Oct.30

Collaborative Math Task involving:

• collecting data
• analyzing data
• rates, equivalent rates
• measurement, conversions 
• multiplication, addition
• guess & check
• supporting diagrams

Great collaboration!

Oct.29

Math: Data Management Team Task

Goal: To collect and analyse data to offer possible solutions to a problem

Your team is to collect information about (and document with diagrams) about St Simon’s staff parking lot, namely:

·        dimensions (metres, feet, inches) of space available to staff for parking length x width

·        dimensions of typical/average car that parks here length x width

·        measure the current spaces between cars currently and decide whether it’s sufficient/comfortable enough for entry/exit

·        total number of cars currently parked there (we have a staff consisting of 35 cars approximately)

Using your data/diagrams as support, you are to offer your teachers constructive suggestions about how this space could be more effectively maximized or managed, seeing that the currently line markings are not adhered to, nor visible in the winter and too wide.

What do we see?

Here’s what we suggest:

double-check your measurements 

length x width of lot, cars

and the

distance you would like between cars 2.5' 

Continue working on your:

•  Seedfolks quotes (due Monday)
•  Science mixtures chart (due Friday)
•  Math graphs handout 
•  Math oral presentation target customer of product (due Monday)

Oct.28

Data Management/Oral & Visual Task
Presentations begin Friday

Choose any product that interests you – that you own, use or want to buy.

Become the target customer of that product and dialogue (with supporting stats) what makes you the ideal consumer of that product.

Ms. Commisso's example:

I am a 28 year old single career woman. I bought this Michael Kors watch because it appeals to me for many reasons. I am career-focused and work in a business professional environment, and my watch reflects the type of image and clothing I am expected to have at my workplace. I heard about the watch from a catalogue I receive in the mail. I really like this watch because it’s a high-end fashion item, which is something that interests me and tells other people that I make a lot of money and have a college diploma. Wearing this watch gives me power and makes other people respect me. It’s very pretty, fashion-forward, and valuable: 3 things that I look for in a product when I’m shopping.  I can relate to the actual ad below:

Science: Mechanical vs Solutions

Complete chart of household products, submit by Friday.

Seedfolks: Last quote (submit all quotes on Friday)

"The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes, unless they're known to be friends.  Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices"

Who said this and what is your opinion of this character?

Oct.24

Science Lab: Mechanical mixtures vs Solutions

Working collaboratively in your new group of 4, you are to:
-go to text pg.27
-read "try this: make a mixture"
-use the information to compose your lab's Purpose, 3 Hypothesis (what you think will happen)
-after reading the Procedure, decide how you will showcase your lab's Observations i.e. table with actual pix
-at this point, conduct your experiment
-in Analysis, answer what you learned about mixture types and how accurate your hypothesis was

Oct.23

Novel Study: Seedfolks   Work on character profiles of Curtis, Nora/Mr.Miles and Maricela.  We will discuss them further tomorrow.

Geography: Niagara Escarpment presentations tomorrow or submit hardcopy.

Math: Data Management Food Show presentations tomorrow.

Math: Data Management target customer of a product/store of your choice submit tomorrow.

Oct.21

Novel Study: Seedfolks - Leona & Sam

In this chapter we meet Leona. She grew up with her Granny in Atlanta, Georgia.

She noticed all the trash in the lot. She became concerned about the trash and tried to get the Health Department to clean it up but no one would listen to her.

Saxophone metaphor: when you press one key, a piece on the other end of the saxophone moves.  à  When one person starts something, they can create a chain-reaction to get more people aware of the problem and willing to help.

When no one at the Health Department would take her call, Leona decides to take the bus and go there in person. This shows that she is very persistent and when she sets a goal, she will not stop until she achieves it.

When she gets to the Health Department, the receptionist told Leona to sit down and wait. Leona pulls out a garbage bag and everyone notices it right away. This shows that Leona is very stubborn, determined, self-confident, and does not take No for an answer.

