Student Vote - 2011

http://www.electionalmanac.com/canada/ontario/
7 days until your Student Vote Day. The above site may help you make an informed choice. Check out the polls.

Where in The World ? - due Friday, Sept. 30th

Watch the above video and answer the assigned questions (see bulletin board/portal). Don't forget to include latitude and longitude.

Back to School

Back to School

Math - POW - due Friday, Sept. 23rd

http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

Go to the above site/click on math videos/go to prime numbers.
What is a prime number? Provide a definition and at least 10 examples. Why is it important to understand prime numbers?

Numbers
Mary Cornish

I like the generosity of numbers.
The way, for example,
they are willing to count
anything or anyone:
two pickles, one door to the room,
eight dancers dressed as swans.

I like the domesticity of addition--
add two cups of milk and stir--
the sense of plenty: six plums
on the ground, three more
falling from the tree.

And multiplication's school
of fish times fish,
whose silver bodies breed
beneath the shadow
of a boat.

Even subtraction is never loss,
just addition somewhere else:
five sparrows take away two,
the two in someone else's
garden now.

There's an amplitude to long division,
as it opens Chinese take-out
box by paper box,
inside every folded cookie
a new fortune.

And I never fail to be surprised
by the gift of an odd remainder,
footloose at the end:
forty-seven divided by eleven equals four,
with three remaining.

Three boys beyond their mothers' call,
two Italians off to the sea,
one sock that isn't anywhere you look.

Create your own math poem (minimum 4 lines). Due Monday, Oct. 3rd.

A Part of Our Heritage - Superman

Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

What are Tom Brokaw's main points about Canada?

Teaching In the 21st Century