Monday, May 30 - Friday, June 3

Thursday

1. Make sure your work based on the Stats Canada web site is finished. Self-reflection. Hand-in your geography booklets. 
2. Comedy in Shakespeare’s plays.
3. A bit of time to work on the good copy of the memoir. GOOD COPY IS DUE TOMORROW.

Wednesday

1. Edit quiz to write and mark.
2. Make sure your work based on the Stats Canada web site is finished. Self-reflection.

Tuesday

1. Midsummer Night's Dream. Answers to the questions.
2. On your own paper write down the 5 benefits mentioned in the video that arise from gathering census data on specific communities. Come up with 2 other community benefits that you can imagine. Link is on blog.
   http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm
   From the main census page look at the “Key Statistics: Canada” Use that information and the information about BC and 2 other provinces of your choice. Create an infographic or a table or a chart to display the information on median age, % immigrants, household income, average farm size. This graphic, table or chart must be done using a computer or your phone. We will brainstorm possible formats and programs in class.

Monday

The Canadian Census. The last census was in 2011. Information from the latest census will be made available in the coming months.

1. Yellow handout: 4 pie charts should now be complete as well as the answers to the questions about the pie charts. 
   View the video (from the link below) about how communities benefit from census information. On your own paper write down the 5 benefits mentioned in the video that arise from gathering census data on specific communities. Come up with 2 other community benefits that you can imagine. Link is on blog.
   http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm
   From the main census page look at the “Key Statistics: Canada” Use that information and the information about BC and 2 other provinces of your choice. Create an infographic or a table or a chart to display the information on median age, % immigrants, household income, average farm size. This graphic, table or chart must be done using a computer or your phone. We will brainstorm possible formats and programs in class.
2. Complete gathering online information "Scavenger Hunt" about the Shakespeare's play: Midsummer Night's Dream. Be prepared to present tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 24 - Friday, May 27

Friday

1. Yellow handout: Canada on the Move: complete online research at the Statistics Canada site to compare our class with other regions of Canada. 
2. Complete gathering online information "Scavenger Hunt" about the Shakespeare's play: Midsummer Night's Dream. 

Thursday

1. Social Studies - map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads. Self-reflection.
2. Yellow handout: Canada on the Move: complete pie charts about our class. 
3. NEW! Online information "Scavenger Hunt" about the Shakespeare play: Midsummer Night's Dream. 

Wednesday

• Social Studies - labelling a map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads. Map is due TODAY
• Yellow handout from yesterday: Rural to Urban Migration - go over together.
• Yellow handout: Canada on the Move.

Canada on the Move
Step 1: Log on to your computer and open Profile of the Canadian Population by Mobility Status: Canada on the Move http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/Products/Analytic/companion/mob/contents.cfm
Click on the "Canada" link. Click on the TABLE link Mobility

2011-2012 data
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-209-x/2014001/article/14012-eng.htm#a2

Tuesday

1. Orange note taking package is due today. I will check during silent reading. On back of last page, compare and contrast the regions. Discuss your understanding of similarities or differences in: landforms, climate, vegetation.
2. Self-reflection
3. Social Studies - labelling a map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads. Map is due TOMORROW, Wednesday, May 25
4. Migration in Canada - yellow hand-out. Complete the reading and the 2 pages of questions. Questions 8-11 relate to the information found on the website listed here:

Migration in Canada:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014001-eng.htm

Monday, May 16 - Thursday, May 19

Thursday

1. Review memoir rubric. Draft was due yesterday: identify evidence of quality on your draft: identify the purpose, identify examples of imagery, figurative language, sensory details. Craft an alternate lead. 
2. Social Studies - labelling a map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads. Map is due Wednesday, May 25
3. Continue working on the note taking from the chapter on Canadian geography. You should work on p,168-169 & 170-171 today. PACKAGE IS DUE ON TUESDAY, May 24.

Wednesday

1. GAME: It has been too long - short story game - "the exquisite corpse” http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/page/2
2. Poem - final copy due today. Self-assessment.
3. Review memoir rubric. Draft due today: identify evidence of quality on your draft: identify the purpose, identify examples of imagery, figurative language, sensory details. Craft an alternate lead. 
4. Social Studies - labelling a map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads. Map is due Wednesday, May 25
5. Continue working on the note taking from the chapter on Canadian geography. You should work on p,168-169 & 170-171 today. PACKAGE IS DUE ON TUESDAY, May 24.

