May 30

May 28

3D Geometry

math text pg.377
questions 1, 4, 8 
to be submitted tomorrow on both graph/isometric paper provided.

May 27

Substitute Agenda

8.45-9.30
Instrumental music

9.35-9.50
Recess

9.55-10.25
French

10.25-11.35

11.35-12.20
Lunch

12.20-12.35
JK/SK yard duty

12.35-1.05
Italian

1.05-1.40


1.40-1.55
Recess

1.55-3.30


Students are to continue working on any of the following tasks; some are still outstanding and remain to be emailed:

• novel study vocab + questions .doc
• novel study quotes .doc
• novel study summaries .doc
• science ergonomics questions .doc
• science ergonomics table .doc
• science efficient building materials .doc
• infomercial video .mmv
• how-to video .wmv
• history prezi link

Others are to continue working on unit 10 math (after mid chapter) workbook pages and corresponding practicing questions in textbook.  They are to also continue working on the math investigation from the previous blog entry in which they are to determine which prism type(s) could be a possible efficient packaging solution in a box with little or no gaps in between.  Students: use any media of your choice to illustrate possible solutions to the problem including diagrams/calculations on simple chart paper.

May 24

May 24

Gr 7s I'm at St. Basil's for a workshop.  Work cooperatively and respectfully with your substitute teacher.  No negative reports please.  

Recess 9.35-9.50

French 9.50-10.25

Lunch 11.35-12.35

Italian 12.35-1.05

7s, today you will temporarily put aside your novel study, science, 3D views,  and how-to video tasks to focus on the math investigation below.  

Math Investigation text 10.1 pg.348-9

  

Goals:

• to solve a problem collaboratively and creatively

• to communicate strategies and solutions in a YouTube video or Prezi

• to build 3D prisms (i.e. triangular, rectangular, pentagonal, hexagonal) from nets 

• to design efficient packaging that will pack tightly into a standard size box (i.e. 40cm x 33cm x 26cm) with no gaps between packages

• to determine what geometric properties (i.e. faces, edges, vertices, angles) make a difference when trying to pack with no wasted space between packages

The project managers below are to lead their team to success by choosing 2-3 co-workers that will help him/her fulfill the necessary responsibilities to solve the geometric problem:

• Team Pasqua
• Team Noce
• Team Barranca
• Team Sicari
• Team Louvado
• Team De Buglio
• Team Sampogna
• Team Wiggan

After reading through the investigation, brainstorm the approaches your team can take to arrive at a solution in an efficient and logical manner.

Your team is to also identify 3 success criteria that you all will use to evaluate your solution to the problem:

Our Success Criteria	Level 1 Limited requires further proof	Level 2 Some adequate proof	Level 3 Good proof	Level 4 Excellent proof

Do not share your strategies with neighboring teams.  It will be interesting to see the different approaches each group takes to solve the problem.

Use any class resources (paper, printers, netbooks) if any additional supplies are needed Gabby & Franny are to go to the storage room.
**you may also want to check out smart notebook gallery essentials on your netbook or blog link to library of virtual manipulatives**

May 23

Substitute Agenda

Karen attendance.

8.45-9.30  
Instrumental Music

9.35-9.50
Recess
northwest intermediate yard duty

9.55-10.25
French

10.25-11.35

Novel study:  read through the bullets below then write a 1 paragraph summary for chapter 16 identifying the key events/hightlights & what you think the impact it has on the plot development.

Science: text pg.329 1,2.  text pg.334 1,3,5. you may work with only 1 partner and email the task.

11.35-12.35
Lunch

12.35-1.05
Italian

1.05-1.40
Math
text pg.356 6b, pg.357 7b, 10c.
text pg.362 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
triangle paper & grid paper on printer

1.40-1.55
Recess

1.55-3.00
wrap up science & math.  


