Socials 10 Days of Whisky Gap

The Days of Whiskey Gap by Colin Low, National Film Board of Canada

Socials Studies 10

Make sure you have completed Activity Package 5.2 for Tuesday.  The readings for Activity Package 5.2 can be found by clicking here. 

Law 12

Please ensure that your PowerPoint or Prezi presentations on wrongfully convicted Canadians gets submitted using DropItToMe or sending a link to my eMail account. The Chapter 5 Test is scheduled for Wednesday.  There will be an essay question attached to the test.

Social Studies 10

Socials  10 Chapter 4 Test, The Northwest to 1870 is scheduled for Thursday. 80 questions multiple choice and an essay question of your choice.

Law 12

The following Canadians have been found to have been wrongly convicted of murder.  By Monday Dec 7 you are to prepare a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation that provides the facts as they relate to the trial and wrongful convictions of one of these individuals:  James Driskell, Robert Baltovich, Donald Marshall Jr., David Milgaard, Romeo Phillion, Thomas Sophonow, Steven Truscott, Tammy Marquardt.

Social Studies 10

Make sure you have completed Activity Package 4.3 Part IV

Law 12

The Chapter 4 Test is scheduled for tomorrow.  Make sure you have completed a set of study cards.

Social Studies 10

Make sure you have completed Activity Package 4.3 parts I, II and III

Law 12

The Chapter 4 Test is scheduled for Thursday.  Make sure you have all Chapter 4 assignments complete including the online quiz. 

Law 12

The Chapter 4 Test is scheduled for Thursday.  Make sure you complete the Chapter 4 Test Preparation for Tuesday.

Social Studies 10

Complete Activity Package 4.2 including Part V for Tuesday.  Remember there are two articles on my WebPage that provide information in regard to Part V.  If you were absent from class today make sure you view the video Native America Before European Colonization up to the 47 minute mark.

Social Studies 10

Finish viewing the video entitled "The Voyageurs" Remember the Chapter 3 Test is scheduled for Thursday

Law 12

The Arrest Handbook Activity needs to be completed for Monday.

Social Studies 10

Activity Package 3.4 needs to be completed for Monday.  The Chapter 3 Test is scheduled for Thursday.You should spend some time working on your "Bison Report"

Law 12

Make sure you have completed the Chapter 3 Review Questions and Chapter 12 Legal Problems.  The Chapter 3 Test is scheduled for Wednesday so please ensure that you complete your online practice quiz

Social Studies 10

Make sure you complete all of Activity Package 3.2 for Tuesday.  This includes your climographs and the explanation of why precipitation levels are significantly different in White Rock and North Vancouver.,

Social Studies 10

Complete the collage for one of the physiographic regions of Western Canada for tomorrow.

Law 12

Make sure you complete Activity Package 3.5

Social Studies 10

If you were absent for the Chapter 2 Test today you must bring a parental note explaining your absence.  Failure to do so will result in a mark of zero for the test and will, in all likelihood' produce a failing grade for Term 1. Use the weekend to catch up on any missing assignments for Chapters 1 and 2.

Law 12

Make sure you have completed Activity Package 3.3 for Monday.  If you were absent from class today make sure you view the BBC Documentary on the history of the Suffragette Movement.

Social Studies 10

The Chapter 2 Test is scheduled for Thursday.  This will not be an open book test so I would recommend at least an hour of study for each of the next 3 nights.  Activity Package 2.4 is due for Tuesday.

Law 12

The Law 12 Chapter 2 Test is scheduled for Tuesday.  Students who are absent for the test will be recorded as a zero unless I receive a signed note from a parent or guardian explaining the absence.

Social studies 10

Acuity package 2.3a needs to be completed for Monday.

Law 12

The Chapter 2 test is scheduled for Tuesday. All activity packages for Chapter 2 including the online quiz must be completed before Tuesday. This is a closed book test so you will need to adequately prepare.

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 2.7 for Wednesday. The following is the work schedule for Student Vote.

