Daybook
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Important Dates to Remember:
Upcoming Dates:
June 17th - Final Projects begin for all courses
June 19th - staff meeting
June 20th - We will be hosting our district's first grade 7 grad in Osoyoos to make good connections for when they come into grade 8
June 21st - last day of classes
June 24th-26th - Assessment Days
June 28th - Last Day
Spring Semester 2
Week 20
Friday, June 21st
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Friday, June 14th
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D Block - 8:30-9:15
Spirit Day
Wednesday, June 12th
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Friday, June 7th- Bus Duty; Fat Friday
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Friday, May 31st
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Tuesday, May 28th- RBC
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Friday, May 24th
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Friday, May 17th
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Friday, May 10th
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Friday, May 3rd
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Friday, April 26th
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Thursday, April 18th
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Friday, April 12th
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Monday, April 8
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Friday, April 5th
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Friday, March 14
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Wednesday, March 12
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Tuesday, March 11
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Week 5
Friday, March 1st
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Theme Assignment prep
Friday, February 22nd
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Friday, February 15th
Pro-D
Thursday, February 14th
The assembly is scheduled for 9:00 so it will split 1st period.
20 min then assembly then back to period 1.
Period 1 8:30-8:50 (l0 min to load)
Assembly 9:00-10:00
Period 1 10:00-10:40
Period 2 10:45-11:45
Period 3 11:50-12:50
Lunch 12:50- 1:40
Period 4 1:45-2;45
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Friday, February 8th - Course Outlines Due; Reading Buddies;
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Friday February 1st
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Week 19
Tuesday, January 22nd
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Friday, January 18th
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Friday, January 11th
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Friday, December 21st
8:30-9:20 D block
9:25-11:00 Assembly
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:05 B block
12:10-1:00 C block
1:00-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 A block
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Friday, December 14th - Drugs in the Workplace Presentation
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Tuesday, December 11th
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Friday, December 7th
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Prep
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Monday, December 3rd
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Friday, November 30th
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Friday, November 23rd
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Gracie Greyeyes
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Friday, November 16th
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Friday, November 9th
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See TOC Instructions
Tuesday, November 6th
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Friday, November 2nd
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Friday, October 26th
See TOC Instructions
Thursday, October 25th - Lockdown Drill
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See TOC instructions
Tuesday, October 23rd - University of Calgary Visit
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Thursday October 18th - Early Dismissal
Early Dismissal Schedule #3
CURRENT WEEK ROTATION
PERIOD 1 8:30AM-9:30AM
PERIOD 2 9:35AM-10:35AM
BREAK 10:35AM-10:50AM
PERIOD 3 10:50AM-11:50AM
PERIOD 4 11:55AM-12:45PM
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Early Dismissal Schedule #3
CURRENT WEEK ROTATION
PERIOD 1 8:30AM-9:30AM
PERIOD 2 9:35AM-10:35AM
BREAK 10:35AM-10:50AM
PERIOD 3 10:50AM-11:50AM
PERIOD 4 11:55AM-12:45PM
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Friday, October 12th - Fat Friday
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Friday, October 5
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Friday, September 28th - September 28th - Orange Shirt Day (originally on Sunday the 30th but we will acknowledge it on friday)
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Friday, September 21st
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A Block – 8:30-9:15
C Block – 10:30-11:10
Core Meeting – 20 minutes
Assembly – 25 minutes
Spirit Activities – 50 minutes
Run – 40 minutes
Lunch – 35 minutes
D Block – 2:00-2:45
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Monday, September 10 (CORE)
Block D - 8:30-9:40
Block C - 11:45-12:55
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Friday, Sept 14
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Friday, September 7th - District Pro-D
Thursday, September 6th - assembly schedule
Block A - 8:30-9:30
Block B - 9:45-10:45
Lunch - 1:00-1:38
Block D - 1:38-2:45
Block A - 8:30-9:30
Break 10:40-10:55
Block B - 10:55-11:55
Block D - 1:38-2:45
Block A - 8:30-9:00
Block C - 9:50-10:20
Staff Meeting - 12:00-2:00
Prep 2:00-2:45
Important Dates to Remember:
Upcoming Dates:
June 17th - Final Projects begin for all courses
June 19th - staff meeting
June 20th - We will be hosting our district's first grade 7 grad in Osoyoos to make good connections for when they come into grade 8
June 21st - last day of classes
June 24th-26th - Assessment Days
June 28th - Last Day
Spring Semester 2
Week 20
Friday, June 21st
Block A
- Present Final Projects
- Present Final Projects
- Self Assessment
- farewell fun
- Finish Websites
- Final Interviews
Block A
- Work on Final Projects
- Work on Final Projects
- Prepare self-assessments (Lindsey's Prep)
- Finish Websites
- Final Interviews
Block A
- Work on Final Projects
- Work on Final Projects
- Gratitude Ceremony
- Finish Websites
- Final Interviews
Block A
- Work on Final Projects
- Visit OES - Midsummer Night's Dream
- Work on Final Projects
- Work on Gratitude Sections (prep for me)
- Finish Websites
- Final Interviews
Block A
- Work on Final Projects
- Work on Final Projects
- Deliver Speeches
- Finish Websites
- Final Interviews
Friday, June 14th
Block D
- Work on Budgets
- Work on poetry books
- Prep
- Advertising techniques
D Block - 8:30-9:15
- Work on budgets
- Work on Chpabooks
Spirit Day
Wednesday, June 12th
Block D
- Grocery Trip: BuyLow
- Work on Booklets
- Prepare for Celebration
- Circle: Taylor - Residential Schools, 60s scoop
Block D
- Work on Budgets
- Didactic Poems
- Work on booklets
- Bulletin Board
- Prep exam stuff for next week
- Finish presentations
- Read Kuper Island Stories
Block D
- Budget Assignments
- Sound Devices, sonnets
- Didactic poems: Road Not Taken, Equal opportunity,Richard Cory, A Poison Tree, Lesson of the Moth
- Booklet assignment
- Prep: exam self-eval/peer-eval
- Presentations: songs/poems
Friday, June 7th- Bus Duty; Fat Friday
Block A
- Last day to work on presentations
- Satire and Parody explanations/videos
- Talking Heads song - irony as a tool of satire
- Work on Speeches
- Work on Budgets
Block A
- Poetry presentations
- Finish "bus" discussion
- Image and place poems - Analysis and interpretation
- Work on speeches/research
- Budget Projects
Block A
- Poetry Presentation
- Paper Matches/Help...bus -
- Read
- Identify devices
- interpret meaning/effect
- Work on final exam speeches
- Budget assignment
Block A
- Poetry Presentation
- Ivan Coyote
- Presentations
- Poetry Package
- Final Exam Speeches
- Taxes Continued
Block A
- Submit Chapbooks
- Grammar lessons
- poetry presentation (due Friday)
- Last day to prep scenes
- research topics for final exam
- Income deductions and taxes practice forms
Friday, May 31st
Block D
- Is a home an investment?
