New school year 2014 - 2015

December 5th
See your class page for upcoming assignments and evaluations.
 A reminder to check out the community Christmas tree on "La Grave" in Amherst to see the beautiful decorations that we made in art class.

 October 27th
Please check out the class page for this week's assignments. End of term is November 14th and assignments need to be in for evaluation, so be sure to have all work done.  This week:
grade 7 & 8 French - oral presentation
grade 9 ELA - Working on monologue and finishing up cemetery project.
grade 10 & 11 ELA - Finishing up monologue and cemetery project.
grade 10 & 11 French - presentation of survival guide Thursday.



October 8th, 2014.
Patrick see the grade 9 assignment below. Grades 10 & 11 started this today as well. You will get a character upon  your arrival back to school.
Zack and Alex, today we started working on a character wheel. For this assignment, you must draw a large circle, choose one of the characters from your novel and write his name in the middle
 (available characters are: TJ Avery, Stacey, Jeremy Sims, Uncle Hammer.). Divide the circle in 4 and label each part as follows: my opinion, type of character and his role in novel, personality, background. Provide at least 3 pieces of information for each category and support with quotes from the book. Final copy is due on October 15th.




We are in week 3 of a new school year. My course load has changed a little from last year, so new challenges are upon me. It's been a busy but exciting beginning. My ELA secondary 3, 4 and 5 students have been walking through the cemetery studying tombstones to find one that piques their curiosity and have done some interviewing to learn more about those buried there. They are currently writing their story. There are lots of beautiful art projects on the walls of the high school. Grade 7 &8 are currently working on reading strategies and fluidity in FSL class. Lots of fun things are happening!

Welcome back from the Easter holidays! Veronica and Lucas, please have chapters 15 & 16 read in your novel and be prepared for discussion tomorrow, particularly author's style.

March 26 th, 2014.

For students absent today in sec. 1 & 2 ELA, we discussed important events of chapter 7 of The Breadwinner. Then you were to discuss important ideas of chapter 8 and pick out particularly good writing traits used by Ellis in this chapter. ie. excellent word choice, sentence structure, voice, foreshadow, figurative language, etc.

March 11, 2014.
 Students please take note of the remediation schedule set up on my door. If you need extra help, I urge you to sign up and take advantage of the extra time. Remember 3rd term is VERY important!
Day 1  FSL sec. 4 & 5
Day 3  your choice
Day 5  ELA sec. 1 & 2 
Day 7  FSL sec. 1 & 2.

February 13th, 2014.

I am retrying the blog ! Hopefully I can be more faithful keeping up with it this year. Please check it out from time to time and leave me a comment. :)

Back to my blog. After the ice storm in February that we experienced, I decided to have my sec. 1 & 2 students research a bit about the 1998 ice storm which struck Quebec, eastern Ontario and some states. This led to research into other Canadian disasters. They are reading and writing (reports and narratives ) about and discussing  natural disasters that happened in Canada.
Sec 1 & 2 please see the page for due dates for your assignments.  

Secondary 3 took a walk on our return to school from the ice storm to capture some of nature's beauty.

          ice coated lobster traps.