Sept. 29

CE

• worked in groups on test questions for Scripture: how the Bible is divided, how it developed, why we study it, The Great Story, etc.
• we will test each other next day

SS

• turned in maps
• worked on reading different types of maps and graphs

EN

• AR
• Fun with Verbs (Tom and Jerry)
• verb tenses

Homework:

• If you didn't finish the Equator handout, finish that off.
• If you didn't finish your sentences/paragraph for Tom and Jerry, finish that.
• Read every day - 20 minutes (not including AR time in class).

Sept. 25

CE

• notes on why we study the Bible
• visit from Father Santa Maria
• Be sure all notes are finished and that you can answer these questions from looking at your notes:
• Is all the material in the Bible obviously consistent? (Can it be confusing?)
• What kind of figurative translation of the “love letter” do we need?
• How do scholars help us understand the Bible?
• How does the Catholic Church help us understand the Bible?
• Explain Tradition.
• Explain the magisterium.
• What is the purpose of studying the Scriptures?
• Why do we bother studying the Old Testament?

     EN

• AR
• Verbs - went over answers using miming of verbs
• went over tenses: simple and perfect present, past, and future
• completed exercise 15 on page 32

     SS

• worked on maps

Homework:

Finish maps for Monday.

Sept. 23, 2014

CE

• more peer mentor activities
• questions for the priest
• continuing with the Bible introduction, focus on covenant/promise
• reflection: What is the most difficult promise I have ever made?

SS

• returned coordinates quizzes
• worked on World Maps

EN

• forewent English work to continue map work

World Maps are now due Monday.

Sept. 19, 2014

CE

• community building with peer mentors (names)
• CE textbook - intro to textbook, study of Bible
• notes - The Great Story: The Great Story

SS

• quiz - mapping coordinates
• Australian time zones
• answers to Latitude/Longitude and Australian time zones
• world map assignment (/45)

World Map is due on Thursday, September 25. Tuesday's SS class will be spent working on the map.

EN

• verbs: went over Ex. 12 answers
• Simon Says (verbs)
• pp. 26 and 27 (ex. 13 and 14)
• Ms. Marghetti came in to give information about the Grade 8/12 dance

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes each day.
• Finish ex. 13 and 14 if not done (verbs).
• Finish notes for CE if not done.
• The map is not for homework. If you want to get a head start, go ahead, but you do not have to work on it for homework.

Sept. 17, 2014

CE

• We tabled CE for today's shortened classes.

SS

• We spent a good deal of time working on locating coordinates (007) then worked on a handout (practising latitude and longitude).
• If you didn't finish the latitude/longitude handout, finish that for homework.

EN

• silent reading
• demo of AR (User name is generally first initial and first four letters of last name. First password is abc.)
• went over pronouns and finished the exercises
• started verbs (exercise 12 on page 25)

Homework:

• finish latitude/longitude exercise if it is incomplete
• finish verb ex 12 if incomplete
• READ for twenty minutes each day

Sept. 15, 2014

CE

• housekeeping (textbooks, Mass expectations)
• finishing Scriptural references handout

SS

• more latitude and longitude
• importance of latitude
• Earth's tilt
• how to use latitude/longitude
• locating coordinates (James Bond)

EN

• AR
• finishing nouns
• pronouns

Homework:

• Read for 20 minutes each day.
• Finish the scriptural references exercise if you didn't finish it in class.

Sept. 11, 2014

CE

• review of timeline answers
• how to find a scriptural reference

SS

• review of lines of latitude and longitude
• notes
• special lines

EN

• AR
• review of nouns, common/proper nouns
• plurals
• apostrophe

NEVER use an apostrophe in the verb "sees."

Be sure to use the correct form of it's/its:

• The dog at its dinner. ("Its" is  possessive.)
• It's a small world after all. ("It's" means "it is.")

*Remember the plural form of "woman" is "women." Don't write "a women."

Homework:

• Read for twenty minutes every day.
• If you did not finish pages 9 and 12 in the nouns booklet, finish that off for Monday.
• Start studying the special lines we've been learning: Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, Prime Meridian, International Date Line, North and South Poles

Sept. 9, 2014

CE

• history of the Bible: oral, written, edited stages (notes)
• Old / New Testament
• Timeline worksheet

SS

• video/guided notes on globes vs maps, special lines
• continents/oceans

EN

• AR
• parts of speech: nouns - identifying nouns, common/proper nouns

Homework:

• Read 20 minutes each day.
• Finish the proper noun exercise.