- Types of Investments: Savings acct. RRSP TFSA RESP
- What is a tax write-off?
- Paycheque deductions
- Work on Scenes
- EFP Exam Prep
- Work on Chapbooks
Block D
- Lease Discussion: would you sign or not?
- Answers to the questions
- Calculating credit card interest
- Work on Scenes
- Prep
- Work on Chapbooks
Block D
- Savings calculations
- Interest Calculations - Credit cards
- Make interest work for you
- Mortgage calculator
- Would you sign this lease?
- Scenes in Translation
- Prep
Tuesday, May 28th- RBC
Block D
- RBC Presentation
- Watch III-V
- Marking
- EFP Final Design
- Writing Period
- Free Verse Poems
Block D
- Why Should We save Money?
- What do our savings plans look like?
- How does Interest Work? simple interest vs. compound interest
- Calculating Savings
- Act V
- Watch film
- Prep - Letter to parents: EFP trip
- Scenes for AMSND
- Writing period - chapbooks
Friday, May 24th
Block A
- Concrete poems
- writing day
- Watch Acts II/IV
- Choose scenes to re-enact
- Write Artist's statements
- Goal setting: Short term, mid-term, long-term
- Sources of income
- wants vs needs
- expenses - estimates?
- Savings, debt
Block A
- Billy Collins Poem spoken word
- Sound Poetry: RC Weslowski "Trigger Bang Boom"
- Time to write - Music? Fela Soul!
- Finish III.ii
- IV.i/IV.ii
- Learn the Okanagan Song
- Artist's Statements
- Finish Presentations
- Financial Goals discussion
Block A
- Discuss "On Turning Ten"
- Billy Collins' Poems
- Time to write
- Read III.ii
- Finish Talking Circle
- Discuss Trip
- Read "Totem"
- Non-Fiction Reading for "Totem"
- Finish Presentations
Block A
- On Turning Ten - Speaker, tone, irony
- Write on turning 13
- Read III.i
- Talk about the trip - seth, heather, alastair, bavneet
- Symbolism for art Paragraph
- Read Totem
- Share out Future of Work Assignments
Friday, May 17th
Block D
- Final Work Period for Future of Work Projects
- Watch Act II
- Prep
- spoken word pieces
- time to write
Block D
- Continue work on Future world of Work Projects
- Students explain passages:
- 41-71
- 72-89
- 90-109
- 110-128
- 129-150
- 151-end
- Supervise art class
- Time to write poems
Block D
- Check marks!!!
- Future of Work Projects
- Finish II.i, Read II.ii
- Prep
- Team Poetry Analysis: Ode to My socks
- Time to write
Block D
- Future of Work Projects
- Read II.i
- Prep
- In teams: Questions for A Few of my Favourite Things
- Ode poems: what are they? How do they work?
- Ode to my Socks - Read, Analyze, Interpret
Block D
- Future World of Work Research Assignments
- Watch Act I.i/I.ii
- Read II.i
- Prep
- Poems
Friday, May 10th
Block A
- See TOC Instr.
- See TOC Instr.
- Finish Poetry Stuff
- Watch the soccer game I guess???
- Introduce assignment?
Block A
- Imagery: Sell me a hamburger
- A few of my favourite things
- Image poem
- Finish I.i
- Read I.ii
- Poetry continued
- Problem solving: in teams, generate a list of problems. Choose one and present a detailed solution by the end of class
- Block A
- Similes/Metaphors
- Images - sell me a burger
- A few of my favourite things
- Write an image poem
- ActI.i/I.ii
- Poetry Analysis
- Brainstorm and share out a group solution to a real world problem
- critique and analyse solutions
- Introduce Future projects
Block A
- Submit Essays
- Poetry: What is it? Why do we write it? What tools do poets use?
- Figurative language
- Alphabet Aerobics
- Poetic Devices: Study Guide
- Simile/metaphor
- Submit essays
- Return novels/sign out Shakespeare texts
- Intro to Shakespeare:
- The renaissance
- Royalty and the Globe theatre
- "RPG" language
- The/thy/thou; -eth suffix
- metaphors
- Grammar - SVO sometimes switches
- Structure
- Alternate versions available for struggling readers
- Read more poems: literary analysis of poems, using devices to unlock deeper meanings
- Poetry package
- examine theme: Ties to land
- Future of work
- Timing and Capitalising on Trends (Gladwell - Outliers)
- Mindset
- Videos: what technologies have changed the world?
- Brainstorm a creative, no limits solution for a world problem
Block A
- Peer Editing Day
- Peer Editing Day
- Poetry Terms
- Readings: Sturgeon, I'm Not The Indian You Had in Mind
- Moose River/Fire and Water
- Discussion: What is the future of work? What factors will change the workplace? How can we prepare ourselves for the work the world will need?
