March 17

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

English 10 (H Block)

Today students were asked to hand in their infographs.  They were directed to self-assess and ensure that they handed in their article with their assignment.  Sources should also be displayed on their infographs.  Next, we watched the documentary Generation Jobless and students were asked to complete an assignment and hand it in (see below).  Students can watch it on youtube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUuMWqA8eE

Generation Jobless Documentary Assignment   Name: _________________________________  Blk: ____________

Pre-viewing questions

1.       Have you thought about a future career yet?   If so, what careers are you considering?

2.       What do you think the biggest problems are for young people looking for jobs in Canada right now?

3.       What do the following words mean:

Internship

Co-op

Apprenticeship

While viewing questions

1.       What is the unemployment rate for young Canadians according to this documentary?  Swiss youth?

2.       List the current problems with the current Canadian education system in terms of preparing youth for careers?

3.       Write down 3 other statistics that you found interesting?  Beside these stats explain why you thought they were interesting.

4.       Describe why the Swiss system seems to be so successful.  What are they doing in their education system?

Post Viewing Questions

1.       Do you think it would be a good idea for Canada to adopt the Swiss system of education?  What are the pros and cons from your perspective?

2.       Has watching this documentary changed your thinking about your future career or job?  Why or why not? 

3.       If you were Minister of Education, how would you change our education system?

4.       Other comments/questions on this topic:

Humanities 8

Today we spent some time at the cultural awareness day events around the school.  We also read Scenes 5 & 6 of the play Courting Trouble.