Calendar

Monday, 5 May 2025

Yearbook personal page: Due now

Finish your yearbook personal page asap and hand it in before Thursday, March 8. 


Note: the final yearbook product will be in black and white.


Photo: when inserting your photo into the page, please use any photo of yourself that you have permission to recreate: a selfie, a nice photo your family has taken of you recently, or something from your "schoolpix.com" account that does not have a watermark


Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Finishing Everything!

 The pressure is on to get everything done before the break. Here is a checklist:


  • LA: green book club folder work, 3 sheets (Pick a Passage, Why novels in verse, Poets Collide): due now

  • Math Quiz next Monday: volume, circumference, area

  • SS: Ancient Worlds Inquiry: present your learning in class this Thursday, March 6

  • Science: Evolution project due March 13

  • Power Play Entrepreneurship: March 12
  • products and selling booth set-up/marketing materials ready to go for the fair next Wed
  • complete and hand in planning booklet before March break: pages 5, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26

Tuesday, 25 February 2025

TO-DO

Everything here must be completed before spring break. Check calendar above for due dates in the next 2 weeks. Use all class time effectively. You may have to do some work at home to finish.


1. Reader self check-in: in "Activities" on Spaces


2. Poetry anthology posted on Spaces, containing:

  • found poem (rearranged lines)
  • rainbow walk poem
  • personified object poem (inspired by "Budapest")
  • "I am" metaphor poem
  • paint chip "scene," with onomatopoeia--good copy

3. Poetry recitation: done or ready-to go on your due date


4. Book Club 2 (green folder) work:

  • Pick a Passage
  • Why write a novel in verse?
  • Poets Collide

5. Evolution Science project


6. Power Play: business plan, marketing materials, and make products to sell


7. SS Ancient Worlds Inquiry project



Monday, 10 February 2025

On track?

These are the things you should have done right now: a checklist.


1. Reader self check-in: in "Activities" on Spaces


2. Poetry anthology posted on Spaces, containing:

  • found poem (rearranged lines)
  • rainbow walk poem
  • personified object poem (inspired by "Budapest")
  • "I am" metaphor poem
  • paint chip "scene," with onomatopoeia--good copy

3. Poetry recitation: done or ready-to go on your due date


4. Significant Passage for Book Club 2 (green folder)

5. Math practice sheets for percent, decimal and fraction

6. Math notes (green sheet) prepared for Thursday's quiz (Feb 13)

7. Science: peppered moth assignment

8. Basquiat-inspired painting

9. Power Play: ad + up to page 18 in planning booklet complete


10. SS Ancient Worlds Inquiry: mostly finished your research


HOMEWORK

  • Standing homework: read bookclub book 20 mins/evening
  • bring cardboard for art 



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