- Mindset: How can I be of use to the world, not how can the world help me reach my goals
- Timing and capitalising on trends
- Videos
- Articles
Friday, May 3rd
Block D
- Catch up/Homework Day
- Peer Edit/Final Copy day
- Prep
- Self/Peer Edit Day
Block D
- Catch up/homework day
- Finishing Drafts
- Self/Peer Editing
- Prep
- Draft day
Block D
- Worksafe PSA (last day of class time)
- Essay Draft
- Prep - EFP next week
- Marking
- Essay Theory if needed
- outlines finished???
- Draft day if time
Block D
- Worksafe PSA
- Essay Brainstorming and Essay Outlines
- Prep - EFP next week
- Marking
- Essay Theory
- Brainstorms
- Outlines
Block D
- Worksafe PSAs (until Wednesday)
- Finish Film
- Essay Topics
- Form Groups, collective brainstorming - organize ideas into groups - How can we make three paragraphs out of one large idea?
- Prep
- Finish film
- Choose Essay Topics
- Form Groups, collective brainstorming - organize ideas into groups - How can we make three paragraphs out of one large idea?
Friday, April 26th
Block A
- Discuss 10
- Finish 11
- Watch Film
- Final Discussion of novel
- Watch Film
- Circle: observations from yesterday
- Assignments
- Finish Writing assignments
- Work Safe PSAs
- Publishing and catch up day
Block A
- Chapters 11/12 - Finish Analysis and Discussion
- Essay topics
- Final 5 Chapters??? Disucuss as much as possible
- Essay Topics
- Hike
- Finish Working on Refusals
Block A
- Chapter 11 tasks
- chapters 23/24 analysis and discussion
- Read This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
- Unsafe Work Refusal Skits
Block A
- Chapter 10 tasks and discussion
- Chapter 11 if time (or time to read?)
- chapters 21/22 if needed
- Chapters 23/24
- Discuss essay questions
- hand in writing assignments from last week
- read Drew Hayden Taylor piece -
- circle, connections to land evidenced in the text
- short hike up to the water tower tomorrow - refection: How is a hike like a metaphor for life?
- Catch up day/mid-term interviews - I-reports handed out
Thursday, April 18th
- see TOC instructions
Block D
- Finish discussion of workplace hazards
- Watch investigations
- Finish Chapter 18/19 conversations
- Chapter 20/21 review
- Prep: Marking,
- Book off time,
- I reports
- Finish chapter 8 tasks
- Chapter 9 tasks
Block D
- Lost Youth video
- Hazard Recognition
- chapters 18/19 recap
- Prep - Marking
- Book remedy/days off upcoming
- Book summary
- Chapter 8 - recap/tasks
Block D
- Most common types of injuries and their causes
- Some war stories
- Lost Youth
- Chapters 16-17
- Time to read
- Pictographs trip
- Assemble Newspapers
- Read if finished early
Friday, April 12th
Block A
- Last day of class time for newspapers
- Chapter 14/15 summary/discussion, time to read
- Written assignments due
- oral language self-assessment
- Read Drew Hayden Taylor text
- Last day for Digital Footprint
Block A
- Newspapers - draft articles, computers, good copy papers
- discuss 12/13 time to read (discuss 14/15 tomorrow)
- Autumn, Seth speeches
- finish writing assignment today,
- Explain Digital Citizenship PSAs
- Work on Digital Footprint tasks
Block A
- draft of newspapers - student samples
- writing time
- Chapter 8
- Collect outstanding letters
- Chapters 12-13
- write Borders synthesis
- Work on Digital Citizenship PSA
Block A
- Health and Career Fair
- letter home from Katniss
- discuss chapters 10-11
- Read Borders
- How are borders symbolic of identity?
- Writing: after reading the articles, which case would Thomas King say is the more justified case[who has a stronger reason to cross borders and why]?
- Did you find out about me?
- Was it awkward to creep a teacher online? How do people mine your data?
- Privacy in Public Article
- Videos
- Social Media Sweep assignment
Monday, April 8
Block A
- Chapter 8 re-cap
- Newspaper article assignment
- Chapter 10/11 - 5 point summary
- Letter home: Katniss to Prim
- Background on borders
- read Borders
- digital footprint intro - what are the risks? What are the opportunities?
- social media sweep/self-branding
- social media sweep
Friday, April 5th
Block D
- last day for job hunt
- discuss chapter 9
- view film to end of training
- Speeches, permission forms
- discuss chapter 7 Questions
- Watch film to fire
Block D
- Continue working on Job hunt Unit
- Finish Chapter 8 Questions
- Chapter 9 Questions
- Read 10/11
- Prep - Finish Marking sheet for speeches
- Read Land texts for next week
- Chapter 7 tasks
Block D
- Continue Job Hunt
- What we Missed from Chapter 7:
- Foreshadowing: Rue/Spear
- Rue: David/Goliath, slingshot - Katniss versus Capitol
- "Thank you for your consideration"
- Chapter 8 tasks
- Prep: Marking guide for Speeches
- find readings for next week
- Complete Chapter 6 Questions
- Is Dally a hero or a coward? Explain in paragraph form. Use evidence from chapter 6
Block D
- Work on Job Hunt Unit
- Finish chapter 6 discussions
- chapter 7 questions
- prep - skateboard club schedule
- email Alive After 5
- finish chapter 6 activities/discussion
- read chapter 7
Block D
- last week to work on Job Hunt Pages
- post marks for Career Path Assignments - Meet with Students about missing work/marks review
- Chapter 5/6 activities
- prep - speeches end of week
- Plan Alive After 5
- Poem breakdown
- Chapter 5/6 activities
Friday, March 14
Block A
- Review meaning of Gone with the Wind and Robert Frost poem
- watch first 4 chapters of film
- watch beginning of HG
- chapter 4 'stuff'
- read to end of first part (end ch 9)
- speech draft feedback, work on art assignments
- Alicia Totten Presentation
Block A
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Block C
Block D
Wednesday, March 12
Block A
Block B
Block C
Block D
Tuesday, March 11
Block A
- Finish re-cap:
- contrast - night and day - pathetic fallacy, sunrise and sunset
- "Things are rough all over" - Plus PB's speech on 63
- Differences and similarities - can they ever be 'just kids'?
