Current Events 8-5 & 8-6

Current events are due  Apr. 27 and May 5th.  Students have the day they are resonsible for posted in the room.

8-5 & 8-6 Social Studies

Students are to complete the plot charts  for “Heracles” and
“Jason and the Golden Fleece” for Monday, April 20.

Zues’ Secret Garden Workshop

The grade 8 Social Studies teachers are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for all grade 8 students.  Members of the Assinaboine Park Conservatory will be coming to our school totalk about Zues’ Secret Garden.  We have been studying Greek Mythology in our unit on Ancient Greece , and this presentation demonstrates that while Zues, Aphrodite, and [...]

Note: Ms Cherniack will be away until May 4 on the German Exchange

Note:  Ms Cherniack will be away until May 4 on the German Exchange.  Ms Allen is substituting and will be updating the blog.

ELA PPT Poetry 8-5 and 8-6 Due Thurs. April 16

              ELA     PPT Poetry 8-5 and 8-6 Due Thurs. April 16
 
               We have been working on this project for the last week.  Students have         an instruction sheet and most are finished.

ELA Paragraph Poem 8-5 Due Wed. April 8

ELA Paragraph Poem 8-5 Due Wed. April 8
Students have a descriptive paragraph which they are turning into a poem.  They are to experiment with spacing.

SS q.18-20 for 8-5 and 8-6 Due Wed. April 8

SS q.18-20 for 8-5 and 8-6 Due Wed. April 8

ELA Paragraph Poem 8-6 Due Tues. April 7

ELA Paragraph Poem 8-6 Due Tues. April 7
Students have a descriptive paragraph which they are turning into a poem.  They are to experiment with spacing.

Two writing contests

April 3, 2009. For immediate release. This is the last weekend before the April 7, 2009 postmark deadline for entries to the Winnipeg Free Press/Writers’ Collective Short Fiction and the Writers’ Collective Marie Barton Postcard Fiction Contests.
Both contests offer winners cash prizes, as well as publication in The Collective Consciousness, quarterly journal of the Writers’ [...]