Consistant Posting!

Umm... guys, as you have noticed, we have a few missing posts (Dec 2, Dec 14) this month and we should keep it consistant. I think that if you cannot post that day, then you should tell someone at school so we can figure things out, also you should check the blog once a day to see if anyone posted and normally we post who will post tommorrow so there is no confusion(do write who is going to post). If you have already missed one then you should make it as this will go into our portfolios. Trevor you were supposed to post on Wednsday.

LEARNING LOG~Dec 13/2011

What we did today

At the beginning of class today we changed our desks in groups. Ms.Lees gave the class a worksheet that we had to self evaluate and 6 books each group. The books were about the middle ages. We had to read the first 3 pages and evaluate what we read on to the sheet. On the sheet it had readability skills which was too easy, ok, somewhat challenging and challenging. Also on the sheet it had interest level which was not at all, somewhat interesting (could read), interesting and OMG have to read! Ms. Lees wanted a educational explanation why we chose what we think are readability was on each book and our interest level. We had to write our reasoning below. After we finished we had to rank the books from 1-6 the top books you would read to the lowest you would read.

Learning Intention

The learning intention was for Ms.Lees to find out what book is suitable for you. She is picking a book for each student to read for the Christmas holidays. We also had to stay focus and on task for the whole entire block in order to finish the sheet that was due in class today.

Reflections/Connections

Today I felt marvy because I really stayed on task today and didn't talk. I enjoyed reading all the books in the middle ages. There was a couple of books that I wanted to keep on reading ;)! I think this a good way for Ms.Lees to determine what book is suitable for each student.

Homework/Tips

- Finish your notes from the Pathway textbook that you have to complete at flex on Thursday at lunch
- Make sure your portfolio is ready for conferencing
- If you haven't finished your notes from the movie "First Knight" I suggest you should finish because it was due today
***CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE CANSPELL***

Tomorrow Trevor will have the honour of posting! Good luck!

And I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!:)

learning log dec 12th

what we did today

today we did a group worksheet about the movie king Arthur.We got a piece of paper that had a three questions on it (at least thats how many questions my group had).What you had to do with this was split the paper up on section for each group member and write a response according to the questions and remember you wasn't aloud to talk.Then you had to agree on all the answers together and write it on the back of your sheet.

muddy/marvy

I was clear on what to do but my group and me got off task (you know what i mean fredrick :) )

also my group didn't extend and give reasons and proof

connections/comments

I don't think I have very good speaking skills.

I think this speaking in a group is a good idea because it gets us comfortable with speaking with others in our class that you would otherwise not talk too.It's also great because its lets us be comfortable with public speaking.

Homework

- finish your sheet on the king arthur movie because its due tommorow!

Posting!

Hello fellow bloggers!!!! Hope you all had a great weekend! :) Tomorrow I can not post because I have a special event to go to. I can blog Tuesday! Is their anyone who can replace my spot for this week???? Thanks ;)!

Learning Log Dec 7

Sorry posting this late, I was a little preoccupied with some erm... family matters

What we did
Today, we watched a movie called “First Knight”. It was about the Camelot
and King Arthur. The main plot of the story was that this land beside Camelot
called Lyonnais. They were attacked by Prince Malagant, a former Round Table
Knight who left and wanted King Arthur’s position. The queen there, Lady
Guinevere was arranged to marry King Arthur, who was double her age. On the way
there, she was ambushed by Malagant’s troops. During the mayhem, her carriage
was jacked and she jumped out, only to be followed by some troops and was saved
by Lancelot, another main character. She reached Camelot safely and got
married. But soon Malagant captured Lady Guinevere. And yet again, Lancelot
saved her. King Arthur made Lancelot a Knight of the Round Table. Soon word
came in that Lyonnais was captured and King Arthur went and recaptured Lyonnais.
After the battle, Lancelot and Lady Guinevere kissed in secret as their secret
affection for each other… let’s just say the dam broke for them. Unfortunate
for them, King Arthur caught them in the act and they were trialed for treason.
During trial, Malagant suddenly attacked Camelot and interrupted the court. King
Arthur’s men fought back and defeated Malagant. Malagant was killed by
Lancelot, but King Arthur was killed in the process and he was sailed off to
his special resting place at the end of the movie. We had this worksheet to
fill out while we watched the film. I’ll attach some pictures of the worksheet.

Learning Intentions

This is a film set during the Middle Ages, which is what we are about
to learn about so it is quite useful. Also this is a practice for note-taking
skills as we need to take notes on three general info questions.