- Journal: why do we hide parts of ourselves in certain circumstances and let those parts shine in others?
- Presentations
- Finish: Reaping - to reap is to sow, harvest the wheat, separate the chaff, grim reaper - biblical allusion: death is dressed in black medieval robes and harvests souls, reaping what they sowed and sending them to heaven or hell accordingly
- Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy: Naming conventions
- Chapters 3-5 analysis if time
- Work on Speeches
- Work on Job hunt
Block A
- Seating arrangement
- Novel re-cap: Where are we at? What has happened so far?
- Who are the greasers/Socs?
- Do PB's character traits fit with the traits of being a greaser? on the surface/at his core?
- collect journals
- Image/symbolism - cycles of life, light/dark, innocence/experience
- Read next chapter
- randomize seats; Hand back work
- Review marks, then theme share mingle - three partners, one minute each for themes
- Check in - Summarize novel so far
- Discuss important elements: names for characters, settings, similarities: why include Nazi era imagery? what does it evoke for the audience? Natural vs. Artificial
- Why Hunger? (element of control, survival - who provides? dependence on the state - fatherly role of President Snow) What is the opposite of Hunger?
- image/symbolism - 61-65
- President Snow description on 71
- How does Katniss fight Hunger?
- Katniss: trust issues - author uses italics to show thoughts when she doesn't trust (seems strange that these thoughts are separated out from the first-person narrative internal monologue)
- Dissect chapters, read
- Work on Speeches - Due by end of week
- Check-in - Where are we at with our assignments?
- Working on Group Assignments - Will we need to extend deadlines?
Week 5
Friday, March 1st
Block A
- collect personal writing
- Outsiders picture activity
- Work on unit projects
- Work on speeches
- Work on Job Hunt Unit
Block A
- Finish and discuss August Heat questions
- Indeterminate ending/unreliable characters
- Personal response: did you like the author's use of suspense? Do you like the ending? What do you like/dislike?
- Work on projects
- Rhetorical Devices
- Research topics
- Draft speeches
- Work on Job Hunt Unit
Block A
- Finish and discuss August Heat questions
- Indeterminate ending/unreliable characters
- Personal response: did you like the author's use of suspense? Do you like the ending? What do you like/dislike?
- Work on Projects
- Nerdwriter: Martin Luther King
- Rhetorical devices/persuasive appeals
- Lament for Confederation
- topics: select and share out
- Work on Job Hunt Skills
Block A
- finish August Heat Questions
- What do you think happened in this story?
- Discuss "Indeterminate Ending", suspense
- Storytelling activity
- Introduce Theme Assignment
- Time to work on Theme assignment
- Finish First Contact
- Introduce speech Topics/Choose topics/share out
- How to write a speech: I have a dream
- Techniques repetition, imagery, Pathos, Logos, Ethos
- research and note-taking
- Resume and cover letter
- Transferrable skills
Block A
- August Heat Questions
- storytelling activity
Theme Assignment prep
- Stories we've read
- theme brainstorm
- organize ideas with theme groups
- plan writing
- Prep
- Resume, cover letter, transferable skills
Friday, February 22nd
Block D
- Review Job Hunt Unit
- Resume and Cover Letter
- Transferrable skills
- Personal reflection what does [theme] mean to you?
- connotations of [theme]
- images of [theme]
- Bad love poems - group writing
- text twist
- Finish First Contact
- List of research topics
- August Heat analysis and questions
Block D
- career path shareout and peer evaluation
- Resume and cover letter intro - research
- "The Father" writing assignment
- Brainstorm: the themes (connotations, what each story says about them)
- Discussion about themes
- prep - make rattles!
- Finish Questions for "Cranes"
- Read "August Heat"
Block D
- Course selection
- The Father - Reading Roles
- Writing assignment: Make a character claim about the father and defend it with evidence
- Prep
- Analysis: Cranes Fly South
- Questions
Block D
- last day to work on career paths
- Read "The Father"
- Prep
- Irony
- Read "Cranes Fly South"
- Questions
Friday, February 15th
Pro-D
Thursday, February 14th
The assembly is scheduled for 9:00 so it will split 1st period.
20 min then assembly then back to period 1.
Period 1 8:30-8:50 (l0 min to load)
Assembly 9:00-10:00
Period 1 10:00-10:40
Period 2 10:45-11:45
Period 3 11:50-12:50
Lunch 12:50- 1:40
Period 4 1:45-2;45
Block A
- Side Bet Questions
- Far Side Guide to Irony
- Finalize discussion of The Veldt: Allusion, Theme
- Veldt Questions
- View and discuss First Contact
- Career Path
Block A
- Side Bet Analysis
- Questions
- The Veldt Analysis
- Questions
- Finish Oral Language Reading Summaries
- First Contact - View and discuss
- Career Path Assignments
Block A
- Character Foil - Earl and Andrew
- Read Side Bet
- Questions and analysis
- Finish discussion of "The Witch"
- theme - what is the lesson we hope the audience learns?
- collective paragraph: Explain the "Theme" of THe Witch
- Art Room: Kindergarten Buddies
- Career Paths
Block A
- Submit Character Sketch Assignments
- Read "Side Bet"
- Questions and analysis
- Read "The Witch"
- Analysis, theme
- Sharing Circle: reading buddies
- Oral Language background
- Brainstorm: types and purposes of Oral Language, 11 things...
- Read and summarize Oral language texts
- Continue with Career Path Projects
Friday, February 8th - Course Outlines Due; Reading Buddies;
Block D
- Work on Career Path Projects
- Journal entries due
- Perspective activities
- Read "The Wish"
- Reading Buddies
- Character traits
- Paragraph structure
- Continue Character Sketch Assignments - Due at end of day
- perspective activities
Block D
- Work on Career Path
- Sign up for presentation groups
- format: why use a journal entry?
