Excellent work today!!! We had a very informative and engaged gallery walk on your Ancient Civilizations.

I'm trying something new. I am including a picture of the shape of the day.  Gallery presentations are due on Monday. Please finish your project if you did not finish it in class. Have a great weekend. 

 Today was a work block for our Ancient Civ project. We finalized our bibliography and submitted a self assessment on our research. The gallery walk will be on Monday. Bring all materials you need to work on the project to class onFriday.   Tomorrow is the last class to work on the project. 

 Today was a work block for our Ancient Civ project. We finalized our focus question and outlined our working plan for Thursday and Friday. The gallery walk will be on Monday. Bring all materials you need to work on the project to class on Thursday. Also make sure you have an updated bibliography. You can use easybib, or there is a handout in the Ancient Civ folder( right side panel) on how to write a bibliography. 

 Please complete the good copy of your edited Instruction Paragraph for Tuesday. You need to hand in pink outline sheet and  your edited draft along with the good copy.  Also, if you want to do anymore research, please update your research notes. I will be checking in with you on Tuesday about your research. 

Write a complete bibliography ( info on yellow handout from library) for all sources you used in your research project.  You can write it on the back of the research notes rubric. 

 Today was the last class to gather our research notes for our ancient civ project. 

Your draft copy of the instruction paragraph is due tomorrow.

Remember to have an idea of either a primary or secondary source that you have used in your research gathering for tomorrow's class. You do not need the actual source, just know what you have used.

Today we continued our research on the Ancient Civ. We looked at Economic and Political features. Thursday will be our last day of  in class research.

Remember to find either a primary source or secondary source to write about why it is what it is on Friday.

 Please have a rough draft paper copy of your INSTRUCTION paragraph for Friday. You can hand in your printed draft as soon as it is done.

 Today we looked at how to write an expository paragraph. Many of you finished your outline. Please have a rough draft paper copy of your paragraph for Friday. You can hand in your printed draft as soon as it is done.

 Today we continued to work on gathering research only for our Ancient Civ. Today the focus was social and cultural.  Thank you to everyone for printing and handing in their final graphic novel assignment!

 Today we selected our Ancient Civilization and gathered information on location, key events and people. Here is the link that Ms. Santos-Cox created for you to help with the research: http://tiny.cc/7f0luz

  If you need an extra copy of the handout you can copy and paste it from the handout section. You will find it under the Ancient Civ folder.

Remember your graphic novel final tasks are due tomorrow.

 Today was a work block for our Graphic novel assignment.  Handouts are in graphic novel folder. THIS PROJECT IS DUE ON WEDNESDAY NOV 10!!!!!!!!!!! It needs to be handed in on Wednesday as it will be part of your first term mark. Marks Cut off is Wednesday, Nov. 10.

 Today we finished up our last lit circle. The final graphic novel project was assigned. Handouts are in graphic novel folder. THIS PROJECT IS DUE ON WEDNESDAY NOV 10!!!!!!!!!!! It needs to be handed in on Wednesday as it will be part of your first term mark. Marks Cut off is Wednesday, Nov. 10.

We also began our Ancient Civilization Inquiry project. Today we looked at the key elements we research and began to practice the importance of location.

Think about which civilization you want to research. We will begin our research on Tuesday.

 Today we were introduced on how to assess websites reliability by Ms. Q. We practiced by looking at two different sites about Christopher Columbus. Following this mini lesson, we recapped annotating graphic novels, and used our annotations to inform us about the novel's character. We then practised selecting character traits to describe the character.

Our last lit circle is Thursday. Please make sure you have completed your last role sheet.

 Today we had our third lit circle. Your fourth lit circle role sheet is due on Thursday. This will be our last class to work in our lit circle groups. We then looked at how to annotate a graphic novel panel. If you did not finish your panel ( 10 annotations), please finish that for tomorrow's class.