A note for all grade 9 French Immersion students and parents of grade 9 students...
Rene Hurtubise, the French consultant for the Western School Board will be in the classroom on Tuesday, March 29th to speak with the grade 9 French Immersion students. The grade 9s will soon be making their course selections for grade 10, and some will be making choices whether to continue with the French Immersion program. Mr. Hurtubise's presentation will focus on the advantages of bilingualism.
9F French Immersion Social Studies and 9B English Social Studies
As a federal election was called over the March Break, we will begin a unit of study on the Political Culture of Atlantic Canada (chapter 9 of textbook) as well as a special Election Unit of Study that will conclude the week of May 2nd. Various projects that we will work on during the next 5 weeks are: Election timeline project, daily news updates from the election campaign, biographies of the leaders of the 4 major political parties, simulated leaders debate in the classroom, electoral districts of PEI mapping project and student vote for grade 9s in the school on May 2nd. Results of the student vote will be published in Island newspapers.
Update for grade 7 French Immersion Social Studies (I forgot the update for this class in my last blog entry!)
We will likely spend another two weeks on Ancient Greece. Students had begun a mini-biography assignment just prior to the March Break on various famous people from Ancient Greece (Socrates, Plato, Hippocrates, etc.). This week, students will present their biographies and we will discuss why they are important and perhaps debate who is the most important.
