Good morning 7P. 

In Math today, we will be completing one of the worksheets from your take home packet. This should be your third and final sheet; it is a review of integer addition.

When you finish that sheet, I would like you to spend a block of time reviewing the work we did from the textbook throught the week, on Integer subtraction. Primarily, we worked with "adding the opposite" subtraction equations and "subtracting integers on a number line." Please take some extra time today, to review any questions you had difficulty with; feel free to email me or send me a teams questions regarding any of this work. I am available throughout the day to field any questions regarding any of the work from the past week. Please, don't hesitate to reach out and ask questions; that's what I'm here for.

Good Luck! We'll be moving into a chapter review on Monday. Have a great weekend.

8E – Language Arts          Thursday Lesson

Good morning 8E!

As a warmup activity, please copy and complete the following outline of your personal narrative. Completing this outline will get you thinking about your topic and putting the finishing touches on your narrative; which will be a part of Friday’s lesson.

A. Introduction – What is your narrative about? What is the main idea you want to convey to the reader?

B. Event # 1 – think: what is the topic sentence of my second paragraph?

C. Event # 2 – as in: what happened next?

D. Event # 3 – and then?

E. Event # 4 – you know what to do here

F. Event # 5 – next?

G. Event # 6 – did something else happen?

H. Event # 7 – do I want to discuss anything else before I start to wrap things up?

I.  Event # 8 – am I forgetting anything?

J. Conclusion – final thoughts? Should this be an “echo” of my introduction? Or “what is the final thought I want to leave with the reader?”

Next, let’s attempt to answer the following questions. They all have something to do with sentence composition; like the worksheets we have completed in class.

#1 – What is a “subject?”

#2 – What is a “predicate?”

#3 – What do most verbs “show?” hint: these types of verbs are easy to recognize

#4 – What are the other types of verbs? (the type that isn’t so easily recognized)

#5 – List five common examples of the type of verb from question # 4.

# 6 – In the following sentences, separate the subject and the predicate with a backslash (“/”).

(a) The cat walked across the field.

(b) The center fielder caught the fly ball.

(c) The teacher was simply magnificent.

The next part of our lesson will be spent writing about Halloween. Please take 5 to 10 minutes (longer if you need it) to describe your favorite Halloween experience of all time.

Remember, a good narrative has a setting, characters and events.

The next part of our lesson will be spent on the following quick writing prompt:

Describe, in detail, a piece of media that you watched or listened to recently. This could be a song or artist you listened to, a movie or tv show you watched, a podcast, an online article you have read, etc. Remember: when you are writing about something you watched/listened to, you should act as if the reader doesn’t know anything about your subject. (10 minutes of quiet write time. Feel free to share this piece with someone at home when you are finished)

The fifth part of our lesson will be silent reading. Please spend at least 20 minutes reading your library book, or something else you have at home. So long as you are reading, you are meeting this goal.

For the final portion of our lesson, please click the link below to listen to the second half of chapter 2 from “City of Ember.”

After you finish, please come up with a list of key points from the chapter, similar to the list I included (in Tuesday’s lesson) for the introduction and chapter 1. Your list should include at least 7 or 8 items.

Good Luck !

Chapter 2: Listen aloud

7P – Language Arts / Social Studies Lesson            Wednesday, November 3

Today’s lesson will be a review of the key concepts of your memoir. As a part of this lesson, you will be copying and completing a series of questions about your own memoir. By answering these questions, you will have a better understanding of not only the memoir as a piece or writing, but also of your own topic.

One of the first concepts we dealt with, is how a memoir and personal narrative are different. Which leads us to question # 1:

How is a “memoir” different from a “personal narrative?”

Once you have answered the above question, please answer whether or not you have done what the answer above suggests you should do in a memoir. If “yes”, how did you do so?

The next concept we covered was “epiphany.” We discussed how in most memoirs, the writer has some sort of epiphany. Which leads us to our next question:

What is an epiphany? How does an epiphany help the writer or reader?

What is your epiphany in your memoir?

The next lesson we worked on in class had to do with the importance of our memoir to the writer and the reader. Which leads us to our next question:

Why are the events in your memoir important? (Remember: your event should be something that is important enough that you would want to write about it and important/interesting enough that someone would want to read about it).

The next lesson was on introductions – how to begin your memoir. In this lesson we mentioned “a hook” – something that would engage the reader/make them interested in our piece.

What is your “hook” in your memoir?

One of the last things we worked on in class was a conclusion. We discussed how a good conclusion should be an “echo” of your introduction, but with a stronger voice.

