LA 8B -- A Christmas Carol Posters are due tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Topics 1-3 Quiz will be tomorrow, as well.

LA 8 -- Your poster for A Christmas Carol is due:
8C - Wednesday
8B - Thursday

Science 8B -- Your topics 1-3 quiz is scheduled for Thursday. Remember to use your What to Study List to review!

Pop Culture 8 -- Your mini comics are due on Monday. Please come prepared with scissors and a glue stick so that you can form your comic pages into a booklet.
LA 8B and 8C -- Essay work has been put on hold in favour of our project for A Christmas Carol.

LA 8B and 8C -- Your completed essay graphic organizer is due tomorrow. Topic handout is available here.
Pop Culture 8 -- Mini comics are due on Monday. Today, you submitted your research project proposals for our Internet and Pop Culture project.

All Grade 8 Students -- Your field trip to the Citadel Theatre is on Thursday, December 11. Please remember to pack a lunch AND arrange your transportation home from school in the afternoon (we will get back to the school at 3:30).

LA 8C -- The Giver presentations continued today.
LA 8B -- Your projects for The Giver are due on Monday.
Pop Culture 8 -- Mini comics are due on Monday, December 15. Please remember that we begin our new unit on Monday, so there will not be any more class time given for this task.

LA 8C -- Your projects for The Giver were due today.
LA 8B -- Your projects for The Giver are due on Monday.
Pop Culture 8 -- You had your last in-class period to work on your mini comic book today. Your finished pages (ready to be pasted into booklet form) are due on Monday, December 15.

Please remember to bring your donatiosn for the Beaumont Christmas Elves!

Language Arts -- Your projects for The Giver are due:
8C -- Thursday, December 4
Project
Rubric
8B -- Monday, December 8
Project
Rubric

Science 8B -- Topics 1 and 2 workbooks are due tomorrow

LA 8C -- The Giver projects will be due on Friday. Please remember that you have one day left to work on them in class (Monday), so budget your time accordingly. The project sheet and rubric can be downloaded here.
Science 8B -- Please return your signed Unit 1 Exam Reflections ASAP! They were due on Thursday.

Science 8B -- Exam reflection is due (with your parent/guardian's signature) on Thursday.
LA 8B -- Book Club duo-tang (including book marks) is due on Wednesday.
Social 8B -- Medieval/Renaissance presentations started today.

LA 8B -- Theme graffiti is due tomorrow.
Social 8B -- Renaissance/Medieval Changes projects will be presented (or handed in, if you chose not to do a presentation) tomorrow. Rubric/assignment is available here.
Pop Culture 8 -- Mini Comics should be fully coloured and ready to assemble on Thursday! Applicable handouts are available here.

Social 8B -- Medieval/Renaissance Changes project is due on Monday. Project handouts are available here.

Don't forget to bring in your non-perishable food donations for the Christmas Elves!

LA 8C -- Theme graffiti is due tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Unit 1 Final Exam is scheduled for tomorrow. Remember to use all of your study resources (What to Study lists, notes, workbook, other activities) to review!

Reminder slips for Thursday's Parent/Teacher interviews will be sent home tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Ch. 16-19 assignment is due tomorrow -- see the wiki if you need a copy of the document.
Science 8B -- Unit 1 final exam is scheduled for WEDNESDAY; use the personalized What to Study sheet you created today (when you looked at the test) to review.
Pop Culture 8 -- You have 4 more classes to finish your mini comic book.
Social Studies 8B -- Complete your Medieval vs. Renaissance graphic organizer for tomorrow (materials are posted on the wiki if you need them).

Interview appointment reminders went home for TUESDAY'S interview appointments.

Science 8B -- Mix and Flow of Matter Final Exam will be on WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19. Please use your What to Study list to assist you with review (I have posted a copy of the document on my Wikispace if you need it). Grow some new dendrites this weekend!
LA 8B -- Complete two personal ads for Monday (again, the ch.16-19 assignment is posted on the wiki if you need to refresh your memory).
LA 8C -- Complete your ch. 20-23 tripod response, vocabulary log, and theme statement for Monday (check the wiki if you need to see the ch. 20-23 assignment document again).

All leadership students who were helping out with the elementary activity day are responsible for completing the work they missed in class!