- Questions
- Journal entry: written assignment
- Prep - First Contact
- Finish "What I want to be..."
- Analysis
- Character Sheet
Block D
- Work on Career Path Unit
- Read and Analyze "Barney"
- story circle - parts of story, discussion
- format: why use a journal entry?
- Questions
- Journal entry: written assignment
- Prep: review First Contact show, generate list of topics
- Mark Character symbolgrams
- Study Guides
- Read "What I want to be..."
Block D
- Happiness and Success Videos continued
- Hero's Journey activity
- review structure
- Plot a well-known story
- write a story to fit each point (rotating boards)
- Prep
- as B
Block D
- Success and Happiness videos
- Discussion
- Reflection
- Read "Barney"
- Group Story Analysis: Story Parts Identified
- Prep
- Read "What I want to be when I grow up"
- Story parts analysis
Friday February 1st
Block A
- Finish Story Parts
- Adding Details
- Group story write
- As A
- Finish legends
- Review Website layout tools
- Work on Reflections
- Introduce Unit Assignment
- Plan A and B
- career path, Training, course selection
- certificates, diplomas, and degrees
Block A
- Types of character: Start with a stock character, add complexity (back story, a strange hobby, a dark secret, a motivation, etc;)
- Setting (add senses, unexpected elements, irony of time/place/mood/etc;)
- conflict: What could the character want? Why? What is at stake if they don't get it?
- Perspective: First Person? Third Person? (which type?)
- As A
- Drafts, editing
- Oral Language
- Work on My BP stuff
- Happiness and success
Block A
- Finish Parts of Speech and Subject Verb
- What is a story? Why do we tell them?
- Story parts
- Finish Parts of Speech and Subject Verb
- What is a story? Why do we tell them?
- Story parts
- Work on legend drafts, begin editing
- My BluePrint stuff
- Myers-Briggs Types explained
- Reflections
Block A
- Randomize groups
- Sentence combining
- What is sentence structure
- Parts of speech
- Randomize groups
- Sentence combining
- What is sentence structure
- Parts of speech
- work on legends
- sign out computers
- Create sites and site architecture
- Brainstorm: Happiness and success
- Discuss and reflect
Block A
- course outline
- Team Building
- course outline
- Team Building
- begin writing legends
- Introduce the course and course structure
- Begin discussion on success and happiness
Week 19
Tuesday, January 22nd
A
- Continue INterviews
- Exam Prep Period
- As A
- Kindergarten Buddies
- Final Project
A
- Continue INterviews
- Exam Prep Period
- As A
- Writing Legends
- Final Project
Friday, January 18th
Block D
- Final Assignments
- Final Portfolio Interviews/work period
- Prep
- Final Portfolio Interviews/work period
Block D
- Final Assignments
- Final Portfolio Interviews/work period
- Prep
- Final Portfolio Interviews/work period
Block D
- Read Part 4 - Him Standing
- Final Assignments
- Final Portfolio Interviews/work period
- Prep
- Final Portfolio Interviews/work period
Block D
- Final Assignments
- Future World of Work Project Presentations
- Prep
- Future World of Work Project Presentations
Block D
- Read Part 3 - Him Standing
- Finish Poetry assignments
- Finish Future World of Work assignments
- Presentations
- Prep
- Finish Future World of Work assignments
- Presentations
Friday, January 11th
Block A
- Future of Work
- As A
- Discuss Legends: Read Kou Skelowh
- features of a legend
- Oral traditions/active listening
- How to read to an audience
- Poetry analysis continued
Block A
- Future of Work
- As A
- wrap up symbolgrams
- Read "Him Standing" to page 60
- poetry analysis: find a poem(s) with literary devices (5) and sound devices (3 - NOT including rhythm!)
Block A
- Continue work on Future of Work Projects
- As A
- work on symbolgrams
- Brainstorm: love/power
- What are the images? What are the symbols, metaphors and similes?
- Work on analysis
- types of rhythm, Metre, iambic pentametre
- which devices do you need help understanding? workshop on literary devices
Block A
- Changing world of work Project
- Changing world of work Project
- Summary of events in last 80 pages
- identify most important events
- How do they affect Saul's character? How do they fit with the circular narrative, community?
- Read "Him Standing" to page 30
- Brainstorm: love/power
- What are the images? What are the symbols, metaphors and similes?
Block A
- Changing World of Work Project
- As A
- Discuss remainder of novel
- symbolgrams
- Sign out Marrow Thieves
- Read Chapter One-three
Friday, December 21st
8:30-9:20 D block
9:25-11:00 Assembly
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:05 B block
12:10-1:00 C block
1:00-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:45 A block
Block D
- Finish Genre translations and present
- Christmas games
- Budgets Due today
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Genre translation scenes
- Budgets
- Prep
- As B
Block D
Block B
- Budgets
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- FinishReading/Viewing
- Scene translations
- Modern day scenes
- As B
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Read Act V
- Watch Acts Iv/V
- Budget Projects
- Prep
- As B
Friday, December 14th - Drugs in the Workplace Presentation
Block A
- Budget Assignments
- As "A"
- Read to 30
- Act IV.ii
Block A
- Budget Assignments
- As "A"
- Read to 24
- ActIV.i
Block A
- Budget Assignments
- As "A"
Block D
Tuesday, December 11th
Block A
- Finish Interest
- Budget Assignments
- Finish Interest
- Tax forms
- Budget Assignments
- Journal: How do I cope with difficult times?
- Read 20-24
- Finish III.ii
- Song lyrics: find a modern love/heartbreak song - would shakespeare approve of this, or is it cliche? (my example: Million Dollar Bill)
Block A
- Finish Interest
- Tax Forms/deductions/etc;
- Budget assignment
- As "A"
- Read IH to chapter 20
- Recap who is in love with Whom...
