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Thursday, 10 May 2012

Hunger Games Writing Task

These are your instructions and success criteria for today's writing task for the hunger games.

Writing Task: The Hunger Games

Goal: 

To relate/draw connections to a text.

Task:

Katniss, the protagonist of The Hunger Games, has been thrown into a challenging situation which was clearly not of her own choosing.  We have seen that she has stepped up to face her challenges, asserted her skills and mustarded up the courage within herself to overcome fear and failure.  Discuss a time when you, a friend, an acquaintance, or any fictional character was forced to face a challenge head-on and find inner strength and self-confidence to fight and overcome it.

Success Criteria:

-use WordQ to help you write coherent sentences;

-1st paragraph introduce person and their problematic situation;

-2nd paragraph discuss what person did to conquer challenge;

-3rd paragraph discuss what lesson anyone can learn from this.

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

May 9
Continue working on Hunger Games Pixie.
Bring in jpegs on your usb stick to begin working on MovieMaker project.
Download WordQ 30 day trial.  I will provide you with a product key before it expires.  Begin using it, it will help you write better sentences.
5s Math 10.8 workbook & textbook practice questions 4,5.
6s Math Skills Bank chapter 9 & EQAO booklet practice.

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

May 8th Math
Gr.5s 10.7 workbook pg.94, textbook pg.289 #4,5
Gr.6s 9.4 textbook pg.275 #9-11, workbook pg.82

Bring in usb stick with jpegs for movie maker project on thursday & friday.

Hunger Games Pixie Task

This is the task for the Hunger Games using Pixie.
Due Date - To Be Announced