Report card envelopes and yellow interview forms were due today! Interviews are in the process of being scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 20.

LA 8C -- Complete 2 personal ads for Wednesday. If you need to look at the assignment again, go to my Wikispace and open the Chapter 16-19 word document.

Report Cards will be distributed on THURSDAY.

Science 8B -- Topic 7 workbook and Science Journal are due tomorrow.
Pop Culture -- Any assignments that you wanted a second chance for are due tomorrow.

RETAKE money and forms are due on Wednesday.

*** There will be no school on Monday and Tuesday (PD Day and Remembrance Day)***

Science 8B -- Topics 4-6 quiz second chance will be tomorrow at 12:20. Please study tonight using your personalized What to Study List you created in class today.
LA 8B -- You wrote the chapters 1-11 exam today. If you were absent from class, you will be expected to write the exam tomorrow.
Pop Culture 8 -- If you want to improve your assignments, your second chance ends on Friday.

LA 8C -- Chapter 14-15 Reading Log due Monday (most of you have finished it already)
LA 8B -- Chapter 1-11 exam on Monday (use your personalized What to Study List you made today to review)

All 8B and 8C Students: Signed progress reports were due today. If you have not yet returned your reports, you MUST do so tomorrow.

If you are attending the roller skating field trip tomorrow, you MUST bring your own helmet!

LA 8B -- Chapter 12/13 Reading Log due tomorrow (complete the 4th writing prompt on the list, and then choose 2 more from the ones that are left).
LA 8C -- You wrote your mid-book test today.
Science 8B -- Topics 4-6 quiz is tomorrow (What to Study list is on the wikispace).

All 8B and 8C Students: Your Term 1 Progress Reports were issued today. You must have them signed and returned by THURSDAY at the latest.

Friday -- All Jr. High students are going to Sportsworld to rollerskate/rollerblade.

LA 8C -- Today, you looked at the ch. 1-11 exam and created a personalized What to Study List. Please use your study sheet to review for tomorrow's test.
Social 8B -- Pages 18-27 notes due tomorrow
Science 8B -- Topics 4-6 quiz Wednesday

LA 8B -- If you missed period 8 this afternoon, please read chapters 12 and 13 in The Giver. As well, the chapter 1-11 test-making activity is due Monday. Here is the outline we negotiated in class:
Multiple Choice: 10 marks
Sequencing/Before-After: 5 marks
Short Answer: 6 marks
Long Answer: 4 marks

LA 8C -- Chapter 1-11 exam will be on Tuesday.
Science 8B -- Topics 4-6 quiz will be on Wednesday.

LA 8C -- Please complete your chapter 1-11 assessment activity for tomorrow. As well, if you missed class today, please read chapters 12 and 13.

Social 8B -- Renaissance mapping assignment due Monday.

Social 8B -- Worldview quiz SECOND CHANCE will be tomorrow @ 12:20. Please review using the study list you made in class today.
Science 8B -- Hand in density calculations tomorrow if you haven't done so already.

Science 8B -- Please finish the density calculation worksheet assigned today.

Citadel permission forms/$ were due today. Halloween field trip forms/$ are due tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Chapters 6-7 Response Log due Monday
Pop Culture -- Read ch. 1 and complete your character's chart

Citadel forms/$ due TUESDAY!
Rollerskating forms/$ due WEDNESDAY!

LA 8B -- Complete your chapters 4-5 assignment for tomorrow (see wikispace for assignment detials).
Social 8B -- Your worldview project is due tomorrow (see wiki for project details/criteria/rubric).

LA 8C -- Ch. 6-7 assignment due tomorrow (see wikispace for assignment details). Please remember that your first evaluated book club discussion will take place tomorrow.
Pop Culture 8 -- Adventure Comic activity due tomorrow -- copies of the assignment and Comic Conventions handout are on my wikispace (please remember to return your comic if you signed one out).

Science 8B -- Topic 4 workbook due Monday
Social 8B -- Project work continues on Monday -- please bring any special supplies you need to school!

Science 8B -- Viscosity diagrams and self-assessment checklist are due tomorrow (assignment is posted on wikispace)
Social 8B -- Work on your worldview visual display and remember to bring any special materials you need to class (criteria is posted on wikispace).

