Language: students must have their two paragraph compare and contrast written piece ready for tomorrow

Grade 7/8 Girls Soccer -  October 15

Grade 7/8 Boys Soccer - October 8

Grade 6  Boys Soccer   - October 10

Grade 5/6 Girls Soccer - October 8

Cross Country Meet 1  - October 2   

Cross Country Conference Finals   - October 16

Cross Country City Finals - October 24

Queen's Park is accepting applications to Ontario's Legislative Page Program until Nov. 15. 

Each year, approximately 150 Grade 7 and 8 students from across Ontario are selected to participate in the program. This opportunity allows students to experience the provincial legislature in action and forge friendships with peers from all over the province.  

The program is designed for outgoing, high-achieving and community-involved students who have demonstrated responsibility and leadership. Legislative pages are introduced to key parliamentary and political figures and learn about Ontario’s parliament and the legislative process.

While at Queen’s Park, pages are under the direction of the page program co-ordinator, who is a certified Ontario teacher. 

Pages receive an honorarium of $15 per day during their term of duty. For more information, contact 416-325-7457 or email pageprogram@ola.org. Page applications are accepted online from now until Nov. 15.

To start the application process, visit bit.ly/2GWT545.

7 Math: page 63 4,5,7,9,11,13-17; there is a quiz tomorrow
Science: your science project is due tomorrow
Students are reading S.E. Hinton's novel, the Outsiders, in class. Students must have a two paragraph piece written on two things that are similar yet different by tomorrow.

8A Mr. Ross: students must have the page 61 #1-5 & pages 72 & 73 #1-4 completed by Monday, September 30th

7A & 7B students must choose two things that are similar yet different such as cars versus trucks.  Create a three column chart or Venn diagram to list the similarities and differences.  Write a two paragraph piece or written response  for homework.  This is due Tuesday, September the 24th. 

We are slowly covering the political parties in the upcoming election for media.

Students will be getting into groups to begin research on a specific topic between 1600 and 1848 for grade 7 history.

7A Homework Questions for Friday, September 20th.

1. What were the American colonies? (page 36)

2. How was the Hudson Bay Company founded or established?

(page 37)

3. Summarize the six points on this chapter from page 38.

For media, we will be covering the federal parties prior to the upcoming federal election and the  media's coverage on the following topics and the parties:

1.       Taxes

2.       Economy & affordability

3.       Jobs & skill training

4.       Deficit & debt

5.       Health (provincial)

6.       Pharmacare

7.       Energy

8.       Climate Change

9.       Indigenous Affairs

10.    Immigration & refugees

11.    Defence

12.    Public safety

13.    International development

14.    Infrastructure

15.    Seniors

16.    Housing

17.    Education (provincial)

18.    Child care

19.    Agriculture

20.    Foreign Affairs

21.    Trade

22.    Justice

23.    Youth

24.    Veterans

25.    Arts & Culture

7A History Questions 

Grade 7 History; Chapter 2, European Exploration.

1.            Create a timeline based on pages 18 & 19.

2.            What is colonization?

3.            Where was the settlement of Acadia located?

4.            Discuss Champlain, the Company of 100 Associates and the Company of Habitants,  les coureurs de bois, the Jesuits, and Huronia?

5.            Compare the two views on page 25.

7A History Questions:  please complete by  Monday,  September 16th.
7A Writing: complete a descriptive paragraph on the 90's
7A/7B  Writing: complete a six paragraph descriptive essay on your favorite place

Grade 7 Writing Assignment for Friday, September the 20th, 2019.

Task: students are required to write at least a six paragraph descriptive essay on a place using the following topics discussed in class

Checklist

1)      a list of 3 places and 9 specific areas that could be examined

2)      a place described using your 5 senses, in chart format

3)      a list of things you experience as you enter the room, in jot note format

4)      describe the place from left-to-right, from top-to-bottom, or from clockwise position

5)      a rough copy with evidence of corrections

6)      a final copy with a clear introduction, middle, and ending

7)      the use of similes and metaphors

8)      paragraphs with topics sentences, supporting points, and concluding sentences

9)      proper spelling, thought, style, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar

10)  the use of a ‘catchy title’ or pun  to attract the attention of the reader

Due Date: Friday, September 20^th.

