Humanities Week in Advance

Mon. May 25th - 

1. Today students should have completed reading ch.8-12 in The Bully Boys (assigned early last week) and found 6-12 new vocabulary words for their duotang
2. Those who were on track, read ch.13-15 and started a Connections activity, finding connections between the novel and their world, and other texts. 
3. We read about the 3 Conferences that took place during Confederation and practiced our active reading skills of highlighting key information. 

Tues. May 26th - 

1. Students will continue to work on Bully Boys novel study. The day to have the book completed Friday, June 5th. 
2. Students will be working in their British North American Colony groups and writing up statements to start our mock conference on Wednesday. They will be writing questions to ask other colonies during our confederation conference and questions that they think they might be asked, in preparation.  

Wed. May 27th - 

1. Mock Conference Day - we will have a mock conference of the London Conference during confederation where students will discuss the pros and cons of their colony joining confederation. 

Thurs. May 28th - 

1. Students will collect information in reorganized groups from people of all the BNA colonies about confederation. They will plot this information in a chart so they can have a quick reference as to who joined confederation in 1867 and who did not, and why they didn't. 
2. Students will be given a Confederation Assessment (open book - independent)

Fri. May 29th - 

1. Time to complete Confederation Assessment independently in class and also time to continue reading The Bully Boys. 

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

Heritage Park Field Trip 

is happening on JUNE 2nd. 

PLEASE RETURN FORMS BY FRIDAY, MAY 29TH

At least one volunteer is still required from 702. Please email Ms. Lockwood if you area available to help out on that day.

Options Selection Forms

Please read the available options for grade 8 with your son or daughter and fill in the forms with them. 

PLEASE RETURN FORMS BY FRIDAY, MAY 29TH

Science

Today in class we began to discuss the difference between mass and weight.  To help students explore the concepts they worked through an online experiment.  By Monday, all students need to complete the student exploration sheet that accompanied the Gizmo lab.  The link to the Gizmo is below along with a username and password that will need to be entered to access the Gizmo at home. The student exploration sheet was emailed to students.  

Online Lab

Username:LA06

Password: 4105

Science Quiz

Tomorrow students will have a science quiz on Topics 1&2 of the Structures and Forces Unit.  They will be allowed to use any of the work or notes in their science notebooks but not a science textbook, In class we gave students time to improve the quality of the work in their notebooks and to practice discussing and explaining concepts.  The list below is a study guide.

• Textbook pages 270-293
• Types of structures
• shell, frame, mass, natural, manufactured
• be able to discuss the defining characteristics of each type of structure
• provide and identify examples of each type of structure
• discuss advantages and disadvantages of each type of structure. 
• Designing Structures
• discuss factors to be considered when designing a structure such as; function, cost, aesthetics, safety, joints, and materials.  
• Joints
• identify rigid and mobile joints
• discuss different types of rigid joints such as; fasteners, interlocking shapes, adhesives, ties, and melted joints.  

Math and Science

We just started a new math unit "Patterns and Relations and Solving Equations".  Some students have run out of math notebooks.  Getting setup with a new notebook is for homework.

In science students are to read pages 290-292 and complete the following in their notebooks,

1.Indicate whether each joint is rigid (R) or mobile (M).

            (a) door hinge

            (b) nut and bolt holding a wheel on a car

            (c) ball and socket in your shoulder

            (d) joint where the leg of a chair is fastened to the seat

            (e) ball at the end of a ballpoint pen

            (f) joint created where the handle is fastened to a pencil sharpener

            (g) joint created where the handlebars of a bicycle are fastened to the frame

            (h) joint created where the pages are fastened in a notebook

            (i) joint where a computer monitor is fastened to its base

2.     Complete the table below to identify properties and uses of rigid joints. In the last column, you can describe how a joint works using words or a diagram. Give the table a title.

Title:                                                                      

Rigid joint	Examples	Structure that uses joint	How joint works
fasteners
interlocking shapes
ties
adhesives
melted joints

Heritage Park Volunteers Needed

On June 2^nd all of the grade 7’s will be going to Heritage Park to participate in the Trains, Planes, and Immigrants program to help enrich the units in Social Studies focused on Confederation and the early years of Canada as a country.  We are in desperate need of volunteers in order to meet the adult to student ratio required by the cbe and the park.

Field trip forms and information will be coming home next week with your son/daughter. If you are available on June 2^nd from 8:45am – 3:00pm on this day and have your volunteer clearance, please contact the teacher in charge of this trip to make arrangements to volunteer for the day.

Thank you for all of your support in making these trips possible!

