Giver Ebook.

 Get your own E copy of the novel we're studying by going to Journey's outdrive and looking in the div 5 folder for the pdf file "The Giver".

Upcoming Due Dates

En 8

Short Story Poster- Friday January 17
Short Stories Test- Tues January 21

SS 8

Passion Project- Friday January 31

SS 8

Dragons are currently learning physical geography.  Lost handouts and assignment instructions can be found here.

Upcoming Tests & Assignments

Socials 8- Middle Ages Unit Test.  Review all your notes, current event sheets, and chapter two in Pathways.- Tues Dec 3.

English 8-  Short Story Project-  Due Wednesday Dec 11.

Grammar Test- Sentence Structure on Wednesday Dec 11.

The white board for your Writing Handbook if you missed an entry is posted below.  We are now up to entry 52- Short Story Required Features.

Socials 8

 Upcoming Due Dates:

Thursday Nov 21- USA Map
Tuesday Nov 19- Chapter 2 vocab quiz #1
Tuesday Nov 26- Chapter 2 vocab quiz #2

Students are nearing the end of their look at the Early Middle Ages (Chp2 in Pathways)  During this unit Dragons discussed the following current events/issues in our world:  Northern Gateway & Alberta tar sands, Earthquakes and BC's preparation for the next big one, The Occupy Movement, Adbusters, The Shrinking MIddle Class, Homelessness, and finally the Push to Grow more food in Canada, and the poor plight of farmers in Canada.

In addition to their textbook (Chap2) readings the following worksheets should be complete and kept for final unit study.

EN 8

Dragons are done presentation and now are in a short stories unit.  Listed below are the short story response sheets for the stories we've covered so far:   Trueheart, Golden Pants, Hoarse Chestnuts, Moose & Sparrow, and On the Bridge


**Note- Short Story Unit Final Project is now due Thursday Dec 5.
               Reading Letter #3 Due- Wed Nov 27