Student Vote

Deputy Returning Officer Schedule

Wednesday October 14

Student Lounge

0830 - 0930hrs                  Liam Boyce                        Lucille Cheshire                 Marla Curl

0930 –1030hrs                  Nick Burhoe                       Nina Delgiglio                    Carly Drake

1030 – 1130hrs                 Caleb Edwardsen              Walker Ferguson              Holly Hamner

1130 – 1230hrs                 Paulo Guerreo                   Ieuan Husk                         Jenny Ischenko

1230 – 1330hrs                 Matthew Janik                  Dayna Russell     Francesco Moretta

1330 – 1430hrs                 Elise O’Connell                  Matthew Petterson          Lauren Rivard

1430 – 1530hrs                 Alana Macintosh               Gazaal Zahedi                    Jackson Holmes

Social Studies 10

Please ensure that you have completed Activity Package 2.2 for Tuesday.

Law 12

Make sure you complete Activity Package 2.5/2.6 for Tuesday. You only need complete parts I and II A, B, and C.

Law 12

No homework assigned for tonight.

Social Studies 10

Complete Activity Package 2.1 Parts IV, V and VI.  If you were absent today make sure you view the video Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Parts 1/5 and 2/5 found at Social Studies 10 Video Central

Law `12

Make sure that you have completed to the end of Activity Package 2.4

Social Studies 10

No homework asssigned for tonight.

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 2.1 for Friday.

Social Studies 10

If you have not already done so make sure you finish viewing the BBC documentary Industrial Revolution: Why It Happended Here.:




Make sure you complete Activity Package 1.6   The readings can be found by clicking here.

Law 12

The Chapter 1 Test is scheduled for Tuesday September 29.  Begin working on Activity Package 1.8 and Test Preparation

Social Studies 10

If you did not view the video Louis Joseph Papinearu: A Demi-God by the NFB of Canada please view the following;

Louis-Joseph Papineau: The Demi-God by Louis-Georges Carrier, National Film Board of Canada

Make sure you complete the 20 questions and an answer key based on the readings entitled The Rebellions of 1837

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.6 -1.7 for Thursday.

Social Studies 10

Make sure you complete Activity Package 1.3a for Monday. The readings can be accessed by clicking here.

Law 12

No homework assigned for the weekend.  Remember we have a guest speaker on Monday morning so be in attendance on time.

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.5.  The readings can be found by clicking here. 

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.4 including the E Activity for Thursday.

Social Studies 10

Finish the viewing of the Underground Railroad: The William Sill Story from the point at which we finished in class.

Social Studies 11 Block 3

Complete viewing John Green's Crash Course Slavery Episode   starting at the 8 minute mark.

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 for Wednesday. The readings can be found by clicking here.

Law Magazine on Flipboard

Check out the online magazine I have been developing \ View my Flipboard Magazine.

Social Studies 10

Make sure you complete Activity Package 1.2.    The readings for this activity can be found by clicking here.

Social Studies 10

If you are interested in gaining a more in depth understanding of The War of 2812 you cnn view the following video.  This assignment is optional. You are not required to watch the video but feel free to do so if you are interested.

Social Studies 10

Make sure you have watchecd the following videos.  Crash Course: War of 1812 and The War of 1812 for Dummies.

The War of 1812 - Crash Course US History #11

Social Studies 10

Make sure that you complete Chapter 1.1 Activity Package.

Social Studies

Geography groups need to be booking testing times soon.  Activity Package 7.4 is due for Tuesday.

Social Studies 10

Activity Package 6.5 is to be completed for Tuesday.

Law 12

Chapter 6 Test is scheduled for Tuesday.  There will be no rewrites.

Social Studies 11

Complete the package entitled Canada's Foreign Relations 1945 - 1957. The readings can be found by clicking here and then finish viewing the Cold War Documentary Part 1 1917-1945 from the 22 minute mark.

