We have been discussing how to find symbols in literature when reading our book The Hobbit. Students are asked to draw pictures of objects that come up in the book and follow the steps below to declare what they may be a symbol of.

Your assignments is written in the picture below.  There is also a sample of this assignment below that.

Here is a picture of an example that was done in class once.

The video below explains the process well.

The time has come to appeal to the investors to continue to invest in your studies.  For several weeks you have had time to complete the academic or personal study of your choice and the time has come to present your findings, learnings, or developing skills.  Your job is to present to the class (the investors) to show that you have used your time wisely, thought about your learning, followed through with your goals, and then reflected and considered new directions.  If you present well to us you may be approved for further invested time in your person open-world learning project.

What your presentation should include:

• Introduction to your project explaining what your overall goals were.
• Explain the smaller goals you made to achieving your overall goals.
• Show us any additional documentation that you may have made to help you such as a smaller list of achievements, a chart, etc.
• Show us your calendar or a journal or explain how you scheduled your work times in order to achieve your goals.
• Show us any materials (resources) you may have used to help you complete your open-world project.
• Present the progress of your project:
  • What did you make?
  • What skills have you developed?
  • What do you have that shows you developed in your learning/skill?

The main purpose: you want to convince us that you have worked hard and made progress.  If we think you have then we will approve you for further investments of class time.

Remember: you will also be a Dragon who judges the presentations similar to those on Dragon’s Den.  21.02.26 dragon den forms for students (and will also be used to judge your own presentation).

This afternoon the Grade 8s are doing a Ted Talk on how to have a better conversation.  Celeste Headlee will talk to us about how to truly engage to have real conversations as opposed to simply talking among each other.  Then we will head to this link to explore some questions and a discussion topic.  Students will do a quick write and then share their ideas with each other.

Check out this cheat sheet of topics that Celeste shares with us in the video.

23.02.07 10-Ways-to-Have-a-Better-Conversation-Handout

This week we are all going to take a look at the Grade 8 textbook for a concept called “square numbers”  Check out the assignment below and supplimentary videos to help.

20.12.14 1.1 and 1.2 grade 8 squares and roots

Asignment 1.1 #’s 4-17 (monday) and 1.2 #’s 5-17 (tuesday)

20.10.20 grade 7 – area of circles – 4.5

Grade 7’s – Your assignment is 4.5 #’s 1-7

Check out this video below that explains exactly how the formula for the area of circle was arrived at thousands of years ago (formula explained).

And here is a follow up lesson video on #4 as it often gives people a moment to figure out

20.01.20 gr 8 – surface area of a right triangular prism – 4.4

Grade 8’s – Your assignment is 4.4 #’s 4-10

Today you are going to join our class on Edublogs by making your own link.  To do this you will need to use the link below.  Be sure to include your student email which is yourusername@stu.esd.ca.   Also, make a password that you will REMEMBER.  If you forget your password then you will need to have the website use your student email to recover it.

Here is the invite link

Watch this video for easy-to-follow instructions on how to do all this.

Today the Grade 5-6 class will be working on creating 3d art out of 2d paper using only paper, ruler, pencil, and pencil crayons.

Follow the video below to try out a few shapes first.  Then watch the second video to see how to use this new skill to make your very own name in 3d.

Assignment: choose one or the other to finish to completion.

Students are going to prepare for a role-playing activity.  The assignment is to read through the material in the link below and complete the research on your role/character. Then, the next day, we are going to do some role-playing conversations to prepare ourselves to convince the Vizier that, as labourers, we need a pay raise to build the pyramids.

23.01.24 Ancient Egypt Role play activity

Tuesday: Prepare for the role

Wednesday: Practice conversations and planning of the argument

Thursday: Writing out our argument to the Vizier (persuasive writing)

For any students that are absent:  You will not be selected a role. Instead, you may role a dice to choose which row your role is, and then roll again for which job from left to right.  That way you will also receive a random role similar to those that were in class.

20.01.13 grade 7 – circumference of a circle – 4.2

Grade 7’s – Your assignment is 4.2 #’s 1-9

20.01.13 grade 8 – surface area of right rectangular prisms – 4.3

Grade 8’s – Your assignment is 4.3 #’s 4-10, 13, and 15

Here is the video for the Math Antics on Circumference and Area that you were asdked to do in the morning in the classroom.  The worksheets were distributed in class and on the Math page of Teams.