8K Humanities

• Our vocabulary quiz will be moved to Monday because of students being away, and assemblies that happen this week.

8K Humanities

• In Language Arts: We have a vocabulary test on poetry terms on Thursday. Students should be completed their Music presentations, and be ready to present on Wednesday (Feb.14th). I have attached a copy of the assignmnet below
• In Social Studies: We Are doing Chapter group presentations (For Canadian History). Students will be given a specific job in their group. Students who cannot handle working in their group will be given individual chapter questions to work on for homework.

Biography Assignment: Music

Introduction:
Music is a form of poetry, and fans of music often feel passionately about their favourite group or singer. Your assignment is to complete a detailed biography of a singer/group of your choice.

Learning outcomes:
Develop understanding about how to research an individual’s life using the internet
Focus your attention to a specific topic
Share ideas and information with your peers

Requirements:
You will spend one-two classes in the computer lab gaining as much information as you can on your topic person/group. You need at least one page of information, in your own words (not plagiarism).
Some ideas of things to research are:
Where they grew up?
Who were in their family?
What they did before they got into music?
What got them interested in music?
How they got their “big break”?
Are they married?
What kinds of problems have they gone through (drugs, crime..)?
Do they write their own music?
What do they do when they are not creating music?
What are their most famous songs?
What is your favourite song of theirs?
Any other interesting facts about them.
You need to bring in a CD with your favourite song from that artist on it
You need to write at least one paragraph about what this song means to you and why you like it.
You need to create a visual/poster for your presentation.
This can include:
magazine pictures, or pictures from the internet (do not print pictures on school printers)
Lyrics to the song you have chosen for them
Drawn pictures and decorations.
You need to be prepared to present your Biography, poster, and song to the rest of the class. You can include a lip sync to your song, and any dramatic parts you wish to add to your presentation. You will have a maximum of 10 minutes to complete your presentation.

Comp 1, 3

• unfortunatley the 3-in-1 machine is still not working properly. I am doing my best to get it going but in the mean time students will be working with sheet metal to complete substitute projects.

Comp 2

• We will be finishing our dragsters and having Co2 car races next monday(19th).

PLS (8S 8G 8M)

• We have been looking at depression and working on a storyboard project on this topic