Course Selection Post

The three elective courses I may be intrested in the future are Electronics 9, Metalwork and Comparative Civilizations 12. Through grade 8, I have mostly enjoyed anything related to wood, metal or anything electric, so I would like to continue learning about it. Civilizations 12 caught my eye and just seemed intresting to me.

Course Selection Fair Post

There was a Course Selection Fair on Wednesday to show us all the available options for grades 9-12. This was really helpful for me, because up to that point I had no idea there were so many choices. The three electives that looked interesting to me were Tech Ed, Home Ec, and Geography 12.

One of my first choices would be Industrial Technology Education or Tech Ed. I’m not sure if I would go back to Woodwork or Metalwork, or if I would try something entirely new. I am interested because I had a really great time there in Tech Ed 8, and I really enjoyed the environment there. If you need more information, just walk down to the Industrial Technology Department or call them at (604) 587-4812.

Another elective I am considering is Home Economics or Home Ec. I’m currently taking Home Ec, and I’m really enjoying it. It’s lots of fun, and you learn a lot of life skills. If you want to learn more, talk to any of the Home Ec teachers like Mr. Tong or Ms. Krishnan.

I actually thought that Geography 12 looked pretty interesting. I’m not sure if I will pursue any of the listed careers such as meteorologist or cartographer, but the course seems pretty interesting. I’ve done a few projects on topics that are covered during this course, and I thought that this course just looked really fun and interesting. If you need more information, try talking to your Social Studies teacher to find out more.

Learning Blog: Wednesday, December 17th

What We Did?

During the first block of Humanities yesterday, we wrote down 5 pros and cons about the novel we read. [Everyone in our class is in a group with 4 (more or less) people, and each group has a book that they read]. Not only did we list the pros and cons of the novel we read, but also we rated the novel out of 10, and explained what the ‘best-selling points’ of the book  were (if you were to try and sell it to someone).  We had to write down a short summarization of the main plot of the book as well.

Why We Did It?

I believe that the reason we wrote what we did about our novels was to check our understanding of the novel and to make sure that we actually read it and comprehended it. It also helps Ms. Lees, our teacher to know that we fully understand the book we read. We also did what we did, because it helps understand how to identify the pros and cons in things, whatever they be. It also helps us in the sense that we learn how to expand on our thoughts, develop our writing skills and learn how to give evidence as to what we think or write about.

Another reason as to why we reviewed the book and such, was because later on in our second block of Humanities yesterday, we filmed (or at least tried to) commercials on our novels trying to ‘sell’ them. For example giving some info about the book, or saying which audience the book would appeal to.

Reflections and Connections:

Being able to comprehend and understand pieces of writing or in this case, a novel, is a skill that is extremely useful. It is a skill that you will you use many times now, and in the future. Also, learning to see the good and the bad in things is also useful. These two skills can be applied to many of the things you might in the future. Where you may be in university or at your workplace, these two skills could help you. For example, in order to understand English literature or such, you have to have a strong literary understanding and know how to comprehend pieces of writing. Also, if you were at your workplace and needed to review a project or something along those lines, you must be able to see the pros and cons of the project.

 

Homework Reminders:

We have our four paragraphs assignments from our paragraph booklet due tomorrow. Don’t forget that we have to write our brainstorming list, topic outline, and double-spaced draft for every one of our paragraphs.

Learning Blog December 17

What did we do?
In class we had to plan a commercial and film it in our book groups. 

Why did we do it?
I am guessing we did it because we had our pros and cons, and we had to "sell" the book, in kind of a commercial way. 

Reflections and connections
This commercial thing was relevant to our homework, and I do find it fun to film this. This can be useful for public speaking because your on camera, and you know the people in your blog will see this

Learning Blog Dec.12, 2014

     Today in Hum8 we did our Lit Circles Group Discussions. There were 3 or 4 groups, each had two different books. My book was The Hunchback Assignments and we were partners with Half Brother.
I think the learning intention was to practice our participation, discussion, and listening skills.

