Saturday, March 31, 2012

Apr. 2 - 5: Poetry / Animal Farm

***Term DEADLINE for all assignments: Thurs. Apr. 5/12***
**Open book poetry test (43 marks) Thurs. Apr. 5**
***Homework: Complete the information form (6 marks)***
***Vote for Sierra in Why Media Matters contest***

Thurs. Apr. 5, 2012 - Animal Farm online novel
- Open-book poetry test (43 marks). You can use your textbook, The Poet's Craft.
- When you finish, finish term one assignments or read Animal Farm quietly until all students have completed the test. Finish reading ch. 5 for Tuesday.

Wed. Apr. 4, 2012 
- 15 min. of silent reading
- Review the Animal Farm character comparison chart
- Read chapters 1, 2 and 3 of Animal Farm.
- Complete the vocabulary and answers to the chapter questions. 


Tues. Apr. 3, 2012 - Final class on poetry blogging
- Complete all four poetry blogging assignments and finish the Louis Riel Poetry questions. If finished, use lab/library time for reading more poems or library materials.

***Email completed blog with your full name and block in subject line.
***Paste the link to your blog in the body of the email.

Mon. Apr. 2, 2012 - Class 4 of 4 on Poetry Blogging
- Sign into your blog at Blogger.com
- Work on poetry assignment #2 - Class 4 activity.  See an assignment example below:
***Email completed blog with your full name and block in subject line.
***Paste the link to your blog in the body of the email.
- If you finish early, help the United Nations World Food Program feed the world by playing Free Rice.

Nature and Invention


Instructions for Drawing:
- Sign into Google Docs. Select Create New. Select Drawing.
- Click Insert. Select Text box (type or paste poem into text box)
- Add other artistic elements. When finished, click the arrow next to Share. Select Publish to the Web.
- Copy the Embed Code. Paste the code into your blog's Edit HTML view (at the bottom).
- Change the dimensions near the end of the code to w=450 h=400 so it will fit your blog.
- Click Publish Post on your blog. See the sample below:

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