Your Opinion Presentations are due to be presented tomorrow. Make sure you have your outline and any other writing you need to be able express your opinion and be ready for questions too. Good luck!
Opinion Outlines due Monday
Make sure you have a look at you self assessment so you know what is important before you complete your outline.
This is your first mark for Term 2 English so make sure you know that mini-list! Come prepared to work on your rough notes for your persuasive argument/presentation.
primary
source
secondary
creationism
evolution
We discussed and made notes from the text on primary and seconday sources as well as the definitions of evolution and creationism.(7-4’s this was yesterday for you)
We did NOT do any spelling words. We will do these tomorrow and they will be mini-lists as we have only two days to look at them.
A new term is a great time to start fresh if you have some goals that you have been forgetting.
7-4s
No homework except to catch up on the notes from a classmate: Origin of Humans. Notes are on board and I will leave them there for tomorrow. Please copy them into your Socials Section as soon as you get to class.
7-3s
If you missed today you missed some discussion and binder organization time and book exchange We did not get to the notes but will be doing them tomorrow.
Your homework tonight is the current events booklet on the Olympic torch. All pages should be completed except the last one. Make sure you choose three separate visual images to write a phrase about and then draw the image you imagined as you read that phrase. You may need to read the article more than once.
The homework due for Thursday is a re-write of the “Really Bad Paragraph.” Please redo it with more powerful descriptive language, a hook, and replacement sentences for the weak writing.
Remember this is a RESPECT assembly so no hats and no need for applause after performances.
Today we looked at a Remembrance Day video and posted messages to the troops. You do not need to use your last name, just your first and you can use my email address at this site. (val.sawyer@sd72.bc.ca)
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=feature/vetweek/postpeace/postsend
and then clicking on “The Canadian Forces Message Board,” just go directly to the Department of National Defence web link at:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Commun/message/index-eng.asp
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