March 28

A Wrinkle in Time, Chp.5-8 Follow-up

What was your personal impression of the planet of Camazotz? What questions would you like to ask the author about this place?

Is there anything/anyone in our world today that thinks like red-eyed Man?
What is the Thing and which historical figures have opposed it?

What is life like for the residents of Camazotz?

What has happened to Meg’s father?

The people on the planet Camazotz have no crime, no responsibility, and no decisions to make. What is so wrong with their society?

Mrs. Whatsit and the children name well-known figures from our civilization who have fought against the darkness. Whom would you add to the list and why?

March 27

Novel study: A Wrinkle in Time
Chapter 7 - The Man With The Red Eyes
Begin working on The Dark Planet graphic organizer with a partner.
I would encourage a good copy in MS Word as follows:

The Dark Planet - Camazotz (Chp.5-8)

• everyone is alike, everything is uniform, complete conformity everywhere you look;
• if you are ill or deformed, you will be annihilated (utterly destroyed), flaws are not tolerated;
• on Camatzotz, individualism doesn't exist, there is only 1 mind and it's IT; they claim that confusion/unhappiness results from people living separate lives

Before Easter weekend, you should have submitted the following:

Science

1. structures table (human-made, naturally occurring)
2. forces table
3. loads table
4. classification table
5. review 10.1-10.3

Novel 

1. chapter 1-4 pkg
2. visionary table

8.3 text & workbook corrections below.  Take-home mid-chp quiz.

History (copy/paste into your table)

Part 6 1:00-1:15

• new immigrants to New France known as the mystics
• war in France between Catholic vs Protestants
• nun who takes the name of Marie de l'incarnation
• she has a mystical call from God to go to New France as a missionary to help the afflicted/suffering
• leaves son, 3mths at sea, goes to New France to establish first ever all-female missionary team
• settled on the Island of Montreal but their goal to build a "holy city" in New France failed 

• Huron & French alliance crumbled terribly because of alcohol, weapons, disease and religion
• Jesuit priests did not see their part in the Huron nation becoming divided, angered and demoralized - they continued to convert & baptize in the name of Jesus
• Iroquois caught wind of this alliance breaking down and attacked for revenge and control of the entire fur trade - they were victorious
• Jesuit leaders killed
• Huronia destroyed after 40yrs

March 26

March 26 Agenda

8.30-9.35
Novel study: A Wrinkle In Time
Continue working on Visionary Table w/partner assigned yesterday.

Did You Know?

Before the children begin their travels, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which warn them of an

ongoing cosmic struggle between good and evil. To illustrate this struggle, they use many allusions.

An allusion is a reference in a work of literature to another work of literature or to a well-known

person, place, or event in history. Writers often use allusions to express complex ideas. Sometimes

the allusions are direct, such as quotations from historical figures. Sometime, however, allusions are

less obvious. For example, the Murry’s dog Fortinbras is named after a character in Shakespeare’s

play Hamlet who is strong and brave in military matters. In a subtle way, the allusion tells you something

about the dog and something about the people who named him. You might guess that the

Murrys enjoy literature and value strength and courage. Watch for allusions in chapters 5–8 and

throughout the novel.

Tesseract

When Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace ask how they can go on a mission through time and

space, Mrs. Whatsit says, “Now we will tesser.” The children will learn that tessering is a shortcut

through time and space that will allow them to travel quickly to other planets. Although the journey

the children will take is fantasy, some of L’Engle’s story is based on real science. For example, a

dimension is anything that can be measured in space. The three ordinary dimensions on Earth are

length, width, and depth. Albert Einstein considered time a fourth dimension.

Recess
French

10.25-11.35
Science
Answer in MS Word and email.  Just answers.

Lunch

Italian

1.05-1.40

Math 8.3 Workbook pg.82-83 Q1-9

Recess

2.00-3.30

• Continue w/math
• History Complete Part 6 in your table documenting what you learned during the next 15mins between video time 1:00:00-1:15:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd01qOlbtYc

March 25

French Reminder: Passion Play $4 Due Tomorrow

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

Visionary: one who imagines (eventually creates) that which does not yet exist	How did they bring “light” (reason) into the “darkness” (ignorance) via Science, Literature, Philosophy, Music, Art etc? Identify 1 of their major achievements.
Jesus
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Shakespeare
Bach
Pasteur
Madame Curie
Einstein
Schweitzer
Ghandi
Buddha
Beethoven
Rembrandt
St. Francis
Euclid
Copernicus

History Continued

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd01qOlbtYc

Part 5

• Etienne Brule tortured to death by Hurons for siding with English
• New France is reborn from ground zero, then Champlain dies on Christmas Day with no descendants
• Colony continues to develop over the next 30yrs
• Jesuit Missionaries, headed by Jean de Brebeuf, come to bring Word of God among the Hurons @ Ste. Marie; French consider Hurons as barbarians, savages and uncivilized
• Jesuits & Hurons are 2 opposing cultures
• Hurons believe in the immortality of the soul, spiritualism & superstition and despise their unrelenting attempt to convert them
• Champlain said "no black robes, no trade"
• see http://www.saintemarieamongthehurons.on.ca/ in Midland, Ontario, Canada.

