Oct. 28

We are currently working on a few things.

English: We're starting short stories. We will continue to review parts of speech and have a parts of speech test on Nov. 10. The short story we read today was "A Secret for Two." We focused on foreshadowing and how we would cope if we were to lose an important sense.

CE: Comic strip is due Nov. 4. You will have class time to work on it on Monday in B block. We have Show and Share (Paolo and April John) on Monday in B block. We're going to finish up this section of CE with the Tower of Babel then have a test.

SS: We're working on a World Religions research/presentation project. Notes will be due Nov. 7. Presentations will take place Nov. 9 and 10.

Oct. 27

To see a sample prezi, go here:
http://prezi.com/s9gbzhpk3uwk/short-story-notes-grade-10/

Oct. 26

World Religions Groups

Group A – Danielle, Renee, April John: Sikhism

Group B – Justin, Austin, Miguel: Islam

Group C – Isabella, Stephanie de A., Christina: First Nations

Group D – David, Kailin, Brittney: Baha’i (descended from Islam)

Group E – Mackenzie, Caitlin, Cassandra: First Nations

Group F – Jeffrey, Marcus, Eduardo: Judaism

Group G – Nella, Paolo, Alex: Hinduism

Group H – Stephanie de J., Jessica, Marra, Jade : Buddhism

Oct. 25

We did a formative quiz on prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. We also looked at short story elements.

We did a reflection on the Sunday readings. If you didn't finish, it's homework. We also worked on our Noah comics.

Tomorrow: Geography Test (Summative=for marks)

Thursday: English test (conjunctions, prepositions, interjections), Comic strip work, research project (TBA)

Oct. 24

I returned your formative quizzes (geography), and we went over them. We worked some more on coordinates then played Battleship.

Geography Unit Test on Wednesday

Tomorrow:
English - formative quiz, review, short stories
CE - Show and Share, reflection, project work

Oct. 20

English: had adj/adv test, no homework due; just review for conj/prep/inter formative quiz and all parts of speech for test

CE: worked on rubrics and assigning tasks, project due Nov. 4
*Email me the rubrics your group created.
Show and Share next day: Kailin & Mackenzie, Austin (didn't have his)

SS: next class you'll get your formative quizzes back to prepare for the test

Important dates next week:

Tuesday, Oct. 25: formative quiz (prep/conj/inter)
Wednesday, Oct. 26: summative Geography test
Thursday, Oct. 27: summative prep/conj/inter test

Oct. 19

We had our SS quiz today. Fun! We will go over them next Socials class (Monday, Oct. 24). The test will be the Socials class after that (Wednesday, Oct. 26).

Tomorrow:

ADJ/ADV test
HW check - prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
Noah 6-9 main events
Show and Share: Justin, Austin, and Cassandra

Oct. 18

English homework for Oct. 20:
- ex. 31, "Review Test", ex. 33, ex. 34-35
- test (summative) adjectives and adverbs

CE homework for Oct. 20
- List 6-9 main events in the Noah and the Flood story
- Show and Share: Austin and Cassandra

Tomorrow - Oct. 21
Social Studies - have your geography assignments done (007, seasons)
Formative Quiz for review
Justin will bring his Show and Share

Oct. 17

Homework:

Find out what a chinook is.
Finish the notes in the handout.
Finish the 007 James Bond handout.

For Tuesday:

English: Write that small paragraph using 10 adverbs.

Show and Share: Stephanie de J, Jessica, Justin

Oct. 14

EN: We went over adverb homework, listened to "The Logical Song" and filled in the blanks with adjectives and adverbs, identified adjectives and adverbs in sentences, and got homework for Tuesday, Oct. 18: Write a short paragraph using 10 adverbs from the adverbs handout.

CE: We shared our summaries in groups. We must have those summaries done for next CE class (Oct. 18).

Due Monday, Oct. 17: News summary (paragraph)

Oct. 13

We went over the lat/long worksheets and got to work on the paragraph summaries of our news articles. The paragraphs are due on Monday.

Tomorrow: Adverb exercises are due for English. Noah summaries or notes are due for CE.

Jeopardy

My Jeopardy Template

Oct. 12

Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYmEICNgOQ

Homework for English (due Oct. 14): Adverb exercises 27-30

CE:

Homework: summary/notes of your section of Noah (due Oct. 14)

Show and Share: Caitlin and Stephanie de J.

Homework due tomorrow:

SS - lat/long sheets, current events parts 1-5

Noah Responsibilities

A - Warning of the Flood (Gen. 6:5-13) Austin, Nella, Cassandra, Alex, Eduardo, Danielle, April John

B - Preparation for the Flood (Gen. 6:14-22; 7:1-5) Miguel, Stephanie de A, Jessica, Marchello, David, Brittney, Justin

C - The Great Flood (Gen. 7:6-23; 8:1-22) Marcus, Renee, Caitlin, Mackenzie, Christina, Kailin

D - Covenant with Noah and conclusion (Gen. 9:1-17; 28-29) Jeffrey, Isabella, Marra, Jade, Paolo, Stephanie de J

Oct. 11

Homework for Oct. 12:

Favourite Food descriptive paragraph

Homework for Oct. 13:

Latitude/longitude worksheets
Current events assignment numbers 1-5 (not paragraph)

Tomorrow's Show and Share: Eduardo and Marchello.

Oct. 7

Homework for Tuesday:

Bring your 6-7 news articles.
Finish the 2 latitude/longitude worksheets.

For Wednesday:

English - Write a descriptive paragraph about your favourite food.

CE - Finish your reflection on the Sunday readings.

Oct. 6

World Maps were handed in.

We worked on Latitude and Longitude.

Homework for Tuesday: the two worksheets (labelling the lines on the world map, the latitude/longitude Mexico/South America sheet) but not the big package of worksheets

Due Tomorrow (Friday):

English - study for the test (nouns, pronouns, verbs), adjective hw review (ex. 23-26, food adjectives)

CE - Cornell Notes on Creation 2, Fall of Man, Cain and Abel

Oct. 5

English homework for Friday:

adjective exercise 23-26
Favourite Food adjectives (not the paragraph)
Test-verbs, nouns, pronouns (for marks)

CE homework for Friday:

Take Cornell notes on:
- 2nd story of Creation (Gen. 2:4-25)
- Fall of Man (Gen. 3:1-24)
- Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1-16)

Show and Share: Miguel and Christina

Due tomorrow:

- World Map

Oct. 4

Corrected SOMEBODY's mispronunciation of mischievous:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mischievous

World Map is due Thursday.

Oct. 3

English:

Adjective exercises 21 and 22
Good copy of poem for display

SS:

Work on map (due Thursday)

CE:

No HW
Next Show and Share on Wednesday: Nella and Jeffrey