In a Word

Hey Team 

Pick David or Sean and select 5 words that best describe there character.

These characters are complex and intricate and some words are easy to identify with but others will reveal the true depth of these characters.  

Take the time and think and find clever and insightful words that describe these characters from Rebound. 

1. Pick a word and then write a brief passage with evidence justifying your choice 

2. Repeat five times 

Summer Time

What are you doing this summer?

Jump Rope for Hearts

We will be running the Hoops and Jump events on Friday June 10th.

We will need groups of 2 and maybe 3 to run the individual stations.

create your groups here and post an activity you will run.

Keep the activities simple and fast moving.  you will be dealing with 20 students for 10 minutes at each time.

Holes 2

Hello Team,

Here is a link to the Louis Sachar website.  Check it out and post something interesting you discovered reading through the site

http://www.louissachar.com/HolesBook.htm

Adopt a Village - 2

Lets get our plan rolling:

Use this post to keep track and get people focused on our goals.

Stephanie has the money envelop and anybody that wants to help in collection and recording talk with her.

We have raised $4 thus far - Tarundeep took the initiative and is the first to donate, who will be next...

Kids Newspaper

A website dedicated to giving news to students.

Take a look, we will explore it in greater detail later.

http://teachkidsnews.com/

Adopt a Village

This is a worthy fundraiser that I feel we should get involved with and make a contribution.  As much as we talk about making a difference in terms of the environment and equality it is fundraisers like this that give us the opportunity to practice what we preach.

We were awesome during the can food drive, but our level of greatness is only meaningful if its consistent - and becoming an irrelevant hypocrite is not acceptable.

Lets get some 87 bricks to join with the few other classes that have contributed bricks. ($20 per brick)

1. lets get a class leader
2. lets make a plan
3. lets set some obtainable goals 
4. lets get STARTED AND INVOLVED

Infer

Read carefully before you begin.


View, focus, and investigate the photos below.


What can you infer about what is going on in this image?


Use specific references to items and people from the picture to infer.  As well demonstrate the connections you make to support your inferences.

1. Please type out your response in a word document.
2. email the response to me (mrcheney@rogers.com)
3. email a copy to yourself so you can use it to post on the blog later (when I instruct you to post)
4. This will keep your responses private, and not give students responding later the benefit of reading your responses before constructing their own.

Grayson

This is just for some fun.  This is a movie trailer made by an independent film maker a few years ago.  Similar to our movie it is barebones and uses a variety of cheesy effects and nothing computer generated.    As well for you comic book fans enjoy all the classic superheroes. 

Post any comments or reactions:

   

The Environment

Check out this short article on green bins.

Post a comment on the usefulness of this idea:

http://www.moneyville.ca/blog/post/965325--a-6-year-old-solved-a-problem-i-couldn-t

IRead 7

Are there any characters in your book that are similar to any characters from the class novel "The Cheat"?

Share how they are similar:

Japan - The Latest

Although the news coverage of the events in Japan have dwindled slightly over the past few days.  The far reaching effects and devastation continue to grow.  Specifically in the inability to stop radiation leaks.

Check out the article to keep yourself current on the world changing effects in Japan.  Similar to our studying of 9/11 this event may alter the course of world history drastically.

Suggest some predictions of how this event may change the world? or argue that it indeed will not.

perhaps being fully informed will make it more meaningful and important to donate a few dollars to support relief efforts.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/963330--japan-on-maximum-alert-as-nuclear-crisis-deepens?bn=1

Healthy Living

Hey Team,

Check out this article on Student health.  It is from an American perspective but its reality is not that different from our own.

Should parents be standing guard around stores that sell junk food to children?

Do Principals have the right to ask store owners not to sell candy to kids?

Can you make any connections to equality and systemic racism?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/us/28food.html?_r=1&hp

The Cheat 6

Follow my read aloud and post your comments:

The Cheat 5

Dan trying to hook up with Sarah? We all in this together he says?!

what do you think about that?

Blog Assignement

Hello Team,

If you created a blog page you can post the link here.

The Cheat - 4

What do you think of Dan's father?

Was that good parenting?

Do you think he considers his wife his eqaul?

Paying for Class Notes - Sharing or Cheating?

Check out this article about University students who buy class notes online (the type of jot notes we learned about during the slave trade research)

what do you think.  Is it stealing or just sharing?

http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/article/956998--paying-for-class-notes-online-sharing-or-cheating

Libya

Another current recent event is the breakdown in Libya.  Just this weekend the UN (France, Britain, United States) took action and supported the rebel fighters.

Read this recent article and find and share other articles, pictures, video's, to enhance our knowledge of the world we live in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/africa/22libya.html?_r=1&hp

The Cheat 2

Dan was so confident not to worry about being caught cheating.  He was cocky and arrogant about the situation.  But he was the first one to snitch and cave in to save himself in Mr. Chen's office!  What do you think about Dan?  Is he realistic and is this behaviour realistic?