English and Humanities 7

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Just Read

10 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

My friend and author Phil Bildner has just started his own YouTube show called “Out of My Mind“. In the pilot episode, he talks about reading. How much time do you spend reading? Check out the first episode below:

Tagged: Phil Bildner, read, youtube

8, Resources for your River Valley Project

9 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

IICS’s MYP Grade 8 Site Google+: Give Help, Get Help My blog

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7, Providing Evidence to Support Your Ideas

9 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

Today, we look at how to take our one page reflection about our three objects and provide enough evidence to support our ideas. Here are questions to ask yourself to make sure you are on track: – IDEAS: Do you have reasons to explain why you chose each object for your “museum exhibit”? – EVIDENCE: Did you dive … [Read more…]

Tagged: evidence, Grade 7, You in a Nutshell

7, You in a Nutshell

4 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

You have just been assigned to identify three objects in your life that encapsulate YOU, who YOU are, what YOU love, how special YOU are. The task is posted on ManageBac. If you have any questions, please comment below and I will try to answer them as soon as possible. Please do not ask a question … [Read more…]

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7, Using Evidence to Support Your Idea

3 September, 2014 by tbui 42 Comments

Today, we read Thank you, Mr. Falker, by one of my favorite children’s book authors, Patricia Polacco. We used that to look at four characters, or groups of characters: Trisha, the grandparents, Mr. Falker and the classmates. Tonight for homework, please use evidence from the story to formulate one paragraph that describes the character (or characters). … [Read more…]

Tagged: evidence, Grade 7, Patricia Polacco, primary source, secondary source, sources, Thank you Mr. Falker

7,8, Current Events

3 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

Components of a current events discussion: – source— From where did you learn this news? – description— Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? (Not all questions may be answered in each event.) – opinion— What are your thoughts or connections after learning of this event? Here is a great website to read the news: Newsela. … [Read more…]

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8, River Valley Civilizations Project

3 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

You can also view this Google doc here.

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8, Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Cities (Taco Orangutans)

2 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

Today, we brainstormed in groups the definition of cities. We then identified the key words in each of the four groups. Here are what you found to be the important words: civil area community people  work  live  society facilites  safety  resources apartment blocks  modern centre  population  urban  civilisation  houses  develop  thrive  economics  bank  Then, we watched a BrainPOP video on … [Read more…]

Tagged: Agricultural Revolution, cities, Grade 8, Taco Orangutans

8, Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Cities (Humanicorns)

1 September, 2014 by tbui Leave a Comment

Today, class 380-1 officially became known as Humanicorns. This might be one of the most clever class names I’ve heard come across! After such serious business, we brainstormed in groups the definition of cities. We then identified the key words in each of the four groups. Here are what you found to be the important words: area … [Read more…]

Tagged: Agricultural Revolution, cities, Grade 8, Humanicorns

7, Studying History

1 September, 2014 by tbui 2 Comments

Why do we study history? We discussed that today and came up with a variety of reasons. The most common response was that we learn to understand how we came to be who/ where we are, as well as we learn from our mistakes so we don’t repeat them. We learned that our first unit in Humanities, … [Read more…]

Tagged: biases, fact, Grade 7, opinion, studying history
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