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Archives for March, 2009

Grade 6 Future News project 2009

Description of task: In groups of three, research, plan and create a newspaper for the year 2029. Guidelines. Must have the following types of stories: A. A Serious event e.g. Holland loses Amsterdam to flood B. A global or societal trend. E.g. technology use or diet change C. A human-interest story. E.g. man finds coin [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Mr McCrory

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Mr McCrory

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Mr Campbell’s Grade 7 Class: Instructions for posting stories and self-assessing them

Dear Grade 7′s, I am away with the tech team today but you should use your time carefully to avoid giving yourself homework. Remember your creative writing needs to be finished and on your blog before the end of school Thursday. Below are instructions for how to self-assess digitally, please follow the instructions carefully. You [...]

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Mr Campbell’s Grade 7 Class: Instructions for posting stories and self-assessing them

Dear Grade 7′s, I am away with the tech team today but you should use your time carefully to avoid giving yourself homework. Remember your creative writing needs to be finished and on your blog before the end of school Thursday. Below are instructions for how to self-assess digitally, please follow the instructions carefully. You [...]

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G8 Mr C’s Class “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men”

‘Of Mice and Men’ review and personal response. Write a short, analytical and opinionated review of the novel on your blog making a reference to the poem that the author took the title from. Here is where the title comes from? Read the poem carefully. What is the connection? Make this a starting or ending [...]

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G8 Mr C’s Class “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men”

‘Of Mice and Men’ review and personal response. Write a short, analytical and opinionated review of the novel on your blog making a reference to the poem that the author took the title from. Here is where the title comes from? Read the poem carefully. What is the connection? Make this a starting or ending [...]

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G8 Instructions for self-assessing, posting and sharing your newspaper projects

Try your best to independently follow these instructions. Task 1 : Posting your newspaper on your blog/ digital portfolio Step 1 First save your document as a PDF file. In pages you need to go to print and then save as PDF. Step 2 Then you are going to put the document into a free [...]

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The Machine is Us/ing Us

Watch this visual poem by Michael Wesch In your groups discuss/ argue about what you think is the most important ideas that is expressed by this poem/ video? Can the youngest person in the group please then add a comment that best represents the view of your group.

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Protected: Writing good stories step 2

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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