Media Studies: Final day to work on school spirit videos. They will be due on the first day back from March Break. Remember to follow the format that was laid out for you earlier this week. Reading Tutor.: Today we have speech presentations. Students have been working all week to get their speeches together. Theatre Arts: Final day for completing your props list. Teacher will look for outlines props that the students have signed up for. Law 120- Discussion of the Vince Li case. Yesterday students watched the fifth estate video presenation of Bus 1170. http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/the+fifth+estate/ID/1321850864/    

Media Studies: Today students will begin working on their "spirit video" As part of the 2014 CUTE Awards, we invite all schools in our district to submit a video entry that showcases the spirit of your school. Criteria · 2 minute maximum length · One entry per school · Feel free to include various members of your school community (ie: staff, students, support workers, etc.) · Can be an original creation, parody, lip dub, etc. · Please respect copyright. If you decide to do a lip dub or use copyrighted audio, be sure to seek permission before including it in your video. · Canadian Copyright Laws allow for the creation of original work and also parodies. The ASD-N Technology Team will review all submissions and determine a select group of finalists based on the number of entries received. The videos chosen as finalists will be screened throughout the evening of the CUTE Awards and a random draw will be made for a school prize package. You can use the standard CUTE Awards entry form to submit your video or by following this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GN1vPwH_p76WZ9HlTkZ1NVvnHLsLiC_KFcVDGio... Is your school up for the challenge? Do you have what it takes to compete against other ASD-N schools? Be creative and have fun! Reading tutor: Students are working on speeches today. Here are some ideas for speeches: How to : play instrument, defend an attacker, make a sandwich, play soccer, make a pinata, get ready for a date, juggle, aska girl to the prom, play a game, dance, write a poen, tie your shoes, braid hair, pick a good book. Anything really. The speeches will be 2-3 minutes in length. You should first do some research to offer some background into your presentation. That is the goal for today. So if you are teaching how to tie your shoelace. Research where the sholace came from and types of ties ecr. This will add to your speech. Write a paragraph or two on this in your own words. Your Canadian friends will help you. Theatre Arts: prop building 101- shrek the musical. Each student should have their shrek items ready for friday. Law: Finishing human rights Act.

Media Studies: Students finish their presentations on Pop cultures throughout the decades. Teacher will then discuss with students the CUTE award competition on "school Spirit"- making promo videos (purpose, setup and organization) Reading tutor: Last day of Olympics in class. This week students played our own version of the Olympic games. we also continued to do some reading in their assigned novel. The Canadian students shared a reading moment with the international students- they read to them their favourite elementary storybook and then asked them five open ended questions about the book.The international students responded in their journals. Today they were tested in their reading comprehension skills. Theatre Arts:Shrek the musical and prop work. law 120: We finished the Ashley Smith case today- students responded to the below questions in a one page write up due by Tuesday.  summary of Ashley Smith Case Who in your opinion takes the blame for her death. Why? Have there been more developments? What suggestions do you have that we could make to the criminal justice system hat would help avoid this from happening again?