- Finish --> Act III.ii.177
- Watch Act III
- Read IV.i
Friday, December 7th
Block D
- III.ii
- Calculating Interest
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- III.i
- Satire - how it works. Example - Mechanicals' play-within-a-play
- lease agreements
- Interest Calculations
- More on taxes: deductions and credits
Prep
Block A
- As B
Block D
- Watch act II
- compare and contrast T-Chart: film vs. play
- Discussion: how comfortable are we with the language now? Does the play make sense? How independent do you feel you can be at this stage?
- Chad Tiegen: Stress management in the workplace
- tax brackets, total tax (federal and provincial), tax forms/tax software,
- calculating Interest
- Prep
- as B
Block D
- II.ii - Read and analysis
- Income vs expenses
- savings vs. debt
- Prep
As B
Monday, December 3rd
Block D
- Read II.i
- Analysis in groups
- Comparison Shopping activity - due today
- PREP
- As B
Friday, November 30th
Block A
- Paycheque/Deductions
- Two Cents: cars
- Comparison Shopping
- RBC Presentation
- Journal: Knowledge/Special Place
- Read chapters 10-14
- journal
- Watch act I
Block A
- RBC
- Two Cents
- Paycheques/Deductions
- Two Cents - cars
- Comparison Shopping
- Journal: Who has taught you traditional knowledge in your family? OR Where is your personal sacred place? what makes it so special?
- Reading
- I.i, I.ii
Block A
- Worksafe Presentations?
- Short/mid/long-term goals, wants and needs.
- Life happens - plans are important
- Calculating wages, deductions, taxes
- Short/mid-term comparison shopping activity
- As A
- Read chapter 6-10
- Journal: Who has taught you traditional knowledge in your family? OR Where is your personal sacred place? what makes it so special?
- Finish I.i
- Journal: Do you believe in true love? if so, why? If not, why not? Give examples to support your opinion from literature, art, films or music.
Block A
- RBC Team comes in
- (alternate: life at 30, short, mid-term, long-term financial goals, calculating Gross wages, deductions)
- as A
- Read Indian Horse Chapter1-7
- setting: place, lifestyle
- Novel opens with protocol, circular narrative, oral tradition
- family structure, intergenerational trauma
- Read I.i
Block A
- finish and present worksafe PSAs
- Financial goals: what I want my life to look like at 30
- who has savings? a savings plan?
- How much can you make at a part time job? what can we do with the money? Short, Mid, long-term goals
- As B
- Finish writing Stream of consciousness
- Publish written work and art
- Sign in Hinger Games/Sign out MSND
- Mini-Inquiry:
- Shakespeare: who was he? Why do we still care about his work?
- cursing and swearing
- Globe theatre
- Acting/actors - roles
- Relationship with Queen Elizabeth
- Challenges of the language, flexible grammar, thee/thy/they
- How to use the text
- Read I.i
Friday, November 23rd
- See TOC Instructions
Block D
- Review Peer editing procedures - Use writing performance standards
- Complete Draft/begin peer editing
- Worker's Rights/Worksafe PSA Project
- Prep
- as B
Block D
- In-class essay Draft
- Worker's Rights/Worksafe PSA Project
- Prep
- as B
Block D
- Create Essay outline,
- Structure
- intro/conclusion strategies
- transitions
- Unsafe Work Refusal Skits
- Prep
- as B
Block D
- Finish film
- Essay Assignment: Choose Questions, Group/individual brainstorms, approved questions
- You and the Working World
- Rights and Responsibliities
- Right to know, Right to participate, right to refuse, right to be free from reprisal
- OHSCommittee
- Refusing Unsafe Work
Gracie Greyeyes
Block A
- As B
Friday, November 16th
Block A
- Summarize Injury types
- worksafe investigations
- You and the Working World
- Alive After 5
- Drafting and editing stream of consciousness writing
- Watch remainder of film
- Discussion
- Personal Reposnse to the novel
- Text Twist
Block A
- Reflection: Lost Youth - which story affected me the most and why?
- Hazard types: Read in Groups and summarize to class
- Education Fair: Undecided students first priority
- Construction Ready: info
- As A
- Write drafts of First-Person stream of consciousness
- Read and analyze to the end of the novel
Block A
- Finish Hazards
- Lost youth
- Reflection: Which story hits closes to home for you?
- Injury Types
As A
Block C
- River Field Trip
- Journals: What is the importance of sacrifice to you? How can making a sacrifice benefit you? How is a sacrifice an important symbolic gesture?
- Chapters 23/24
Block A
- hazard recognition - posters on boards
- as A
- Another round of Residential School stories
- introduce stream of consciousness writing:
- first person
- empathetic - imagine what you would be thinking/feeling in the situation
- use imagery and react to it
- pay attention to the physical sensations, expressions and gestures of the mood you are trying to create
- Chapters 21-22 - Self-directed analysis
- Group-facilitated discussions
- Read to end of 24
Friday, November 9th
Block D
- Chapter 20
- Text Twist
- Read to 23 for Tuesday, 26 for Friday
- Lost Youth video/discussion/workplace safety stories
- Prep: work on Presentation notes, interview strategies, CLE Assignments; report cards
- As B
Block D
- Chapter 18/19
- Read to 23
- Continue with Core Competency project
- Prep: work on Presentation notes, interview strategies, CLE Assignments
- As "B"
See TOC Instructions
Tuesday, November 6th
Block D
- Chapter 16 - Building Question strategies,
- Present PSAs and share out to school
- Prep
- Common injuries
- injuries by industry
- safety equipment
- Workplace safety stories
Block D
- Chapter 15/16
- Share out: PSAs
- (evaluate and share with school)
- Common causes of injury on the job
- Prep: marking!
- Assignments for CLE
- As B
Friday, November 2nd
Block A
- Work on PSAs
- As "A"
- Brainstorm: Good Parenting
- Answer: what is the purpose of school?
- Breakout: Read at least two sections and summarize to group
- Reflection: What stood out for me as the most impactful part of this reading? What am I thinking now?
- Chapter 14
Block A
- PSA assignment
- As A
- Finish Presentations
- Read and discuss short pieces around residential school
- T-Chart: refugee experiences
- Reflection writing: Which story had the strongest impact on you?
