Firing catapults!

catapults 2012

Humanities 8 Museum Projects are due tomorrow! Wednesday, May 16. Amazing research has been happening, I can't wait to see the finished projects! Friday is Feast Day. I'm asking the students to research food from the Middle Ages that they could bring in to share. Costumes are welcome! Humanities 9 We are loving A Midsummer Night's Dream! We are taking turns reading, the kids are great. We are still having sales and fundraising for our service projects. An incredible amount of effort is happening with these projects!

May 2 Update!

Greetings. Wow, what a busy time! Report cards, marking, moving and a pet chicken with bad habits...that's my life these days! Here's what's been going on in the Kingdom of Fun! Hum 8 -Middle Ages notes are due Tuesday, May 8 -Museum model and display are going to be due after that (no date is set yet) -bring a hammer to school tomorrow, (Thursday, May 3) to build catapults. Yes, I am asking grade 8s to bring hammers to school... -Friday we will fire the catapults...marshmellows will be the ammunition -5 service hours are due JUNE 1st. Hum 9 -service projects are in full swing! Lots of great ideas for awareness, fundraising, and helping. I am so proud of these kids. -we have just begun Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, stay tuned for stories about magical forests, faeries and tricksters.

Zac Whyte's Presentation To Hum 9

You'll have to cut and paste...I can't figure out how to insert links here! Gah!

Link to Natalie's Ted Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FszSc7Fb8ss

Link to Kony 2012: http://kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Criticism of Kony 2012 campaign: http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/world/kony-2012.html

The Heal (Health,Education and Love) Project: http://www.thehealproject.com/

Child Soldier Initiative: http://www.romeodallaire.com/child-soldiers.html

War Child: http://www.warchild.ca/

Free The Children: http://www.freethechildren.com/

Overdue assignments in Humanities 8

Here's some assignments that are still missing from some students, please check your binders for them!
-manor map
-Cheerless Children cartoon
-Wanted poster/Medieval women chart

While the teacher's job action is occurring, students can continue to read and research about our topics we are studying.

Humanities 8
Do some research about something that interests you in the Middle Ages. We'll be doing an independent study project at the end of the unit, so you can get going on your topic now. You can also research catapult and trebuchet designs for our future construction plans.

Humanities 9
Keep going on your novels. Go to the public lirary to get another one if you finish yours. Look up the issues that are mentioned in your book: AIDS, child labour, slavery, child soldiers, etc. There's a lot to be learned about all of these issues. Start thinking about a project you might want to take on after this novel study, Ryan's Well, Free the Children, A Day for Africa, etc. So many great things we can do to help!