Socials 11

Complete Activity Package 5.2  View the video Canada Remembers: D-Day to the Rhine.

Socials 10

Complete Activity Package 4.6 for Friday.  The  Chapter 4 Test is scheduled for Tuesday.

Law 12

Your Arrest Handbook Tests are due on Friday.  No lates or incompletes will be accepted.

Law 12

Remember your arrest handbook test for Friday.  Activity Package 4.4/4.5 shouild be completed this evening

Social Studies 10

Complete the notetaking for the readings for Chapter 4.5 Readings   The Chapter 4.4 Activity Package including the George Simpson timeline for Wednesday. If you were absent from class today make sure you view the following video on the Irish Potato Famine.

Social Studies 11

Complete viewing Canada Remembers: Part 1 from the 25 minute mark until the end. Complete Canada's Foreign Affairs 1939-1945  The readings can be found by clicking here.  The Chapter 4 Review Guide on Thursday.

Social Studies 11

Make sure you have completed Activity Package 4.3 as well as the New Deal Readings and the New Deal Questions.

Social Studies 10

NO homework assigned tonight.

Law 12

The Catholic Church and the Mafia

Law 12

Chapter 3 Test on Friday.  A set of 30 study cards will earn a 5% bonus on the test.  If you have some time view the video producuced by the CBC's "Passionate Eye" entitled "Holy Money"

Law 12

All of Chapter 3 needs to be completed by Friday when we have a chapter test scheduled.

Socials 10

The Chapter 3 Test is scheduled for Thursday.  Make sure you bring you completed essay outline to the testing session.

Social Studies 11

>View the video "The Great Depression: Crash Course" As you view the video please remember that this video is prepared with an American audience in mind.




Please ensure that you have completed Activity Package 4.2

Law 12

Complete Chapter 3 Review Questons  and Chapter 3 Legal Problems for Wednesday.

Social Studies 11

View the BBC video entitled "The Great Crash"



Make sure you have completed Activity Package 4.1.

Social Studies 10

View the video entitled "A Company That Built a Country"




 Complete Activity Package 4.1  The readings for 4.1 can be found by clicking here.

Law 12

If you were absent from class today make sure you view Stephen Fry's "Out There" Episode 1 and complete Activity Package 3.5-3.6

Law 12

Make sure you complete Activity Package 3.4   Please note that part II D now requires you to complete a 20 questions Citizenship Test Online that can be generated by clicking here.  Make sure you print a copy of your completed test.

Social Studies 10

Complete Activity Package 3.3 parts I, II, III and IV.  If you were absent from class the readings can be found by clicking here.   If you were absent from class today make sure you view the video Biomes: Earth's Major Life Zones.

Social Studies 11

Complete Activity Package 3.3  parts I, II, III and IV. If you were absent from class today make sure you view the following video until the 25 minute mark.  Be prepared for some very upsetting scenes.

Social Studies 11

View this video on the Wall Street Crash of 1929 from a British perspective

Socials 11

Make sure you complete 3.2 to the end of part IV.

Socials 10

Bring pencil, ruler and pencil crayons to class on Friday. Make sure you have completed 3.2 parts 1,2,3 and 4

Law 12

Students who missed Wednesday test must write on Friday.

Bill Nye The Science Guy & Climate FULL EPISODE

Social Studies 10

Activity Package 3.1 parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 are due Wednesday. The collage is due Friday

Social Studies 11

Activity Package 3.1 parts I, II, III and IV is due for Wednesday.

Law 12

Chapter 2 Test is on Wednesday. Chapter 3.1-3.2 (modified version available in class) is due on Thursday

Social Studies 11

Makes sure you have completed Canada's Foreign Relations 1921-1939

Social Studies 10

Make sure you complete the video resource package on Canada: It's Land, Resources and Economy found on the website.

Law 12

Chapter 2 Test will be on Wednesday

Social Studies 11

Chapter 2 Reading Guide is to be completed for Friday.