- Chapter 14
- Read aloud and 5 key points
Block A
- Work on PSAs
- Work on PSAs
- Finish Representations
- Chapter 14 - 5 points. Read if needed
- read 15 out loud
Block A
- Post Social Media Reflections
- PSAs
- Surrey school lawsuit article
- Portfolio platform?
- PSAs
- Field Trip
- Chapter 13 (read aloud?)
- Explain "Stream of Consciousness'
- Write a place you know - imagery, senses, reactions to place
- Looking for detail, character development (reactions to place)
- Read all of 13 together, 14 for HW
Block A
- Complete social media assessment and post reflection
- portfolio discussion: would a different platform be better? WIX? Weebly?
- Finish Fashion Show presentations
- as A
- Representation Presentations
- Introduce SOICS assignment
- Chapter 12
- Personal Writing: contrast a time you spent in nature with Katniss' experiences in nature
Friday, October 26th
See TOC Instructions
Thursday, October 25th - Lockdown Drill
Block D
- Chapter 10/11 - Top five moments
- Fashion shows
- Discuss Digital Citizenship
- Prep
- Begin Digital Citizenship Project
See TOC instructions
Tuesday, October 23rd - University of Calgary Visit
Block D
- Complete discussion of writing and chapters 8/9
- Watch film, part 1
- Reminder of U of C visit
- Work on Fashion show project
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Chapter 8/9
- Work on Workplace Fashion Shoots
- Representation Projects - delivery and discussion
- As B
Thursday October 18th - Early Dismissal
Early Dismissal Schedule #3
CURRENT WEEK ROTATION
PERIOD 1 8:30AM-9:30AM
PERIOD 2 9:35AM-10:35AM
BREAK 10:35AM-10:50AM
PERIOD 3 10:50AM-11:50AM
PERIOD 4 11:55AM-12:45PM
Block A
- Finish One Week Job
- Time to work on NHIs and Fashion Shoot
- As "A"
- Finish Representations and share out
- Chapter 7/8
Early Dismissal Schedule #3
CURRENT WEEK ROTATION
PERIOD 1 8:30AM-9:30AM
PERIOD 2 9:35AM-10:35AM
BREAK 10:35AM-10:50AM
PERIOD 3 10:50AM-11:50AM
PERIOD 4 11:55AM-12:45PM
Block A
- U of C - Oct 23rd @1:00-1:40, U of A - Oct 25th @ 10:30-11:30 - Both in Library
- One Week Job Project
- As "A"
- Work on Representations - are we ready to share out tomorrow?
- Chapter 6/7 tasks
Block A
- Interview
- Fashion Show/Shoot Project
- One Week Job
- As "A"
- Representation Project
- Chapter 5/6
Block A
- Catch up day
- Finish Resume Cover Letter - Due Monday next week (HW)
- Job Interview Fashion Show/Fashion Shoot
- As A
- Collect written Responses
- Representation Projects
- Chapter 4 Responses
- Chapter 5/6 activities
Friday, October 12th - Fat Friday
Block D
- Chapter 3/4 Questions and Discussions
- Share out mentor sessions
- Self evaluation - Make sure to submit projects AND reflections
- Resumes and Cover Letters Sign up - Teachers will review
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Chapter 2 Write
- Read Chapters 3/4
- Finish Presentations
- Finish Resume/Cover Letter
- Sign up for Evaluations
- Pick up evaluation form
- Reflection: What is a competent citizen? Why do employers and customers want competent citizens in the workplace?
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Chapter 1/2 tasks
- Explain the relationship between Katniss and Peeta, and how it impacts the story
- Finish share-outs
- Work on Resume and Cover Letter
- Sign-up for application package drop-off
- Prep: CLE assessments, direction Oct-Nov, contacts
- As B
Block D
- Brief summary - Chapter 1
- Read Chapter 2
- Activities on board
- Discussion
- Mentor Projects completed?
- Work on Resumes and Cover Letters
- Prep
- As B
Friday, October 5
Block A
- Finish Mentor Project
- spotlight session information
- Work on Resumes and cover letters
- As A
- Sharing Circle: final thoughts on the film
- written responses
- work on Representations
- Read Chapter one
- Detail Setting and Character:
- home, Prim, Mother, Katniss, buttercup, District 12 (the seam), The Woods, Gale, The Hob (market), Effie Trinket, Haymitch
- Treaty of the Treason; Dark Days
Block A
- Continue with Mentor Project
- Resume and Cover Letter Research
- As A
- Finish Reel Injun
- Final Discussion
- Little Hiawatha
- Mascots
- Representations Project
- What is a dystopia? What are some examples of dystopian texts?
- Hunger Games: we all know the story, but how can we read it at a deeper level?
- Sign out texts
- Read Chapter 1
Block A
- Continue with Mentor project
- As A
- Finish film
- Representation project
- Videos
- Phone articles and discussions
- Violent entertainment
- sign out novels
Block A
- Mentor Project
- Confirm mentor
- create questions
- design product
- As A
- Watch and discuss, questions on "Reel Injun"
- Written Response:
- All Summer: How does the author create suspense?
- Sentry: How does the author use perspective?
- Veldt: How does setting influence character, plot and conflict?
- Supertoys: Describe the theme of the story. What is the author's comment on technology?
