Happy Lunar New Year!

 By request, here is the recipe we used in class this week (well, ours was loosely based on this):

https://thewoksoflife.com/vegetable-dumplings/

Helpful math videos

 "10% method" of finding percent

Finding percent with a calculator

What should I have on the go right now?

Check in with yourself on how you are doing with all of these:

ADST: Pages 5-16 Power Play planning booklet: complete and discussed with family. You should have a very clear idea of what you are making and what materials/tools you will need

LA: 

• Book Club novel reading: you should be reading from your book club novel for a minimum of 20 mins each evening at Home (standing homework). Be sure to bring your novel back to school each day as well.

• Green folder work for novel: "Significant Passage:" prepared for discussion this Friday, Jan 31

• Poem Presentation: working on your analysis, memorizing your poem. Check your presentation date: how many days do you have left to work on this?

Duolingo

Duolingo

Login: username and password

ADST Power Play

Thank you for staying on track with your Power Play project!

This week:

1. Meet with parent to discuss

2. Interpret results of p 12

3. Finalize design of product: describe

4. Define Business Operations

This is all in your planning booklet. Pages 5-15 should now be complete (due this Friday, Jan 24: have your booklet with you in class)

Poetry recitation

Prepare a poem to present: recitation and analysis. Click here for full instructions/planning/criteria (you already have a hard copy)

• Check calendar for your presentation date.

• Watch and listen for inspiration: Examples of past Canadian teens: recitation entrants

POEM CHOICES: You should already have a hard copy of your poem

 Family History

A hundred and fifty pounds

Internet Safety

"Breathe dust..."

Do your best under the circumstances

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

You aren't going to like what I have to say

Dog boy

Cowboy story

The Poet

The limpness of a bird's legs in flight

The many descriptions of being brown

Editing the prairie

January 1, Dawn

The lonely land

bhater mondo

Bilingual/Bilingüe

En route

From Correspondences

At the centre

Newfoundland sealing disaster

The snow man

The young poets of Winnipeg

My sister cries the seas

Ramadan

from Citizen

I have so many now

Wow! You've Changed

Famous

Current

The ABG (Able-Bodied Gaze)

On Seeing a Photograph of my Mother at St Joseph Residential School for Girls

Won't you celebrate with me

Too negative

Language

Dear Death

Comfort

bhater mondo

Flood

Internet safety

Billigual/Billingüe

Dear Diaspora child

Fractions quiz Wed Jan 22

 What will be on it? Everything you have practiced so far. 

• What is a fraction and what does it mean
• Mixed numbers, improper fractions: what they represent, and how to convert between the two
• Equivalent fractions
• Comparing fractions
• Representing fractions on number lines and by drawing pictures

Look over your quiz review package and ask for help with anything you don't understand. You can use your notes for the quiz.