Week of January 5th


English Language Arts:

This week we eased into things by reviewing what we had read in our novel study of Refugee before the break, and then continued to read on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We read until the end of page 146 in the novel, which is Pg 77 on the PDF. Please note the PDF is on our Google Classrooms under Classwork so that all students can keep up on their reading when they are absent (this is very important). 

On Thursday, students were introduced to our newest writing task - and their final writing task before Report Cards come out - a Character Perspective Journal Entry. 

For this task, each student is writing a journal entry as though they are one of the three main characters - Josef, Isabel or Mahmoud. They spent Thursday and Friday planning, choosing what events their journal would include, with a specific focus on inferring what the character would have been thinking and feeling. 


Please have your child show you the Slides used to Introduce this task on their Google Classroom, and tell you which character they chose. 



Social Studies:

Classes started the week reviewing the test that was written before the break on Provincial Government, before moving on to Federal Government. First we did a review on the Three Levels of Government, before beginning to investigate our Constitution, and Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We then began looking at Parliament, the Senate and House of Commons. 

All resources we have gone over in class are on Google Classroom, along with the worksheets the kids have done throughout instruction. If your child has missed school please have them login to go through the slides. 



Tasks & Assignments:

  • Please check your child’s PowerSchool as many students have numerous missing and incomplete assignments at this time. We are nearing the end of term one and late work will no longer be collected after a certain point as teachers will need to finish assessing current assignments at the end of the month. 
  • What In The World assignment - overdue 
  • Political Party Platform Speech - overdue