Camp Wenonah Packing List

Here is a detailed list of some of the items you should pack for Camp. Remember that the temperature will be much cooler up North and we should prepare for all types of weather. 

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Thursday May 7th

Many assignments coming due tomorrow. Here is a quick breakdown of things you need to complete:

Cycle 3 Literature circle activities including Bitstrip assignment instead of storyboard. Class code: smaug

History brochure for Mr. K. 

Comparative bar graph using elephant data, plus histogram (question 8, page 313). Complete these on seperate pieces of grid paper. 

Au Revoir Mr Doole!

Exploring Volume and Capacity

This week the students in 8S where given the challenge of creating a container that would hold exactly 175ml of liquid. As you can see there were a wide variety of shapes and sizes! 

Can you guess which one was closest?

Photography with Mr. Doole

Picture Prompts

Write a poem or story to go with one or both of these pictures.

The Book Thief Re-purposed Pages

The Book Thief is largely a book about the power of words: how words can harm, heal, destroy, or build up. How words can be manipulated, ignored, reclaimed for a different purpose, grasped, and cherished. Max, for example, makes something beautiful out of Mein Kampf.

Writers use a variety of techniques to bring their written words alive for the reader. Zusak particularly uses a lot of similes, metaphors, and personification to hit his readers with vivid images.

Your job is to take a quote from the novel and interpret it creatively from your mind’s eye onto paper. You don’t have to be artistic at all. You can do this in a variety of ways. For example:

• paint over the page like Max did, write the quote, and use some kind of visual illustration. This can be your own drawing or something you cut out from a different source and attach to the page.

• black out words on the page except ones that have to do with your quote. Put the quote on the page in some way.

• Use your page as a frame for the quote, or cut your page out into an image.

#1 Rule: don’t be silly. I really want to see what kind of connections you can make with a quote, a page of words, and your knowledge of the book. Below are several quotes, but you absolutely can use other quotes or phrases from the book.

Examples: