April 28th

8-6 Students did their Glee presentations.

8-7 Students did their Glee presentations.

We all watched the awesome talent show! Congrats to everyone involved!

8-5 Students did their Glee presentations

8-8 Students rehearsed their Glee presentations

April 27th

8-7 Students worked in their Glee groups

8-8 Students worked on any outstanding work and handed in their French homework if they hadn't handed it in yesterday.

8-5 Students worked in their Glee groups. Presentations start tomorrow.

8-8 English, students worked in their groups. Presentations start tomorrow.

8-6 Students worked in their groups. We saw one presentation-good work!

8-8 Histoire-we started reading about the lead-up to confederation.

Talent Show is tomorrow periods 3 and 4.

April 26th

April showers bring May flowers.
If the weather forecast is right, we should have some great flowers next month!

Remember to dress appropriately. Speaking of dressing appropriately, we reviewed the dress code today.
No underwear should be visible. Spaghetti straps are not allowed nor are bare midriffs.

8-8 Students read in French and continued to work on their yearbook covers and grad comment sheets. Both are due Thursday.

Arrowhon money is also due this week.

In English, students worked in their Glee groups.

Grad photo retakes are TOMORROW.

April 21st

8-8 We worked on using "vouloir", "pouvoir" and "devoir" + infinitif

Students are to hand in their 15 sentences (5 with each verb) Tuesday if they didn't finish in class today.

8-5, 8-6 and 8-7 - Students worked in their Glee groups.

April 20th

8-6 Students formed their "Glee" groups and started working on their scripts.

8-8 We took up the Notre Dame vocab and reviewed the verbs: devoir, pouvoir, vouloir and aller in the present.

8-5 worked on their Glee skits.

8-8 We attended a presentation on internet safety with all of the other Grade 8 classes.

Please remember that Grad retakes are next week and that students in 8-8 need to give their $31.00 to Julia ASAP.

April 19th

8-6 Students read silently and handed in their biographies.

8-8 We read Chapter 5 of "Notre Dame de Paris".

8-7 We went to the library for our last Lit. Circle discussion.

8-8 Students worked in their "Glee" groups.

8-5 Students formed their "Glee" groups and worked on their scripts.

Grad photo retakes are April 27th.

Tomorrow, we are having a presentation by the Toronto Police.

Grad Photo Retakes

Retakes will be done on April 27th at 9am. Make sure you are all set to smile nicely especially if you missed the original day!

April 15th

8-8 We worked on Grad comments, yearbook covers and read Notre Dame Ch.4

8-5 Reading Response Day and we had a chat about plagiarism.

8-6, 8-7 and 8-8 also read their Reading Response reading and journals.

8-6, your biographies are due on Tuesday.

8-6 and 8-8 have Lit. Circles on Monday, please be prepared.
8-7 you have Lit. Circles on Tuesday.


Have a great weekend. French biographies are due on Tuesday.

April 14th

8-8 We read Ch. 3 of "Notre Dame de Paris" and discussed it.

8-5 We had our last class of Lit. Circles.

8-6 and 8-7 We continued wathing "Glee" and did some self-reflection.

8-8 We read more about the history of Canada and the geographic challenges of our vast country.

April 12th

Remember to wear PINK tomorrow to take a stand against bullying!

8-6 We deconstructed another ad and watched Glee. We will finish the episode tomorrow and discuss stereotypes.

8-7 We went to the library for Lit. Circles.

8-8 We also watched Glee.

8-5 Same as 8-6

8-8 worked on their yearbook cover art, number pattern art and grad comment forms.

THINK PINK!

April11th

8-7 Students worked on deconstructing ads.

8-8 Students worked in their reading groups.

8-5 We looked at ads and talked about sexism.

8-8 We deconstructed an ad and started watching "Glee". We will continue tomorrow and talk about stereotypes.

8-6 We deconstructed ads and talked about effective advertising.

8-8 We worked on yearbook covers.

April 8th

8-8 French. Students worked in their reading groups.

8-8 English. We looked at some print ads and deconstructed them. We also talked about stereotypes.

8-7 English. We also looked at print ads and deconstructed them talking about values included and omitted. We talked about stereotypes.

8-5 English. We went to the library for Lit. Circles. One week to go!

8-6 We began our media unit talking about stereotypes and you tube as a marketing tool.

Have a good weekend!

April 7th

8-8 We began our new unit on media by deconstructing some music videos.

We also had Lit. Circles today.

8-7 Same as 8-8.

8-6 We had Lit. Circles.

8-5 Same as 8-8.

8-8 Histoire- we continued our questions.

We will continue our media unit tomorrow or do Reading Response.

April 6th

8-6 went to band this morning. You have Lit. Circles tomorrow!
Biographies are due Monday.

8-8 Students worked on their French biographies. These are due Monday, April 18th.
Please remember to include your artwork.

8-5 We worked on the questions that accompanied "The Rink".

8-8 Art- Students worked on their Art projects and number art.

8-8 English biography is due Monday, April 11th.

April 5th

8-6 We continued working on The Rink. Tomorrow, period 1, you have band rehearsal instead of English.
The next day, Day 2 you have Lit.Circles again. Your biographies are due Monday.

8-8 We worked in our French reading groups and then talked a bit about the upcoming election.

8-7 We had Lit. Circles but very informally :)

8-8 We worked on "The Rink"

8-5 We started reading "The Rink"

8-8 you will need to bring your research for you Art project to class tomorrow afternoon.




Upcoming events:
April 13th "Day of Pink"

April 4th

8-7 Students continued working on "The Rink" questions and discussion.
Lit. Circles are tomorrow.

8-8 We read "The Rink" as a class and started answering the questions.
Students worked on their grad forms for the yearbook.

8-6 We went to the library for Lit. Circles.

8-8 We continued our work in Histoire.