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Welcome Back! Sept 6-9th Canadian Voices and Perspectives Regional Voices- Map of explorers routes through Canada Read "Palliser's Triangle" - questions due for hand in. Map out the 'triangle' on your map. Read "Between Two Furious Oceans" poem. Questions for hand-in due Friday. Maps are now DUE

Sept Sept 12-16 Sept 12-Imagery in Poetry "The Lonely Land" -questions due Thurs Sept 13- Rhyme scheme, rhythym and sounds in poetry class activity Sept 14- "All Through the Thirties" in-class assignment due today Sept 15- Viewing Canadian Art - Library assignment due tomorrow Sept 16- "A Field of Wheat"- questions due Monday

Sept 19- 23 19th- "A Prairie Graveyard" TP-CASST analysis due 20th- "The Painted Door`` read half - FLAGS ARE DUE 21st- `cont `The Painted Door`questions and vocab due Friday 22nd-`View video of `The Painted Door `` -questions due tomorrow 23rd- `The Wind Our Enemy`poem. questions due Monday

Oct. 5 - 7 5- Read prologue of 'The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson.' Response assignment due Oct. 7 6- Read chapter 1 of Sgt. John - character chart for homework 7- Continued reading in class. Character chart due Oct. 11

Oct 11 - 14 11- Read until page 39. Handed out assignment sheet for a class presentation 12- Worked on image stories- they are due Oct. 18 13- No class - early dismissal 14- Read until page 47 of Sgt. John and completed a prediction activity. There will be a short quiz on Monday.

Oct. 17 - 21 17- Quiz 18- 20 - Read until the end of Book 1 21- Review of Book 1, started working on a poster that relates to the book.

Oct. 24 - 28 24- Time to work on posters 25- Continued reading Sgt. John. Worked on posters, which are due Nov. 1 26- Read from 106 - 119. Time to work on posters. 27- 28 - Read until page 150.

Oct. 31 - Nov. 4 31- Did a bit of reading, then watched "The Tell-Tale Heart" 1- Introduction of Student Vote program. Presentation of posters. 2- Examined structure of local government and continued with 'The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson.' 3- Looked at party platforms for the Provincial election. 4- Ran the Student Vote program. Read more of Sgt. John.

Nov. 7 - 10 7- Finished reading Sgt. John in class. Our test will be next Thursday. 8- Career Fair in Yorkton. 9- Handout - Art of a Biographer. 10 - No Class due to early dismissal

Nov. 15 - 18 15- Exam review for the Secret Lives of Sgt. John. 16- Played Sgt. John Jeopardy to learn more about characters. 17- End of the novel test. 18-