Humanities

Please come to school on Monday with your essay "How a Leader can Influence Others" completed and self-assessed with the pink essay rubric sheet. As well, ensure you have shared and peered edited your essays using Google Docs or other forms of communication. Moreover, we are looking forward to seeing your completed Charter puzzle pieces as well as hearing your section of the Charter.

Charter Puzzle

Chapter 3 Powers and Exponents Assessment on Tuesday, December 2

REVIEW QUESTIONS

Math

Topic 3.4 Using Exponents to Solve Problems

Questions:

Page 118 #4-11

Boys' Night: Thursday Evening

Humanities

Students spent time writing their body paragraphs in class and are asked to bring in a draft copy of their Leadership essay for Thursday. The draft essay should have a title, introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs and a conclusion. Thursday, students will participate in peer edits and finalizing their essay content.

No-Nos of Essay Writing

Charter Section research continued today with students finding laws and cases applicable to their section of the Charter. Students will be given their puzzle piece on Thursday to transfer over their research.

Humanities

Students started working on their Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Put the puzzle together task today. Students were assigned to groups and selected a part of the Charter to investigate. We will be creating puzzle pieces and putting together the Charter puzzle. Students will be presenting their piece of the puzzle on Friday, November 28 to their peers.

Canadian Charter

Humanities - Nov. 24

Essay work (9-3/9-4)
- today we worked on writing a Thesis statement and worked toward writing a fluent introductory paragraph
- please see D2L for information on essays (PPTs, handouts, links, examples, etc)
HOMEWORK: complete a rough draft of an introductory paragaph (hook, comments and background information, thesis statement)

Charter of Rights and Freedoms (9-4)
- students began a group task: each group chose a section of the charter and all have a puzzle task to complete over the next couple of classes. (see D2L for the handout).
HOMEWORK: rewrite your charter section and provide an overview in your own words/grade 9 friendly language

Upcoming Boys' Night on Thursday, Nov. 24 Evening

Humanities

Charter -

On Thursday we presented within small groups regarding Rights and Responsibilities at home, at school, with friends, and within in the community. Many student were channeling their adults and it was great to see :-)

We moved on to looking at Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Students have been asked to spend some time looking through Chapter 3 of their textbook.

Essay work - 

Please come to school on Monday with a planning page for your essay: how a leader can influence others.

Science

Students have completed the Biology Unit and the assessment will take place on Monday. Some resources to review "I can" statements (orange sheet), class notes and activities, and vocabulary in preparation for the assessment. See below an example of some mind maps we created to study our key concepts from Topic 5 and 6.

Topic 5

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Topic 6

Math

In Math today, students reviewed vocabulary associated with Exponents. Students completed a Frayer Model for vocabulary to explain their word. In the Frayer model, students communicated their math word understanding with definition, visual, examples, and non-examples. See below our developing Math Word Wall, Frayer model template, and student example.

Frayer Model

Humanities: Chapter 3

Students participated in small group discussions around rights at home, school, with friends and community. Students recognized rights, positives, negatives, and responsibilities with their rights examples. Class discussion led to common understandings about rights and how students recognize them in their daily lives.

Students will be looking at Chapter 3 for the next few weeks and can do some pre-reading to familiarize themselves with upcoming concepts and vocabulary.

Homework:

Planning page with notes and or mind map to brainstorm ideas around how a leader can influence others.

Humanities

1. Finish your BRAIN journal page!! This was to be completed for today.

2. Finish your LEADER journal page. Remember to use the WHOLE page and incorporate our classroom discussion and videos into your thoughts.

3. Make sure all loose pages are secured within your journal.

Below are the links to the videos we watched today :-)

http://www.100leaders.org/what-makes-a-leader

http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership

Math

Order of Operations:

Page #111 Questions 5, 8-13, 16

Left Brain / Right Brain Journal Page

http://braintest.sommer-sommer.com/en/

take the test above...

Create a journal page that shows who you are as a thinker... use the words and visuals within your page to describe you, your learning style and strategies...

A border and/or background is required.

This journal page is due tomorrow.

Humanities

Students this week worked on their Political Party campaigns. Yesterday, students presented to the Grade Sevens with them voting for their pick for Prime Minister candidate. Today, top candidate from each Grade Nine homeroom presented to the entire Grade Nines in the library. Votes were casted as the students left for the day with results being shared on Monday.

Homework

Science:

Complete Smiley Face Genetics drawing (include your name and all necessary traits) and questions for Monday, November 17 and drop into D2L dropbox.

Questions:

1. Why did you only flip one coin to determine the sex of your offspring?
2. How would the smiley face change if one parent was Homozygous dominant for every trait while the other was Heterozygous?
3. Which traits do not appear to follow the rules of dominant and recessive traits? What were the resulting phenotypes in these cases?

Start studying and reviewing notes/definitions for Biology Unit test on Monday, November 24.

