Thursday, 15 December 2011

English Civil War

Hi Everyone,

We are currently working on an English Civil War unit. Today in class we talked about Oliver Cromwell. Was he a hero or a villain? You decide (worksheet due January 5th). Here is a link to the video we watched: 


Charles II Propaganda poster due on January 9th. English Civil War test will be on January 13th.

Monday, 24 October 2011

Ms. Citton is now teaching!

Ms. Citton will be teaching your class until Dec. 2

Her wikispace can be found here: Ms. Citton's Wiki

Monday, 10 October 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend!! What's the history behind the holiday?? Check it out!

Ms. Citton teaches tomorrow!! Here is a link to her wiki site for the class!

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

October 5, 2011

Today we wrote our current event quiz. This marks the end of the Current Events unit.

I am happy to announce to you that Ms. Citton will be starting with you next week. She start by teaching a unit on the Regional Geography of North America. After we wrote the quiz today, we brainstormed "What makes up a region?" You came up with some really good ideas and defined it as an area that has similar characteristics. You stated that such characterisitics could include things like:
  • Climate
  • Vegetation
  • Topography (landforms)
  • Religions
  • Languages
  • Cultures
Theses were all excellent ideas!!! After the brainstorm, we had a little detective work and tried to put an envelop of pictures under the right regional heading. We made some mistakes along the way, but were able to do a fairly decet job at putting the pictures in the right spot!! Well done!!


I just found a link to a site that would be perfect for reviewing for this unit. Check out these flashcards:



 

Monday, 3 October 2011

October 3, 2011

Today was a review class. We went over the cell phone article questions. The quiz will be next class (Oct 5) and it is 20 marks (including TRUE and FALSE and MULTIPLE CHOICE).


Hint!! There will be a question on the number of people that will participate in the Rick Hansen Anniversary Relay.

We also played a game I like to call Talking Stick. We discussed a number of local, national, and global current events!

Thursday, 29 September 2011

September 29, 2011


Next day in class we are working on an article about cell phones. Do they cause cancer??? 
How much radiation does your phone give off?

cellphone_posters-2.jpg



Why are pickles on the list of carcinogens?

September 27, 2011

The topic of today's class was cell phones.

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

September 21, 2011

Today in class we started the Somalia article. Here is the photo on page 13 in your package:


This is the video we watched:


This is a really cool link to a website with some articles, videos, and images about the situation in Somalia

Monday, 19 September 2011

September 19, 2011

Today in class we worked on the Rick Hansen article. Here is the video that we watched:

 We looked at the map of the relay route too!

Thursday, 15 September 2011

September 15, 2011

In class today we worked on an article about the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. We watched this video clip:


We visited the 9/11 memorial website, and checked out some pictures of the memorial:


We also went to this site to view all of the digital archives recounting the events from the perspectives of survivors.