Back in action! I was having some trouble with some plug-in on this site but it seems to have resolved itself.

Psych - we had our unit test today. We start intelligence on Monday. It will be a quick unit, and we have a presentation on November 30, so keep that in mind.

CALM - 3 guest speakers back to back next week.

ELL 2/3/4 - No homework except for ELL 4 - please have your character sketch from The Outsiders completed today. We had a Kahoot afternoon, between Ch 1 review of The Outsiders, to verb practice.

Next week is only three days due to Grade 9 tours and a PD day.

Happy weekend!

Shortened week this week!
Psychology - we finished up Piaget and started Freud's psychosexual stages. On Monday we will be looking at Kohlberg's moral development.

CALM - Monday and Tuesday are guest speakers.

ELL 4 - We finished the midterm part A and B and will spend some time discussing the questions on Monday, as well as getting into The Outsiders.

ELL 2 - We will be starting Stone Fox this week, and finishing our past tense verb work.

ELL 3 - You have your reading comprehension midterm on Monday,  and we will start our novel this week as well.

Psychology - We discussed the questions from the documentary "Babies" and started learning about Piaget and Vygotsky. We watched some cute videos that show kids working with Piagetian tasks - egocentrism, conservation, and object permanence (well, not a kid, but Stewie from Family Guy)

We started creating our own preschools based on our knowledge of child development. I look forward to hearing about them tomorrow!

CALM - continued working on the dating project - we have a guest speaker tomorrow so please come ready to listen and participate.

ELL 2- you wrote your midterm today. Please have your past simple verb work in tomorrow!

ELL 3 - we discussed the personal response to text assignment, which you are doing tomorrow. We also went through our practice questions.

ELL 4 - you wrote your reading comprehension part of your exam. Tomorrow is personal response.

Psychology - today we began lifespan development and did a powerpoint lecture about babies. Please read over your ppt notes in advance of tomorrow's documentary ("Babies")

CALM - we had a guest speaker from YVC today. Please have your guest speaker evaluation completed by tomorrow (it should have been in today!)

ELL 2/3 - We did a whole class activity today with similes, metaphors and personification. We listened to Katy Perry's "Firework" and looked at figurative language.

ELL 4 - we did a similar lesson to 2/3 and made posters with examples of more types of figurative language:
alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile

Psych - We did a ppt on Humanistic and trait theories of personality and then you got to analyze handwriting!

CALM - We watched Pay it Forward today and will continue on with it tomorrow.

ELL 4 - Presentations started today and will wrap up tomorrow

ELL 2 - You started a creative writing piece on "Wolf"

ELL 3 - Your Dr. Heidegger's Experiment questions are due tomorrow.

Psychology and CALM - we went to watch Ms. Taylor's class' performance of "Defined," written and directed by a high school student!

Psych - please finish your personality test sheet tonight, and go right to the library tomorrow morning.

CALM - please come to the library immediately after the Remembrance Day service tomorrow.

ELL 2/3 - We did Remembrance Day lessons today. Please have your booklet finished by tomorrow. We will be looking at "In Flanders Fields" tomorrow.

ELL 4 - We went over how to write a personal response today. You will need it for next week on your midterm. Tomorrow and Thursday are devoted to The Outsiders presentations.

Happy Monday!

Hey everyone!
Super busy week - I am sorry for the lack of updating the last few days. I am on my first week of teaching 4/4 periods and am still adjusting to the new schedule. I'm back in the groove so we should be good to go now :)

Psychology - We looked at Freud's Id, Ego and Superego yesterday with the animated Cat in the Hat. That was fun! Today we made our own Rorschach ink blots and analyzed each other's personalities.

We are watching the drama performance "Defined" on Monday.

CALM - We are also watching Defined on Monday. We will have hardly any time for computers on Tuesday with the Remembrance Day service, so please work on them over the weekend. All remaining autobiography presentations will happen on Monday as well!

ELL 2/3/4 You each did a vocab or grammar quiz today and we all played Taboo. That was fun!

Have a fantastic weekend.

Psych - We finished with research methods today, and will be having a quiz tomorrow (short quiz, identify the variables, and choose which research method it used.
Tomorrow we start to talk about ethics, and we will be doing a fun "gallery walk" to discover some verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry unethical experiments!

CALM - we present autobiographies tomorrow. Come to class ready to listen and speak!

ELL 4 - we started a 1960's online scavenger hunt in preparation for reading The Outsiders

ELL 2 - you continued to read "Wolf" by Jack London

ELL 3 - you continued to read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Psychology - We started term two today with Personal Psychology.
We discussed research methods. Please do the crossword puzzle page at the end of your booklet for tomorrow. We will be discussing the experimental method tomorrow. You have a quiz on Wednesday on methods of study and variables.

CALM - We met today for the first time! We did a get-to-know-you activity. Your first assignment starts tomorrow. We meet on the main floor in the library.

ELL 3 - You will have time in class tomorrow to read "Dr Heidegger's Experiment" and finish part one.

ELL 2 - Your Part One of Jack London's "Wolf" is due tomorrow.

ELL 4 - We worked on capitalization and commas today. Please complete "Lesson 59" on commas by tomorrow. We will be going to the library to work on our The Outsiders 1960's scavenger hunt.

Phew - that's a lot of writing. So many classes! Enjoy your Monday night.