Week of May 25 - 29, 2015

Thursday HW
1.  The First Nations project is due by the end of the day on Monday, June 1.  Several students have told me they are typing it at home.  This is not a request of mine.  I am perfectly willing to accept handwritten pages.  My goal is to make this have less impact on family life.  The project should be fully assembled with any pictures and titles by the end of the day on Monday.

Tuesday HW
1.  MMS 9.5.   Today's homework check was very good.  Thank you!
2.  "Truly Foolish" story rough plan in the Writing notebook.

Today I had a conference with almost every partner group for the Social Studies project.  It was terrific to see how many students were up to date and ready to produce a good copy.  We will be doing so over the next four afternoons, targeting Monday afternoon next week as the final due date.  That being said, several students were unprepared or had left their work at home.  A substantial amount of the final mark is based on there "on-the-way" check-ins.  The final good copy is only one piece of the evaluation.  I urge all students to come to school prepared for the class and adjust for absences for things like sports tournaments with their partners.

Monday HW:
1.  MMS 9.4
2.  Finish up rough copy of First Nations Project.  Find pictures.