March 22

1.  Math Quiz

2.  A Wrinkle In Time: wrap-up chapter 4 The Dark Thing

3. 

WATERCOLOR ART 

Park 1 Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id8i1zgR-jI

Part 2 Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFHoDC93Aw

March 21

Attention Grade 7s: the netbooks you use on a daily basis are a privilege, not a right.  They are strictly and exclusively intended to facilitate your studies and tasks assigned by me, so you can complete/submit them in an efficient and timely manner.  TCDSB, nor I, intend their use for anything else i.e. video games or music/ear buds during class.  If this continues, all netbooks will be removed from our portable for 1 whole week.  If you are using the netbooks when you are not supposed to be using them i.e. during French, Italian, during a read aloud novel, during math corrections, when I'm giving instructions etc., all netbooks will be removed from our portable for 1 whole week.  I will no longer tolerate this behaviour.  You will have absolutely no access to any word processing or multi-media programs to do any of your school work.  It will be completed manually.  You have now been officially warned in writing.  NDC 

Create table in MS Word.  Click insert table.  Table 1 Loads: 3 columns by 5 rows.  Table 2 Classification: 4 columns by 5 rows.  Refer to textbook pages for examples and Google Images.  Read text first.

Science

Load: force acting on a structure pg.273

Examples of Dead Loads (weight of structure itself)	Examples of Live Loads (weight of objects structure supports)	Examples of Dynamic Loads (a load on a structure not caused by gravity)

Classifying Structures pg.274-6

Examples of Structures that use solid construction to support loads	Examples of Frame structures that use a network of parts to support loads	Examples of Shell structures that are hollow & curved whose shape provides high strength & rigidity	Examples of Structures that are combinations of 3 forms: solid, frame & shell

Math: Variables, Expressions, Equations

link 1:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/equations_beginner/v/simple-equations

link 2:

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/equations_beginner/v/solving-one-step-equations

8.2 corrections below:

History (complete video: we will watch 15min chunks & note highlights)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd01qOlbtYc
Part 4 to be copied/pasted into your own table and saved to your usb memory stick:

Part 4

Besides being military and commercial allies, Champlain wants the Huron Aboriginals to share the same Christian Faith.  The Huron tribes are not open to the idea and consider the French to be unintelligent.  Champlain sees much potential in Canada’s vast natural resources and wishes to expand his colony.  After 10yrs and 20x travelling back to France, he finally gets the attention of the Cardinal and financial investments to expand his settlement and fur trade.  On the way back to New France the French are intercepted by the English (Louis Kirk) and they take over control of Quebec.  Samuel de Champlain is devasted, his 20 year hopes & dreams are crushed.  After a 3 year hold, the English sell back the land to the French and destroy it.  Champlain eventually returns, starts from scratch and dies.  He will be always remembered as the Father of New France.

Tasks Post-March Break to complete and submit:

• Novel Chp.1-4 reading response package (2 partners) Due Friday
• 4 Science Tables: structures (human-made & natural), forces, loads, classification (2 partners) Due Monday

10.2 REVISED

Forces act on Structures pg.270-271  Read text first.

1.  Applied Forces: Push & Pull – both are affected by magnitude (strength – mildly strong, moderately strong, very strong) & direction (up, down, forwards, backwards, left, right, inwards, outwards)

2. Non-contact push/pull forces: Gravity, Magnetic, Electrostatic

Forces	Example Description/Diagram	Magnitude?	Direction?
Push
Pull
Gravity
Magnetic
Electrostatic

March 20

Novel Study: Q4 & 5 chapters 1-4 (handout - copy on yesterday's blog entry)

Math U8

what is a variable?
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/variable-and-expressions/v/what-is-a-variable

why no multiplication sign?
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/variable-and-expressions/v/why-aren-t-we-using-the-multiplication-sign

evaluating expression:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/variable-and-expressions/v/variables-and-expressions-1

 corrections & homework:

History

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPaBPOZ-Ac

Canadian History                                                                                                     European Colonization & Aboriginal Interaction                                                                        7 part series

Video 1	New Learning
Part 1	European Monarchs (kings) trying to extend their power and grow their riches by claiming land around world; Martin Frobisher explores Northwest Passage to riches of Asia for King of Englan - lands in Baffin Island/Bay - ships back black rock samples with idea that precious gold is within it upon breaking/melting down - doesn't turn out to be turn - he is shunned by England, called a liar - goes back to being a Pirate.
Part 2	John Guy developing cod fishing industry in Newfoundland; settlement didn't survive. Samuel de Champlain soldier, map maker turned explorer established settlement (habitation) in Quebec along banks of St. Lawrence River, traded beaver skins with Aboriginals turned into fashionable hats for European nobility; crew faced long cold winters and scurvy disease.
Part 3	Champlain’s crew establishes a “blood alliance” with Aborginial groups (Montegnais, Algonquin, Huron) against their enemy the Iroquois.  He does this to facilitate his enterprises & explorations.  Iroquois retreat in astonishment upon quick kill of their leaders.  Etienne Brule spends entire winter in Huronia with Huron Tribes to learn their culture, way of life & to establish trust between French & Indian.  He comes back in spring and Champlain’s trading post becomes very profitable since he now has a massive control of area (network of rivers/lakes).  Aboriginals bring him 15,000 beaver skins/season.