Granny doesn’t believe in doctors. Leona takes after her Grandmother because they’re both stubborn and like to prove to people that they are right. This shows that the more that people critique you and try to bring you down, the more you should try and prove yourself to them.

Leona is relentless – she won’t stop pursuing her goals.

Sam is a pacifist. He doesn’t believe in racial segregation. He believes that people should get along regardless of their race, religion, economic background. People should live peacefully together.

Fishermen’s net metaphor: Sam says that he is like a fisherman who tries to mend his net, but he does this with people. Like Jesus, he wants people to get along, live together peacefully, and not be separated by racism, hatred of each other.

Sam smiles at everyone. Smiling is a way of making people feel welcome and appreciated. This shows you that Sam is a nice character who believes that all people should feel welcomed and appreciated.

He thinks that the garden is paradise. He compares the garden to the Garden of Eden in the bible.

Sam is against people putting barbed wire around their gardens. This shows that he is a peacemaker and doesn’t want people to feel separated. The garden was supposed to celebrate diversity and have all sorts of people be together in one space, but what happened in the city (the separation) ended up happening in the garden. Sam doesn’t want the garden to be a reflection of the neighbourhood. 

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Math Task 1

Success Criteria: Food Show Data

1.   Did we use a variety of graphs/tables/charts that clearly displayed the data making it easy to read and understand important ideas?

   

2.   From our graphs/tables/charts could we identify key trends, patterns or ideas about the type of people who attended the show?

 3.   From the data collected, can we say what areas are working well?  Could we suggest what areas need improvement and how they could be improved?

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 Math Task 2

Complete customer profile type for a product or store of your choice.  Follow my car example.  Submit this week.

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Geography: Niagara Escarpment

Presentations begin tomorrow.

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Complete Science handout: Mixtures vs Solutions  You need this as prep for your next lab.

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Oct.20

Math Rates

Problem of the Week Corrections:

Math Data Management 

Team Task

Math: Data Management

Delicious Food Show 2014 Data Collect From 10,000 Attendants

Food Sampling • Cooking Demonstrations • Food/Beverage/Cookbook Selling

Team Task:

1.   Decide how you would display the data below.

2.   What did you learn from the data?

3.   How could you use the data to improve next year’s attendance?

Age of attendants:

·         under 18 yrs:  100

·         18-24 yrs:  300

·         25-34 yrs:  750

·         35-44 yrs:  4,250

·         45-54 yrs:  1,500

·         55-64 yrs:  2,250

·         65+ yrs:  850

How attendants saw or heard about show:

·         Newspaper/Radio/TV:  3,000

·         Friends/Family:  250

·         Twitter:  750

·         Instagram:  1,500

·         Facebook:  2,000

·         Pinterest:  750

·         Food Blogs:  500

·         E-mail:  250

·         Past Attendance:  1,000

Household yearly income of attendants:

·         Under $50,000:  1,250

·         $50,000-$99,000:  7,500

·         $100,000-$249,000:  1,000

·         $250,000+ :  250

Education of attendants:

·         High School:  750

·         College/Technical Institute:   5,250

·         University Bachelor:  3,750

·         University Master’s/Doctorate:  250

Do attendants want to be e-mailed about upcoming food shows/promotions:

·         Yes:  9,000

No:  1,000

Success Criteria

• we will use a variety of graphs, tables or charts to display data effectively so it can be easily read & understood
• we can pinpoint key trends or pieces of information about this year's show
• based on the data, we can effectively advise what areas of the show are working well and which need to be improved for next year's show

Italian Test on articoli this Thursday Oct.24th


Novel Study: Seedfolks

We meet Wendell, a farmer turned janitor, who helps guilt-striken Ana bring Kim's lima beans back to life.  Wendell has lost both his wife and son.  We learn that he is a helpful, hopeful and positive person.  He chooses to focus on the good in his life instead of focusing on the negative (because of Kim's influence).

We meet Tio Juan through Gonzalo, a farmer from Guatemala.  The garden in the vacant lot gives Tio Juan a purpose, a reason for stepping out of this home, a connection to the community.  Instead of feeling isolated or confused from not knowing how to speak English, the garden reminds him of home and allows him to showcase his farming skills.  He becomes the resident expert and teacher.