Social 8B -- Study for your Worldview quiz tomorrow.

LA 8C -- Complete the chapters 1-3 writing prompts for The Giver
Social 8B -- Worldview quiz will be on Wednesday; please use the "What to Study" list provided last week to guide your review. As well, please complete the editorial analysis activity if you haven't done so already.

Friday is Jersey Day!

Social 8B -- Editorial analysis is due Monday. Don't forget to think about your worldview project format; you will be writing your project proposals on Monday. As well, please remember that your worldview quiz is scheduled for Wednesday.
LA 8B -- Graffiti is due on Monday.
LA 8C -- Finish reading chapter 2 of The Giver for Monday.

Science 8B -- Topics 1-3 quiz tomorrow
LA 8B -- "If I Were in Charge of the World" poem due tomorrow
LA 8C -- Bulletin board graffiti and reading log entries for The Big Orange Splot are due tomorrow

LA 8B -- "The Lottery" letters are due tomorrow.
Pop Culture 8 -- Advertisement parody assignment was due today.
Science 8B -- Topics 1-3 quiz on Thursday -- use your "What to Study List" to help you review.
LA 8C -- You will receive 20 minutes of tomorrow's class to finish your graffiti assignment; any work not finished and handed in by the end of the 20 minutes will be for homework, due on Thursday.

Picture day is on Friday!

LA 8C -- "The Lottery" letter assignment was due today.
Science 8B -- Topic 1-3 quiz will be on Thursday (next week).

Tomorrow is a PD day and, as a result, students do not have regular classes. Enjoy your long weekend and I'll see you on Monday!

LA 8C -- "The Lottery" letter assignment is due tomorrow at the BEGINNING of class (period 4). Please be ready for your self-assessment with different coloured highlighters.

Pop Culture 8 -- You have one more class period to work on your advertising parody assignment. If you are behind on this task, please work on it at home to catch up.

Just a reminder to all students and parents, please check out my Wikispace (link is on my blog menu) -- I will post documents pertaining to our class activities there. The purpose of the Wikispace is, if you forget your materials at home, you can just visit my Wikispace, print the document you need, and still get your work done on time!
http://www.mrskaliszuk.wikispaces.com/

Science 8B -- Just a reminder that your mixtures lab activity and topic 2 workbook are due tomorrow.
LA 8B and 8C -- Thanks for your interesting presentations!

All students -- Friday is a PD day and, as a result, classes are cancelled.

Science 8B -- Completed Classifying Mixtures Lab questions and the topic 2 workbook (omit Science Journal activities) are due Wednesday.
LA 8B -- Nonconformist presentations will continue tomorrow.

Tonight is Meet the Teacher Night (5:30 - 7:30) -- it will be an open house format, so please drop by!

Social 8B -- Finish your worldview collage activity for tomorrow.
LA 8C -- Nonconformist presentations began today and will continue tomorrow.
LA 8B -- Last period for nonconformist research will be tomorrow; presentations will begin on Monday.
Pop Culture 8 -- Don't forget your advertisements for tomorrow's class!

ALL STUDENTS:
Tomorrow is our school-wide Terry Fox run/walk. Please bring in your $2 donation for cancer research if you haven't already.

Pop Culture 8 -- Please bring old magazines/newspapers to class.
All Students -- Tomorrow morning all JEL students will be writing their baseline writing assessments. My LA students (8B and 8C) should bring the following supplies to school:
1) pens/pencils
2) correction pen
3) pocket thesaurus (and dictionary, if you have it)
4) plenty of clean, lined paper

All students will also be participating in our school's Terry Fox Run on Friday. Students are asked to bring a $2 donation for cancer research.

Welcome Back!

I was really excited to meet all of my students yesterday -- I think we're going to have a great year together and I am anxious to get started. Please remember the following due dates:

8B, 8C, Pop Culture 8 -- Signed course outline forms are due on Monday
LA 8B and 8C -- Letters of introduction are due tomorrow (Friday)
Social 8B -- Signed movie notes are due no later than Friday (if your note is not returned, you may not watch the film).
Science 8B -- Your Unit 1 bulletin board poster is due tomorrow (Friday)

ALL JR. HIGH STUDENTS -- Option sign-up sheets are due on Friday. Remember, we can't accept forms that are not signed by your parent/guardian. Any students who have not returned their form by Friday will have their options selected for them.

