Tuesday Oct. 30th Learning Log

WHAT WE DID:
Today in class we started off by changing seating arrangements so our tables are in different spots, also some people have moved to different groups.  After that we talked about the difference between taking notes and making notes.  To sum it up taking notes is, copying notes word for word from text and making notes is creating your own notes from parts of text.  We also talked about what "Text" is and what different kinds of text there are.  After discussing about that we had to do a worksheet about taking notes and had to do different exercises about notes.  For the people that didn't finish their book pass they had to finish them before moving on to the worksheets.  Also fr the people that had troubles with the response letters to Woodleighville Ms. Lees helped them out with it.

WHY WE DID THIS:
 The reason why we did these note taking and note making comparison's I think is because in the future we will have to know the difference between the two. Also because if Ms.Lees were to ask to make notes about a paragraph we will have to know not to copy it word for word.  I think we did the note booklet because these exercises will strengthen our ability of note taking/making.

HOMEWORK:
Today only the people that have not posted their response to the Morris Ward blog have homework and those people have to post it.  Other than that there is no homework.

TIPS:
Tomorrow we will be working on our genius hour projects so don't forget your electronics!!  That is the only tip I have for you.  Also tomorrow is double block humanities after lunch.

Today in class

Summary:

Today in class Ms. Lees showed us how to send our letters to the class in Austrailia. Before we sent them she had us get into groups of two so we could peer check each others work. Also she reminded us to make shure we change our profile name so that only our first name shows and not our last name. If you want when you share your letter you can add either your individual blog website or the website to your group blog so that the other class can respond. For all the people that were not there on Friday you had to read the first few pages of six books and rate them first on how easy  the language was for you. Then you had to rate the book on a scale of one to five. One being I do not want to read this and five being I can't wait to read this book!! Wth both of theese ratings you had to describe why you chose those them

Learning Intentions:

I really belive that having another person in our class reading and correcting my work will really help me as a writer. From  the feedback I will be able to see someone elses point of view of my work. I also like helping others correct their work because I know that positive feedback and helping with corrections will really help them and so they can hopefully improve as an author.

Homework and tips:

There is no homework tonight unless you have not completed your book ratings. Also make shure you are within your deadlines for your genious hour project. Have a great night!! :)

Some really great effort here! Awesome start to learning blogs!

Your learning blogs are very thoughtful and offer some good ideas. Most of you are also expanding them into short paragraphs and this is one of our goals.  I will share and discuss some in class from each group.

Next steps for this group will be to start commenting.

What We Learned Today

             WHAT WE LEARNED TODAY

SUMMARY-
            
Today, we had a double-block of Humanities after lunch was over. The first block, Ms. Lees came with the brand-new MacBook Pros so that we could review our learning intentions for our letters to Ms. Morris' class in Australia. But, since the cart was new as well, we couldn't get it open to get the laptops out. So, Ms. Lees went to go get someone with a hammer and meanwhile, we managed to get the cart open by ouselves! Anyways, we continued on to the editing of our responses, where we got into groups of two and gave eachother feedback. We continued on with that until break time.

Block two, we moved on to our genius hour projects. Ms. Lees gave us back our proposals for our plan, along with some encouraging and useful feedback. We then worked on our genius hour project until the end of the block, and after a very productive class, we all went home.


LEARNING INTENTIONS-

On our first block, the reason that Ms. Lees made us proof-read and check over eachothers' letters was so that we can give eachother feedback. For example, say one person put their letter up for their partner to read. The partner would then read it, and (in a positive way, while still being able to correct that person's mistakes) would then give them their feedback, and things they could fix in their letter. By getting feedback from another perspective, particularily from someone who has never read your article, it would be just like any other person reading the article for the first time, and so they can immediatly point out the flaws that the writer might not have seen. 


CONNECTIONS-

I stongly believe that having others proofread my articles or any of my other work in any other class will help me become a better author, help me improve on my work from the feedback given to me, and help me observe how others think while reading my articles. It will also teach me (along the way) how to help others in the same way. I also believe that this is a strong skill that i can use in all my classes.


HOMEWORK & TIPS-

We won't have Humanities class tomorrow due to the fact that it's another double block day, and we all have a double block of our 4th and 2nd period classes. Despite that fact, we weren't given homework anyways! As of now, everyone should have completed their letters to Ms. Morris' class in Australia, and saved it sucessfully to their own google drive under documents. Also, work on your genius hours!!!! It's not a good idea to rush everything and complete it last minute! Remember, everyone has their own deadlines depending on the project!