Connections/ reflections
I thought it was an interesting movies though there was umm… some
scenes that were not that appropriate… I’ve watched this film before and I knew
what was about to happen. This is a film that really, when you think about it,
does not spread the right message to the viewers. For example, Lancelot once
and once again attempted to make Lady Guinevere to express love for him. That
is a message saying that it is ok for force someone into an relationship.

Homework.
Finish your worksheet
Study for Canspell
Go to flex if you have not finished the Pathway notes

Trevor has the honor to post on Friday

Learning Log for December 6

Hi everyone! As you all probably know, today was supposed to be Trevor’s day, but his internet is down so I’ll be doing the Learning Log today. Sorry for the late post, I had to go to a friend’s house for a French project then go straight to piano. My apologies.

What We Did Today

When we came in today, the tables were all shifted to the sides of the room and so were the chairs. We moved them back, and listened to hear our names called to make sure that we had all handed in our Geography tests and that we hadn’t gotten them mixed up in another pile as some were lost. We then quieted down to watch a documentary titled “History of the Middle Ages” an intro of sorts to the upcoming Middle Ages/History unit that we will soon be covering in Humanities 8. We took notes throughout the 9 minutes and 39 seconds that we watched, pausing all the while through to give us some extra time to write down the important points that we heard. The narrator was a really fast speaker and covered topics so fast that it took me a while to figure out that we had moved on to the time of the High Middle Ages! We learned all about Charles the Great (a.k.a. Charlemagne), his vast empire, and of his stature. We were just starting on The Crusades when Ms. Lees paused the video and told us to get ready for some Canspell spelling bee practice. We went about halfway around the room when (the imaginary bell rang just like it used to for everything in elementary school) and it was time to leave for fourth block .

Learning Intention(s)

Today we had to put to use our note taking and making skills, jotting down notes as fast as we could, it seems we weren’t fast enough to record them without interrupting the flow of the video J. Remember that we are only supposed to take notes 10-20% of the time and the rest of the 80-90% is solely devoted to using only our ears. Spelling is for our own enrichment, mostly depending if you really want to improve and if you’re fine with where your spelling is at now. You can look back at my previous Learning Log (November 30) for other reasons on this topic. We had to stay focused and on topic, too, otherwise we wouldn’t get the vital information down on our papers.

Reflections and Connections

Today I was feeling in the middle of both muddy and marvy because it was really hard to keep up with the pace of the video and I probably muddled up a few dates too. Oh, well... I felt marvy because I felt like I knew how to distinguish the unimportant information from the important information. Overall I’m leaning more to the marvy side of the scale and with a bit more practice that I’m sure we’ll get, I think I should be okay!

Homework and Tips

-Canspell spelling bee is coming up really soon (Friday December 9^th)

-If you haven’t finished your notes from Pathways you have to complete them at FLEX on Thursday at lunch... See you there! ;)

-Make sure that your portfolio is complete with samples of your work and Ms. Lees must-haves

That’s it I think, so I’ll see you all tomorrow at double block if not earlier. Sorry again for the late post.

Fredrick will post for tomorrow's double block... Best of luck Fredrick!

Comments

My comments aren't working!!!:( Is there any solution to this???

LEARNING LOG~ Dec.5/2011

What we did today

For the entire class today we were working on our notes from the Pathway textbook. Pages 9-20 we had to take notes in the outline form. After we finished that we had to take notes in a web/map form from pages 21-29. And lastly we have to do note-taking in a Cornell layout. Since we were just working on Pathway notes we got to listen to music! I believe Ms.Lees only did one portfolio today. She said she would like to start scheduling times for conferencing.

Learning Intentions

The learning intention today was to see how we can be quiet and work on our time wisely instead of talking away to your neighbour beside you. We did the Pathway notes because its good to know the different forms or methods on how to take notes.

Reflections/Connections

I felt pretty marvy today because I really enjoyed some of the text that was in the Pathway textbook. It was interesting. I also liked the different forms/methods of note-taking because it can come in handy someday. I think I am more concentrated in class when I listen to music. I don't know why!?

Homework/Tips

- Canspell
-If you are not finished your geography test ,tomorrow will be your last day to finish at 7:30am in Ms.Lees portable
- Those of you who were away on the day of the test you have to make it up on Thursday at flex
-Review the Cornell clip Ms.Lees has on her blog
- If you have not yet followed Ms.Lees blog

That's it! Tomorrow Trevor will have the honour of doing the Learning log. Good luck!

Missing Post

Hello!!! We don't have a post for friday.Wasn't trevor suppose to post on friday???!

Learning Log for November 30 (the last day of November)

Hello there everyone in “The City of The Wolves”!