Today's homework was finish your 3 Words and complete the Discussion paper thingy.

lets just call this the three word challenge

For my three words i chose
PERSEVERE, BRAVE, and CREATIVE

i chose persevere because i tend to give up allot. I try but then i don't succeed and i need to now give up as easily, because if i keep trying it could turn into something great. For example when i do some of my drawings, i cant get a certain area of it right correct and i kind of just give up.

i chose brave because i get scared of allot of things (mostly because of my anxiety) and i really need to face some of my fears. For example the other day in my metal work class i was really scared to try welding, but then i tried it and it was actually really fun!

the reason i chose the word creative is because some times in my work im scared to be more creative because i don't want to get a bad mark. but i think that i should take some more risks and try some new things out :)

yesh so that is all :3

Alex :D

"Three Word Challenge"

My name is Hema, and am one of the students in Ms. Lee’s Humanities 8 class.

The three words that I chose for the “Three Word Challenge” are:

The first word being ‘indefatigable’. Not that I’m lazy or anything, because I do try hard and do my best, but I tend to be a bit laid back sometimes. I am hardworking, to a certain degree, but I would like to change for the better and be more hardworking. Persist more, and not give up so easily.

The second word I chose is ‘optimistic’. I tend to see the bad in things before the good. Thinking of what is wrong or could go wrong instead of what’s good and working. In some instances, it’s handy to think in such a way, so you could improve whatever it is you’re thinking about, but I would like to be more optimistic. Thinking of the good in things.

The third word I chose is ‘organized’. I am one of the most disorganized people I know. Disorganized in the sense that I have messy binders and such. Keeping everything neat and tidy all the time is a task I find to be tedious. I do tell myself every now and then that ‘I will be organized and stay organized’, but unfortunately I never seem to keep my resolutions. I will try my best to be organized and stay organized, and hopefully all will go well.

Learning Blog: December 10th

What We Did?

In Humanities today, we marked our previously done short story re-tests (some of us chose to do re-tests if we weren’t happy with our mark on the original short story test). We went over the re-tests, marked them and answered any questions we still had about the short story unit. The short story test/re-test consisting of first, reading the given story, identifying the characters (in the story) and classifying them based on their traits, identifying the main conflict, conclusion, point of view, and so on.

Why We Did It?

We marked the short story re-tests in order to save our teacher the time from having to do it herself and also because we reviewed everything we learned in the short story unit.  If we had any questions or still did not understand some parts of the short story unit, our teacher answered our questions.

Reflections and Connections:

The skills that we have developed in learning how to further understand stories and comprehend them, will help us now and in the near future. Being able to understand stories to a completely different level is a useful skill and one that we could use later on in high school or in university (depending on what you’re studying).

Homework Reminders:

Charles is writing the learning blog on Friday. Also our “Three Word Challenge” is due on Friday.

If you don’t remember what we’re supposed to do for the “Three Word Challenge”, we’re supposed to write three words that you think describe yourself and the reasons for that.

 

Three word challenge

My name is  Bill, and I am in grade 8.

My three words are active, communicative  and self-assured.

I picked active because I lately have not been doing a lot of exercise, sort of slacking off. 

Communicative : I chose out-going because I am a very shy person, not that talkative and I rarely open up. I so seldom start talking to someone first, so that is why I chose Out-going. 

Self-assured: When it comes to being self-assured, that is where I lack. I want to be more confident, have a strong belief and have more vision towards success.

My Three Word Challenge

My name is Laura, and I’m a Grade 8 student in Ms. Lees’ class.
For my three words, I chose Diligent, Organized, and Outgoing.

I chose the word diligent because, as I’m sure a lot of others know, I tend to get distracted fairly easily. Especially if I’m working on a long and tedious assignment. I also have a tendency to procrastinate, and I would really like to change that. I think I need to stay focused, and work hard at my assignments.

I picked the word organized because I tend to get a little on the unorganized side, especially as the year goes on and the New Year Resolutions wear off. I’m not terribly messy or anything, but things tend to pile up. So I would like to try and be more organized. Even if it’s just as simple as keeping my room neat, I would like to stay organized.

And for my last word, I chose outgoing. I’m a fairly shy person overall, and I really think that I should “get out of my shell” and try to be more sociable. I’m also more of an introvert, so this may be more of a struggle than it sounds!