Homework for Jan. 13.

Have you finished your Eric Walters novel?
Have you responded to four questions regarding the novel?

We have finished reading Chapters 1-3 for Home T.E.A.M. with 8-2.
8-0 and 8-1 have read Chapters 1-2.

We will finish the first four chapters tomorrow and then create some questions so that we will have some ready to go for Eric Walters' visit Friday.

Media/Research/reading/Writing:

Continue to work on Country project: deadline for rough copy Jan. 19th.
Good copy is due: Jan. 26.

Here's the link to the work outline again.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUO-c8pnNFryZGtuNzNnN181NzVmM3d6Z244eg&hl=en
Here's a web site for the countries: http://www.ctvolympics.ca/countries/index.html

You should also have two climographs done by the Jan. 19th.
We are using Excel.
We are graphing average 24 hour Temperature (Celcius) and average rainfall (mm) based on information found at http://www.worldclimate.com

Math: finish up data analysis

Country project / homework for Jan. 6

Let's watch the first of a number of podcast by Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games.

The general name of this category of sport is called Freestyle Skiing.
Athletes compete in moguls, aerials and acrobatics.
Very cool!

Enjoy! http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news/podcast/flying-high-in-aerials-and-moguls_116224g116470-bJ.html


Here's a list of Canadian athletes: Freestyle team
Everyone has learned about our integrated country research project.

Here is the outline along with worksheets and rubric.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUO-c8pnNFryZGtuNzNnN181NzVmM3d6Z244eg&hl=en