SRB Science Trip

What a great way to spend a Friday afternoon!

For the videos of your amazing hydraulics machines, please check out Google Classroom. I've posted all the videos there.

Parents, ask your child to log in for you to see the videos.

What Could We Do?

Here is the link to the CBC article we discussed in class today about the vandalism at the Parkdale United Church in Westboro.

So, what could we do to show our support?

Parkdale United Church Vandalized

Interview with Reverend Bailey

Source:http://www.ottawasun.com/2016/01/18/vandals-spray-paint-racial-slurs-at-parkdale-united-church

High School Registration

Keep bringing in those course selections for high school, whether it be for Sir Robert Borden, Bell, Woodroffe, or any other school.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Art

Here is the video on drawing one and two-point perspective:

English

Happy New Year! I hope everybody enjoyed a relaxing holiday break.

I'm happy to report that after some initial technical difficulties - we blew a fuse twice, knocking out power for much of the second floor at GMS- our end-of-year breakfast and Sundae extravaganza was a success. Thanks to everybody who sent in items.

For one of our upcoming assignments, we will be disecting newspapers. If you get a newspaper delivered to your home, I would greatly appreciate if you would send in your papers once you're done with them, whether it's the Ottawa Citizen, Globe&Mail, National Post, or the Ottawa Sun. Thank you!

EMF8B&C English

The "I Was There" creative writing assignment is due this Thursday, December 17; well, the first draft, at least.
    
For this assignment, we'll be taking a trip in the good ol' time machine, back to a historical event of the students' choice. Our goal is then to retell that past event as if you "were there", either as the event's main character, a (fictional) bystander, or even an inanimate object, such as the Berlin Wall, for example.

We've already completed our wikipedia-style intro, a selection of explosive openings which were judged by our peers, and are well into the writing process, including a graphic organizer to plan our work.

An outline of the assignment, along with the evaluation rubric, has been posted on Google Classroom. Several samples from previous years' students have also been made available in the classroom.

Source: http://worldsoccertalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/i-was-there.png

English

Our "Tell-Tale Heart" mock trials are almost over. We had some spectacular performances by the lawyers and a wide variety of witnesses.

Two assignments are coming up:

1.  Thursday, Dec. 3: A quiz based on the vocabulary of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and irregular plural forms.

2.  Friday, Dec. 4: Final revised copy of the "Where I'm From" poem.