High School Information: Maple, Westmount and Bill Crothers

Those of you who are interested in Bill Crothers -- they are having an information night Tuesday, October 18th from 7:00 - 8:30 in the school cafeteria.

Arts Westmount is Wednesday, October 19th at 7:00 in the school cafeteria as well.

Maple's information night is Thursday October 13th at 7:00 as well. 

Some Wonder Questions to consider...

1. What is the World's "richest" ancient civilization?
2. What is humanity's most important invention?
3. Is all "freedom of speech" acceptable?
4. Is it worthwhile to watch TV?
5. Should we be celebrating Christopher Columbus?
7. Does the government get too involved in our lives?

Quizzes Signed and Returned

Please bring newspapers everyday to help build our collection and have your math quizzes signed and returned!

Newspapers

In anticipation of an upcoming unit, I'd like to ask you to bring in as many newspapers as you possibly can in the coming weeks. We'll be needing them by mid-October. Many thanks!

Leadership Forms

Hi 8B

On google classroom you will find a google form for you to fill out based on your Leadership Interests. You are NOT obligated to join a group so please be ready to commit to your choice for the year. 

Also, it was a pleasure to meet a number of you who visited Mackenzie Glen on Curriculum Night. Looking forward to a great year!

Math Journals

Congratulations!

You are now the owner of a brand new math journal. This is going to be a place for you to stretch out your mathematics potential, reflect on what you are learning and show your thinking. You will have a variety of different journal entries to complete throughout each unit that will challenge you to solve mathematical problems, explain your thinking in a variety of ways, analyse mistakes, think about similarities and differences, write about new learnings and to try to justify and prove your answers. This journal will encourage you to use the following mathematical processes:

1. Problem Solving
2. Reasoning and Proving
3. Reflecting
4. Selecting Tools and Computational Strategies
5. Connecting
6. Representing
7. Communicating

The above processes are all important and transferable skills that all mathematicians need to be able to use.

Here’s how this is going to work. I will set a due date for each journal entry period, I will present you with 5-10 journal prompts to choose from and you can answer as little as 3 and as many as 10. The questions will be posted in class as well as on google classroom. You will be assessed based on how well your entries demonstrate deep thinking. A student might complete 10 entries and not show the same level of understanding as a student who completed 3, it’s not about the number….it’s about the thinking that you can show.  The checklist on the next page will be used to assess your entries as a whole after each entry period. You will also fill out a self assessment to hand in with your journals.

Different Ways of Showing our Wonder