LA 8 -- Your visual literacy portfolios were due today!

Jr. High Exam Schedule:
Thursday, June 19 -- FLA (a.m.)
Friday, June 20 -- LA (a.m.)
Monday, June 23 -- Social (a.m.)
Tuesday, June 24 -- Science (a.m.)
Tuesday, June 24 -- Math (p.m.)

Wednesday, June 25 -- West Edmonton Mall Waterpark Field Trip
Thursday, June 26 -- Awards Night
Friday, June 27 -- Report Card Pick-up

LA 8C -- Visual Literacy portfolios are due tomorrow at 3:15; please bring a duo-tang to school tomorrow.
LA 8B -- Visual Literacy portfolios are due Thursday at 3:15; please bring a duo-tang to school tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Journal Responses to Fine Art - due Monday

Grade 8 Students, your Farewell RSVPs were due on Wednesday. Please ensure that you bring them in ASAP! 8B, your Bike Trip field trip forms/$ were due today.

Social Studies 8B -- Your Spanish/Aztec Final Exam date will be scheduled in class today.

All JEL Students -- Your final writing assessment is scheduled for Wednesday (a.m. only). STUDY!

LA 8C -- Finish Rudy essay draft for tomorrow.
LA 8B -- Study narrative/essay outlines for Wednesday's assessment.

Social 8B -- Presentations begin tomorrow.

All JEL Students: Wednesday, May 14 is Writing Day. All students will complete their final writing assessment (including grade 6 PAT exams) on this day. LA 8B and 8C Students -- this assessment is worth 50% of your LA Final Exam mark.

LA 8C -- If you have not yet handed in your narrative package, please do so tomorrow at the beginning of period 4. If you were absent this afternoon, please make arrangements to watch the first 40 minutes of Rudy.
Social 8B -- Your presentations will begin on Wednesday.
Science 8B -- If you have not handed in your field trip scavenger hunt from Friday, please do so tomorrow. As well, Unit 3 exam signatures are due on Wednesday.

Social 8B -- Presentations are due on Wednesday.
LA 8C -- Narrative packages (title page, good copy, rough draft, peer edit feedback, story plan) are due on Monday.
LA 8B -- If you were absent for any portion of the film study, please rent the movie and watch it over the weekend to catch-up on your observations chart.

Social 8B -- Your "When Worldviews Meet" presentations are due next Wednesday.
LA 8C -- Narrative packages (titlepage, good copy, rough draft, peer edit feedback form, story plan) are due on Monday.

All Grade 8s -- Telus World of Science field trip is on Friday morning; there are regular classes in the afternoon.

8B -- If you have yet to hand in your narrative or write your Unit 3 Science exam, please make arrangements with me to hand it in/write your test.

Friday, May 2 -- Telus World of Science field trip (a.m. only -- regular classes in p.m.)

LA 8C -- Your narrative rough drafts are due tomorrow -- please remember if yours in not completed, you will not be able to participate in the peer editing workshop!
LA 8B -- Completed narrative packages are due tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Unit 3 Final Exam is scheduled for Thursday.

All Grade 8 Students -- Please return your Telus World of Science permission forms/$ TOMORROW!!!

Please Note: Friday, April 25 is a PD Day.

LA 8C -- If you didn't hand-in your completed Literature Circle duo-tang/parent interview form, you need to do so on Monday.
Science 8B -- Unit 3 Final Exam is schedule for Thursday, April 24.
Social 8B -- Your Cortes letters/speeches were due today. If you didn't hand one in, please remember to do so for Monday.
LA 8B -- You had your last class period to finish typing your narratives. If you didn't finish, please imail your story home and finish it for Monday.

Telus World of Science field trip forms and $ are due on Monday.

Social 8B -- Cortes letter/speech is due tomorrow. Remember that you can re-submit your Aztec powerpoints for bonus marks until 3:15 tomorrow afternoon. Also, remember that if you choose not to re-submit, your mark will not be changed.
LA 8B -- We will be finishing our narrative publishing tomorrow during period 3.
Science 8B -- Unit 3 Final Exam is scheduled for Thursday, April 24. You received your What to Study list today in class.