Oct.17

1. Submit any outstanding tasks I spoke to you personally about asap.
2. Wrap-up Reading Response to "Sugar Overload" article, submit by Monday.
3. Continue working on Geography: Niagara Escarpment mixed media showcasing key ideas provided.  Let's wrap it up by Wednesday.
4. Data Management in real-life context:

Select any product of your choice.

Make a checklist of information about the potential customer that would buy it,

as we did for the various cars above.

Begin thinking and working on this task over the weekend;

we will continue it into next week as part of our data management math unit.

2 per group maximum.

For example:

Potential Customer Profile Information for 2015 BMW M435i

 Gender: Male

 Age: 40-49

 Education: College/university degree

 Has previously driven and/or owned a BMW

 Demands a coupe over a sedan, suv or wagon

 Most likely single or with very small children since the car is a coupe with limited rear space or an empty-nester

 Employment: Professional, executive, business owner

 Yearly Salary: $100,000-$150,000

 Avoids entry-level 428i for performance-oriented, driver-focused M435i with more powerful engine and sports suspension but thinks the top-end M4 would be excessive

 Looking for status-symbol car

 Appreciates German engineering, build quality, and luxury

 Appreciates sports car road handling

 Has disposable income to maintain car mechanically, cover insurance, fuel

Language Novel Study

Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman

Chapter 1 Kim & Chapter 2 Ana

(replay text/audio on Monday)

Every chapter has its own protagonist or main character.

Your guiding questions for each chapter are:

·        Who is the character?

·        What does he/she do, say, or think?

·        What do their actions, words or thoughts say about the type of person they are?

Feel free to complete task daily in class using MS Word.

Chapter 1
-We meet Kim from Vietnam.
-She never knew her father.  He passed away when she was just born and they never had a proper father-daughter relationship.  He was a farmer and she plants lima beans in the vacant lot to honor him and with the hope that he sees and appreciates her as his daughter from up above.
-From her actions, we learn Kim is a respectful, loving, devoted, thoughtful and caring person that longs to have a paternal influence in her life.

Chapter 2
-We meet Ana from Romania.
-She's always lived in the neighborhood and worked for the police parole department.  She spies and stalks Kim, digging up the lima beans she planted.
-From her actions, we learn Ana is a suspicious person, who thinks the worst of others, is not accepting and trusting of other cultures other than her own.  Her poor behaviour may encourage her to change her attitude towards others.



Math Rates Final Test Corrections:

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Oct.14

Language/Health: Reading Response

In the health article Sugar Overload we learned some key ideas, namely:

• ·       sugar is sugar: refined white, honey, maple syrup, agave nectar, high-fructose corn syrup, organic cane sugar, etc.;
• ·       sugar is unavoidable, it has been added to nearly everything we consume;
• ·       sugar is not only causing obesity but is linked to heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s;
• ·       a 9-year-old Canadian boy will consume 123lb of sugar/year; Canadian male teens consume 138lb/year;
• ·       we are addicted to sugar, we are programmed to crave it and food companies know this and profit from it;
• ·       food companies have determined the perfect amount of sugar, salt and fat in our foods that will satisfy our craving and will leave us wanting more;
• ·       using junk food in fundraising, to reward, calm and entertain kids is normal

 Guiding questions for your reading response:

1. Did you learn something new that you were unaware of before?
2. Did any idea(s) surprise you?  Why?
3. Will this have any effect on what you eat?  How?
4. What would you say to a large food company like Kraft or Nestle?

we are working on this task throughout the week.

Geography: The Niagara Escarpment 

Some key ideas to consider developing into either a promotional handout, poster, Publisher brochure, Prezi, Emaze, PowerPoint or MovieMaker video about the Niagara Escarpment

·                     Ridge of sedimentary rock extending 700+ kms from Tobermory, Ontario to Niagara Falls

·                     Extends through Ontario 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, ferns, orchids

we are working on this task throughout the week.

final test tomorrow