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=Student Reflection=

Two things that I have done well this year are my Famous Birthday essays. Two areas that I need to improve are science class and studying for test. My goals for the rest of the year are to take better notes and study with less distraction. My goals for becoming a better learner is to come on time for all the classes.

Adult Response

Dear Nicko,

In looking at your work, I would like to compliment you on:

I can help you reach your goals by:

=Movie Project= For the last few months, we have been working on a project that is suppose to make a difference. We are to make a 2 minute video that contains information about a certain subject and how it has a negative effect in the world. Our group has chosen to study about blood diamonds. So far here is what we have:

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=Language Arts=

The Outsider - Newsletter
Last month we read a book called "The Outsiders." It depicted the life a less-fortunate boy. It highlights how living a life where you don't fit in is hard. One assignment we had to do was to make a news paper article about an event that took place in the book. Follow this link to view my [|newsletter].

Pay It Forward
At the beginning of the year, we read and watched a story called "Pay It Forward." It's about how a single act of kindness can go a long way. With this influence, we had been assigned an assignment where we do a big act of kindness. Afterward, we were assigned to write a paragraph about what we did and how we felt after. Follow this link to see how I was able to [|pay it forward].

Hockey Sweater
This term, we worked on a short story called "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier. The purpose of this assignments was to familiarize us with the Canadian Heritage. After doing this, we had to do research on a famous Canadian hockey player. I chose to do my assignment on Wayne Gretzky. In this assignment, we had to make a 3D visual that includes things that represent the player.

[[image:ysaac.jpg width="390" height="329" caption="Hockey Report 3D Visual" link="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfmfbcjn_4drkq9fzg"]]
In this project I received a total of __ out of 25.

Famous Birthays
Every two months, we make an essay about a famous person. Each report includes a reason why they are well known or the difference that make. Here are the tree people I chose to research. (Click on the picture and follow a link containing the whole report.)


 * Tim McIlrath**
 * Matt Damon** [[image:MattDamonBU.jpg width="172" height="248" caption="Birth: October 8, 1970 " link="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfmfbcjn_62mscbxgq"]]
 * Jim Carrey**

= = =Math= Parent Quiz Question #1 PROBABILITY Question #2 Measures of Central Tendency Question #3 Algebra Question #4 Pythagoras

Answers
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Parent Information
 [|Probability] (Click to follow link on to our blogspot page.) [|Nicko's Measure of Central Tendency] (Click to follow link on to our blogspot page.) [|Great Big Book of Algebra] (Click to follow link on to our blogspot page.)

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=Social Studies= This year for social class, we have been learining about the human history. We started learning about cave men and slowly progressed to the Roman Empire. In between those times we covered the Sumerians, Egyptians and the Greeks. In each section, we had to make project. Here are some examples:

Greece **__ The Trojan War  __** // A war that lasted for ten years,  // // Has brought people suffering and tears. // //  All for a man’s greed,  // // Which enforced a world full of bad deeds. // //  A battle between two gods was what it was. //  // Trojan //// Paris //// against Spartan Menelaus. //  //  A battle that cost many innocent lives,  // // Fought so the victorious can claim, “Helen is my wife!”  // // Heroes fought, Heroes died,  // // But the suffering brought had survived. // //  Man’s blood on the field,  // // Won’t let any scars be healed. // //  Women pleaded, children cried  // // To the sound of the warriors and how they died. // //  In the end, no man may say, “Victory!”  // // Because all they won is a violent history. // //  Troy received a wooden idol image,  // //  And took it as a sacrifice from the Spartans who was beginning to age. // //  Troy then fell in one single night,  // // All because they thought the Spartans were in flight. // //  Spartans hid inside the idol until sundown,  // // Before they attacked from the heart of the town. //  // They opened the city gates and Spartans flooded the streets of //// Troy ////. //   // Now //// Troy //// must fall because they were fooled by a decoy. //  //  A battle between two gods was what it was. //  // Trojan //// Paris //// against Spartan Menelaus. //  //  A battle that cost many innocent lives,  // // Fought so the victorious can claim, “Helen is my wife!”  // // Heroes fought, Heroes died,  // // But the suffering brought had survived. // //  Man’s blood on the field,  // // Won’t let any scars be healed. // //  Women pleaded, children cried  // // To the sound of the warriors and how they died. // //  In the end, no man may say, “Victory!”  // // Because all they won is a violent history. //

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=Practical Arts= Sewing Class

=Phys Ed= =Skills= =Band= =Computer=