LA 8C -- Literature Circles duo-tangs/parent interview forms are due tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Literature Circles interview and duo-tangs are due tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Topic 1-3 Quiz signature and telescope/binoculars diagrams are due tomorrow.
Social 8B -- Aztec powerpoints can be resubmitted until April 18 at 3:15 p.m.

LA 8C -- Quotation Marks worksheet is due tomorrow. As well, if you need to organize your Literature Circle duo-tang (because you were absent OR forgot it for today), please be sure to complete your "My Best" and "Toss It" bookmarks and hand in your completed/organized duo-tang tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Complete your Literature Circle parent interview form and hand-in your duo-tang by Wednesday.
Science 8B -- Topic 1-3 Quiz signature due Wednesday.

LA 8C -- Because tomorrow's presentation has been rescheduled for 2:00, your final Literature Circle sharing session will be on Monday, April 7.
LA 8B -- Remember to complete your Literature Circle parent interview before Wednesday, April 9. As well, if you didn't finish today's Language Power mini-lesson (pages 23, 25-26, 27, 28) you need to complete them tonight so they are not homework over the break.
Science 8B -- Ensure your parent/guardian signs your Unit 3 Topic 1-3 quiz by Wednesday, April 9.

School resumes on Monday, April 7.

Science 8B -- Finish your topic 4 workbook for tomorrow.
LA 8B -- Today, you completed your Literature Circle self-assessment activity in class. You must complete the parent/guardian interview and hand in you duo-tang by Wednesday, April 9. As well, if you haven't yet finished your two story outlines, you must do so for tomorrow.

EBCHS registration forms are due tomorrow!

LA 8C -- Your final literature circle sharing session is scheduled for periods 7/8 on Friday.

EBCHS Parent Information Session is tonight and registration forms are due on Thursday.

Social 8B -- Your Japan Unit Final Exam reflections should be signed for tomorrow. We continued with presentations today, and will finish the remainder tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Topic 1-3 Quiz will be tomorrow.
LA 8C -- You had your literature circle sharing session this afternoon. Remember to finish your readings/roles for tomorrow's session.

Grade 8 Students -- Please remember to bring your BCHS registration forms in NO LATER THAN Thursday, March 27.

LA 8C -- No class today

Social 8B -- Please get your parent/guardian to review your Japan Unit Final Exam reflection. It must be signed and returned by THURSDAY.
Science 8B -- Most of you finished your topic 3 workbook today in class. Your Topic 1-3 Quiz will be on Thursday -- you saw the quiz in class today and also received a study guide, so please study!
LA 8B -- Your final Literature Circle sharing session is tomorrow.

Please return your signed report card envelopes and green interview forms ASAP! Also, BCHS registration forms were distributed today; they are due back by March 27th.
BCHS Parent Info Night is March 25th at 7:00 p.m.

Science 8B -- If you forgot to get your Unit 2 Final Exam signed, you MUST get it signed by your parent/guardian for MONDAY.
Social 8B -- Aztec Artifact powerpoints are due on Monday.
LA 8B -- Harrison Bergeron brochures are due on Monday as well.

LA 8C -- Harrison Bergeron brochures are due on Monday.

Report cards were distributed today; remember to return your signed envelope to your homeroom teacher.

LA 8C -- You had your first Literature Circle sharing session today. Be sure to finish your session 3 reading and role assignment for tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Your topic 2 workbook assingment is due tomorrow. Remember to get your Unit 2 Final Exam signed by your parent/guardian by FRIDAY.

Report cards will be distributed on Friday.

LA 8B -- Literature Circles sharing session #4 is tomorrow -- please complete your reading and role assignment BEFORE your session. Those students having incomplete responsibilities for sessions 2 and 3, and who ALSO come with incomplete work tomorrow will stay in at lunch to notify their parents/guardians.

Science 8B -- You got your Unit 2 Final Exams back today; they must be signed by your parent/guardian by FRIDAY.

Hot lunch $ is due tomorrow and report cards will be distributed on Friday.