Block A
- Mentor Project intro activities
- Identify king's counsel
- Begin mentor project
- As A
- Stereotypes - picture activity
- Reel Injun
- Review questions for Supertoys
- Paragraph structure/grammar/vocab reminder
- written response: Choose::
- with evidence from any of the stories we have read this semester, explain the theme of the story
- OR
- with evidence from any of the stories we have read this semester, Discuss how the author's techniques improve storytelling
Friday, September 28th - September 28th - Orange Shirt Day (originally on Sunday the 30th but we will acknowledge it on friday)
Block D
- blanket activity with Taylor
- Finish Employability/PSI
- Intro Mentorship project OR One Week Job Video
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Finish Supertoys
- Complete loose ends -
- NHI
- Employability
- PSI Day
- Prep
- As A
Block D
- Finish Reading and Discussing Supertoys with vertical learning
- Complete PSI Day Reflections
- Complete Employability skills assignment
- prep
- as B
Block D
- Continue with Chunked Reading "SuperToys" and all remaining questions
- Continue with Employability skills reflection
- Prep for PSI assignment
- Prep
- PSI Day Sessions
Block D
- Seat Plan
- Read "Supertoys"
- group analysis: Chunk-at-a-time
- parts of a story
- discussion questions
- Seat Plan
- Employability skills task and reflection
- Prep
- as B
Friday, September 21st
Block A
- Presentations
- Video
- As A
- Poem Proposals
- Three artifacts for elder boxes - Journal
- Pictures activity
- What are stereotypes? Where and when have you encountered them?
- FN stereptypes
- Analysis of Story
- Generate questions for Discussions
A Block – 8:30-9:15
- Begin the share-outs
- As "A"
C Block – 10:30-11:10
- Figure out audio recordings
- Record poems
Core Meeting – 20 minutes
Assembly – 25 minutes
Spirit Activities – 50 minutes
Run – 40 minutes
Lunch – 35 minutes
D Block – 2:00-2:45
- Niels DeGrasse-Tyson video
- Read "All Summer in a Day"
- boards - analysis of story parts
- also, technique (how does the author build suspense)
Block A
- one more block to complete presentations if needed/else present
- As A
- Continue place poems/phoneme project
- What is an alien?
- Read the Sentry
- Perspective
- conflict - both stories
- Why might an alien race describe us as "Cruel, hideous, repulsive monsters
- Nerdwriter - How Trump answers a question: connotation/denotation
- Read "All Summer in a Day"
Block A
- Career Path Project
- As A
- Begin Drafting "I am From" Poems
- Peer edit, Read out loud
- Find locations on google street view
- audio recordings
- Recap: Mood
- Tone - irony in setting - creates contrast/tension - what is at stake for the audience?
- Theme: How has technology improved our lives? What are the risks?
- The Jetsons video: Discuss if technology helps or hinders us
- Boston Dynamics video - thinking through the dangers: what could possibly go wrong
- Read "The Sentry"
- Perspective
Block A
- Career Path Portfolio
- As A
- Talking Circle: Where were you born? How did you get here?
- Read George Ella Lyons' "I am From poem"
- Imagery, Symbolism and emotion
- Read my poem
- Introduce Phone Me
- assignment
- Watch OK video - all words have stories; shades of meaning
- Closer reading:
- Made-up words
- setting: imagery and mood, social setting
- Narrative tone: fairy tales,
- What is an Alien?
- Read "Sentry"
Monday, September 10 (CORE)
Block D - 8:30-9:40
- Sentence Combining - (start a new one!)
- Discussion: What is a story? Why do we tell stories? Why are stories important in our cultures? How do we tell stories in contemporary culture? How might stories be used for harmful purposes?
- Refresher: What are the essential parts of a story?
- Success and Happiness videos
- Set up MyBluePrint - Portfolios
- Reflection #1: What I want to be when I grow up?
- Begin Exploratory Activities
Block C - 11:45-12:55
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- What is a story? Why do we tell stories?
- On Boards: What are the key parts to a story? How do they interact to create interest for audiences?
- Watch Success and Happiness videos
- take portfolio tests on MyBP
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Show Grammar videos
- The Veldt: Read and dissect - parts of a story
- What comment is the author making on the state of technology?
- What risks does technology place on us?
- Begin Career exploration project
- Prep
- As B
Block D
- Read "The Veldt"
- Story Parts Analysis
- What comment is the author making on the state of technology?
- What risks does technology place on us?
- Continue working on My BluePrint Career Exploration assignment
- Penticton Art Gallery Trip
Friday, Sept 14
Block D
- Complete Veldt Questions
- Discuss Questions and Theme
- Story parts analysis
- Continue with Career/Post-Secondary assignment
- Prep
- As B
Friday, September 7th - District Pro-D
Thursday, September 6th - assembly schedule
Block A - 8:30-9:30
- Discussion Continued: what is success? How do we measure it? What is happiness? how do we measure it?
- what are the roadblocks to success? what are the roadblocks to happiness?
- Reflection: what is/are your biggest barriers to success and happiness? How might you overcome them?
- videos: happiness and success
Block B - 9:45-10:45
- as A
- Hike up to the front grass and do a sharing circle about what connects us to a space – Is this home for them? Why or why not? (this will lead into the Phone Me project) Dream catcher activity
Lunch - 1:00-1:38
Block D - 1:38-2:45
- Randomize groups: Sentence completion activity - focus on compund/complex sentences, clauses
Block A - 8:30-9:30
- Finish Outline
- Randomizer/ice breaker activity
- success: what is your definition? Who is a good example of a successful person? how can you measure success?
- Happiness: what is your definition? Who is a good example of a happy person? how can you measure happiness?
- Reflection: what is the relationship between happiness and success?
Break 10:40-10:55
Block B - 10:55-11:55
- as A
- Reading about peoples contributions in traditional Indigenous communities, what are sharing circles and why are they important?
- Sharing circle – creating ground rules, toilet paper game, start to have students brainstorm about the ways that they can contribute to the group skills, attributes, abilities, (this will lead into next weeks art project)
Block D - 1:38-2:45
- Ice Breakers and Team-building
- Writing Sample: Choose from one of the writing prompts
Block A - 8:30-9:00
- course outlines
- course outlines
Block C - 9:50-10:20
- start with showing the kids the “advice” from last years students. Expectations for the class – art and English as a mixed class – not one and then the other.
Exit tickets – one thing that they think is important as “a ground rule” to facilitate group conversations, sharing circles and community building in our classroom
- course outlines
Staff Meeting - 12:00-2:00
Prep 2:00-2:45