Social Studies 10

You will be given time in class on Friday to complete Activity Package 2.3a.

Law 12

Chapter assignments up to and including Chapter 2 Legal Problems and Chapter 2 Essay (including essay outline ) will be due by the end of class on Friday.

Law 12

Complete Limits on the Charter, The Notwithstanding Clause and Judges and the Charter from my website 

Social Studies 10

Play the BBC Game "Who Wants to be a Cotton Millionaire"  Find out how the "Beam Engine" worked.  Check out "Stephenson's Rocket" Make sure you have completed Activity Package 2.2.  The readings for 2.2 can be found by clicking here.

Social Studies 11

View the classic anti-war film of the First World War - All Quiet on the Western Front

Law 12

No new homework assigned for this evening.  Your ten (10) slide PowerPoint Presentation on the Magna Carta is due on Friday.  You can find a marking rubric on the websiste.

Social Studies 10

Complete the development of 15 questions and an answer key based on the readings The Rebellions of 1837

Social Studies 11

Complete the questions for Canada's Foreign Affairs: 1914-1921   The readings can be found by clicking here.

Social Studies 10

Chapter 1.5 Activity Package is due for Tuesday.

Law 12

Chapter 1 Test is scheduled for Tuesday. Check your text message for a PowerPoint marking rubric for the Magna Carta PowerPoint.

Socials 11

No homework assigned. Poster due Monday.

Socials 10

Finish Activity Package 1.3a.

Law 12

No homework assigned. Gather info for Magna Carta PowerPoint 

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.6/1.7 for Wednesday.  Begin collecting information that you will want to use when you are assigned the PowerPoint Presentation on the Magna Carta.  The marking rubric can be found by clicking here.  View the short presentation on the history of the Magna Carta.

Social Studies 11

Complete Activity Package 1.2 with the exception of the poster outlined in Part VIII which will be due on Monday.

Social Studies 10

Complete Activity Package 1.3 for Wednesday

Law 12

Finish viewing "The Strange Case of the Law Part 1" from the 25 minute mark.Complete Activity Package 1.5 For Tuesday

Social Studies 11

Complete Activity Package 1.2.  Save the PowerPoint Presentation entitled Preparing for the Provincial Exam.

Social Studies 10

Complete Activity Package 1.2.  The readings can be found by clicking here. 

Finish viewing the video The War That Made America Part 4

Social Studies 10

View the video PBS The War That Made America Part 3

Social Studies 11

Complete Activity Package 1.1 for Monday. Take some time to read A Different Canada: Supplementary Readings

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.4 Part V The Code of Hammurabi.

Social Studies 10

Complete Activity Package 1.1 View the video "The War that Made America Part 2"

Social Studies 11

Complete the questions Canada's Foreign Affairs: 1896-1914

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.4 Parts I, II, III, IV, and VI

Law 12

Complete Activity Package 1.1/1.2/1.3 for Thursday.

Social Studies 10

View The War that Made America Part 1 until until its conclusion

Law 12

Wedding Project due Wednesday. Chapter 12 Test Tuesday. Review Package due Wednesday 140 marks.

Social Studies 08

Make sure that Activity Package 2.4 is complete for Tuesday. Finish video package foe China: Past to Present Part 2

Social Studies 08

Complete the Study Guide for the video entitled China From Past to Present Part 1.

Dr.Phil: Wedding Day Disaster- A Family Torn Apart [April 1, 2014]

Social Studies 08

Make sure that you have completed Activity Package 2.1 for Monday.  Over the weekend make sure you have viewed the two videos shown below.


Indus Valley Civilizations Buddha and Ashoka

Law 12

The Chapter 11 test is scheduled for Thursday.  You must complete all three activity packages for Chapter 11 and the Chapter 11 Review Questions

Social Studies 08

Make sure that Activity Package 8.1 is complete including Worksheet 18 on the Spirit of the Renaissance.  The outline for the 5 paragraph essay on Machiavelli must also be completed for Wednesday.