We covered the content in 10.4 today.  Students were assigned the 10.4 Practice and given a hand out assignment that should be handed in tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Friday the 12th, we will review Chapter 10 and I will hand out review sheets for each of the chapters to help prepare for the cumulative final exam.

We got the departmental exam out of the way, now we have some assignments to hand in and a poetry unit to complete.  Today we worked on our Movie Review assignment which is DUE – tomorrow, Thurs. Dec 11. We also worked together to look at how to put our character sketches together.  There are notes in the ELA folder in class.

Here is an outline of the rest of our semester:

• Thursday – Begin poetry unit – 2 activities 1. A listening activity with a visual assignment and 2. A poetry writing and image collection assignment.
• Friday – Complete Thursday’s assignments and work on character sketch assignment and go over Oral Poetry Interpretation Assignment.
• Monday – Character Sketch due.  Work on Oral poetry interpretation and due date for Thursday’s asmts.
• Tuesday  and Wednesday –  Oral Poetry presentations and discuss Unit II quiz
• Thursday – Unit II quiz, return all resources

We continued to work on our Linear Relations Unit and went over the material from 10-1 and 10.2 in the textbook.  We also looked at the start of 10.4, identifying Direct and Partial Variations.

Important Info so far:

• slope = rate of change
• Equation y = mx + b, where m = slope and b = y-intercept (where the line crosses the y-axis, when x = 0)
• Direct Variations contain the origin as a point (0,0), when x = 0, y also = 0 and can be written by the equation     y = mx
• Partial Variations have a value for y when x = 0.  The y-intercept is not at (0,0).  Partial variations can be written by the equation y= mx + b

Due Dates:

• Ch 10 Mid-Chapter Review  – Thursday, Dec 11
• CH 10 Take home quiz – Mon. Dec 14 – no late quizzes accepted.
• FINAL EXAM – covers all material Thursday, Dec. 18 9:00-11:30

We continued to work on the 9.4 handout and worked through review questions in preparation for the unit test Thursday, Dec 4.  We wrote the test on the 4th and tomorrow we will begin the new unit, Linear Equations.

Dec 3

We looked at the departmental exam prototype and talked about timing, expectations and how to best respond to the prompts. You can view the departmental exam at The Education Website

Students then had time to complete and hand in their Urban Poetry essay assignment. The Urban poetry comprehension questions were due on Tuesday and the Essay is due Dec 4.

Dec 4

Today we watched a short movie based on the Sinclair Ross short story, “The Painted Door”.  The movie can be found on YouTube, search Sinclair Ross The Painted Door.

We answered some questions on the movie and wrote a paragraph on the Big Question prompt.  The question sheet is available on the ELA A30 page.

After the break we read the short story, “There are No Coconut Trees in Toronto”.  Copies of the story are in the ELA A30 folder in class.

On Friday, we will look at poems by Canadian poets who write differently about the Canadian landscape.

Today we began by looking at some of the Big Questions in our Canadian Landscapes Unit.  We talked about expectations and the types of literature we will cover in this unit.

We began our Urban Poetry lesson and we read through and discussed two poems, “Urban Spell” by Eva Tihanyi and “Urban Renewal” by Rhona McAdam. Students received an Urban poetry package, which has both poems, 2 sets of comprehension questions which we discussed and need to be submitted.  They should have been handed in before students left today.  For students who are away today, they are due tomorrow, Dec 3rd.

The package also contains a questions for formal essay data collection. These sets of questions are intended to help students prepare for the poetry essay.  There is also a poetry essay template and two sets of editing questions to answer before you submit your essay.

The essay will be due on Friday, Dec 5.

Assignments and Due Dates:

• Comprehension questions – Due Dec 2/ Dec 3 if absent today
• Urban Poetry essay – Due Friday, December 5

We focused on continuing to work on solving our triangles today.  Students who had submitted their Mid chapter Review assignment had it returned and they were able to resubmit several of the questions for more marks after we went over what needed to be done.

We reviewed 9.2 and 9.4 again, as people are struggling with which trig function to use and how to substitute into the trig function and solve the resulting math equation.

Tomorrow we will hand in 9.4 hand in assignment and we will work through the chapter review.  We must write the unit  test on Thursday, Dec 4.

We concluded Unit 1 today by finishing our discussion on “Canadian Gothic” and by looking at the Big Questions from Unit 1.  We wrote the Unit 1 quiz.

Tomorrow we will begin Unit 2 and students who missed the quiz will need to make arrangements to write by Wednesday afternoon. Shelby and Lakeshia, you can write Tuesday at 9am. Brenda will have your exams.  Joe, Renee, and Devin you will have to write at noon unless you have a work period that you can use, or you wish to write during our second period on Tuesday.

Today we continued to work with problems involving two triangles. There is a hand in assignment to go with this section.  Tomorrow we will be working on the chapter review and we will write the chapter exam on Wed. Dec 3.

ASMTS:

• Mid chapter Review p. 255
• 9.4 hand out

Today we will read the last piece of literature for Unit 1.  “Canadian Gothic” is a play written by a Saskatoon playwright in the 1970’s.  It contains evidence of racism and racial language that is intended to shock the viewer. The story is of a family, a broken marriage, an early death and the choices of naive young people.

There are questions we will look at as we read through the play.

We will write a short quiz on Monday at 2:00 to wrap up Unit 1: Canadian Perspectives: Distinct and Rich.  It will contain multiple choice questions regarding main idea, author and genre of the literature we have read so far , identifying independent and subordinate clauses and a 2 paragraphs.

The quiz will be written starting at 2:00.