What do mean when we say “a conclusion should be an echo of your introduction?”

Hopefully, the above questions have given you a better understanding of your own memoir.

Remember: All of this work will be handed in when schools reopen. That means small tasks like the one above should be completed as asked (questions should be copied and completed, and should be neat and organized).

The next part of our lesson will be spent on the following quick writing prompt:

Describe, in detail, a piece of media that you watched or listened to recently. This could be a song or artist you listened to, a movie or tv show you watched, a podcast, an online article you have read, etc. Remember: when you are writing about something you watched/listened to, you should act as if the reader doesn’t know anything about your subject. (10 minutes of quiet write time. Feel free to share this piece with someone at home when you are finished)

For the next part of our lesson, we will be switching over to Social Studies. Below this note, please click on the attached photos; these are pictures of three pages from our textbook, from chapter 2. This brief section is on “First Nation and Inuit Economies” – we had begun it in class last time, but did not get a chance to finish. Please read the three pages and answer the questions at the bottom of the third page. Remember: the answers are coming from what you are reading, so please take your time, and reread if you need to.

8E/7P Language Arts – Tuesday Lesson 11/02

                Copy and Complete the following quick writing prompt: Make a list of five jobs you could see yourself doing for a living in the future, when you are an adult. Choose one of these professions to write about in greater detail. (10 minutes of quiet writing time – feel free to share this piece with someone at home when you are finished).

Read for 20 minutes. Your first option should be your library book; if you do not have this at home, simply find something else to read. Some other reading options: a magazine, a newspaper, an article from the internet. So long as you are reading something for the allotted time, you are checking this box.

When you have finished reading, complete a reading log. Remember: a reading log is a response to what you have read. It should include, but need not be limited to, the following: a brief summary of what you have read (highlighting the key points of interest), and your thoughts and feelings about this topic.

An example of a reading log:

                Let’s say you have just finished reading chapter 4 of your book. In this chapter, the main character, Jimmy, leaves his sweater at the rink after hockey practice. His parents are upset over this, as they had spent a lot of money on this particular hoody (which Jimmy had begged them to buy during “back-to-school” shopping). His parents ended up driving Jimmy back to the rink to find his sweater, only to learn that it was gone. His parents gave him a huge lecture about responsibility and taking care of his things.

                The above would be a brief summary, and the following is a sample response (your own thoughts and feelings):

                Maybe you made a connection to Jimmy and what he went through, because you too once lost something caused your family to give you a lesson on responsibility. You could discuss your personal situation, and how you can relate to Jimmy and how he was feeling.

The expectation is for reading logs to be at least one large paragraph (5 to 7 sentences). You can most certainly make it longer; that is simply the minimum. Your own personal response should be your focus; it is more important than the summary.

The final portion of our lesson will be a read aloud from our class novel:  The City of Ember. Today we will be listening to Chapter 2.

Prior to listening, you should review the key points from the Introduction and Chapter 1 listed below:

-          A “secret box” was passed down from Mayor to Mayor; it was to be kept secret and was set to open at a specified time in the future – it was on a “timed lock” mechanism.

-          We learn that the lights in the city might eventually go out (blackout), and it is hinted that there are some type of instructions contained in the box.

-          Everything went smoothly, until the seventh mayor became sick, took the box home and attempted to open it. He was unsuccessful, and ended up putting the box in the back of his closet (where it was forgotten about after the mayor died).

-          The box “quietly clicked open” at the end of the introduction.

-          Chapter one begins on “Assignment Day”. We learn that children in Ember graduate from school at age 12, and join Ember’s workforce. They do this by picking a job from a bag provided by the mayor.

-          We are introduced to several key characters, most notably Lina and Doon.

-          We learn that Lina really wants to be a Messenger – someone who carries news/mail from one point to another in the city. We learn that the one job she does not want is “Pipeworks Labourer” – someone who works to repair the pipers below the city.

-          Lina ends up having bad luck, as she pulls “Pipeworks Labourer” from the bag.

-          Doon chooses “Messenger,” which causes him to become upset and have an outburst in front of the mayor.

-          At the end of the chapter, Doon approaches Lina and asks her if she will trade jobs; she accepts. He claims to have ideas about the “generator” which is apparently located in the pipeworks.

Please click on the link below to listen to chapter 2. Given the length of this chapter (28 minutes), you should only listen to the first half today (stop around the 14 minute mark); for those of you in 7P, you should be listening to the second half today.

Chapter 2: Listen aloud