LAST WEEK OF GRADE SEVEN!

Social Studies Final Exam: June 23, 10:00-11:15

Science Final Exam: June 24, 10:00-11:15

Math Final Exam: June 25, 10:00-11:30

STUDY HARD! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

TIPS: Eat a healthy breakfast, get a good nights rest, drink water all week (even your brain gets dehydrated) and review your work!

FINAL EXAMS BEGIN FRIDAY

LA PART B EXAM: FRIDAY, June 20

• Know literary techniques: metaphor, similies, etc.


• Review parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective etc


• Review types of sentences


• Review parts of a story

Thanks for all the great learning moments! If you tell me what mountain is in the poster below I will get you a treat!

CHAPTER 12-14 TEST, MONDAY, JUNE 16th

STUDY TIPS:

• Re-read the textbook chapters; create study notes on important topics
• Read over your work from the chapters
• test yourself or a study buddy, on the questions in your work
• Eat a healthy breakfast and get a great night of sleep on Sunday

REMINDER: TEXTBOOKS ARE DUE BACK THIS MONDAY (not Wednesday as it says below)!!!

NEXT WEEK: We will continue to prepare for our final exams. We will continue our summaries of the chapters (Power Point presentations) and we will also use old tests to study.

Recommended movie of the month: "Who killed the electric car?", which you can rent at Blockbuster

RAIN, RAIN, AND MORE RAIN!

REMINDERS:

• Sports awards night is Wednesday, June 11 at 6:30 pm; all athletes are invited
• Spelling post test Thursday, definitions of spelling words due Thursday
• TEXTBOOKS: We will lose our textbooks on Wednesday June 16th; PLEASE ensure you bring your textbooks (Science/Math/and Social Studies)
• Chapter 12-14 test, MONDAY JUNE 14

THIS WEEK IN HUMANITIES:

• We will read chapter 13-14 and begin related work
• Finish reviewing chapter 12
• Hand back chapter 10-11 tests
• Spelling test with 25 words to define (and examples for literary techniques)

SPELLING WORDS: please define each word and provide an example for words with stars

1. climax
2. conflict
3. theme
4. plot
5. setting
6. technology
7. industrialization
8. labour
9. pension
10. multiculturalism
11. urbanization
12. poetry
13. expository
14. narrative
15. alliteration ***
16. hyperbole ***
17. metaphor ***
18. onomatopoeia ***
19. personification ***
20. simile ***
21. noun ***
22. verb ***
23. adjective ***
24. adverb ***
25. preposition ***

FINAL EXAM DATES: LANGUAGE ARTS PART B JUNE 20th, SOCIAL STUDIES JUNE 23

CHAPTER 10-11 TEST, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4

CHAPTER 10-11 REVIEW QUESTIONS: THESE ARE DUE ON TUESDAY FOR A HOMEWORK CHECK!

SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS: Using the textbook and your notes answer the following questions (answering in point form is fine)

1. Why did people move to British Columbia after Confederation?
2. Why did B.C. join Canada?
3. How did the gold rush affect First Nations people of the Fraser River Valley?
4. Why did P.E.I. eventually join Canada? Why didn’t they join in 1867?
5. Why was Saskatchewan and Alberta formed from the NWT?
6. How did they decide where the capital city of Alberta would be?
7. Why did Newfoundland join Canada in 1949? Did everyone in Newfoundland want to join?
8. Prime Minister Laurier thought that Canada’s economy would boom if Canada could get more ______________
9. What did the growth of Western Canada depend on?
10. What groups were trying hard to get immigrants to move to Western Canada?
11. Thinking about our “Land for Sale” assignments, which three regions of the world did the Canadian government advertise for immigrants, attracting them to move to Canada?
12. What was the “trap” of settling in Western Canada?
13. People leave a place because of push and pull factors. What are push and pull factors? What were push and pull factors that affected immigrants moving to Western Canada?
14. Why did religious groups such as the Mennonites immigrate to Canada?
15. British Columbia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland all joined Canada after 1867. Compare and contrast the deals that each of these provinces received for joining Confederation.
16. When did each of the provinces/territories become a part of Canada? YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO KNOW THE DATE THAT EACH PROVINCE JOINED!
17. How were First Nations populations in each Province affected by Confederation? Hint: you should know in detail, how First Nations were affected in at least one province
18. Looking at the chart on page 260: Why was there a drop in the population of Aboriginal people between 1881 and 1911? Why did other ethnic groups grow during this same time frame?

Words you should know the definition of:

immigration identity pluralistic journalist
persecuted emigrant pacifist discrimination
private school province assimilation reserves
treaties public school magistrates separate school
referendum territory false advertising push factor
foreigner

JUNE IS HERE FOLKS

THIS WEEK IN HUMANITIES:

MONDAY: We will gather materials for symbols (please collect pine cones, pebbles and other items discussed) and put them on our 3d maps.

TUESDAY: HOMEWORK DUE - Chapter 10-11 review questions and Language Arts work

I will post the review online tomorrow for anyone who was away last Friday (May 30)... unfortunately it is only on the server at school so I can not post it from home

Wednesday: CHAPTER 10-11 test

• Time to finish our learning about how Provinces joined Canada after 1867 and how the railway changed this nation forever
• We have also learned about how immigration was necessary to build an economy in Western Canada
• Next we will focus on Canada since the early 1900's; we will soon think about how technology has changed life so drastically, in such a short period of time

THURSDAY: Continuing with Chapter 12, and possibly inquiring into other parts of Canada in our project

FINAL EXAM DATES: LANGUAGE ARTS PART B JUNE 20th, SOCIAL STUDIES JUNE 23