That's all for today :)

What we learned Today

Summary

      Today, Ms. Lees booked the libary for our class. Since the "Mike Cyclone" was not found in the Morris Ward site, she went over it with us today. Also on a smartboard, she reviewed some of the extra informations about the incidents in the Morris Ward in her e-mail, where all the issues in Morris Ward was all grouped together sent by Ms Morris. Then she explained to us that we were going to write a letter to the residents of Morris Ward about one of the  four incidents they had, CCTV, Mike Cyclone, Riot, and the WOLI Supermarket. We were supposed to express our thoughts, opinions and share our feelings to them in our letters. We were told to offer suggestions, disagree and agree to their arguments and thoughts about the issue. Also, encourage some of the arguments thoroughly and explain why you think that. If you relate the letter with your life in a particular way, it can make alot of sense to the reader, too. She told us that it would be more helpful if we went on her blog to go on this site, which explains and describes how to write good letters. After giving us all these details about how to write the letters, we were sent to the computers in the library to start writing our letters. Then after that it was all work block. When it was time to switch class, Ms Lees' final instructions were to finish the letters. We saved our documents to our Google Drive and finished the class.


Learning

The reason Ms Lees told us to write letters was probably because she wanted to see our persuasive writing skills, how creative our persuasions are, how thoughtful we can be, e.t.c. I think this is helpful for us. It builds up our skills of creativity writing and persuasive writing. In my opinion, I think those two kinds of writing really help us improve our writings. When an argument breaks out, we can use these types of writing skills to control the situation by making the arguers understand your way of thinking by smoothly persuading them to not fight and softly giving them your reason. These writings can be very helpful in our own ways! Also, we had a special Flex about choosing clubs but no one came. That's too bad. Through clubs, you guys could've had much more fun in highschool! Well It's not too late, you can always come to flex and ask her about clubs. In our letters, I think Ms Lees also wanted us to know something that happenes outside Canada and she wanted to see how good our researching skills are, too. If we research well, these letter writing will be no problem! Easy Peasy! When she told us to save our files to our google docs, it was because so we don't have to start all over again at home. If you forget what you were writing about, just download your uncompleted letter to your competer and Whoosh! Memories back!

Reflections

Personally, I had a trouble writing the lettter first, but after researching some more imformations and reading some newspaper articles, it really helped me alot! I think that our respons letters should not go too far into disagreeing their arguments. It might offend them alot. Today's class was pretty good. I loved working in peace in the library without any distractions. It refreshed my brain and soon, I began typing faster and faster. Also, when I got stuck I asked people around me about some parts and I got the answers by them as well. Your peers are always helpful! In our letters, we should really check over our work for wrong grammers and spelling. You want your work to be perfect right? You want to make the people in Morris Ward think that we are suuuuuper smart.


Homework

Today's homework was to go home and finish your letter response. The letter is about you responding to the people in Morris Ward about the 4 incidents that happened. Afterwards, your work should be saved on your google docs.

The Incidents

-CCTV Cameras

-WOLI Supermarket

-Riot

-Mike Cyclone


Tips:

Go to Ms Lees' blog and check out the sites she gave us to help us write letters better! Try to make your work be perfect as possible. No spelling or grammer errors. Also, if you need extra help, contact your friends or ask your parents. Better, GET BOOKS!

Learning Blog Post

Summary of the day's lesson/activities.
     Today in class we discussed issues with the blog and how we can learn how to work with it with more ease. After, we talked about the responses we're going to make with the class in Australia, and what to prepare for so we can respond thoroughly and be prepared. Then we proceeded on to discuss the confusion with students wanting to join clubs and how Ms.Lees will allow students to come tomorrow at lunch for flex to decide groups that would be suitable for that person in particular. Subsequently, we discussed the criteria for the group blogs through the class blog and how we should manage and decide who posts when (which later dragged on further, but before that) shortly after, 2 representatives for the Student Council came in and talked about the 5 Days of Fire which will occur next week (just in case you don't know, our colour is BLUE). Finally, at the end of the class, we handed in our work we had done previously, basically everything we had left in our binders that we were supposed to hand in (including August Heat foreshadowing clues, questions for Open Window, August Heat questions, your-choice-short-story, etc).
Learning Intentions
     We did [the above paragraph] so that we will understand what we will be doing further on in class and in school. We discussed the Australia knowledge that was necessary to know so we could respond tomorrow (Tuesday) to the class in Australia. It is important for students to join clubs because these can earn us credits and help our resumé for future references, so Ms.Lees just wants us to have an easier time in high school and aid us in any way possible. If we hadn't communicated about blog issues we probably wouldn't be too fond of them and wouldn't be able to use them properly. The 5 Days of Fire representatives that came in were also helpful, otherwise we wouldn't know our colours and what to do for the week. And when we handed in our work at the end of class, if we didn't, we'd probably all forget to for the future and the work will never get handed in.
Reflections/Relevance
     I believe what we discussed in class today was important, because I personally had a few issues with the blog and how to use it. Also, our conversations about clubs was fairly important because I believe that we should join at least 2 clubs per year. I'm also glad we talked about the facts we need to know for the Australia response because I don't think I'm too up to date with what's happening in other countries that won't affect me.
Homework Reminders
     Our homework for today was to read about the topics for the Australia response. These include:
-Recovering from Cyclone Mike
-Rioting recovery
-Should we install CCTV cameras
-Do we want a WOLDI superstore

We should read articles in various newspapers as we will be writing to the editor about these issues. 

