Thrusday December 15

What we did today

Block 1: Today we did a practice geography challenge. We only did three rounds, each round consisting on ten questions. The questions were based on Canadian history. Most of them asked for the names of people or places an event took place. Once we were done the rounds, we went over the answers. Afterwards we got our novels and spent the rest of the block reading.

Block 2: We had some more time to read. After ten or twenty minutes we went into the groups based on the book we read. Ms. Lees then explained that we had to make a history web based on the book we were reading. Today though we only needed do the headings. Before class was about to end we discussed the learning intention for today's activities.

Purpose

Block 1: The mock geography challenge was supposed give an idea on what the actual geography challenge is like. At the same time we are learning about the history of Canada. We were given time to read in class because in block two we needed to read the book before we can do the actual headings.

Block 2: We were given more time to read so we have enough background knowledge to make the headings for the web. The reason we were put in groups based on the book was to work on our collaborating skills with other people. This way it is easier to discuss what the headings we should have. The whole purpose of the web though was to make the history easier to process than reading a list. We discussed the learning intention for what we did today because our blogs seem to have shallow learning intentions.

Connections and Reflections

I honestly did not know anything about the people or history of Canada, so the entire thing was very confusing for me. It is good to learn about the history of the country you are living in. The geography challenge reminds me more of a Canadian history contest than a geography contest. I am glad we went over the first couple of rounds so I know where I am at, and what to brace myself for later on.

I prefer reading a book then reading a textbook even if the book is history based. Textbooks can be dreadfully dull. You don't laugh at a textbook, or cry at the end of a textbook. If you are becoming an author the setting of a place is very important. Your characters will be shaped from the setting, and your story will be shaped too. If your story takes place in a modern day, then the characters will mostly likely have never met or encountered Ancient Romans.

Making a history web is better than a report because you will have to be extremely fussy about grammar. We only did the headings because we only read so much of the book, and can't make a proper web yet. Though if we had lots of informations to process, then a web is that best way to do it since you can find the sections easily. This is true in buisness because you only have so much time to present your idea. If you use a web as a visual aid then it is easier to connect it to your other ideas for people to understand.

The learning intention, is like the reason to do something. If you are learning biology, than the purpose is for you to know biology to become a doctor.

Homework: Read your novel!

Events: Pancake breakfast tommorow at 7 am! Bring food bank items

Jessica is posting on Friday

What we did

Today we did a survey thing about seven books that we had to write about on this sheet you would rate it out of 10 rate its reading level to your reading level and give a reason why we rated it.

we didn't do much today.

Why We Did

So we can pick a book to read over winter break

Homework

No Homework

Upcoming events

Spelling bee after school today

Pancake breakfest on friday morning

What We Did

Today in humanities we had to get in groups of five or six to respond to a question on one of the king arthur movie questions. Then after that we did a quick little review of what we did on the group project (almost like a learning log except we didn't do the whole entire day review.)

Why We Did It

We did it to try to improve our group discussion.

Homework

We had no homework today

Upcoming events

Spelling bee after school today

Pancake breakfest on friday morning

Friday December 9

Since Justin didn't post for Friday, I will post.

What we did:

On Friday we did the verbal spelling bee. The whole class had to participate, and be the end of the third round we got our top five finalists. There was another two rounds to decide on the subsitute speller. These people will participate at the school spelling bee next Monday afterschool. After the class spelling bee, we watched the rest of the movie, First Knight. Where we left off, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere were put on a public trail for kissing in front of King Arthur. All of the sudden Malagant's army attacks Camelot. Malagant tries to make King Arthur bow to him, but after a long suspenseful pause he yells attack and Camelot fights Malagant's army. Arthur got shoot, Lancelot and Malagant have a long swordfight, and everyone was stabbing each other. Lancelot killed Malagant on the throne, and everyone from Malagant's army retreated or got killed. Then they show a scene where Arthur is about to die, Guinevere weeps, and Arthur says his last words to Lancelot and Guinevere. Arthur dies, and then set out to sea. He is then set on fire, in the sunset.

Why we did it

We did the spelling bee because the class had to participate. We watch First knight so we can answer the questions based on the movie.

Reflections and Connections
The spelling bee is a good way to get people excited over something that many people would consider boring. That way people won't have to always use spell check. Making a competition out of spelling is very smart because now we will have more people learning the english language properly. The movie First Knight had a lot of background history to it. The movie can be used to show the kinds of religon they had a long time ago, as well as what were the living conditions, and morals at that time. The movie also made me realized how much we have advance. We have electricity, and batteries, while they only have fire.

Homework
First Knight Questions

Upcoming events
Canspell on Monday
Pancake Breakfast on Friday

Justin will be posting on Monday and Tuesday.

Admin

I made Jessica admin, as you can see because I want to give more people a chance make changes to the blog. Justin and Chase do you guys want to be admin too? If I make you admin I expect you to go on the blog more often. The same goes for the other admin. It can be so depressing to go on the blog and find that hardly anyone replies to your post. Do you think I should revoke myself as admin?

Posting Orders

Congrat's Jessica I'm making you admin. Here are the posting orders.

Monday-Justin
Tuesday-Justin
Thursday-June
Friday-Jessica

Who was suppose to be posting yesterday?