If the assignment is late, the student must provide a written explanation from his or her parent or guardian. Late assignments will be documented and noted on the upcoming progress reports.

• Make notes of the example provided from the class text, The Write Source.
• Submit your work on stapled sheets of paper. Do not hand in your notebook or a duo tang.

Rubric or Grading Sheet

                                  Levels              R         1          2          3          4

Topics

1. Evidence of                             R         1          2          3          4

Planning*

2. Reasoning                               R         1          2          3          4
3. Vocabulary                              R         1          2          3          4
4. Proofreading                           R         1          2          3          4

• The writer must provide the following: a list of narrowed down topics, a chart that uses your 5 senses, a list of things you experience as you enter the place, an edited rough copy, & final copy.

What you are required to do in order to complete your assignment:

1)      Do not procrastinate.  Get to work immediately and budget your time. By all means, do not play ‘the victim’ or provide excuses unless tragedies occur.

2)      Keep all hand written notes and avoid any younger siblings or small furry creatures from destroying your work.

3)      Do not leave work at school or at a relatives place.

4)      Check your printer, computer, software package, flash drive, and any other forms of technology so they do not mysteriously ‘crash’ prior to submission.

5)      If you decide to use a computer, you are required to do the following: make a back up by saving it on your hard drive, send an attachment to your e mail account, and save it on your flash drive.  Be sure to have your auto save feature set.

Grade 7 History: based on the Documentary, The Story of Us, Episode 1, New France

Episode 1: Worlds Collide (pre-1608 – 1759) 

Approximately, 90% of the indigenous population died from diseases during colonization.   Champlain establishes trade with the Wendat.  The French form alliance with them whereas the British form an alliance with the Iroquois.  After losing 2/3 of his men and surviving an attempted assassination.  Champlain gains a foothold in Quebec.  

Indigenous communities perish as France and England compete for a stronghold on Canada.

Jean Talon, Indendant of New France, oversees the marriage of one of the Filles du Roi, Elizabeth Aubert, to farmer Aubin Lambert.

Hundreds of Indigenous nations with advanced cultures already live in Canada when French and English colonizers arrive and fight for land claims. Indigenous people suffer as a result of first contact.

Over the course of 12,000 years, the North American continent evolves into a place populated by millions of Indigenous people living in hundreds of different nations. These diverse cultures range from the Wendat, a nation of farmers who lived in what is now Southern Ontario, to the Inuit hunters of the far north. These nations have advanced cultures, economies and spiritual traditions. Through diplomacy and trade, these nations grow and thrive on Turtle Island, the continent we now know as North America.

Samuel de Champlain builds the first European settlement (July to December 1608)

Samuel de Champlain attempts to establish a settlement in Innu territory in 1608. He's racing against time: if he and his men don't finish building the settlement before the start of the brutal winter, they will all die. While the settlement is being built, he discovers a conspiracy to assassinate him, orchestrated by Jean Duval. Desperate to retain control and dissuade any other would-be challengers to his command, Champlain deals out brutal justice, executing Duval. Only seven of Champlain's original 27-man crew are still alive at the end of the winter. Champlain is successful in completing Habitation, his fortified settlement, which will eventually become Quebec City.

Samuel de Champlain builds the first permanent European settlement in Canada:

Champlain tips the balance in the war between the Wendat and the Haudenosaunee (Summer 1609)

Two of Eastern North America's most powerful Indigenous confederacies, the Wendat and the Haudenosaunee, are locked in a brutal war for control of the fur trading routes. Chief Oschasteguin, leader of the Wendat Confederacy's Arendaenronnon nation, decides to enter into an alliance with Champlain and the French settlers. The French will get the exclusive rights to sell the Wendat's furs in Europe. In return, the French will supply the Wendat with manpower and weapons in their fight against the Haudenosaunee. One of those weapons is the arquebus, the forerunner to the modern rifle. Champlain uses the arquebus to kill three Haudenosaunee chiefs at a battle in what is now upstate New York, killing two of them with one shot and causing the rest of the Haudenosaunee to retreat. This alliance between settlers of New France and the Wendat will be profitable for both parties — and deadly to their enemies — for years to come.

