November 25 - 29

POWER-UP:
Students need to complete Language Power 15 & 16 for Friday 29th
LP 15
LP 16
The resumes & cover letters we were working on in Health this week, are due Monday 25th via email: hmfeke@cbe.ab.ca

ELA: students are to finish reading to the end of chapter 6 by Monday because we will be having a quiz for chapters 1-6. Please ensure your Personal Mandala, Character Map and Chapter Questions are finished for Monday.

Social: We will write our Unit Final on Thursday, Nov 28th Morning. Please review Chapter 2 notes from today and textbook. We will be starting our Charter of Rights and Freedoms Unit next week.

Science:

Reminder: student marks for the major space research project are available online. In many cases the student feedback comments are also available. This week students have worked on an explanation of how new species come about. The focus is on using scientific terms such as natural selection, mutation, inheritance, adaptation and so on. Students will also be reading an assortment of science news articles and improving their scientific literary by creating a 60 word summary of the key points of these articles.

Videos on how evolution works – helpful for the writing assignment

:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyiZaHIRM6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOfRN0KihOU

History of Planet Earth – Full Documentary HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN7VQas4OgQ

9 Math

Students had a math quiz Tuesday on polynomials. They had to add, subtract, group like terms and simplify polynomials. They should be well into the polynomials unit in their math workbooks and are encouraged to make sure they are regularly checking their answers in the answer workbooks.

November 18 - 22

Reminder that there is no school on Thursday or Friday of this week due to Parent Teacher Conferences. Hope to see everyone there.

ELA: 
We have now begun our Novel Study and for this week students are to read to the end of Chapter # 4. Please see the link below for the online novel.
Touching Spirit Bear Novel

SOCIAL:
YCJA Unit Final will be on Thursday, Nov 28th. Please use the online textbook to assist with studying as well as,  www.ycja.ca website.

YCJA Assignment: You were given a topic to research about the YCJA and put it into your own words. Please add your slides to the following presentation or begin here:
YCJA CLASS PRESENTATION

November 12 - 15

ELA:
Students should now have their first draft of their Gothic stories handed in. I will be working with the students one-on-one for the next couple of weeks. We will be now starting a class novel called Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson, This novel is based around the premise of the YCJA objectives, and is great for reinforcing those concepts already learned.

SOCIAL:
We are now moving to Jury and Jury Duty in Social, We will complete a mock trial to reinforce the concepts learned this week. Our 'Jury' will have to determine if the defendant would be found guilty.  Please use the following link to better understand the trial process. Trial PPT

MATH:

Started learning about polynomials this week and the lessons included grouping like terms, simplifying as well as adding and subtracting polynomials. Workbook assignments so far include pp,180-182, 189-191, 194-198, 201  #1a,b (note: sometimes pages in the workbook have very easy and a limited number of questions. The workbook also has only easier level 1 and 2 questions whereas the textbook and in-class questions often include harder questions.)

SCIENCE:

All students should have completed and handed in their space project last week (November 7^th was the due date. (To check if your child has handed in the assignment see Power School Marks under space major research project. If it says missing then they have not handed it in. If it’s simply blank then the student handed it in but the mark for this particular assignment is not yet recorded.) The project should have included rough notes, bibliography/references and their final product. Please ask your child if they’ve handed in their project, what they learned and how they feel they did on their overall product that demonstrates their learning.

This week, students have started learning about biological diversity, how it developed and continues to develop.

Human Evolution video students started to watch Friday, November 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJybfmbrOCE

November 4 - 8

MATH:

Student have a unit final in Powers on Friday, November 8^th. (delayed a day due to other conflicts and assignments) This week we are doing review. Students got back their math quizzes on Tuesday, November 5th so they have a better sense of what to focus on for their unit final. Students should have completed (and marked) all the questions in the powers unit in their math workbooks.

SCIENCE:
Tuesday, November 5^th will be the 10^th and final day of in class time to work on their space research projects. At this time, students should have at least 4 pages of rough notes they created something from as well as 8 good resources properly recorded. Rough notes are to be handed in with the completed assignments. Wednesday and Thursday (if students were at school) were bonus time to work on student projects or catch up on any unfinished assignments.

SOCIAL:
Students have been analyzing Political Cartoons and their assignment is to have 2 Canadian Political cartoon printed off and complete the worksheet that was handed out in class.  This is now for homework. Please check Power School for any missing assignments and hand them into the basket  for marking.