Monday, April 21, 2008

WEEK OF APRIL 21-25

SOCIAL STUDIES TEST THIS WEEK:
  • Tuesday: You will write a test on chapter 8-9 from your Social Studies textbook
  • The major themes of the test are: the Metis people, the railway and expanding Canada

HOMEWORK

  • You were to complete a paragraph summarizing the history of Roger's Pass for Monday
  • A poster advertising Roger's Pass/The Canadian Rockies. Due: Wednesday
  • Sees Behind Trees work up to chapter 8 should be completed by Wednesday; please stay after school or sign out a book if you need to catch up


LAST WEEK

  • We continued learning about how the railway expanded Canada including learning about the infamous Roger's Pass
  • Wrote and learned about the debate over Tibet and the Olympics in China
  • Completed a spelling test
  • Read chapter 6-7 in Sees Behind Trees
  • Finished chapter 9 in our Voices and Visions textbook
  • Digitized and published (on the wise window) your NWMP posters advertising recruitment


PRACTICE YOUR LITERACY AT freerice.com

Featured below is a real poster from the late 1880's advertising the CPR as a way to take a holiday in the Canadian Rockies





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