Success Criteria
- ensure your video has a specific focus/theme/message
- ensure you understand your target audience i.e. children, young adults
- benefits & consequences of sedentary vs active lifestyle
- benefits & consequences of balanced eating habits vs unhealthy
- text that raises questions and prompts audience to think and evaluate their habits
- images that bring to life the text
- background music that complements your theme
- have a final concluding message or slogan to raise awareness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2CFhtoKd_0
Language (due by Fri. Oct. 25th)
Success Criteria
Language (due by Fri. Oct. 25th)
Success Criteria
- ensure you are aware of your audience i.e. author Paul Fleishman
- ensure you are focusing on the writing trait of "Voice"
- put yourself in the letter by writing in the 1st person point of view "I"
- are you clearly expressing your personal point of view, thoughts, feelings?
- have a focus: which character's monologue had the greatest impact on you? was it engaging, inspirational, taught you a valuable lesson?
- offer your own unique perspective on the story, express how the book made you feel, your level of enjoyment and pleasure in reading it
Geography (we are working on it throughout the week)
Niagara Escarpment Task
The Niagara Escarpment is an important region in our province. As you have travelled north-west of Toronto you may have seen signs along the highway indicating that you were entering escarpment territory. You are to use the text and sample below, as well as online sources to map this area, describe the region, its distance, the regions it passes through, its unique landforms, species and vegetation. You are welcome to use PowerPoint, Prezi or create a handout.
Key Ideas:
The Niagara Escarpment is an important region in our province. As you have travelled north-west of Toronto you may have seen signs along the highway indicating that you were entering escarpment territory. You are to use the text and sample below, as well as online sources to map this area, describe the region, its distance, the regions it passes through, its unique landforms, species and vegetation. You are welcome to use PowerPoint, Prezi or create a handout.
Below are some Prezis to inspire and provide you with some prompts:
- Ridge of sedimentary rock extending 700+km from Tobermory, Ontario to Niagara Falls
- Extends through the regions of Bruce, Grey, Simcoe, Dufferin, Peel, Halton, Hamilton, Niagara
- Biosphere Reserve (conservation area composed of unique flora & fauna that are protected from urbanization/development)
- Tourist/recreational area for hikers, campers, rock-climbers, zip-liners, cottagers and anyone who wants to enjoy the outdoors/natural wonders
- Landforms consisting of forest, grasslands, wetlands, rolling hills, waterfalls
- Major waterfalls: Niagara, Albion, Devil's Punchbowl, Webster's
- Fauna: eagles, hawks, salamanders, rattlesnakes, squirrel bat
- Flora: sugar maple, white cedar, orchids
Great job on the autumn art in perspective!
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