LA 8B and 8C -- Work on your literature circle reading and role assignment.
Science 8B -- Please bring a protractor, ruler, and pencil crayons to class on Monday.

Report distribution will be on Friday, March 14.

LA 8B -- Finish your session 3 literature circle readings and role assignment BEFORE Monday, Mar. 10.
LA 8C -- Finish your session 2 literature circle readings and role assignment BEFORE Wednesday, Mar. 12.

8B -- All missing assignments were due TODAY.
8C -- All missing assignments are due TOMORROW.

LA 8B -- Your literature circles started today. Finish your literature circle reading and role sheet before Session #2 tomorrow.

LA 8C -- Please bring a duo-tang to tomorrow's LA class.

8B -- I issued a summary of your term 2 marks today. If you were one of the students missing an assessment task you MUST hand them in to me before WEDNESDAY of this week, unless I have made individual alternate arrangements with you (you may NOT accept a zero -- all assessment tasks must be completed).

There are still students missing ski forms OR parent permission notes to miss the ski trip. These forms MUST be handed in tomorrow!!! Also, please bring in your 2 boxes of kleenex if I reminded you to do so.

LA 8B -- Literature Circles start on Monday. If you didn't bring a duo-tang to class today, you will need one for Monday.

LA 8B -- Bring a duo-tang to LA tomorrow so that you can organize your Literature Circle handouts.

8B -- If you are owing 2 boxes of kleenex, PLEASE remember to bring them!

LA 8C -- Your Reader's Workshop projects were due today. "Harrison Bergeron" activities are due tomorrow.
Social 8B -- Aztec Social Hierarchy Graphic Organizer is due tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Your Reader's Workshop projects were due today. Please finish your "Harrison Bergeron" activities for tomorrow, as well.
Science 8B -- Unit 3 title page is due tomorrow
Social 8B -- Your Japan Unit Final Exam second chance is scheduled for tomorrow at lunch.
LA 8C -- Your Reader's Workshop projects are due tomorrow.

LA 8C -- Read "Harrison Bergeron" again this weekend so that you may be COMPLETELY clear on the story's plot events. Your Reader's Workshop project is due on Wednesday.

LA 8B -- Reader's Workshop project is due on Tuesday.

Science 8B -- Your wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. If you were away or unable to write the test, you will be expected to write your exam on Monday at lunch.

Social 8B -- Aztec Worldview presentations started today and will continue on Monday.

Ski forms were due today; please bring them in if you've forgotten to do so. As well, if you are not attending the ski day OR school on that day, you MUST have parental permission to stay home (note/parent phone call on Monday).

Science 8B -- Unit 2 Final Exam is scheduled for tomorrow. Study!!!

LA 8B -- Reader's Workshop Project is due Tuesday, Feb. 26
LA 8C -- Equality paragraph is due tomorrow. As well, your Reader's Workshop Project is due Wednesday, Feb. 27

Social 8B -- Aztec Worldview presentations begin tomorrow.

Reader's Workshop Projects Due:
8B -- Tues. Feb. 26
8C -- Wed. Feb. 27

Science 8B Unit 2 Final Exam -- Friday, February 22

LA 8C -- We started conferences for your Ray Bradbury Comparison assessment; conferences will continue on Tuesday, so if you haven't yet finished your assignment, you MUST do so before Tuesday.
LA 8B -- Ray Bradbury Comparison assessment conferences will continue tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Your "All Summer in a Day" and "The Veldt" comparison assessment is due on Monday. Please finish reading your Reader's Workshop novels by the end of this week so that you may work on your project in our last 3 R.W. classes. R.W. projects are due on Tuesday, February 26.

LA 8C -- Please finish reading your Reader's Workshop novels by the end of the week so that you can work on your project during our last 3 R.W. classes. R.W. projects are due on Wednesday, February 27.

*** All major assignment documents (including the Reader's Workshop criteria/booklet) are posted on www.mrskaliszuk.wikispaces.com

8B -- FOIP forms are due tomorrow.

LA 8B -- Your Reader's Workshop project will be due on Tuesday, February 26.
LA 8C -- Your Reader's Workshop project is due on Wednesday, February 27.

