September 24

English 10

Today we started off by self-assessing our identity projects before handing them in. One student presented her project and I presented some of my PowerPoint about my identity.  Next we discussed the concept of world-view and watched a video-clip about it.  We discussed the importance of values and beliefs in relationships.  Finally, we started to investigate creation stories.  We listened to the beginning of an aboriginal creation story and then discussed the basics of the Judeo-Christian creation story.  

Humanities 8

Today we started off with a quiz on the refugee crisis.  Students were also given an article to read and were directed to underline/highlight 2 or 3 of the most important sentences or points in the article.  After this, we looked at the picture of the Syrian boy that was mentioned in the article.  We discussed why this picture caused the general public to finally notice that there was a refugee crisis.  From this, we revisited our hamburger rubrics and worked on creating a Outsider poster rubric.  Students worked with partners on this.