What We Did Today

Today was a pretty quiet day due to numerous people who had committed to the Vow of Silence with the Global Issues Club. On this lovely Wednesday Humanities double block, we accomplished many things. For the first block, we did a quiet work time where we either got caught up with older work or started on note-taking and making. We had to take notes on passages from the Pathways textbook. From pages 9-20 we had to take notes in the outline form. Once we finished that, we had to take notes for pages 21-29 in a web/map form. And if you finished that, then you did note-taking in a Cornell layout (if you want to see the video clip of how to do a Cornell, it’s on Ms. Lees blog). We took a little stretch, worked a bit more and then it was time for break. At the beginning of second block, we spent some time spelling and practicing for the upcoming spelling bee that’s in a week or two (I forgot). Since there were some people doing the Vow of Silence we had to do a written bee instead, congrats to the girls on their win against the boys! J After all the excitement, we watched clips of how to take notes using the Cornell method, and how to do a mind map (something we will need to know as the year goes on). Again we settled down for a time of quiet work until the end of the day.

Learning Intentions

There are a few learning intentions today. For our quiet work time, I think it was so that we learn how to manage our free time wisely and not waste it all yapping with our friends although it may be a lot more fun than getting down to work. You really need to manage time wisely for the note-taking because we can’t take the Pathways textbook home to work on it. We need to practice our spelling not only because the spelling bee is up and coming, but because writing is used everywhere! Living in a country of two main languages (English and French) you kind of have to make yourself understood through writing and through oral communication, not only one and not the other. Learning to take notes is very useful because when we get into higher grades and into university, we need to keep track of what we’ve learned and we need to study for exams. The Cornell is a very useful way to study for tests... We have a test on Friday so you might want to take that into consideration. And also we post on this blog to make sure we are aware of our audience and not say anything that would reflect badly on ourselves or our school. Not that you should ever be saying bad stuff...

Reflections and Connections

Ms. Lees said that we don’t have to use the terms “muddy” and “marvy” but I like to use them because they’re a good way to explain how I feel about the time in Humanities class. Anyways, today I felt pretty marvy because I think I get the different styles of note-taking and I know how to use them although the Cornell somewhat confuses me a bit. I’m feeling pretty excited about the spelling bee too because I got perfect scores on both the written bees (sorry if this sounds like I’m bragging... Because I’m not) and I think I’m pretty solid with the grade eight word list. I mentioned how we need to use spelling in real life so I don’t need an “out of Humanities connection to the real world”.

Homework Helper

1. We have a Geography test coming up on Friday this week, so don’t forget to study for that. Here’s a tip you probably heard in class today “The more ways you see something, the more likely you are to retain that information” that may help you while you study. Fredrick has also kindly linked the info about the test to our blog.

2. You can use a Cornell to help you study and use the methods from the video clip on Ms. Lees’ blog.

3. Study for the spelling bee if you would like to become a serious competitor to represent our school at the Regional spelling bee.

Trevor, we have a math test tomorrow on Chapter 6, just in case you forgot J

On Friday, Trevor will post the lovely Learning Log! Good luck!

POSTING ORDER

Hello everyone!!! I think the posting order we have for this week can be permanent! If you did not like your day for posting please let us know so we can arrange it. I think it will be better to not change the posting order every week. What do you guys think?However if someone is absent on the day of their posting we can always fill in for them. Does anyone have any suggestions?!

Learning Log-Tuesday Nov 29

What we did
Today, at the beginning of class, Ms. Lees checked our homework which was the persuasive
exercises and the note-taking handout. After checking the homework and stamping
the ones that were completed, she gave us a “Questions and Answers Relation” or
“QAR” booklet for us to complete. In class, we were supposed to first finish
our note-taking handout if we did not complete it, then we were supposed to
finished the “QAR” booklet and finally, we were required to do an outline, mapping,
and Cornell note taking on some pages on the History textbook. You need to use
the text to decide how many outline you make per section. She did not complete
any more portfolio conferences, I think.

Learning Intentions
We did the homework check because Ms. Lees wants us to all finish our homework and also so
she knows who does their homework and who does not. We did the note-taking so
we know how to take proper notes so it would help us in review in all the
subjects as note take is sometimes a pain. The “QAR” was for two things. One,
we learned about the different types of questions on a textbook and just
questions in general and their difference. This is good for choosing how
detailed you want to answer a question. Two, we were doing this on our own with
no help from Ms. Lees so we are practicing self-study skills.

