Wednesday, Day 3

Art 9
Social issue silhouette project to do.
Art 8L
Finish dream catchers. Start practicing your cartooning skills with the end goal of creating a superhero family. Do the hulk tutorial with Mrs. Sander
CE 30
Finish rough draft for love essay.
Psychology 30
Give a personal example for each of the three egocentrism fables we discussed last class. Notes on adolescent intelligence and an example for each type. Hand in examples.

Tuesday, May 19

ELA 9
Two classes given to work on the novel activities. They are due Thursday.
PAA 20
Finish painting the wire sculpture. Fill in the artist information sheet.
CE 30
Classtime to write the rough draft for the Les Mis essay. One more class tomorrow to work on this.

Thursday, May 14

CE 30
Finished watching Les Mis. Plan essay on love.
Art 8M
Finish Ted Harrison paintings. Start cartoon drawing practice. Do tutorial and draw The Hulk.
ELA 9
Final Test for the novel. Work on writing activities for the novel.
PAA 20
Start designing and painting your wire sculpture.

Wednesday, May 13

ELA 9
Hand in Part D responses for the rest of the novel. Reviewed answers for Ch 15 and 16. Notes on a handout for the Holocaust. Notes given for themes presented in the novel.  Writing assignments for the novel given out in the form of a handout.
PAA 20
Put the final coat of gesso on the wire sculpture.

Tuesday, May 12

Psychology 30
Research 3 theories to explain the existence of eating disorders. Answer the question " Why are more females than males victims of eating disorders?"
Sr. Art
Finish printmaking.
ELA 9
 Read Chapter 15 and 16. Finish questions. Part Ds due tomorrow.

Monday, May 11

Art 9
Finished the Gustav Klimpt art pieces.
Art 8 L
Finished The Ted Harrison paintings and started on the dream catchers taught about in English.
CE 30
Finished watching Les Miserables. Next day will start the essay on "love" portrayal in the movie.
Psychology 30
Notes on the Physical Domain of adolescence. Research activity for " Body image is at the heart of adolescence"given.

Friday, May 8

ELA 9
Read chapter 12-14. Answer questions Part C and D.
PAA 20
Paint another coat of gesso on scultpure.
CE 30
Watching Les Mis.

Thursday, May 7

ELA 9
Quiz Chapters 5-9. Finish reading up to Ch 11.  Do questions Part C and D and vocabulary for Chapter 12.
Psychology 30
 Research assignment: Interview an adult 45 + years for the purpose of comparing adolescence then and adolescence now. Compose 10 questions on at least three topics. Write up is due May 15.
Art 7
Finish pebble art.  Decorate picture frames for Mother's Day.
Sr. Art
Continue printmaking project.

Wednesday, May 6

CE 30
Enjoyed a presentation on how to 'live different'.

Art 8M
Finished our Ted Harrison style paintings.

ELA 9
Reviewed answers to Chapter questions 8 and 9. Did vocab for Ch 10 and 11. Started reading Ch 10 and 11.

PAA 20
 3 D nylon wire sculpture.

Tuesday, May 5

ELA 9
Read Chapter 8 and 9 and answer questions for Daniel's Story.  Quiz on Chapters 5-9 on Thursday.

PAA 20
Finished up our spring hallway decorations.

Monday, May 4

"May the Fourth Be With You!"

Psychology 30
Notes on Adolescence.
Sr. Art
Continue carving stamps for pop art printmaking.
ELA 9
Hand in Part D for Chapter 1-7 Daniel's Story
Do the vocabulary for Chapter 8 and 9.

Friday, May 1

Happy May Day!
Art 9
Review the artist Gustav Klimpt, famous for his paintings of "The Tree of Life" and "The Kiss".  Started an artwork in his style using a magazine photo or paint your own version of the tree of life. We will have today's class and one more day.
Art 8L
After studying the work of Canadian artist Ted Harrison create a work in a similar style using bright colour, simplified images, and bold strokes.
CE 30
We are viewing "Les Miserables" under the topic of love.  Collect data for an in class essay on the topic of the portrayal of love in the musical.
Psychology 30
We started the unit on adolescence viewing two videos.  The first is about the progression of knowledge as we grow and the second is a crash course in adolescence.