The Filles du Roi arrive in New France (1660 - 1670)

By the 1660s, the population of New France has stagnated. The British colonies to the south, meanwhile, are booming. A large part of the problem is that the French settlers are overwhelmingly male. To prevent the French from being pushed out by the English, French King Louis XIV sends some of France's poorest young women, mostly orphans, to New France. Their role: marry the settlers and produce large families. The women become known as "Filles du Roi".

Most French Canadians are descended from these 800 women

One of these women is Elisabeth Aubert, an orphan from Paris who arrives in 1670. She will marry farmer Aubin Lambert and will go on to have 10 children by 1689. Approximately 800 women come from France to Canada from 1665 to 1673; the population of the colony explodes as a result. Two-thirds of French Canadians can still trace their ancestry to one of the original Filles du Roi.

Pierre Espirit Radisson & Medard des Groseilliers make a deal with the English (1659-1670)

With the beaver population of New France decimated by the fur trade, two French traders — Pierre Espirit Radisson and Medard des Groseilliers — set out for new trapping territory. On the south shore of Lake Superior, they meet with Cree traders who show them some of the finest furs they've ever seen. The Cree traders explain that these furs come from an area to the north, on the shore of Hudson Bay, and provide a route to get there.

When des Groseilliers and Radisson demonstrate this new source of rich furs to the administrator of New France, he refuses their plan and briefly jails them for not coming to him earlier. Des Groseilliers and Radisson travel across the Atlantic ocean to take their proposal to the British, who enthusiastically agree to finance them. King Charles II unilaterally grants the Hudson's Bay Company control over a third of what is now Canada,

Grade 8 History: The Five Technological Innovations of the Nineteenth Century that United Early Canada

Canada: The Story of Us           Grade 8 History

Episode 4 of The Story of Us:  We become more connected (1824 - 1890) through canals, steamships, bridges, and telegraph cables and progressive ideas.

Theme(s): overcoming challenges, connectivity, and becoming more progressive

1.       Connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic (1824-1829)

In the early 1800s, there's a major obstacle in the way of trade between Upper and Lower Canada (and to Europe beyond): Niagara Falls. Goods transported by ship have to bypass the falls via a portage road.

Niagara entrepreneur William Merritt convinces the government to get behind his plan to build a canal, a great engineering feat that will open up trade along the Great Lakes like never before. In spite of massive obstacles and great danger, Merritt's canal plan succeeds, connecting the Great Lakes trade routes with the Atlantic.  Good could be imported and exported from the interior of Canada through the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.  The rail networks would further stich the nation from ‘sea to sea.’

a)      Solving the problem of the Welland Canal: 40 km man -made river is dug to connect Lake Ontario to the Chippawa River and to the Niagara River or the North East corner of Lake Erie.

b)      Irish labour is exploited or used.  Refugees of the Irish Potato Famine depart Ireland and live in shanty towns outside of St. Catharines.  The canals are dug by pix axe and rock is moved by wheelbarrels.  Immigrants, such as 22 year old John Colter and family, move to Niagara.  He earns $0.63/ day under dangerous working conditions. In 1824, the workers hit a 3 km stretch that had walls 20 meters high.  Engineers from the Erie Canal, which connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River and Manhattan were also employed.   The sandy composition of the terrain eventually led to a landslide that buried numerous workers.  The project is halted.  Engineer, Alfred Beret, decides to create a dam at the Grand River which drains just west of the project into Lake Erie.  He diverts the flow of some of the Grand River Workers like Colter settle in Port Robinson.   Communities like St. Catharines, Thorold,  and Welland boom.  The St. Lawrence Corridor opens up and commerce exists more between the West and the East.