Reflections/Connections

I think that I am pretty “marvy” today because I can categorize all the questions and answer
them. Also I’ve finished my note-taking handout. The note-taking and the QAR
are useful in all our subjects because we need to take notes in most of them
and we are going to be writing tests for all of them as well.

Homework
1) Study for Geography Test on THIS Friday
(for details, refer to this site à click HERE) (It's also on Ms.Lee's blog)
2) Finish note-taking handout if you haven’t
3) Finish the “QAR” booklet
4) Study for Canspell


I am doing this for Trevor so you(Trevor) has to do Friday.
Sara will have the honor of doing tomorrow’s post!

Learning Log~incident

Hello!!!! Earlier today I was doing my Learning Log. I completed the Learning Log. I was editing and automatically it deleted. I happened to not touch any buttons that would make this incident occur. Has it happened to any of you? Unfortunately I had to restart.

LEARNING LOG~Monday Nov.28/2011

Topics/What we did today

Today Ms.Lees wanted to do conferences with some of the students. Some students were not finished so they got the whole block to catch up. While Ms.Lees was doing the conferences she gave us a task. We had to do the persuasive outline and paragraph. We also had to work on a notes-taking worksheet.

Learning Intentions/Why we did what we did

Ms.Lees wanted to do conferences with our portfolios so she can see what we improved on from the beginning of the year from today. The persuasive paragraph outline was a quick paragraph for us to write points before we write the persuasive paragraph. We did the persuasive paragraph to get to know how to write one of the basic paragraph types which is persuasive. The notes-taking sheet was to know the purpose of why we take notes.

Reflections/Connections

I felt "marvy" today because I had fun writing the persuasive paragraph. I got to prove my point why students should get a 4-day weekend. On the notes-taking sheet I liked reviewing what we learned earlier in the year and reading the purpose of why we take notes.

Homework

-Don't forget to post on your day
-Practise Canspell
-Persuasive outline and paragraph
-Notes-taking worksheet
-Geography Test(Friday) * Don't forget to study*
-Remember to follow Ms.Lees blog
-If you didn't finish your portfolio don't forget to go to Mr.Peacock's room at approxiametly 7:30am

Thats it! Tomorrow Trevor will have the honour of doing the learning log!!!

Comment Reactions

I am unclear as to how the reactions work - they should offer feedback with descriptors. What do the numbers mean? Did you as a group establish criteria for the numbers?

Posting order

Who would post when next week?

I can post on Wednesday or Friday

Learning Log-Friday, Nov 25

What we did:
At the beginning of class
today, Ms. Lees asked us to take out yesterday's homework and show it to her.
She checked for completion of the heart map, the narrative paragraph, the two
descriptive exercises and the outline for the descriptive paragraph. If you did
not finish, then you had to finish it in class. If you did you helped out by
teaching those who don't understand how to do it. After that, we learned about
the explanatory paragraph which is the "how to and what is" kind of
writing. It gives information on something, whether it is how to do something,
an object or an idea. It need to be an “accurate, detailed, specific, and
organized” paragraph. Then we were assigned homework of writing an explanatory
paragraph and an outline for it. We were given the rest of class to complete
it.
Learning Intentions:
Ms. Lees checked our homework
to ensure that we did our homework and that if we did not we could finish it in
class. It is also beneficial for the people peer helping because to be able to
teach and put a skill in words needs more understanding than that of just being
able to do the task. Learning about the different types of paragraph is a necessity
because we will be using these types of writing whenever we are writing
anything. Explanatory is important because when we want to tell someone how to
do something we need to organize our paragraph in the form of a explanatory
paragraph.
Connections/Reflections:
I think that I am “marvy”
today because I finished all of the homework due today and I understand and can
explain how to write an explanatory paragraph. A place to use this skill
outside of Humanities would be Wikipedia as I’m sure you all know, it is an
online encyclopedia and it would need lots and lots of explanatory paragraphs.
Another place would be eHow, an “how to” website and it obviously needs lots of
explanatory paragraphs as well.
Homework:
1)Write a blog post (for some people)
2)Write an outline for the paragraph on the topics listed on the paragraph handout
3)Write an explanatory paragraph following your outline

The person posting on Monday would be Shanese

Basketball Game

Hi everyone!!
Today the grade 8 girls basketball team played their first game (it was an exhibition game) against Enver Creek. And we WON!! WOOHOO!!
Anyway thanks to SHANESE for coming to watch! :)
Good luck on your post Fred... and see you all on Monday!

How to edit your post

So I've got a question from Trevor on how to edit posts so here is the answer.

Step one

click the "edit post" on your dashboard on your blogger.com home page.

