Social Quiz

Social Quiz: Tuesday, December 1st

Here are study notes to help students prepare for their quiz next Tuesday, December 1st.  

Social Studies 6- Democracy Quiz

To assist you in studying for your upcoming quiz, here are some important things to consider:

• I know how to explain each of the following terms:
• consensus
• direct democracy
• equality
• equity
• freedom
• justice
• participation
• representation
• representative democracy
• responsibilities
• rights
• voting

• I know how to explain examples of these terms.

• I can identify and explain examples of the 4 pillars of democracy.

• I know how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects Canadian citizens.

• I know how the Charter is protected from any one group making changes to it.

• I understand the difference between direct democracy and representative democracy.

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Social Studies 5- Regions and Quality of Life Quiz

To assist you in studying for your upcoming quiz, here are some important things to consider:

Part One:

• I know how to explain each of the following terms:
• physical characteristics
• landforms
• climate
• weather
• resources
• non-renewable resources
• renewable resources
• communities
• employment
• quality of life

• I can identify examples of these terms in our region.

Part Two:

You will compare two different regions and determine which would have the best quality of life for a new Canadian.
GET TO KNOW OUR NEW CANADIAN! Familiarize yourself with Nafeesa, an immigrant coming to Canada. You will choose a region for her to live, based on her wants and needs.

• I can analyze how much a person’s quality of life is impacted by where they live.
• I can make a decision and support it with information gathered, to answer a research question

I Am What I Eat

Health- Food Tracking Part 2: Graphing My Food
Due December 2nd

Students are asked to graph the food and drink they recorded on the sheet "I Yam What I Yam" (see below).  They have one graph to complete for each of the four food groups.  These graphs are due next week, Wednesday, December 2. 

Here is a sample graph to follow.  Ensure that each graph is labeled neatly and appropriately. 

Health- Food Tracking Due November 25th. 

Students were asked to record all of the food and drink they consume in any three days in the upcoming week.

What do you eat and drink each day?  Do you think you eat mostly healthy foods?  Let’s find out!

Record all the food and drinks you consume for three days.  

Write down everything!  Also record if you consumed a small, medium, or large serving of that food or drink.

Record the portion size behind each:              Large    Medium   Small

                              

example:

What's Up? November 16-20

What's Up? November 16-20

Language Arts

Use worksheet "Feelings, Emotion and Mood II"  Due Thursday

Task: Complete the last question which asks: 

Write several sentences that describe the face that you drew for Part D so well that anyone who reads them can tell what the person was feeling. Do not use any emotion words that were already in the 
sentence. 

Example: Sentence #5:

5. A furious teenager is walking toward a bedroom after being grounded.

Minimum 3 new sentences to add to the feelings, emotions and mood:  

His hands were clenched tight.  His body shook with anger. His nostrils flared as he breathed.  

What's Up? November 9-10 Week

What's Up? November 9-10 Week

Tuesday: 

Language Arts:  

• Any student planning on revising and improving their Newspaper Articles, they are due Tuesday.   
• Please hand in your newly revised copy, as well as your original work and marking rubric to Mr. Trueman. 

Social Studies 

Written Response on Democracy is due Tuesday. 

Students will peer edit and revise prior to handing in for marks.  

Writing Rubric for Social:

Mathematics 

Quiz Tuesday: 

• Grade 5- Multiplication and Division
• Grade 6- Order of Operations and Decimals

Wednesday:

No School- Remembrance Day 

Thursday-Friday

No School- Fall Break

Enjoy the break from routine- with an extended weekend.

News Articles Have Been Returned!

Language Arts News Articles Completed!

• Good copy news articles have been returned to students, along with a rubric and comments from Mr. Trueman, showing and explaining their marks.  

• Students have been asked to communicate the following in their agenda:  

Show your parents your two marked articles and get them to sign each, showing that they have seen your efforts. 

Q:  What if you or your child is not satisfied with a mark received?

• Your child is responsible for requesting a meeting with Mr. Trueman to discuss their news article and to explain how they are planning on improving it.  

(Some students have already approached Mr. T. and have made a plan for improvements.)

• Mr. Trueman must agree to assessing the work for a second time, and that will be dependent on the student's explanation of their own work, understanding where they did well, and where they can improve their mark. 

• Once improvements have been made by the student, they may hand it in a second time for Mr. Trueman to assess their work once again.  

Any improvements to a News Article must be completed and handed back to Mr. Trueman by November 17th (term one ends that week).