Good Afternoon Everyone,
Just wanted to take an opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year. Here are some due dates that are upcoming in the New Year:
Health: Cooking Assignment (posted on Google Classroom) -due on January 11th
Social Studies Inquiry Project- We will begin presentations in the first week back in January
Please enjoy this time to relax and recharge!
Take Care!
Mrs. Breau
Good Evening,
Here is a quick overview of our final week.
Math:
- We have been doing a quick unit on integers
-students will be having a quiz tomorrow
-The rest of the week we will doing an introduction to patterning
Literacy:
- We are working on procedural writing with our "Santa Manual"- They are due on December 18th
Social Studies:
-Students have been working on and conferencing about their social studies inquiry presentation-We will be presenting these on the first week back to school
Health:
Over the holidays, students will be completing a cooking assignment to complement our health unit. More information will follow on this, later this week :)
Have a great night!
Mrs. Breau
Here is practice for constructing quadrilaterals.
1. Create a Rhombus named ABCD
All the side lengths are 4 cm
AD is parallel to BC
AB is parallel to CD
<D & < B= 10˚
<A & <C= 170˚
2. Create a Rhombus named DEFG
All the side lengths are 8 cm
DG is parallel to EF
ED is parallel to CD
<D & < E= 30˚
<F & <G= 150˚
3. Create a parallelogram named ABCD
AB is parallel to CD - side lengths are 6 cm
AC is parallel to DB -side lengths are 4 cm
<A & <D = 125 ˚
<B & <C = 55˚
SOCIAL STUDIES - COMMUNITIES IN CANADA INQUIRY
PURPOSE: To complete an inquiry that relates to one of the topics covered in class.
Connections can include: immigration (past or present), personal immigration stories, diversity in Canada,
treatment/experience of different communities in Canada or any other idea!
Your topics MUST be approved by Mrs. Breau.
SUCCESS CRITERIA:
- your topic connects to what we have studied in class
- you are answering a clear inquiry question
- you draw a conclusion about your topic, based on your research
- you create a product of choice to communicate your ideas; including an oral component
- Cover between 4 and 5 subtopics
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Social Studies Test Review
TEST IS SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15TH
This test will be divided into 3 sections
Section 1: Multiple Choice and True and False - Please review the notes in your Social Studies folder
(Focus on the following notes: Fur Trade, First contact-Diseases, Indian Act, Inequalities between communities,
Chinese railroad, Chinese head tax, Japanese Internment Camps)
This does NOT need to be memorized.
Pay attention to the multiple choice and true and false questions on these sheets.
Section 2: Definitions
You need to be able to define the following terms
Push factor (3 examples)
Pull factor (3 examples)
Inequality (3 examples)
Chinese Head Tax (describe what it is)
Residential School (what were they and why were they created?)
Japanese Internment Camp (what were they and why were they created?)
Indian Act (what was involved with this? )
Name the 3 different types of immigrants and define them (see below)
Economic - skilled workers and business immigrants- they contribute to the economy
Family- they were sponsored by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is a spouse, partner, parent, grand-parent, child or other relative
Refugee- People who leave because they fear cruel treatment or even death in their home country
Section 3: Short Answer
-Talk about some positive and negative consequences of the fur trade
-Describe the push and pull factors of one of the groups of immigrants that were discussed
in class (Chinese, Japanese, Irish, Scottish, English, French)
-DescribeTWO challenges that new immigrants to Canada face
(climate, culture, work, lack of family support, finances, lack of job, discrimination, language)
