Happy Penultimate Day of 2016

G6 - Poetry HW

Here is a reminder for the poem that you have to write for homework. It must meet the following requirements:

• Be at least 12 lines long
• Have an identifiable rhyming scheme (it cannot be free verse)
• Use the theme of We can make the world a better place if we try

Try to use alliteration, assonance, and consonance.

A World Without Wonder Woman?

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Student Political Parties

Click here for the Anti-Extremists Party

Click here for the Green Party

Click here for The African Political Party of Conservatism

G9 & G10 - Mid-Term Break

Click here for the lecture.

G10 - Speech Resource

For the student who requested the websites, 

here is the first, and here is the second.

G7 - Newspaper Project

Click here to access the folder.

My favourite poems

As requested by a wonderful student in G6, here are links to some of my favourite poems.

1. Death the Leveller by James Shirley - here
2. Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats - here
3. Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney - here
4. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - here
5. The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young by William Blake - here
6. Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare - here
7. The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll - here
8. Dulce et Decorum Est by Wifred Owen - here
9. The Jumblies by Edward Lear here

G9 & G10 Speech Rubric

Click here to add your topic. 

This will allow MC Paul to present you better.

G7 - So what colour was Jesus?

Click here for the story.

G7 - Black Pete

Click here to watch a video report on a Christmas tradition in the Netherlands. It is relevant to our focus in class now. If you want to read a more in-depth analysis of the issue, click here.

Sonnet 18

Click here.

Attenborough's Story of Life

Here for the Google Play download, and here for the Apple Store. Enjoy.

G7 - Jim Crow Laws

Here is the video from this morning, and here is the list of laws we looked at. 

Australian boys recreate life-saving drug

Click here.

G9 - Pale Blue Dot

Here is the video.  Here is the text.

G6 - Elements of Poetry

G7 - Prejudice Homework

Read the Getting to the Source of our Bias text. Answer the questions in your notebook. Here are some pointers:

• Q1 - Be honest and reflective. 
• Q3 - There are many facets (aspects / sides) to this, so think about this.
• Q6 - At least 3 groups.
• Q7 - Do any of the TV shows that you watch push certain stereotypes of gender or nationality?
• Q 8, 9, & 10 - Obviously, you can make these questions about any country you choose. I have added some links below to help you. 

This assignment is important to helping build understanding for the themes that tie our three novels together. As such, I expect that this will be given a lot of effort. The Getting to the Source of our Bias is the seed of this assignment, I trust that you will extend far beyond it. 

Eritrean Migrants to the EU

Australian lifetime visa ban

Trump on Ohio attacker

Syrian Refugees in Canada

G10 - Civil Disobedience Presentation Rubric

As requested.

G6 - Google Forms Link

Click here to access the folder.
Use the image below to make your survey file. Name the file like this - Group (1) (Topic). I will give you your group number.

G10 - Romanticism Notes, and competition

The notes, plus the story to add the last line to.

G10 - Becoming a Book Rubric

Adapted from https://www.scribd.com/document/325302595/Becoming-a-Book. Don't forget to include a References page. use this MLA format to arrange your citations:

For a novel
Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Publisher, Publication Date.

For a website
"Name of Webpage. " Website name, Date accessed, www.blah.com\

Remember the in-text citations rules that we discussed last week.
Isbvanldv, "Hjbaiwdcndwc" (Bradbury, 45).

Gijnjnw vkev ne bven vnej vneonvlkm clkwm clwd Bradbury mc:

             Gkjsbv kjsdv kjbsdkv bkdnvk bdvkbvh bevhkbehvbe khbke
             skn vkns vks vknskv skn vk vjknjknjnjnj  v he vih ejnv i ev
             jnvjnkjnekjnjenvj v ef ve vih eiveuhf vhef v efvie f  ef vkefv
             nv ejkvnjnvne vvvevewv evevewvwd fv rv. (67-68)

G6 - Environmental Issue

Click here to find the folder. You should create your document in this folder. The deadline is Friday, the 25^th of November. We will work on it for three days (21^st, 22^nd, & the 23^rd)8 in class.

Grading System

Use this as the guide to the 5 main sections that your text needs to have.

1. 5 pts Begin with general info about the topic. 
1. Sound positive
2. 5 pts Describe the realm in more scientific language. Plan to use this terminology later in the text.
3. 5 pts Introduce problem.
1. Explain Causes
2. Discuss Effects
4. 5 pts Possible Solutions. At least 2.
5. 5 pts Bring it back to 1. 
1. Seriousness of the problem and need to adopt solution(s)
2. Hope for the future

          5 pts are added for the proper use of text features. These are the things you copied into your                 notebook last week. 

          5 pts are added for putting websites you've used in your Reference page. I have a sample reference             format in the Niall. Issue file in the folder.

Suggested Plan

I have booked 2 laptops per group for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week. Two people in each group will have a laptop. They are responsible for finding the relevant info, with the student beside them (sans laptop) helping them locate good information. Once you have the research, you need to write it, in your own words, in the GDoc you've created. Think of this of an essay that requires a lot of information. Don't forget to use the text features. 

G9 - Apartheid Video

Click here.

G7 Travel Info

Click here. 

G6 - Carbon Maps

World Bank - here

Carbon Map - here

Breathing Earth - here

G6/G7 - Vocab HW

For each of the words, write two sentences that use those words. 

Hurtle - The meteor hurtled towards the planet. The bat hurtles downwards through the swarm of insects. 

G6 -

Read the Literary Elements and in your notebook, jot down each element of the Text Structure and Text Features. You do not need to write down everything, just a very brief definition of each term.

G10 - Becoming a Book

1000 words, minimum. Click here.

For the countdown, click here.

G10 - Novel Notation

Click here. Have it done by Tuesday.

G6 - Letter Folder

Click here.

G10 - Qs

G6 - Letter Format / Ministry of Land & Resources

 

G10 - HW Book Notation

Click here for the rest of the notation.

G10 - F451 HW

By Tuesday, finish quotes 8-16.
By Wednesday, read Pt 3.1.

Tea'n'Essay Club is back!

For Quarter 2, I have more time than I had in Quarter 1, so each Tuesday at recess we will meet at the benches and chat about our selected essay. Next week's is The High Cost of Poverty by DeNeen L. Brown.

Click here to find the folder.

G6 - WTG 11-20

G7 - WTG 11-20

G9 - OMAM HW

7, 8, & 12

G6 - Speculative Fiction

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