sept 17 reminder

If you received a letter to take home to your parents today, please return it signed tomorrow with any outstanding assignment(s).  Thank you.

sept 17 math

square roots corrections below.  complete order of operations pg.28 #7,8,12,13 for homework.

sept 17 geography questions & task

Following today's discussion about text pgs 11-13 (does the place make sense, physical factors, human factors, factors of location & basic needs) respond to the questions below.  I will collect them on Friday. 

Geography

 

U1 Place & Location – Text pgs 11-13

·        When you think of your neighbourhood in the community of Humberlea/Pelmo Park, do you think that specific places (residential, commercial, recreational, social, industrial, educational, cultural etc) within it make sense?  In other words, why are places located where they are?

 

·        What do you think the job of an urban planner entails?

 

·        What is a landform? What landforms encourage a place to be located around it?  Could climate have any influence on a location?

 

·        What human characteristics influence people to live/build/work in a specific location?  Can you give any real-life examples from your city?

 

·        What factors do you think influence the location of a business?

 

·        What modern technologies do we have (vs i.e. Aboriginals) that enable us to settle virtually any location to meet our basic needs of water, food, shelter, security and clothing?

  Geography Prezi  (presentations will begin next week i.e. Wed)

·        Working individually or with only 1 partner, pick any specific place in our city or anywhere in Canada that is special or of interest to you. 

·        Locate it on a map.  Identify the major boundaries/road intersections around it.

·        Identify the community/city/province/country in which it is located.

·        How would you get there from St. Simon?

·        What type of place is it? i.e. economic/commercial, political, social, recreational, cultural, religious etc.

·        Does the location of this place of interest make sense to you?  Is it easily accessible? What are the pros/cons of its location?

• What is special about it? Why is it of interest to you?

sept 13 reminders

• prezi presentations will conclude tomorrow
• tomorrow last day to submit novel study follow-ups & geography map
• geography & novel study tasks below

sept 13 geography

sept 13 novel study

Chapter 6 Tuck Everlasting

Vocabulary Development – offer synonyms in context for each underlined word.

·         she was seized and swung through the air

 

·         found herself straddling the bouncing back of the fat

·         old horse

 

·         a troupe of burly men with long black moustaches

 

·         while she pleaded for mercy

 

·         her head was fiercely calm

 

·         Discovering him, seeing his surprise, and presented at once with

choices, Winnie's mind perversely went blank

 

·         Jesse grabbed at the horse's harness and he pulled up abruptly, nearly toppling Winnie off over his neck.

 

·         Mae gasped, her chest heaving

 

·         Miles and Jesse fidgeted, glancing at their mother uneasily

·         began to comprehend what was happening

 

·         Tuck's round face wrinkled in dismay. "Dear Lord, don't cry!

 

·         Please don't cry, child!" she implored

 

·         Winnie's sobs turned to wails

 

·         The winding key was still revolving, but more and more slowly. The melody faltered.

 

• No one who owned a thing like this could be too disagreeable

sept 13 math quiz

 

sept 12 french

• title page, prayers, salutations

sept 12 math

• complete review handout front/back
• mid chapter corrections below
• tomorrow's quiz questions on last page of corrections

sept 11 reading chapter 5

Tuck Everlasting Chapter 5 follow-up:

1. What do you think Jesse is thinking when he tries to prevent Winnie from drinking the spring water?

2. What do you think Mae Tuck means when she says, “The worst is happening at last”?