D-Day: Juno Beach

From what we have learned so far about D-day, specifically Juno Beach, one can only imagine what the soldiers were thinking and what they went through during the days up to and on June 6th, 1944.
Assignment
Your assignment will be to take the point of view of a Canadian soldier who has either already taken part in the attack of the Nazis on Juno Beach or is about to take part in the battle the next day.  You have the choice of presenting the feelings of the soldier by either writing a letter to a loved one, doing an interview (you'll need 2 people in your group to do this) or what ever other way you can think of.  The most important thing to do is to present from the soldier's point of view and display a lot of empathy towards the soldier.  In order to make your presentation feel real and authentic, you must be knowledgable about what events occured during the the time that lead up to June 6th, 1944.

Once you have decided what you are going to do, it is now time to start planning out your project.  Optional: Use BubblUs-Mind Mapping so you are able to have everything planned out ahead of time.  When you are done planning out your presentation, you are to embed your BubblUs on your blog.

Now it is time to start putting your ideas to work and to start writing them into complete sentences.  If you are writing a letter make sure you use the proper format for a fireindly letter and if you are interviewing a soldier, make sure your questions are planned out and answered from the point of view of a World War II soldier.

Science-Undertanding Tension Force

Tension Force-The force of pull supplied by strings, ropes or chains

Where do we see tension force?

Above are some examples of tension force.  One is also a great example of unbalnced force when the girls ruled the boys in one of the tug o' wars.

POP QUIZ- Science Ch. 8.1-FORCES

POP QUIZ

Tommy Douglas Dance Partnership

Tommy Douglas Dance Partnership

Our school is very fortunate to be participating in a dance partnership with Grade 11 and 12 students from Tommy Douglas Collegiate.  These students will be teaching dance to the Grade 8’s on nine occasions during the next two months, our first session beginning on Monday, Oct. 24. This session will be hosted in the dance studio at Tommy Douglas with follow-up sessions occurring at Fairhaven.

We will be leaving Fairhaven at 9:30 to walk to Tommy Douglas. Please remind your child to dress for the weather. Students will also need light clothes that are appropriate for dance, so there may be a need to change clothing upon our arrival at Tommy Douglas.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

Ms. Horsley-Dewar

Mrs. Nelson

Magnetic Force- Meglev Train

Meglev Train-How does it work?

Writing Process-EDMODO

L.A.

No Time to Say Goodbye -EDMODO

Remember to edit your post. Have a classmate read over your post and then upload it. If you see mistakes-after you have posted you can go to the corner of your post & scroll above the pen -click on the edit (pencil symbol) Some of you are using text messaging lingo-don't! 

 I am really impressed at how well many of you have stepped into your character's role. Most of the posts are well written and the character is portrayed convincingly-Good Job! To portray a character well, it helps to use feelings, thoughts, and actions of what you imagine the character to be like. Make sure to bring in specific events that relate to what is happening in the story.

Assignment List for EDMODO Posts...

               
                  Post #1- predicting from title

                  Post #2- portray a character -pg 1-20

                  Post #3- choose a different character to portray- pg20-36

                  Post #4- portray a different character- pg36-55
                          remember you may reply to other student's post-positive remarks
                  Post #5-portray a character-pg55-67 -

Writing Process for EDMODO

Pre-writing

·        brainstorming

·        planning

Writing

·        rough copy

Editing

·        punctuation

·        spelling

·        sentence and paragraph structure

Publishing-good copy

·        neatness

Mrs. Nelson

EDMODO Post #3

 Monday Oct 17th , 2011

L.A

Students worked on

Just Read- No Time to Say Goodbye novel

                    -Read silently in LRC pg 36-55. 

 finished their EDMODO post #3 from pg20-36. choose a different character to portray & remember

   ....edit.... edit..... edit......

    Due-EDMODO post #3 is due tomorrow Tuesday Oct 18th 

     EDMODO Post #4  - finish reading pg 36-55 and we will have time in class to work on

SOCIAL

Unit-Treaties


I, Mrs. Nelson have started teaching the Treaties unit in Social Studies. We will be focusing on the European Worldview and the Aboriginal Worldview  throughout Canadian history.


 Mrs. Nelson