Step two

click the "edit" button for which ever post you want to edit.(for Trevor's case is the one I've shown on the picture) Do not check the box in front of the post name, it's useless for editing, it's for mass deleting

Step three

edit your post and then click "publish post" ! easy!

Please comment on how this explanation is and if I need to add more details. Thanks!

P.S. sorry about the bad picture editing, I'm not good at picture editing... :(

learning log november 23 2011

learning log November 23 2011

topics/what we did today

today in the first block we started out looking at our blogs and how to write what I'm doing now which is writing about what we did in class so people that were away can look at this and sill finish the homework so there is no reason to come to class and say "Ms Lees I couldn't do my because i was away."Next we did a "heart map" which was a big heart on your paper that had a list of what was important to you and memories that were in your mind( it didn't have to be in a heart form it could just be a list) .There had to be at least 25 -30 ideas on it more would be recommended because we will use it for reference when are writing stories. In the second block today we went over the definition of paragraphs next we looked at the types of paragraphs.Then looked at Narrative paragraphs how to write one is 1 begin with the incident and avoid a long preamble.Eg if you tell about a boating accident omit other details like getting out the boat and putting it in the water.2 is interesting because it includes significant details rather than general statements.3 moves towards a climax then ends.then we looked at some examples of narrative paragraphs and had to identify what it is really about and some things that made it really detailed example the three-O' clock bell rang.Then we looked at descriptive paragraphs the key things that descriptive have to have are it has to paint a picture. the purpose is to describe in detail and let the reader "see" a particular person or place and use all five senses example hearing, seeing and touching that was what we did in two blocks.

Learning intention

The learning intention was first to show you how the learning logs should look.Next was making the to give us ideas for writing future stories and to give us an idea for the descriptive paragraph and the narrative paragraph instead of have to use the ideas on the page that was handed out.I like that Ms Lees did that because then we can have our own topic so we can have more of our ideas at least that's what i think :).Next we did the narrative and descriptive paragraphs the learning intentions was to learn how to write narrative and descriptive paragraphs and so when we (the students) need to know the difference between narrative and descriptive paragraphs we all do.

Muddy or Marvy?

I was Marvy today about the heart mapping all you did was write down things that you remember well and things that are important to you.The blog i was i little muddy about that because i didn't know what to write but then i looked at sara's learning log/blog and was like OK i get it now!so all you do is really do the same thing as a learning log but on the Internet.

The narrative and descriptive paragraphs i was marvy about it. What you do is just write something that moves toward a climax and then ends and begin with a incident and avoid a long preamble for the narrative paragraph. For the descriptive paragraph your paragraph has to paint a picture,describe in detail and use all the five senses.Mostly i think i was marvy.

Homework

-do a descriptive paragraph but only if you have not do it yet

-do a narrative paragraph which everybody should do

The next flex time for Ms Lees is tomorrow so don't forget because the next time there is flex is next Thursday!!!!

Some opinions

Does anyone have any suggestions or requests for our current page layout?(e.g. apps, colors, fonts, etc.) anything is cool does anyone want to use the Adsense app(it puts ads on our page and gives us money based on the views we get from the page)? If everyone wants it then I'll ask Ms.Lees about permission.

How do we see where people have been viewing from, again?

Learning Log-Monday November 21

Learning Log~Monday November 21

Topics/What We Did Today

Today, we finished up organizing all of our portfolios leading up to the conferences that we will be having with Ms.Lees concerning our marks for this term. We also got the missing sheet of the Geography package and we were worked on that when we had finished our portfolios.

Why We Did What We Did/Learning Intentions

We did our portfolios so that we can see what we need to improve on over the course of this year, and to see our growth over a period of time (usually 1 term). Then we always know what we need to do to help the strengthen our weak spots. The Geography sheet that we got today was helping us to get more comfortable using an atlas and comparing different maps and information that we could find. We had to look through the different charts graphs and maps to find the specific thing we were looking for.

Reflections/Connections

I felt pretty "marvy" today because I got how to use the atlas for the purposes given on the question sheet. And if I didn't get it or needed help there was Ms. Lees and tons of other people that I could ask. I know that the southernmost tip of South America is called the Cape Horn and in the west, the archipelago is called the Queen Adelaide Archipelago. (Cool name, eh?)
I might have to use an atlas when I'm travelling to different countries planning my route and the destinations that I want to visit.

Homework

• Don't forget to post on your day (I almost forgot).
• We have in-class time to work on the South America worksheet tomorrow.
• If you haven't brought in posterboard, I would suggest that you fold your portfolio very soon...
  

That's it! Tomorrow Shanese will have the honour of posting the Learning Log.