nov 20 geography task

Geography U3: Movement

Big Ideas:

• Earth movement: land, water, air (earthquakes, landslides, water erosion, gravity acting on high/low ocean tides, heat expansion/cold contraction, types of wind, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados)

• People movement: push and pull to relocate, migration, refugees seeking refuge from homeland politics/wars/lack of work.

• Goods movement: everything we use to live is transported internationally by freight-forwarders land, sea and air on a daily basis

• Underground movement: what services do we rely on that are found below the surface in different pipes/wires?

• Electronic movement: how do we use technology to move information internationally on a daily basis?

Instructions:

Pick a big idea that interests you or that you're curious about. Read up on that big idea in the textbook pg.48-68. 

Within that big idea, focus on only 1 specific topic that interests you and present it using a combination of text/images/video on Prezi to explain it to the class. 

Remember to focus on what is moving geographically and if can you connect it to a real-life example, local or international.  Remember to also introduce or define it before you showcase it's examples.

If you choose, you may work with 1 partner of your choice, provided you work constructively and cooperatively together.

nov 20 novel study

Seedfolks: Sae Young, Curtis, Nora

As a reader, what do you feel for Sae Young’s experiences?  What does the garden do for her?

What is Curtis’s goal?  What does it say about him?

Why does Nora compare the garden to a soap opera?  What does the garden do for Mr Myles?

nov 19 chapter self test corrections

unit 4 chapter self-test corrections pg.143 below
for homework work on practice questions pg.145 1, 2bcd, 3, 4, 5, 6 using a table of values.

 

nov 19 novel study

Seedfolks: Sam & Virgil

What does Sam, a former activist and pacifist that was used to getting involved and making a positive difference by sewing rips in the neighborhood, notice about this 3 walled park or paradise? 

At this point in the novel, what are your personal feelings about what is happening at the vacant lot garden?

Do you think Virgil’s prayers will be answered his Greek goddess in the locket he discovered?

nov 15 novel study

Novel Study: Seedfolks follow-up to Gonzalo and Leona

Gonzalo introduces us to his immigrant uncle, Tio Juan, who feels disconnected by his new surroundings and cannot speak English.  What does Gonzalo compare his uncle's behaviour to? What finally enables Tio Juan to connect to his new neighborhood?

What do you learn about Leona's character in her quest to rid the vacant lot of its waist-high garbage problem?  How is she like her grandmother?

What effect do you think the vacant lot is having on this Cleveland neighborhood?

Hand in these 3 questions above with the 3 questions about Kim, Ana and Wendell assigned yesterday on Nov 19th all together.

nov 15 take home test yourself

Work on U4 Chapter Self-Test in text pg.143 - to be corrected on Mon as a prep for final in-class unit test

 

 

Test yourself workbook corrections below:

 





nov 14 science

begin working on the solvent & solutes handout
remember: solutes are added to solvent which does the dissolving to form a solution i.e. sugar (solute) is dissolved in water (solvent) with stirring and possibly heat

nov 14 math 4.5

4.5 scatterplot corrections below from text & workbook.
Test Yourself workbook for homework - to be corrected tomorrow.

nov 14 seedfolks

Novel Study: Seedfolks

Kim, Ana, Wendell follow-up

 

By deciding to plant lima beans in her neighborhood’s vacant lot full of garbage, what do you think Kim hopes to show her late Vietnamese father?  What’s your opinion of this act?

 

Ana, a Romanian immigrant, one of the original tenants in building, talks about the many different ethnicities that have come and gone and of the many changes that have taken place over the years in the neighborhood.  What’s your opinion of her watchful eye over the community, her suspiciousness of others and of the realization she made?

 

After his son was shot and his wife was involved in a car accident, what does Wendell (former Kentucky farmer turned school caretaker) come to realize and do?  What’s your opinion of the idea that it was a child having a positive effect on an adult in this situation?

nov 14 novel study link

below is the link to read the text of our next novel, Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman

http://weread.com/view/browsebookframe.php?productid=BOK-10033256-3&isbn10=0064472078&refuid=VISITOR_9956F682-5522-41CB-AB8C-32AE1FD6D269&src=bookdetail.