Ultimate Seminar and Upcoming Test

A few updates:

1.  Today in class I handed out the French Revolution Documents and the purple chart.  Please complete this for MONDAY.  You will be able to use both of these, in addition to your text, for your document test NEXT THURSDAY.  If you will be away next Thursday on the Band School Feeder Trip please see me to do your test on WEDNESDAY.

2.  The sign-ups are ongoing for the ultimate seminars on Dec. 7 and 8.  The documents are "Subjection of Women" by John Stuart Mill, and "On Women in the Coal Pits" Parliamentary Papers.  Both documents are in your seminar package.  Please see me to sign up for a date if you are choosing to complete the ultimate seminar.

Have a great weekend ... you have tons to work on, so please take some time this weekend to get some of it done!

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Alrighty, crunch time is coming and organization will be truly required.  I am concerned that you, as a group, have difficulty pushing yourselves when given class time to complete work.  PLEASE use all upcoming time to do the myriad of upcoming assignments.

Here is the plan until December 18:
Nov. 27: French Revolution Documents - read and complete chart
Nov. 30 - Introduction to Napoleon
Dec. 1 - Seminar Rob and Albert
Dec. 2 - Napoleon
Dec. 3 - Speech (give out and research in the library)
Dec. 4 - PD Day
Dec. 7 - Ultimate (alternate seminar0
Dec. 8 - same as above
Dec. 9 - Peer editing day
Dec. 10 - Peer editing day
Dec. 11 - Field Trip
Dec. 14 - Intro to Industrial Revolution
Dec. 15 - PRESENT SPEECHES!
Dec. 16 - Industrial Revolution
Dec. 17 - Same - ESSAYS DUE: FINAL CLOSURE DATE (4:00 pm)
Dec. 18 - PARTY!

Please let me know if I can help with anything!

Parent's Night and Weekly Recap

Thanks to the parents of Eric, Peter, Ben, Zack, Cara and Cindy for joining me at parent's night last night.  If you did not have a chance to attend but would like to chat about your son or daughter, please contact me at kovicha@hdsb.ca.

Seminars were well done this week, and I am happy to see how far you have progressed with your links.  Please remember that you must always draw your ideas back to the documents, and that specific societal links are needed.

Next week, we will have a field trip on Monday, seminar on Tuesday and French Revoltion lessons for the remainder of the week.  To prepare, please watch these remaining videos.
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I will see you at 7:30 a.m. for our field trip on Monday!
A reminder that conference sheet #2 and 8-9 pages of research notes are due on WEDNESDAY! 

Have a great weekend.

READ ME!

I have a big concern.  When you sign in on a day you are not participating in a seminar, you should be completing work for this course.  Please do not watch videos like this.  Instead work on your seminars (prep or leading), your essay (conference sheet #2 and 8-9 pages of research notes due next week!) etc.

PLEASE DO NOT BRING FOOD INTO THE LIBRARY.
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE A HUGE RUCKUS IN THE LIBRARY.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE WORK ON YOUR CLASS ASSIGNMENTS.

That being said, here are the weekly updates:
Wednesday: 
Tons of French Revolution notes, info and discussion.
Thursday: 
First half of period: Kelly's seminar.  You MUST attend if you were scheduled on the original day.
Second half of period: Malcolm and Peter's seminar.  Again, you MUST attend if you were scheduled on the original day.
Friday: TBD (dependent on Caine feeling better).

REMINDER:
Conference sheet #2 and 8-9 pages of research notes are due next Wednesday (Nov. 25).
Permission forms for the field trips are due on Thursday.

PLEASE see me with any questions or concerns.

I'm Talking About a Revolution ...

We started this week talking about the main ideas of revolution. Your A-Z ideas of what revolution is, where is comes from and how we deal with it were great! Thank you for realizing so early on that revolution does not always mean war and guns and death, but that we are constantly in the middle of a revolution. In this way, we identified technology as the biggest revolution we are in right now.
I appreciated your comments about the 4 songs we looked at that deal with revolution. We listened to "Woman in the Wall", "We Didn't Start the Fire", "Only You" and "The Gulf War Song." I've linked the songs to their titles. Click and enjoy!

Today we started off by dividing the country, then the province, then our town, into 5 groups. I found it very interesting to see how you divide groups; through race, economics, geographic locations etc. This idea lead us into the lecture on the Old Regime, and how France was divided into 3 Estates prior to the revolution.

After that, we all got to COMPLAIN! As you wrote your complaints and you posted them in the room, I was thankful to see that you complain about food, and not that you didn't have any. I was thankful that you complained about school, and not that you didn't have one to attend. And I was thankful that you complained about the Leafs, because I too want them to win!

Tomorrow we will continue with the French Revolution lecture, the seminar is on Thursday and PD Day on Friday.

Please remember to wear your poppy tp school tomorrow, and attend the Remembrance Day ceremony with your friends. Eric will be speaking at the ceremony and I would like to see you all there to support him.