Update: February 26

Here's what we've been up to:

- Reading Response 4: written work should now be complete, art pieces will be completed shortly.
- Map Quiz: students completed a quiz to demonstrate their knowledge of Canadian political and historical geography. The two portions of the quiz have been marked separately so students and parents can see areas of strength and areas for growth when viewing marks.
- Persuasive paragraphs: completed before Teachers' Convention, marks to be posted asap
- Short stories: students have begun in-class work on short stories, which will continue for the next couple of weeks.

* Students and parents, I apologize for the delay in some of my marking. I was away last week with the flu, but I'm working hard to catch up. Thanks for understanding!

Update: February 11th

Wrapping Up: Pre-Confederation History

Persuasive paragraphs: 
From your ten historical events, choose the ones you believe are the most and least historically significant. Then write retell and reflect paragraphs for each event.
Retell: 5-7 sentences. What happened? Give key people, places, dates, events
Reflect: 7+ sentences. Why is that event the most/lease historically significant? Convince us!

Map Quiz: Wednesday February 13
You should be able to label the following on a map of Canada:
- Provinces & territories
- Capital cities
- Bodies of water, including the Great Lakes
- The locations of the 10 historical events you studied
- The date of Canadian Confederation (July 1, 1867)
- Upper and Lower Canada

Influential Canadian Scavenger Hunt Links

The following links are for an in-class activity:

7-4 Scavenger Hunt

Update: February 7

A reminder that parent teacher conferences are tonight and tomorrow. I look forward to meeting you all!

This week we've been working hard to integrate our understanding of historical events with our knowledge of Canadian political geography. We've done several mapping activities for practice, and we will have a quiz next week to finish this work (probably on Wednesday, but I'll confirm this shortly). 

As well, marks are posted for RR3 and 3-minute doodles, and students were given one period of catch-up time this morning. We will begin work on RR4 next week.

Reminder: all students should be reading 20 minutes each night, 5 nights per week (or equivalent, if schedules are busy).