Thursday, October 24th (Day 5)

 Announcements:

*Contact info: cassandra.frederick@yrdsb.ca

*Return Friday Folder if you haven't already 

* High School Open House Info (click for more information)

Dr. G.W. Williams S.S. 

- Grade 8 Open house: Thursday, November 7th @ 6:30pm

Alexander Mackenzie S.S.

- Arts Information Night: Tuesday, October 29th @ 7pm

* Check Graduating Class Google Classroom for Highschool and Open House updates. Keep your families updated! (code: 3dbunkx). 

Important Upcoming Dates:

Friday October 25th - Novel must be completed!

                                    - Day 1 & 2 of Narrative writing due at end of day

Monday, October 28th - SMART Fitness Goal worksheet due

Wednesday, November 6th - Grade 8 Trip to G.W. Williams Secondary School

This Week At A Glance 

* Please note, these are subject to change to support students' needs. Updated every Monday* 

- Math: Integers and order of operations

- Literacy: Narrative Writing & Adjectives

- Science: Onion Lab

- History: Concept Review

- Health: Mental Health and Stigma

- Art: Elements of Dance

Today's Activities/Homework

Math

- We are learning to use fractions, decimals and percentages

- Students discussed the relationship between each and how they all represent part of a whole

Independent Tasks

- Practice Questions (click for direct access) 

Consolidation question #1-4

Your turn # 1, 3-4

- Continue keeping an eye out for stock updates (check the news/stock trends)

- 10-15 minute review of today's concepts (take/create summary notes)

Literacy

- Read their novels for reading comprehension unit

- Engaged in a group activity where students read picture books to discover the theme, purpose and intended audience by using evidence from the text

- Making connections and re-imagining characters in their novel to foster critical thinking skills

Independent Tasks

- Narrative writing Day 1 and Day 2 slides (click for direct access)

- Read required pages of novel (if you didn't complete today in class)

- 10-15 minute review of today's concepts (take/create summary notes)

- Reading Comprehension Package: Pages 14-16, 18-19

History

- Played jeopardy trivia to review all the concepts from lessons 1-4

Independent Tasks

- Prepare for next class by reading the paragraph Indigenous People and Confederation

-- Use the Canadian Encyclopedia link and scroll to the appropriate paragraph 

- Canadian Encyclopedia (click for direct access)

- In your history notebook, brainstorm 3 ways that confederation impacted Indigenous communities (positive or negative) 

- 10-15 minute review of today's concepts (take/create summary notes)