3.00-3.35
softball



Chapter 16 The Alchemyst

• Perenelle is imprisoned in a tiny, windowless room. 
• She expands her hearing powers using a handy spell she learned from an Inuit shaman. 
• This enables her to overhear the Morrigan arguing with Dee.
• Apparently, the Morrigan thinks Hekate should be punished for taking out the Morrigan's birds.
• But Dee says Hekate is untouchable. 
• Why? The Morrigan counters by saying she's not the only Elder on the West Coast—she knows where Bastet sleeps. 
• We don't know who this Bastet is, but she sure as shootin' sounds fierce.
• Light bulb moment: Perenelle realizes that the Morrigan is prepared to awaken Bastet and attack Hekate's Shadowrealm, all to get the pages of the Codex back. 
• That's bad news, it turns out, because Perenelle knows Bastet has the body of the beautiful young woman and the head of the cat. That wouldn't be scary (just weird), if it weren't for the fact that she is also totally powerful. 
• Poor Perenelle. She's worried about whether Nicholas and the twins will be safe when Hekate's powers are attacked.
• We interrupt this program to bring you the story of a girl who could talk to the dead. In other words, let's get Perenelle's back-story:
• When she was a little girl, she could see stuff others couldn't.
• It wasn't until she was seven that she understood that not everyone could see the flickering black and white images she did.
• It turns out these images were the shades of ghosts, which she knew because one of them looked an awful lot like her grandmother, Mamom.
• Perenelle soon realized that ghosts could not see certain colors—blues and greens and some yellows—so she encouraged those colors into her own aura to create a veil of protection, which would prevent the dead from seeing her.
• And now, back to our regular programming.
• Perenelle now concentrates on her pale ice-white aura and takes off the colors she added to block the ghosts. 
• Suddenly, ghosts flock to her. 
• The ghost of Jefferson Miller, who Perry knew when living, tells her that she's in the basement of Enoch Enterprises, under the Coit Tower.
• Perenelle sees that his ghost seems attached to this spot (which makes sense when we learn that ghosts are nothing more than remnants of the person's aura combined with a particular attachment to a place). 
• Hey, she can fix that. She deletes a password and asks Jefferson if he would like help leaving this place. 
• Miller says he would indeed: he'd like to join his wife across the Shadowrealm. 
• In exchange for her help, Miller agrees to take a message to Perry's husband.

May 22

The Alchemyst Chapter 15

In this chapter the twins, Josh and Sofie, enter Hecate's home - a magical, hollow, vast, ancient, hand-carved tree with no electricity and a thin tall tree growing within it.  Flamel calls it the the World Tree.  Scattach calls it the Shadowrealm or World of Ghosts.  We also learn that this warrior is also a vegan Vampire.  They are waiting to meet members of the Torc clan - creatures that are neither human nor beast but worshipped as gods by the humani.  The twins seem to have a destiny to fulfill and Scattach warns them to trust only themselves as they encounter new wonders along the way.

Continue working on your how-to video.

A reminder that any outstanding tasks from this term must be submitted by May 31st.  

May 21 Novel, Math

The Alchemyst Chapter 14

Goal: to summarize/highlight the main events of one specific chapter.

In this chapter we learn that the twins, Josh and Sofie, both have glowing auras (Josh golden like the sun and that of King Tut, Sofie silver like the moon and that of Joan of Arc).  Flamel convinces Greek Goddess Hecate to take the twins on as their students, to develop their untapped magical powers to help them reclaim the Codex, save the earth from Dr. John Dee, Morrigan and the Dark Elders and, of course, save Perenelle, Flamel's wife.  This chapter contributes to the rising action and foreshadows (predicts) the upcoming climax (plot high point) - a showdown between Team Flamel and Team Dee.


Math

10.3 link to drawing views of 3D polyhedral on isometric (triangle dot) paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvc_gYHlgJs

10.2 link to creating nets for prisms and pyramids & understanding difference between faces, edges, vertices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcOomgh7BkM

How-to videos due no later than May 31st.

May 17 Novel, French,

Novel Study: The Alchemyst

Without the use of a dictionary, what do you think the following underlined vocabulary means in context?

"your lives are forever altered"

"Sofie took a moment to formulate her question"

"a simple misinterpretation of facts"

"dinosaurs and humans living together is simply inconceivable"

"what Flamel was suggesting was staggering in its implications"

"the smoke didn't dissipate, it moved in circles"

"Perenelle always had a sense of the theatrical"

"nunachuku was of ornately carved wood..."

"a peculiar odor wafted into the car"

"heads bobbing in unison"

"sacrilege.  it has survived 10,000 years without suffering any damage"

• What did you learn about Scathach?  Who is she part of?
• What is the goal of the Dark Elders and "their puppet Dee"?
• What did Perenelle do for a living before meeting Flamel, her husband now of 600+ years?
• Alchemy is a combination of what 2 studies?
• The Codex holds the secret to what?
• Who is Morrigan, the Goddess of?
• Flamel made a call to summon what request?
• Flamel's crew is now surrounded by what illusion and what legendary God?

French

Je suis silencieux/silencieuse
Write a journal entry and answer the following:

• how does it feel to be silent?
• what was your biggest challenge?
• why are we silent today?

Due May 21st

May 17

U10 Polyhedrons

Geometry Art Goal:

To sketch the front view of an object/person/animal using a mirror line to show symmetry, perspective and light/shadow.  

exemplars:

 

May 15

Reminder that the following tasks should have been submitted by now:

• new france prezi (completed ones are posted on blog)
• science energy efficient building materials
• science ergonomically designed objects

You should be continuing to work on:

• novel study quotes using success criteria provided 
• how-to informative video

Fractions corrections below: