For Socials 11 and anyone else who is interested...

The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On

Humanities 9

We are in the middle of our Back to the Future project on Aboriginal people in Canada.  Students should be done task 1 and 2 by now.  We have an awesome guest speaker coming tomorrow to talk about clothing and baskets and another person booked for next week to talk about dog sledding and survival!  It's awesome what we are up to!  I will conference with students this week one-on-one to see how the project is going.

Socials 11
We are done the 1930s now, the test will be on Thursday, Nov 1.  In the meantime we will be looking at study methods and a movie about pre-WWII Germany, Swing Kids...if I can get it from the video store!

Humanities 9
We are embracing our research about Aboriginal People of Canada, pre-contact.  I have sent the class back in time to 100 years before contact through my classroom cupboard time machine, they should be home in time for dinner.  We will be having lots of guest speakers coming, so stay tuned.

SS11
We finished the Roaring 20s yesterday, all the chapter 3 assignments were due today.  We are now examining the Dirty Thirties.  The Chapter 3 + 4 test will be coming up soon.

Update

Humanities 9
We finished the Canadian Geography unit yesterday, although we will still be using the information we learned in the next few units we are stydying.  We had our unit test yesterday as well, some great results!

We are now studying Aboriginal people in Canada BEFORE contact.  In the next week or so, students will be working on a vocabulary list and notes on the Aboriginal people in Canada pre-contact.  I have arranged for a number of guest speakers to come in and talk about Aboriginal food, shelter, clothing, cooking, dog sledding (hopefully), medicine.  We are working towards a very cool project where I send my students back in time to study an Aboriginal group before contact.  It's going to be great!

Socials 11
The Great War is now over and we are now experiencing the crazy fun times of the Roaring 20s.  Overdue homework to look for includes:
-chapter 2 review package (vocab and questions)
-chapter 2 timeline notes
-WWI mini-research project
-Postcards from the Trenches

Interim reports!

My grade 9s and I are working on Interim reports this week.  They will be sent home October 9th.  Please watch for them!

Happy Fall!

I am loving these gorgeous, crisp mornings!  Fall is a lovely time of year.

Humanities 9 update:
The 5 themes of geography assignment was due today.  We looked at some Canadian Geography today by making a 3-D map and making notes on the geographic regions of Canada.  No homework tonight.

SS11 update:
We are looking at the ugly truth of trench warfare in The Great War.  Today we will learn about the Christmas Truce and create a postcard from the trenches.  Homework will be the postcards if they aren't completed in class.

Corn Roast Success!

What a great morning! We had a celebration of the 9s this morning in A block, playing in the field and eating roasted corn. Good fun! All of us teachers wanted to celebrate the 9s, what a great bunch they are this year.

Humanities 9 update:
Family dinner stories are overdue now...still a few haven't been handed in. "Who do you think you are" mind maps are also overdue now (due yesterday). We have started the Canadian Geography unit. There is no homework this weekend!

SS11 update:
Chapter 1 is done and reviewed. Great results on the Chapter 1 test. We just need to work on our writing responses. This class is super engaged, great thinking and analysis. If questions 1-6 are done on the Chapter 2 (WWI) review package as well as the vocabulary, there is NO HOMEWORK this weekend! You're welcome.

Have a super weekend!