I had fun and learned how to make jewelry. Well, I made earrings and a few necklaces. I will continue to experiment putting "masterpieces" together.
Reading strategy for January: Inferring
Readers can increase their understanding of a text by drawing inferences as they read.
An inference is a judgment or evaluation made about a plot, setting or characters of the story.
Inferring is like making a prediction but the reader combines what he/she reads from the text and prior knowledge to make an inference.
To infer is to form an opinion that is based on the text but does not exist literally in the text.
Grade 7
Math - review multiplication and division (sheets given for holiday extra work). Please bring to class.
Numeration (fractions, decimals, percents)/Patterning/Data Management
First step: practice creating fractions and then equivalent fractions over 100 and/or convert to a decimal number. Practice this week.
English - continue The Breadwinner pgs 1-33 (should be complete before holidays)
This week: pg 34 - 62
Writing a letter:
Written response:
Pretend that you have just arrived in Afghanistan and Parvana is your
old friend. She is taking you around the market, showing you her house,
pointing out the Taliban. She is talking about how as the war has gone on,
each house she has had has gotten bombed and they have had to move to
smaller and smaller houses. They are becoming poorer and poorer. Then,
you are asked to fly home to Canada. Write a short letter to Parvana telling
her everything you learned about where she lives and what she has gone
through in the past year. Don’t forget to include how you feel about the
changes she has had to endure.
Look fors: following above instructions
elements of a letter - date, salutation, body, complimentary closing
Grade 8
Numeration/Patterning/Data Analysis
coordinates, determining algebraic equations, graphing, picture representations
reviewing multiplication and division
English
Continue Novel Study of Iqbal
Pages 1-37 should have been completed during holidays.
Written response: child labour
Part 2: pg38-81
Written response (pick 1)
Characterization
1. Fatima writes of the times when the children would discuss their dreams.
Do you dream in colour or black and white? What do they think your dreams mean?
Write about a dream you have had and analyze what it means. Draw an illustration of the dream.
2.
Write a vivid description of Iqbal's character including his appearance and his attitude. You can create a graphic organizer about his character. Use one colour of pen.
This is your first impression of this character. As the story progresses, add characteristics about what you learn about Iqbal's character (in a different colour of pen).
At the end of the story you can check go back and check your first impression to see if it changed after you read the entire story.
Characterization
1. Fatima writes of the times when the children would discuss their dreams.
Do you dream in colour or black and white? What do they think your dreams mean?
Write about a dream you have had and analyze what it means. Draw an illustration of the dream.
2.
Write a vivid description of Iqbal's character including his appearance and his attitude. You can create a graphic organizer about his character. Use one colour of pen.
This is your first impression of this character. As the story progresses, add characteristics about what you learn about Iqbal's character (in a different colour of pen).
At the end of the story you can check go back and check your first impression to see if it changed after you read the entire story.
3. Conduct research to find a product made by child labourers and find out where this product is sold in local stores. If it is, contact a local politician to help you change this
4. “The Kids Campaign to Build a School for Iqbal: A Bullet Can’t Kill a Dream” is a web site documenting the establishment of a school named after Iqbal that the Broad Meadows students helped build in his hometown: http://www.mirrorimage.com/iqbal/index.html.Read the site and write a report about what you read.
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