Homework Tips

     We should read various local newpapers like Vancouver Sun, Surrey Now, Surrey Leader, The Globe and Mail, whatever we can find. Try to find articles that relate to any of the topics that we will need to respond to, to get a general background knowledge. 

SPACE JUMP RESPONSE

Wow! This is completely amazing for a man to jump from a super high summit. I was completely stunned when i heard about this. This man is truly amazing and brave. He is certainly in attention now.

SPACE JUMP RESPONSE

Personally, I found that story interesting. I have to commend him for his bravery to jump off from a height of 24 MILES high! I don’t even really like jumping off from a height of 24 feet! At first, it appeared he hesitated at first, due to the weight of the 100 pound suit or fear of jumping, I don’t know. But even so, it’d be fairy unnatural for one to be so calm in a situation like this. After such a sensation of falling, if one asked him again, I wonder what his views of jumping off a [certain height] would be. Does he now have a sensation of wanting to feel that happen again? Or is he glad that it’s over?

It’s not just a matter of guts and will, but a matter of knowing the potential dangers that could occur during the jump. If his spacesuit had ripped during the jump, it would only be a matter of seconds before his body would be penetrated through the heat of the speed of his fall. What if he didn't travel fast enough and his oxygen ran out? What if he didn't break the sound barrier? There were a lot of possibilities that could have happened to him, many fatal. When he landed, I thought he would fall over or such due to the shock or loss of sensation in his legs, or amazement. But he still landed properly, despite the 24 mile fall.

It’s people like him who inspire the people of today, so he should be proud.  Everything he did was commendable. I also found it interesting how he fell like a solid block, all tense. You can probably imagine all the grueling training he went through in order to maintain that position while falling at a speed of 800 miles an hour. All in all, at least he didn't have acrophobia.

Space Jump Response

                   SPACE JUMP RESPONSE


                      At the beginning of the Space Jump video, i was asking myself a lot of questions, some of which were answered later in the video....First off, why was this man (Felix Baumgartner) doing this jump in the first place? How fast would he be going on the way down, and how long would it take him to land? How would he manage to land? It was definetly a safety risk, and the chances of him dying on the way down were highly likely. But, then again, there are not too many people out there who would have the guts to free fall from the edge of the earth, possibly plummeting to their death. I could not believe that someone actually did this and survived. This must be a major accomplishment on every level, and he even broke a world record while doing it! Even though this was an extremely dangerous stunt, and a gutsy move, he accomplished it with ease (although with a little hesitation before the jump) and landed softly. I strongly applaud this man for accomplishing such a task!!!!!!!

space jump response

SPACE JUMP RESPONSE

          This guy is crazy!! That’s all I was thinking while he jumped.  I mean, like who is that crazy to free fall from the edge of the earth.   I have to give Felix a lot of props for having the guts to do that jump, it was probably the scariest thing he has ever done and the scariest thing he will ever do!  I wonder if he would ever do it again.  I know, I wouldn’t even think of doing that.  This is probably one of the bravest guys ever, there are so many things that could’ve gone wrong which could’ve caused death but he overcame those fears and made the jump.  I could tell he was a bit nervous in the ship because he hesitated a couple times but he kept moving on, who wouldn’t hesitate.  This man is a pretty amazing guy and he should be proud of himself and everyone should be proud him too.

Humanities, Space Jump Response!

Space Jump Response

           

               Wow! That was such an amazing dive! Before he jumped, I could tell that he was very anxious and scared. Well if that was me, I would have chickened out right away. That man even broke the sound barrier! His diving speed was over 10 minutes long and he went more than 1000Km/h! That was so awesome.

            I think that man was really brave to do that. First of all, he had to go through the enormous amount of fears. His Suit might rip open and he would die in burning heat. His oxygen breathing system could have gone wrong and he might have suffocated, and hundreds of other things. His percentage of dying in this dive was more than 50%! Yet he dared to do this humongous dive! Oh man, just looking at him made me feel nervous and scared. When he actually landed safely, I couldn’t believe it! This brave man survived that dive! When he reached the land and safety, I bet you he was thanking everything because he didn’t die and landed safely.

            I feel really good for that guy from Red Bull. He actually broke a sound barrier in his 10 minute epic dive! He even landed safely without getting hurt. Since he didn’t die, I feel good for him. Now he’s going to be really famous throughout the world! Well for someone that risked his life to jump from outer space, I feel great that he lived and no tragedy happened. I love happy endings, but I hate bad endings. I am proud of that man for accomplishing his mission and not dying.

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Well here is the grade 8 Humanities Group Site! For those of you who want to be administrators too, leave a reply please. Anyways, if you guys haven't received an invitation, also leave a reply please. Thank you. 

 

 

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