What We Learned Today...January 8th

We started out our morning today with our usual AR period from 9:00 - 9:30 before moving on to ELA.  In ELA we spent the first half hour looking at how using supporting details in our answers really helps to enhance our writing and how it helps the reader to see our point of view.  In the second half of ELA we continued to look at the characteristics of rants and viewed some great rants by Canadian Comedian Rick Mercer as part of his show, "The Rick Mercer Report".  Tomorrow we will continue working on rants and the students will get the opportunity to write and eventually perform their own rants.
*Check out one of the humorous rants we viewed today below:

For Grade 8 Math the students finished up their textbook assignment from yesterday and began to work on handout 5.1.

After lunch we had French and the students spent the class working on their Album Cover assignments.  These assignments are turning out quite nicely and most students are on the last stages of the assignment.  *Remember, this assignment is due on Thursday, January 17th.  At 1:15 Mr. McCulloch came in for Health and the students continued to work on their Diet Power Point assignment.
Instead of Social Studies, we finished up our Digital Citizenship lesson from Friday.  Students learned lot of digital vocabulary today and the Grade 7's competed head to head against the Grade 8's in a digital knowledge quiz.  Unfortunately for the Grade 8's the Grade 7's came back and tied the game on the very last question of the quiz, so the game remained a tie!


Due Dates & Homework:

French - Album Cover assignment is due Thursday, January 17th

Math:
Grade 8 -  Pg. 168 (Due Thursday)
a) 1, 2, 3 (a,b), 4 ,5 , 7a , 8
b) 1, 2, 3 (a,c), 4, 6, 7b, 8, 9a
c) 1, 2, 3 (a,b,c), 8-11

Overdue Assignments:

1) Killers Tall Tale Reading Response (Handout)

2) The Hermits Secret Reading Response (Handout)

3) ELA Ghost Story Good Copy

4) Any of the 3 Advent Blog Posts

5) Social Trade Questions
If you are also missing the handout to help answer #5, here is a link to the document online: http://docs.plea.org/pdf/TRADE.pdf
(Please skip to page 16 for the Opportunity Cost Handout)

Reminders:

- Grade 7's will be going Cross Country Skiing on January 29th.