School will be closed on Thursday and Friday due to Teacher's Convention. All LA students must be finished reading their Reader's Workshop novel no later than Monday, as you have plenty of time to read over the long weekend!

Science 8B -- Your website project was due today at 3:15.

8B -- Please bring in your FOIP video form by Wednesday.

Everyone -- If you still haven't brought in your signed progress report you NEED to do that ASAP. As well, remember that next Thursday and Friday is Teachers' Convention.

Social 8B -- You wrote your Japan Unit Final Assessment today. Don't forget to bring in your FOIP permission forms if you want to be in the video presentation Mr. Pask is doing.

LA 8C -- If you haven't handed in your sequel, you MUST do it tomorrow. As well, you must finish reading your Reader's Workshop book by the end of next week.

Both 8B and 8C -- If you haven't returned your signed progress reports, you MUST bring them in tomorrow!

Social 8B -- Study for your upcoming Japan final assessment. Don't forget to plan your written response using the graphic organizer I gave you.
Science 8B -- Websites are due Friday, Feb.1
LA 8C -- "All Summer in a Day" sequels were due today -- if you were absent because of the weather, you may hand them in next LA class.

Both 8B and 8C -- Your progress reports must be signed by your parent/guardian, and returned to me.

Please note that tomorrow's school-wide ski trip is cancelled because of the weather. We will, as a result, be following a regular school day. Moreover, Wednesday, January 30 is a PD day for all students.

Social 8B -- Please review for your Japan Unit Final Assessment (Thursday, Jan. 31).
Science 8B -- You had your last website work periods today. Your finished website is due at 3:15 on Friday, Feb. 1
LA 8C -- No class today, but your "All Summer in a Day" sequel is due on Monday.

Social 8B -- Your Meiji Japan news articles were due today. Your final Japan Assessment is scheduled for Thursday, January 31. Please use your What to Study List to help you review at home.
LA 8C -- Your "All Summer in a Day" sequels are due on Monday. As well, your signed progress reports are due on Monday.

Social 8B -- Meiji Japan newspaper articles are due tomorrow.
LA 8B -- Reader's Workshop proposals will be due at the end of tomorrow's Reader's Workshop period.
LA 8C -- Reader's Workshop proposals were due today.

LA 8B -- Your sequel drafts were due today. Your Reader's Workshop proposal is due on Thursday.

LA 8C -- Your Reader's Workshop proposal is due at the end of tomorrow's Reader's Workshop class.

Science 8B -- Just a reminder that your Body Systems Website is due on February 1st.

LA 8B -- Your edited sequel drafts are due tomorrow.
Science 8B -- Just a reminder that your Body Systems Website will be due on February 1.

LA 8B -- Language Power pages 40, 41, 84 (part A only) -- due tomorrow.

LA 8C -- "The Hockey Sweater" Analysis -- due tomorrow
Science 8B -- Topic 4/5 review crossword -- due tomorrow

I would like to introduce my new Wikispace! http://www.mrskaliszuk.wikispaces.com This is a website where I will post copies of important assignments we are completing in class. In other words, if you forget your copy of the assignment at home OR have lost it, you can go to my wikispace, print a new copy, and complete your work on time. Currently, I have posted the Reader's Workshop booklet for LA 8B and 8C and the Meiji Japan Critical Challenge 8B is working on in Social..

LA 8C -- Symbol Parent Interview forms are due on Monday.

Have a great weekend!

LA 8B -- Parent Interview Forms (symbol) are due Friday.
LA 8C -- Parent Interview Forms (symbol) are due Monday.

LA 8B -- Symbol parent interview forms are due on Friday.

LA 8C -- Symbol parent interview forms are due on Monday.

LA 8B -- Symbol "Parent Interview" forms are due by Friday. Also, remember that you must have your Reader's Workshop novel for Thursday (it has to be here, at school, not at home on the kitchen table).

Social 8B -- Your 5 Charter Oath rating scale is due tomorrow.

LA 8C -- Your finished Symbol mini-poster is due tomorrow. Remember, your assignment was to choose your BEST symbol/one-word summary from the three you composed, and create a mini-poster for that short story term. Also, don't forget your Reader's Workshop novel for tomorrow's reading period.

LA 8B -- Short Story Symbols are due tomorrow.