular, which means it encompasses all three of our Humanities subjects: English, SS, and Religion.

Groupings and Religions:

- Hinduism: Jea, Isabella, McKenzie
- Buddhism: Shaun, Luca
- Islam: Xander, Lorenz, Barinder
- Sikhism: Tyson, Justin, Mark
- Daosim/Taoism: Sofia, Sabrina, Ria
- Judaism: Jhoden, Stefano, Julian
- Christianity-Protestant: Analisa, Jessica, Meagan
- Christianity-Eastern Orthodox: Dante, Alex, Dean
- Indigenous Religions of North America-Northwest Coast: Marisol, Alyssa, Chelsea
Alternative Paths-Scientology: Arturo, Daniel, Darian

We also finished off our poetry booklets.

Next day: H block: silent reading and SS, F block: CE, G block: research in library and checking unmarked lyrics assignments

Friday, May 13, 2011

May 13

- presentations
- worked on Exodus project
- poetry (pp/17, 18, 21)
- wrote limericks
- no new hw...just finish Exodus project for May 17 and poetry project for May 25

Ms. F-B wrote a limerick:

There was a young boy named JB
Who made all the girls go crazy.
He started to sing
And made my ears sting
With his constant whining, "Baby."

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Reminders

Group page is due Monday. Email me the link and password.
Exodus project is due May 17.
Poetry project is due May 24.
Presentations will continue Monday last block.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

May 3

- in-class Renaissance essays
- finished Lion King
- poetry: checked lyrics assignment (1/3 of class), went over poetic terms, read/analysed "Casey at the Bat"

Reminders:

Fakebook presentations: May 5
Exodus project: May 17
Poetry project: May 24