Wednesday, June 5, 2013

I spoke about a Superhero project we would be doing towards the end of the year.  It involves both some Writing and aspects of Art. 

You will have to think a little about the Strengths and Struggles you have in school.  All of use have strengths that allow us to be good at certain things and feel a sense of success.  At the same time, we have things we struggle with which are difficult for us to do and sometimes frustrate us.

Your powers will be based on your strengths.
Your weaknesses, or what your enemy can do to make your life difficult, is based on the things you struggle with.

The writing portion has to do with you creating a series of sentences for your Strengths and Struggles.

HOWEVER, I WANT YOU TO THINK OF HOW YOU CAN POSSIBLY FACE YOUR ENEMY!!

So, you will also be creating a section on how to confront your Struggles, aka, your enemy.

This project is to be based on real issues that you face.  Only the body and image of your hero will be manufactured using the Hero Maker program.

Today, in Library, you will need to think a little about your Strengths and Struggles and the image you may want to use.  I want you to share your thoughts on your blog page.  I will be checking this and giving you some feedback.  

 

 http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-2-5-character-portrait-creator/

Post Number 2: Following up on Coordinate Math Lesson on May 22

Here are some fun links to games that will help you understand the location on the 4 quadrants of the coordinate plane.  You will find the link for the game and a screen shot of it.


http://resources.oswego.org/games/BillyBug2/bug2.html

http://hotmath.com/hotmath_help/games/ctf/ctf_hotmath.swf

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/weblessons/GridGraph/default.htm

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mesg/html/math6web/index.html?page=lessons&lesson=m6lessonshell18.swf

Which game game was your favourite game?  What did it do, specifically, to help you understand how coordinates work on a grid?  There will be a journal exercise in the afternoon for you to answer this question.

Reading Response for Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Please consider looking at this Reading Response post by Zhao Lun from 2 weeks ago.  It is an excellent example of how a Reading Response should look and sound like:

24 newspaper Response: Date: May 2nd, 2013  He has put the date.  Please also include the title of the article you read.

Retell:  Explains or summarizes what the article is about.

3 men were charged of interfering in the Boston bombing, they stated they had hid fireworks in a suspect's backpack during the bombing. People say the "trio" swiftly covered for his friend from the FBI, they leaked some pictures of the suspects.

Relate:  Zhao Lun makes a connection with the article and offers some insightful ideas and connections to things he has read or heard about before.

It makes me feel sick to know United States makes war and not truce, If united States had stood down and signed a peace treaty, they might of saved themselves some time to fix the poverty, homeless, and to fix up the places that has been broken down, but instead of aiding their homes, their just making it even worse.

Reflect:  This section reads very similar to the one he wrote before and allows him some more time to make connections.

I have nothing to reflect on this, but to say that there are other bombings that were even more devastating like the Afghan Wedding Party bombing, 30 people were killed in the bombing, and it wasn't even given attention like the Boston bombing, I'm not saying that the Boston Bombing wasn't big, but I think they should give more attention to other bombings too. 

For today's Reading Response, please go to the 24 newspaper homepage (http://eedition.toronto.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx

Select an article from today's (TUESDAY) online newspaper to do your work.  You must have the Retell, Relate, and Reflect portions completed.  The article does not have to be long!

Use the posting from April 30 if you are stuck with how you are supposed to set up your Reading Response.  Mr. Proudfoot will be reading these by Friday, May 24th.