March 9-13, 2009

12 Media:
All assignments should be in by Friday, March 13:
Media Log
History Timeline
2 Articles to be published
Plane crash story
Yearbook Award story
Premier's Visit story
Editorial

12 Hospitality:
Students are working on their accommmodation project.

Grade 9/10 English:
Begin public speaking assignments.
1. Introduce yourself. You are taking a second year anthropology class, in university. (The study of man, culture, man's development). First state your name, home town, school, and why you want to take this class.
2. Introduce another person. You are attending a leadership conference in Ottawa. You have been asked to introduce the person next to you. Name, home town, school, several items of interest about the person, what the person wishes to do after high school.
3. Introduce a speaker at an assembly. Begin with: It is my priveledge today to introduce (name). Prodeec with why the speaker is here, then a brief description of credentials. End, by saying, Please give a warm welcome to (name once again). Begin applauding.

Novel Assignment is Due Friday.
This assignment is an essay on how the main character in your novel was developed. In other words, how do you, the reader, know what the character is like, what are the character's personality traits? Characters are developed by what they do, what they say, what toehrs say about them, what the narrator tells us, and how the character interacts with others. Either determine the characters personality traits and them describe how you know that information, or take each way a character can be developed and tell what you know about the character by that method. The essay must have an introduction, a paragraph at least for each charactgeristic or each method of determining a character's traits, and a conclusion. The introduction must have a thesis statement, a plan of what is in the essay, and a connecting sentence. The conclusion must restate the thesis, sum up the main ideas in the essay, and have a concluding sentence. Each characteristic and each reference to the novel, must be referenced with page numbers. So, if John Smith wrote the novel, and you found a line on page three, that describe the character's personality, it would look like this:
The reader learns early in the novel that John was humorous. "Sarah and Susan both agreed that John was very funny" (Smith, p.3). Please note the period comes after the final bracket, not at the end of the sentence being quoted.
You would give the full reference at the end of the assignment, on a separate page.

Reference:

Smith, John (1998). The Last Gentleman. Toronto: United Press.
(Author) (date published) (Name of novel) (City published: publisher)

Grade 9:
This week we are finishing Fast ForWord testing and answering the following questions on the program:
1. What levels did you do in Fast ForWord?
2. What did you like most about Fast ForWord?
3. What did you like least about Fast ForWord?
4. What did Fast ForWord do most to help you in Language Skills?
5. Is there something you wished you had learned in using Fast ForWord?
6. If you could change one thing about Fast ForWord, what would it be?
7. How easy was Fast ForWord to use? Why?
8. Did you have any technical problems using Fast ForWord? What were they? Were they resolved?
9. If given a choice, would you use Fast ForWord again?
10. How useful was Fast ForWord?
11. Would you recommend next year's grade nine use Fast ForWord, why or why not?
12. What was the most difficult part of the program, and what was the easiest part of the program?
E-mail your answers to griffroa@nbed.nb.ca

Novel assignment due Friday. See notes in 9/10 English on how to do the assignment.

Begin public speaking assignments.
1. Introduce yourself. You are taking a second year anthropology class, in university. (The study of man, culture, man's development). First state your name, home town, school, and why you want to take this class.
2. Introduce another person. You are attending a leadership conference in Ottawa. You have been asked to introduce the person next to you. Name, home town, school, several items of interest about the person, what the person wishes to do after high school.
3. Introduce a speaker at an assembly. Begin with: It is my priveledge today to introduce (name). Prodeec with why the speaker is here, then a brief description of credentials. End, by saying, Please give a warm welcome to (name once again). Begin applauding.