Girls' Night TONIGHT!

Homework

Science:

Genetics Word Problems due Friday (see D2L for the worksheet).

Key Vocabulary:

Genotype:

PUREBRED
Homozygous dominant (AA)
Homozygous recessive (aa)

HYBRID
Heterozygous (Aa)

Phenotype: traits we see (eg. black hair, brown eyes)

Math:

Reviewed Exponent Laws. Students made sticky notes to remember and identify exponent laws.

Page 106 - #14-21

Learning Clicks Presentation

Today, the students participated in a Learning Clicks Presentation to look at post secondary education and looking at their personality traits to identify possible career fields. You can follow the link below to review the process with your child.

http://learningclicks.ca/media/

Thursday, November 13: Girls' Night

Join us for Girls' Night

CHANGE IS IN YOUR HANDS!

Thursday, November 13 from 5:45-8:30pm

HDC Girls and the Special Females in their lives are welcome!

Presenting:

Debbie McAllister - Arctic Adventure

Cassandra White & Rachela Buonincontri - Brainstorm! The Teenage Brain and Creativity

Please RSVP by November 12: hdcartwright@cbe.ab.ca

Humanities

Political Party Task was introduced today! Students are excited to explore their chosen roles of Prime Minister, Cabinet Minister, and Campaign Manager. Students interviewed Grade Seven students to get their opinions and perspectives on student life at HDC. We will continue with this task on Friday!

Science/Math Homework

Science:

Please hand in your Smily Face Genetics finished task to our Science D2L shell or do a Google Share by Wednesday, November 12.

Math:

Introduced Multiplication and Division Rules for Powers and Exponents. Please complete Questions Page 105 # 5-11.

Math/Science

Today we continued our work on Powers and Exponents.  Practice questions that were assigned are pg 97 #5,7,8, 10-13, 15-17

In Science, we finished our discussion on Genotype and Phenotype and started a Smiley Face Genetics Activity which we will continue tomorrow.

Humanities

1. Final revision to Gattaca response:
- added in transitions between ideas within each paragraphs and added transitions between paragraph to connect the overall ideas of the response
- a handout outlining various transitions was given (green colour)

2. Take a quiz and see which Canadian political party you side with:
http://canada.isidewith.com/political-quiz#more

3. Revisit the political party and political spectrum PPT (in D2L) and BEFF UP your journals
- Then,  visit the following website regarding spectrum, and add to your journal notes :-)

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/sspes/index.html

High School Information

GRADE 9 UPCOMING EVENTS for HIGH SCHOOLS

Central High School   PERFORMING and VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM

OPEN HOUSE   Wednesday, November 5^th 7 pm

www.pvacentral.ca

William Aberhart High School

OPEN HOUSE   Thursday, December 4^th   6:30 – 8:30 pm

Out of bound students interested in a transfer should attend the evening tour.

Sir Winston Churchill High School

OPEN HOUSE   and Gr. 9 Tours    Thursday, January 15^th

(time to be confirmed)

Students designated to SWC will be attending the daytime tour.  Out of bound students interested in a transfer should attend the evening tour.

Grade 9 IB Information Session

Where:  Sir Winston Churchill High School Theatre

When:  November 19^th 5:30 pm  

(repeated on November 25^th at 5:30 pm)

Robert Thirsk

OPEN HOUSE and Gr. 9 Tours   Tuesday, January 22^nd

(time to be confirmed)

Students designated to Thirsk will be attending the daytime tour.  Out of bound students interested in a transfer should attend the evening tour.

Bowness High School

OPEN HOUSE and Gr. 9 Tours   Tuesday, January 27^th

(time to be confirmed)

Students designated to Bowness will be attending the daytime tour. Out of bound students interested in a transfer should attend the evening tour.

Math/Science

Science:

Mitosis and Meiosis Flipbooks due on Thursday, November 6. Ensure the booklets include descriptive vocabulary and color.

Math:

Introduced Powers and Exponents Chapter.

Key Vocabulary:

exponent
base
power
value
coefficient
standard form
exponential form
repeated multiplication

Announcement:

November 5 -"Take Our Kids to Work Day"

HUM - Monday, Nov. 3, 2014

Written Response:

Today we worked on typing a written response related to Gattaca and genetic manipulation. Due to the slow process of logging in and many students not have started their written, we will have tomorrow to work on this again.

For tomorrow though, a rough copy MUST be completed and printed off. We will make final edits and revisions tomorrow and complete the final good copy (typed, size 12 font, double spaced, title) that will need to be printed off and handed in on Wednesday.


Political Parties:

We did a review on political parties in Canada and took a look at the Political Spectrum.

Students, please review the PPT (in D2L) this evening so that you are ready for our political party task tomorrow. Add notes and visuals to your journal to help extend your overall understanding of political parties and the political spectrum.