Precept: Don't alway try to beat the red light

There is no H/W sheet this week due to it being the last few days. Important dates and times for you to know.

Monday
Social Studies presentations
We will write our conclusions for the literary essays

H/W
Research on the 'the Right to Bear Arms' for the debate
Literary Essays due Tuesday

Tuesday
End of Year Math tests (test is finished on Wed)
Lit. Essays due
Work on your Learning Reflection (Due Date: Next Monday)

Wednesday
The Right to Bear Arms - debate
Tenses

Thursday
Tenses Test

Friday
Water Park Field Trip

Next Monday - We will watch learning reflections, tidy away the classroom, and do our final session together! - You will also get to see the final Friday Message (It's an interesting one!)

Next Tuesday - Free Morning










This video gets interesting at around 2 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUDkPHPhqGk&feature=related

How was the day?

Sorry I couldn't make it in today. Hope everything went well.
We will present our Social Studies work on Monday.

Precept: It only hurts when you pretend it doesn't

RLA
Copy your lit. essay thesis statement and opening paragraph in comment window. Read other people's examples and compare them against your own. Offer feedback to classmates if you have time.

Research the the Right to Bear Arms for next week's debate

Tenses Test Practice

Tenses = Practice Exercises Make sure you tackle all these exercises below You will need to know Construction and Usage of nine tenses we studied. You should be able to write a sentence in any of the nine tenses we have studied. You should be able to use inference to decide how a sentence should end based on its tense. (Hint Hint! – Helping Verbs can sometimes be called ‘auxiliary verbs’) – Open Book. Practice Present Perfect and Simple Past http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/ppvpast1.htm All Tenses - Practice http://www.english-4u.de/tenses_ex1.htm http://www.english-4u.de/tenses_ex2.htm Practice Present Perfect and Simple Past http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/ppvpast1.htm Hard Simple Past/Present Perfect/Past Perfect http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs12.htm

Precept: It's not enough to be friendly; you have to be a friend

Next Wed, we will have a  bonus G.C. event with Mrs. Bucknall's class - It will  be a debate about gun control. This will be a comptetive event. You will be placed into teams for the debate. Between now and next  Wed, you must collect research on this topic.

Anyone in a free society should have the right to own a gun

RLA - Work on your outline for your literary essay. (Due Date is next Tue)

Links to help you practice for the tenses test have been added to the blog. Make sure you practice them between  now and next Thur

Unit 12 Math assessment tomorrow

PLAY DAY Tomorrow - Make sure you bring the correct attire