Essay Writing

Technical difficulties...

I am away and Moodle is not working so I am posting the paragraph structure and essay writing things here!

Paragraph Writing

Paragraph Writing Prompt and Rubric for In-Class Activity

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZc77bZ7XVbEIPrPJDWtcJPvePMM-Uuoao5emIrUdN8/edit?usp=sharing
Please make a copy, put it in your NLC folder, and share with your TOC. Write your paragraph below the rubric. When you are done, share your paragraph with someone else. You will use commenting to assess each other based on the rubric.

Hamburger Paragraph Graphic Organizer

http://freeology.com/wp-content/files/hamburger.pdf

Essay Writing

Essay Topics:

Grade 8: Would you want to live in the civilization you studied?

Grade 9: Was the War of 1812/ Seven Years' War/ Fur Trade important to the development of Canada?

Essay Writing Prezi

http://prezi.com/qsvnire6fugl/the-road-to-creating-a-five-paragraph-essay/?kw=view-qsvnire6fugl&rc=ref-40769229

Essay Outline (please complete)

You MUST submit an outline and rough draft with your good copy. 

Link to Essay Outline Doc

Rubrics

Essay Writing

Writing Conventions (for good copy)

Assess the impact of the fur trade, War of 1812, or Seven Years’ War in the development of Canada (Grade 9 Socials)

Describe daily life and cultural traditions of a civilization (Grade 8 Socials)

Paragraph writing (see above)

Resources for more info on civilizations:

Worldbook (through drc.sd57.bc.ca)

Grade 9 Canadian History Timeline

This is a student timeline showing the fur trade, War of 1812, and 7 Years' War. It was made with Timeline JS. A great site!

Grade 8 Civilizations Timeline

Thank You To Workshop Participants!

Thanks to all the people who came out today to participate in the PBL and Project Tuning workshop! Special thanks to Kim and Wayne for presenting.

As I mentioned in the workshop, this blog was somewhat hastily thrown together to enable resource sharing for today. I hope to be able to keep updating it fairly regularly (sorry people, a bit busy for super regular updates at the moment, I'm trying with Moodle and Twitter as it is). I intend to update it sporadically in the future, but please let me know if there is something in particular you would like to see and I will be happy to  add it.

-Beth
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Project Tuning Protocol

This is a copy of the Project Tuning Protocol my learning team adapted from the template provided by High Tech High.

Project Tuning Protocol: Participant Version
Project Tuning Protocol: Facilitator Version

Mapping Project Guidelines

This is the information for the mapping project I did with my Grade 8 students at the start of the year.

I teach in a Project Based Learning program and this project was one of the ways students explored their first major question "Who am I and where do I fit in?"

This section of the project ties into Social Studies and English curriculum. Students created a shared Google Map where they got a better sense of their local, provincial, national, and international community by summarizing news stories on the map weekly. Students also explored this question at later stages by writing memoirs, autobiographical "fraction" poetry, and setting up a darkroom where they created images from their environment.

Grade 8 Map Making Rubrics
Grade 8 Map Making Project Instructions Handout 
NLC Current Events Map


View NLC Current Events Map in a larger map