Tuesday

1. Poem - final copy due on Wednesday. Work on final draft today. 
2. Self-assessment - poem.
3. Review memoir rubric. Draft due on tomorrow.
4. Social Studies - labelling a map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads.
5. Continue working on the note taking from the chapter on Canadian geography. You should work on p,168-169 & 170-171 today.PACKAGE IS DUE ON TUESDAY

Monday

1. Poem - final copy due on Wednesday.
2. Go over memoir rubric. Draft due on Wednesday.
3. Self-assessment - Canadian geography.
4. Social Studies - labelling a map of Canada with the information on regions from Crossroads.
5. Continue working on the note taking from the chapter on Canadian geography.

Monday, May 9 - Friday, May 13

Friday

1. Continue working on your writing your memoir. Show evidence of adding the elements we went through in class: contrast, comparison, metaphor, simile, etc.
2. Work on the orange pages related to geography.

Thursday

1. Complete co-creating the rubric for a memoir as a class using examples.
2. Begin writing your memoir.
3. Writing workshop: using stylistic devices such as comparison, vivid verbs, onomatopoeia, and contrast to improve your memoir.

Wednesday

1. Share information about your natural region of Canada: collage, blue sheet. During presentations, take notes for the end of unit test.
2. Work on the handout about Canadian regions based on the textbook.  You should complete the sections about pages 166-167 in class today.
3. Complete co-creating the rubric for a memoir as a class using examples.

Tuesday

1. Speech share-out - have a printed copy -  if possible, find an audio/video clip of a brief section of the speech.
2. Co-construct criteria for a good motivational speech: Any Given Sunday, I have a Dream - other sample speeches.

Monday

1. I collected the blue research page about your Canadian region. I also collected the map of Canada’s regions. If your work was not ready for class today, report to room 100 this week. It is expected that you will check in there 2 times: once to do the research; once to do the map. 
2. Work on completing the storyboard for your memoir.
3. Work on the handout about Canadian regions based on the textbook. You may do this work in point form; however, it must be neatly done and detailed. Remember that these notes, as always, can be used on the final test about geography. You should complete the sections about pages 161-163 in class today.

Monday, May 2 - Friday, May 6

Friday

1. Together we began constructing the criteria for a quality memoir using student examples.

2. Next, we began to storyboard your memoir before writing draft 1.

Thursday

1. "When I was a Puerto Rican" excerpt - read some more. Build on our definition of memoir from yesterday: 
2. What is a memoir? Read 2 with a partner and answer the following questions: What are the defining traits of a memoir? What must a memoir have? What can it include? What is the purpose of a memoir? Why did this person write about this specific event?
3. What are the CRITICAL traits for a memoir?
4. Your memories: Game - 2 Truths and 1 Lie. Something I will never forget is...

Wednesday

1. Memories.Writing prompt: My parents once told me...
2. "When I was a Puerto Rican" excerpt
3. What is a memoir? Read 2 with a partner and answer the following questions: What are the defining traits of a memoir? What must a memoir have? What can it include? What is the purpose of a memoir? Why did this person write about this specific event?

Tuesday - continuation of Monday's work...

1. Return to your region group based on the coloured paper you were given.
2. Attach one of your group/region cards to the area of the country where you believe your region is located. Research to see whether you are correct. Move region paper if needed. 
3. Label your own map of Canada with the location of its six natural regions.
4.  Identify 5 key points for each of the six natural regions studied. 
5. Create a list of images each person in your group has to make or gather (from magazines, etc.) that represent your natural region. Collage to be added to the map tomorrow.
6. Begin completing your own, individual copy of the research outline pages. You may do it in point form provided you do it very neatly, and your answers are detailed and thorough.

Monday

Today is Great Lakes Awareness Day! 

1. Find your region group based on the coloured paper you were given.
2. Help assemble the map of Canada.
3. Attach one of your group/region cards to the area of the country where you believe your region is located. Research to see whether you are correct. Go to:  http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/intro.aspx?lang=En# / from the menu on the left: explore by themes / the regions. 
4.  Move region paper if needed. 
5. Label your own map of Canada with the location of its six natural regions.
6.  Identify 5 key points for each of the six natural regions studied. 
7. Create a list of images each person in your group has to make or gather (from magazines, etc.) that represent your natural region. Collage to be added to the map tomorrow.
8. Begin completing your own, individual copy of the research outline pages. You may do it in point form provided you do it very neatly, and your answers are detailed and thorough.