Contact: Alyssa Lockwood aalockwood@cbe.ab.ca

Humanities Notes

Over the last week we have been working on learning about the Great Migration from Britain to British North America between the years of 1815-1850. We have discussed why it took place and what the results were for the people living in the British North American Colonies. Students have starting talking about the move towards Democracy in the colonies.

Notes can be found on the D2L shell in Content under The Great Migration.

Next week, we will be talking about Confederation and how the creation of Canada took place.


Bully Boys - All students should have read to the end of ch.7 by today. All students should have the following in their reading duotang:

- Ch.1-5 Vocabulary
- Ch.3, 4 or 5 summary
- Character Chart for Thomas (Tommy)
- A map of where the characters have been in the novel

Math

Tomorrow there is a final assessment of adding and subtracting integers.  In class today we did a small review quiz so students could gauge their own understanding.  Anyone who struggled through that should be doing online practice at home such as this.  All students have a word problems assignment due tomorrow.  There was a printing error with the assignments so the last 4 questions did not appear so I have posted them below.

5. The base of a volcano is 3000 m below the surface of the ocean. The total height of the volcano is 5000 m. What is the altitude of the volcano above sea level?

6.  On Monday morning Sam had $50 in his wallet.  The following table shows how this amount changes over the week.  How much did Sam put into, or take out of, his wallet on Friday afternoon?

Day	start	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thur	Fri
Gain/Loss ($)		+30	-19	-25	+51
Total ($)	50					20

7.  Lloyd is lifting weights over a nine-week training period.  Every week he lifts 2kg more than he lifts the previous week.  During the ninth week, he lifts 80 kg.  How much was he lifting during his first week?

8.  Evan hiked uphill from a valley that was 45 m below sea level.  After an hour he was 100m higher than where he started.  Using integers, determine how high he was above sea level.  Show what you did.  

Bully Boys Vocabulary List Ch.1-5

Loyalist – people who stayed loyal to Britain during the American Revolution and the War of 1812

Stead – a male horse

Receding (to recede) – to withdraw or fall back

Putter – to move or act aimlessly  

Reinforcements – back up or extra help

Reins – part of a harness that the rider holds to control the horse

Blue coats – American soldiers

Commanding – to tell someone what to do

Hesitant – unsure if you should act

Illustrious – outstanding because of rank or achievement

Brigade -  military unit composed of people for special activity

Ammunition – material for attacking or defending a position

Cavalry – a group of people who move together (in Bully Boys, it’s a group of people moving together on horses)

Red coat – British soldiers serving the King

Cavalrymen – the men who make up the army riding on the group of horses

Trough – gutter shaped object that holds water, usually for animals to drink out of

Musket – weapon with small fire

Coot – a harmless, simple person

Coaxing (to coax) – urging someone or influencing someone to do something.

Plundered (to plunder) – stealing things

Shielded (to shield) - to protect from danger or damage

Militia - A group of civilians that form their own military unit (they have military training but are only called into action in emergencies)

Deception (to deceive) – to make someone believe something untrue

Famine – a great lack of food (towards starvation)

Regiment – organized body of troops and unit in the army

Hemmed (hem) – a border of cloth stitched together

Powder Horn – a bullhorn full of gun powder used to reload a gun

Definitely – of course, something that is for sure

Sympathizers – feel compassion for someone and understanding

Balked (to balk) – not finishing an action, or stopping short of the end

Invader – someone who takes over someone else’s land

Rump – upper rounded part of the hind quarters of an animal

Green Tigers – A group of 50 men on the British side (also known as the Bully Boys)

Squirrelled – to store away

Cripple – A partly disabled individual

Bluster – A storm or something loud

Stride – to move with longer spaced steps

To Retreat – to back away from something

Boisterous – marked by high spirits

Massa – a slave term for “master” or the person in charge

Certainty – being very certain or convinced that something is the case

Petticoat – a skirt that is worn under a dress or outer skirt

Aide – when a military officer acts as an assistant (helper)

Bugle – instrument resembling a trumpet

Bugler – someone who plays the bugle

Flank – refers to the sides of something (going to the flank)

Pickets – a soldier on the front line

Flats – refers to wooden boards you walk across to get from shore to the boat

Negotiating – to confer with someone to come to an agreement

Math Problem Solving

Page 339 #3-8 MathLinks.  Students DO NOT need to solve these problems.  Instead I would like students to state whether they would add or subtract to solve the problem and explain what key word or phrases helped them decide.

Humanities

Today we created a timeline of all the important events in Canadian history that we have studied up to the War of 1812.

Students made predictions as to what the next event in history will be.

Afterwards, there was time to work on Ch.3-5 of the Bully Boys. Students should be read up to the end of Ch.5 for Monday.