Thursday

ELA 7: Mr. Sander came back to finish teaching the kids about essay outlines.  Tomorrow we will work on some outlines and sentence variety.
CE 20: The girls created Venn diagrams to compare and contrast Catholicism with another Christian denomination.  We wrote a short open book quiz and started a writing assignment on predestination.
ELA 8: Pre-writing practice

Tuesday & Wednesday

SCI 8: The students wrote a short, open book quiz.  We read about refraction and wrote notes.
CE 7: After a pop quiz, the students switched lockers while working on a circle story about God's creation.
CE 20: We read about Luther and made a chart to compare and contrast the Catholic and Protestant religions.
ELA 8: The girls wrote some notes on proper comma usage and did some application questions.  The rough copies of their Hera papers were due, and they edited their work using a checklist and rubric.
ELA 7: We took a class to organize our books for second semester.  After writing some notes on expository writing, we looked at some student samples.
CE 8: We read and talked about the different rites of the Catholic church.

Monday

Welcome Semester Two!
We celebrated mass in first period this morning.
ELA 7: The students worked on the good copies of their stories from the POV of a Christmas tree.  The stories are due Wednesday.
CE 8: The girls presented their Models of the Church songs and symbols.  They were amazing.  Ask your daughter to sing the song for you tonight.
ELA 8: The girls worked on the rough copy of their short Hera essay.  The topic is Hera's scorn toward Zeus' lovers and children.  The rough copies are due Wednesday.

Thursday

CE 20: We finished watching Reluctant Revolutionary and planned for our mass.
ELA 8: The girls worked on a picture of the ancient Greek world.  The pictures are due tomorrow and require colour.
SCI 8: The students will get 10 minutes next day to finish up Check Your Progress page 98 #1-6.
ELA 7: We worked on some pre-writing for our letters to the future.  Tomorrow the students will write the letters.
PAA 9: It was our second last sewing class in the lab and projects are really coming together.  Great work nines.

Wednesday

ELA 7: We finished the notes on plural and possessive nouns and started some practice.  There will be more practice tomorrow.
CE 7: The students presented their advent posters and did a scripture search.  We will discuss them next day.
ELA 8: We worked on the family tree of the Greek gods and talked about the ancient world.
CE 8: The girls wrote a sacrament pop quiz then we watched Fr. Tony speak at Youth Day 2012.
CE 20: We started watching The Reluctant Revolutionary.
ELA 8: Creative writing

ELA 7L

Tuesday

SCI 8: We started the new unit on Optics and Vision.  All the notes are photocopied and waiting in my binder for the students that were absent.  I handed back the tests from before the break. 
ELA 7: Listening quiz on homonyms and some notes on making nouns plural and possessive.
PAA 9: Second last sewing double
ELA 8: Began our new unit on Greek Mythology.  We created a very confusing family tree for the Greek creation myth.  Next day we will start talking about the landscape and particular gods.  Remember that at least two paragraphs about an interesting scar are due tomorrow.

Monday

CE 7: We changed the seating plan for January.  The students presented their Jesse Tree ornaments.  On Wednesday the Advent posters will be presented.
ELA 8: We discussed our favourite gift we gave this Christmas and began some creative writing on scars.
ELA 7: We wrote notes on there/their/they're, your/you're, and to/too/two.
PAA 8: The girls continued sewing their sweaters.  They are looking great.

January 3

Welcome back!
CE 8: The girls started working on a Holy Encounters calendar.  Hopefully Father can come next week to talk more about sacraments and answer some of our questions.
ELA 8: Jigsaw writing
CE 20: We began watching Reluctant Revolutionary about Martin Luther.
SCI 8: We started our new unit Optics and Vision.
ELA 7: Jigsaw writing