Oksana

__May 28th Note:__ Your scaffolds, jot notes, inferences and paragraph rewritten jot notes are due Friday.

__May 27th,__ Hi, please complete your scaffolds and inferences. The scaffolds are listed below.It's best if you use each of them only once. Research scaffolds: (Put at least 9 words in there)
 * I learned that....
 * I need to understand...
 * Something that suprised me is...
 * I think that...
 * I wonder why...
 * My theory is........because....
 * I read that...
 * Putting my ideas together, I realize...
 * As a conclusion/In summary...
 * New vocabulary for me is:

Then when your done, make an inference.They are listed below. It says... I know... And so... Heres an example on how to use it:It says that Christopher Columbus was searching for a route to Asia.I know that when he landed in North America, he thought he was in Asia, so he called the people there "Indians".And so that is how Christopher Columbus discovered the land of North America. There! Its easy!

Then you must make some jot notes.Example: Then turn them into paragraph form: Christopher made a mistake when he landed in North America.He called the people who lived there Indians because he thought he had landed in India.He didn't even realize he had discovered an entirely new continent known to man.
 * Christopher Columbus made a mistake
 * He accidentally called the people in North America "Indians" because he thought he was in India
 * He did not know that he landed in North America

Now you must do all of this for each paragraph of your sheet.Thanks, thats all there is to it. ~Daniel

__May 1st,__ Hi all. I hope you had a good session with Mr. P today (I was at an ESL conference) I have looked through your WIKIs (or the work you have handed in) and have assigned marks to you for the answers you provided to the chapter questions. I will share these with you at our next meeting. Also, please see the notes I wrote to you in your Wiki pages. For **Wednesday May 6th**, please do the following: 1) read up to chapter 13 ( in other words, finish the book), and answer 2-3 questions per groups of chapters (10/11, 12/13) __Questions Chapter 10 – 11__ What route did Al plan to follow to take them away from the attackers? What was the trading network Al’s father was studying? In what ways was the attacker’s stockade better than Hudson’s camp? Why do you think Al decided to be honest with Jack? How did he explain the truth? How did the advice his father had given him about rock climbing help Al now? Why and how did the warrior decide to help the boys? __Questions Chapter 12-13__ How did Al know he didn’t need to fear the warrior? How did Al try to protect Jack? What do you think is the significance of Jack’s parting words? Why didn’t Al tell his father the whole truth? What made Al realize that he wasn’t dreaming or hallucinating? What proves that the warrior was correct about the strangers coming to his land? What made his people rich? We will be changing the format of chapter reviews beginning next week - will have a specific theme discussion per chapter clusters. I'll tell you more about this next wedensday. 2) select an explorer of Canada and begin to collect information on this explorer, following the guidelines of the research sheet I gave you.

__April 24th Here are the questions for Chapters 6 and 7__ 

1. How and why did Al avoid telling the truth? 2. How did Al make himself useful? Where did he learn those skills? 3. Why didn't Al eat all of his part of the grouse? 4. Why was the warriors surprised by the strangers' lack of food? 5. Why do you suppose Hudson accepted Juet as a crewmemeber even though he's caused problems many times before? 6. Why was the //Jonathan// important to Al's father?



__April 16th, 2009__ 

Here are the questions for chapter 2, 3, 4 and 5. You can either do them on your Wiki page or in your notebook. Remember to copy them to your wikipage if you're using wiki. Make sure all work is complete by next Wednesday April 22. See you then, and happy reading! Oksana

__Chapter 2 - 3__  Why was Al's father so interested in excavating around James Bay? Why was the coin Al found so important to his father? Why did the ice floes he saw startle Al? Why do you think the crew turned against Henry Hudson? What mistakes did Al realize he had made? Who were the enemies of the warrior's people? Why was the warrior eager to trade even though he thought he got a bad deal?

__Chapters 4 - 5__ 

How was a collision between the boat and the canoe avoided? Do you think they would have collided otherwise? Why or why not? On which side of James Bay would Al's father's camp have been located? What was it about the mutiny that puzzled Al? What did Al think caused him to see and hear scenes from the past? Why was Al so excited about being invited to Jack's camp? Why was the warrior puzzled?

__April 15th, 2009__  Hello explorers and welcome to WIKI. I hope you are as excited as I am about using our Room 328 Wikispace. For Friday April 17th, please: 1) make your predictions about Ghosts of James Bay 2) complete 2 factual and fictional events 3) Read chapter 1 of the book 4) think about your research project and if you like, begin to collect information on your Wikipage about this project ( See Yaseen's page for ideas )