Wednesday, January 8, 2020 (Day 5)

COMPUTER 7 Yellow

The students reviewed searching techniques.

1.   Choose your terms carefully.

2.   Use the - symbol to exclude results 

      For example:  cookies -chocolate -->  will lead to cookie without chocolate

3.   Use the "" "" marks to find specific terms

      For example:  "Sugar cookies"  --> will lead to sugar cookies and not just any cookies with sugar 

      in them

4.  Use the + symbol to add specific information 

     For example:  "sugar cookies"  +lemon --> will lead to sugar cookies with lemon icing or      

     flavouring, and so on

They then had time to do the first mini-search on Google Classroom recording the:

search terms  -->  first personal computers -IBM -apple

url -->  www.computerhistory.com/personal/392958

answer -->  ???

then either repeating with a new search term to find a better answer OR verifying your answer with another url

Mini-search #1 is due tomorrow.  If you have time also start the mini-search #2.

ELA 9B

The students read for ten minutes.  We finished reading chapter 12 of "The Outsiders" and the students had time to complete their questions for chapters 11 and 12. We'll correct tomorrow.

SENIOR FRENCH

Today we started a new topic on houses.  We discussed vocabulary for "le salon."  Then students drew out their own living rooms and had another person try to draw from their instructions in French.

POSITIONS:

à gauche (to the left)

à droite (to the right)

à cÔté de (next to)

entre (between)

sous (under / below)

sur (on)

près de (near to)

nord (North) 

sud (South)

est (East)

ouest (West)

ELA 8A

The students read silently for ten minutes.  Then they worked in groups of three to develop a plan of three things they could do, with examples, when someone in their community has been a victim of hatred or racism of some kind.  

We then read chapter 22 of "Bifocal"up to page 234.  We'll finish up tomorrow.

ELA 9A

The students read for ten minutes.  We corrected the last questions for "The Outsiders."  I took in the very last question so be prepared to hand that one in if you were absent today.  Then we started to watch the movie, which we'll finish in the next few classes.