2.       Shrinking the world with steam power (1839-1840): Mail, goods, and people can be transported across water at a greater speed and level of reliability.

a)      Having successfully run a steam-powered ferry service across Halifax Harbour, a steamship service from Quebec to Halifax and a mail ship between Prince Edward Island and the mainland, Nova Scotia businessman Samuel Cunard starts to dream bigger. He wants to run a transatlantic steamship service between Europe and North America.

b)      Cunard takes a contract to deliver the Royal British mail reliably using a fleet of steamships.  He raises capital or investments from other men.  It was a new technology and the fear of building a coal fire on a ship to create steam scared some investors off.

c)       He gambles heavily on the new, untested business, but eventually succeeds in making the world a smaller place. He establishes one of the world's largest marine passenger companies; it still carries his name today. Cunard's steam ships shrink the world. He proposes 3 steam ship crossings and gains approval from Admiral Perry.  He offered guaranteed Atlantic crossings every 14 days.  Scottish shipyards produce his first ship and at 63 m long and 10 m wide. It is designed for speed and has space for nearly 200 passengers.  He agrees to pay 500 British pounds for every 4 hours of delay.  The Britannia sets sails for her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Halifax at a speed of 10 knots/hours. The ships makes it in 12 days and 10 hours and within a year 3 new ships are added to the fleet.  There is now faster access to European products, trends, and ideas.  Immgrants pour into North America for hope of a better life.  Halifax, an ice free port, booms furthermore in shipping. 

d)      The Grank Trunk Railway builds a railway from Sarnia to Montreal.  However, to connect Montreal to the mainland required an incredibly strong bridge across the St. Lawrence.

3.       The Victoria Bridge connect Montreal to the railway (1854-1859)

a)      Canadian ingenuity reacts to one of the greatest engineering challenges of the age: how to build a railway bridge across the St. Lawrence, connecting Montreal to the country's rapidly growing rail network?

b)      Workers build a series of water-tight cassons or boat shaped structures that allow workers to dig deep into the riverbed and build limestone foundations for the future bridge foundations.

c)       The Victoria Bridge is completed 18 months ahead of schedule. It permanently changes how goods are shipped across the country, giving Canada 900 kilometers of unbroken railway.

d)      The dangerous business of building the Victoria Bridge.  Benjamin Chaffy invented a derick to lower the 10 tonne stones.  He is a Brockville person who is self taught yet is inventive an creative enough to design the 3 kilometer wide bridge that stretches across the St. Lawrence River. Eventually the wooden casson breaches or breakes.  Over 26 workers die, by 1859 and 5 years of work, the footings are complete, 25 iron pieces must span 3 km with oversized rivets.   The 19^th century is the age of child labour and unorganized labour.  Workers strive for better working conditons which culiminate in the Winnpeg Strike.

4.       The underwater telegraph cable: a miracle of the age (1852-1866)

Inventor and electrician Frederick Gisborne imagines Canada and the world connected by cables — cables that would allow for almost instantaneous communication. Through perseverance and strong business acumen, Gisborne successfully installs the first underwater telegraph cable in North America, between PEI and New Brunswick in 1852.

He goes on to become the chief engineer of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company. Due in part to his efforts, the dream of a transatlantic telegraph line is realized in 1866.

5.       Fighting sexism in print (1890s)

In an age when women are still denied the vote, trailblazing journalist Kathleen Blake Coleman of the Toronto Mail battles sexism to fight for equality on the pages of Canada's largest newspaper. She is the first woman in the country to become newspaper section editor, editing the weekly "Woman's Kingdom" section. She also bucks against her editors' insistence that women are only interested in housekeeping and fashion and becomes a crusading columnist writing about social issues. "Kit of the Mail" eventually has her columns syndicated in newspapers across the country and her work becomes a light in the life of thousands of Canadians.  

8A/8B: Read chapter 2; complete page 29 #1-4; read the outline regarding the Story of Us, Episode 4; this is due Monday,  September 16th.

Wednesday. September 11th, 2019.

L.A.: write a six paragraph essay on a favorite place; please see the package.
French: complete your rough copy of the country's title page
Math: work on knowledge hook