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March 19 -23

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Tuesday 1. Make sure you have all of last week's work complete and your self-assessment done because I will start looking at your charts tomorrow. I will be sending emails home for students who are not completing the Evidence of Learning chart. 2. 3 questions activity related to Black Mirror episode "Nose dive" 3. Poetry! Monday FYI https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump 1. Wrap-up last week with a self-reflection in your graphic organizer chart. 2. The difference between recall comments and insight comments in the graphic organizer. 3. Black Mirror episode: Nosedive - hopefully this works today! Tuesday Wednesday Thursday A significant portion of this class will be dedicated to the health survey you were told about 2 weeks ago. Friday

March 12 - 16

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Friday 1. Black Mirror - "Nosedive" Thursday 1. Read 3 non-fiction articles + add to your graphic organizer. 2. Ad deconstruction. Wednesday Speeches this afternoon! 1. Week 2 graphic organizer. 2. Media minutes. 3. Read a non-fiction article + add to your graphic organizer. Tuesday 1. YouTube video analysis: example -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgtLKeCkCiw 2. Present your analysis in small groups. 3. Get your chart/graphic organizer from last week up-to-date. Monday 1.  YouTube categories: Work in pairs; pick a YouTube category - tell me which one you picked so we don't have pairs doing the same category. Select a video and check it with me.  What is it about(summarize)? What is it trying to get at (level 2 reading)? What is it trying to make you feel/think/do?    Sources of information - How are YouTubers making money?   How has this ONE communication technology impacted people’s  behaviour ?  YouTube categories:   Auto &

March 5 - 9

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What if we all spoke the same world language?  How does technology affect our communication and our behaviour? Friday REMINDER: Speeches! Wednesday, March 14 1. Parallelism QUIZ 2. Cat pictures contest - voting!!!! 3. Pairs & Squares - Cat Pictures Please. Highlight a part of the story that you think relates to the second of the blue questions above. Discuss with your partner. Move to a group of 4. Repeat. 4. Questions about Graphic Organizer? Put your "Cat Pictures Please" 3, 2, 1 into the collaboration space on the page called Cat Pictures 3,2,1. 5.  Non-fiction: What do you see when you look at my F acebook ?  Text is in your Inquiry 2 folder. Read and complete your Graphic Organizer.  6. Complete the End of Week 1 reflection in your Graphic Organizer. Thursday REMINDER: Speeches! There was supposed to be a parallelism quiz yesterday!! Forgot! It will be tomorrow instead. 1. Cat pictures - silly contest rules: - BEST pose/expression; no evidence