English 300: Spelling Test tomorrow- Unit 5 words.   Friday I am collecting everyone’s journals.  Students should have 5 completed.   Students should now be working on the short story major assignment.  You will be given lots of class time for this as long as you are using it effectively.   

English 431X: Spelling Test tomorrow- Unit 5 words.  Friday I am collecting everyone’s journals.  Students should have 5 completed.  Students should be finishing up their descriptive paragraphs, and ready to start their descriptive paper.  

English 531: Spelling Test tomorrow- Unit 5 words.  Friday I am collecting everyone’s journals.  Students should have 5 completed.  We have started In the Heat of the Night, and are working on chapter 1 & 2 activites. 

Science 300:  Some students still need to write the chapter 1 test.  Other students are starting chapter 2.

History 300:  Still working on chapter 10.

English 431A:  Spelling Test tomorrow- Unit 4 words.  Friday I am collecting everyone’s journals.  Students should have 4 completed.   Continue working on novel.  Several students have some corrections to fix and some work to make up. 

Math 531: Chapter 1 Test tomorrow.

Communications:  Journals will be collected on Friday – should have 4 completed.   Continue working on assignments.

English 300:  Students were given the unit 5 spelling words.   Word activities should be completed.  Spelling test on these words on Friday.  Students are still working on short stories.  Some students still need to hand in short story activites before they can begin their major short story assignment. 

English 431x:  Students were given the unit 5 spelling words.   Word activities should be completed.  Spelling test on these words on Friday.  Students are still working on descriptions.  Several students need to complete their descriptive paragraph. 

English 531: Students were given the unit 5 spelling words.   Word activities should be completed.  Spelling test on these words on Friday.  One assignment needs to be completed and then we are starting a novel. 

Science 300: Several students need to finish up chapter 1 and then write the chapter 1 test. 

History 300: Working on chapter 10.  See me for the chapter overview. 

English 431A:  Students were given the unit 4 spelling words.   Word activities should be completed.  Spelling test on these words on Friday.  Of Things Not Seen Questions for chapters 1-10 shoud have been handed in this morning.  Have them ready for tomorrow if you were absent today. 

Math 531:  Continue working on problems.

Communications: Work on speech.  Wednesday the speech will be presented.

English 300: Unit 4 Spelling test on Thursday.   We are continuing on with short stories.  When  “The most Dangerous Game”  story and questions are complete, students will be writing their own short stories. 

English 431x: Unit 4 Spelling test on Thursday.  We are still working on writing descriptions.  In the next few days, we will be going over a new brainstorming method and students will write a one-page description to be handed in. 

English 531: Unit 4 Spelling test on Thursday.  We are finishing up literature from Passages.  We will be doing some work on grammar and then starting the novel “In the Heat of the Night.”

Science 300: Students should be finishing up chapter one and be prepared to write their chapter 1 test.  To review for the test, students shoud go over: definitions, questions, symbols, density problems, physical/chemical changes.  If you have any questions, come see me. 

History 300: Students should get the chapter 10 overview from me if they have not done so already.  Continue working on questions and assignments. 

English 431A:  Unit 3 Spelling test on Thursday.  Continue working on novel.  Students should be on chapter 10 at the end of this week.  I will be collecting your questions at the beginning of next week. 

Math 531:  Continue working on chapter 2

Communications: Print off communications test and questions and pass in.  Begin working on first speech.

In today’s classes:

English 300: Spelling Test tomorrow (Unit 2 words).  We are still working on short stories.   Next week We will be having a quiz on the techniques used in short stories, so make sure you review these.   We also worked on journals today.  You should now have 2 completed. 

English 431X:  Spelling Test tomorrow (Unit 2 words).  Today we finished up with our brainstorming activity.  We will be looking at other ways to come up with ideas tomorrow.  We also worked on journals today.  You should now have 2 completed. 

English 531: Spelling Test tomorrow (Unit 2 words).  We are still working on literature from Passages.  We will finish up One Mile of Ice tomorrow.  When we finish these assignments we will be having a quiz on the stories/poems that we covered so make sure you are familiar with them. 

Math 531:  Continue working on chapter 1.   Up to page 13 should be completed and ready to be checked for tomorrow.

English 431A: Spelling Test tomorrow (Unit 1 words).  We are still working on Of Things Not Seen.  Students should be on chapter 4.  We also worked on journals today.  You should now have 2 completed. 

Science 300: We have started Matter today.  We read pages 10-15, and spent some time on the hazardous household symbols and the WHMIS symbols.  You will be having a quiz on these mext week so make sure that you are familiar with them.  We also looked at the definitions of solid/liquid/gas, and wrote them in our scribblers. 

Communications:  Continued working on assignment from yesterday.

*If you have not yet brought in your forms/student fees please do so asap.*

English Classes: spelling test on Friday

   English 300/431X/531: unit 2 words/English 431A: unit 1 words

     In today’s classes:

English 300:

*Students that were absent yesterday will be writing their spelling test tomorrow (Unit 1 words).  

We have started short stories.  Make sure that you go over the techniques used by authors because we will be having a quiz on them later in the week.

English 431X:

We did an activity on brainstorming today.  Students were very creative!  We will continue with that tomorrow.

English 531:

Continue with assignments from Passages.  New spelling words tomorrow for spelling test on Friday.  We will be starting a novel shortly.

Math 531:

Continue working on chapter 1.  Tomorrow hand in homework from last night and tonight (page 8,10,11)

Science 300:

See Ms. Kenny if you have not yet completed ecosystems activity

We started chapter 1: Matter.

English 431A: 

Unit 1 words should be completed.   Spelling test on Frinday.

Continue on with Of Things Not Seen  (reading/questions/definitions)

If you have not yet brought in your forms/student fees, please do so asap.

Harvest Picnic tonight @ 6:00.  Hope to see you there!

In today’s classes:

English 300:

-Journal entry #1 should be completed*

-started writing notes on short stories

English 431X:

-journal entry #1 should be completed*

-continued working on grammar booklet

English 531:

-journal entry # 1 should be completed*

-short story assignment “Mattie Sure Shot” from Passages.  Hand in on Monday

*If journal # 1 is not complete do for homework  (1 page in length)

English 431A:

-should be finished reading chapters 1 & 2 and have questions/definitions completed   

-Start reading chapter 3

Math 531:

-continue working on chapter 1

History 300:

-started reading chapter 10 in Atlantic Canada

English 431X: Continue working on nouns/verbs.

English 300: Finish up grammar worksheets.  We will be starting short stories shortly.

English 431A: Read chapters 1& 2 of Of Things Not Seen.  Complete chapter 1& 2 chapter activities.

History 300: Finish up Introduction to Canada booklet.

Math 531: Continue working on problems from ch. 1.