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