End of Week 9

Hi everyone,

We'll be looking at your blogs on Monday in order to give you your mark out of 5.

The assignment for this weekend is:
1. Answer 2 of the discussion questions ...and react to each other.

2. Read and Highlight the two articles in order to be able to discuss them on Monday.

Have a great weekend. See you all on Monday.

Lili and Adrianne

Research Project Evaluation

Hello everyone!

Please answer the following questions about the Research Project.

Research Paper:

1. Do you think your writing has improved overall by doing this paper? Explain.

2. What are some of the skills you improved in while doing the paper?

3. How do you feel about your paper?

Presentations
1. Did you enjoy listening to the presentations.

2. What did you learn about presentation techniques while listening to them.

3. What did you learn during the process of preparing for your presentations?

4. Were you satisfied with you own presentstion?

Check your classmates postings and and react to them.

Don't forget to work on your Textbook Project, but make sure you get a good night's sleep.

Remember we are beginning at 9:00 on Friday, on the dot!
Lili

Weekend of May 26-27 2007

Hello dear students,

Hope you enjoyed your picnic and are enjoying this beautiful Saturday.

You will be getting your lecture marks back early nest week. Your marks for the Research Project will be handed back on Friday, June 1st or Monday, June 4th.

We'll be looking at your blogs next weekend to give you a mark out of 5.

Here is your schedule for the next couple of weeks:

Next Week: Oral presentations, Textbook discussion, engineering project, other
activities, Texbook evaluation and preactivity to Final Evaluation.

Last Week: Final Evaluation, Final Lunch, Graduation on Friday.

Will of course give more details in class.


ASSIGNMENTS FOR THIS WEEKEND:

Look over your notes for Engineering Project.

Read text on Academic Skills. Choose the section that interested you the most and explain why. React to other students.

Begin reading Text Book Project. (pgs. 1-11))Chunk for main ideas and highlight for supporting points and details. Put a question mark in the margin if something is not clear.

I think that's it. See you all on Monday.

Victoria Day Weekend

What a beautiful day!! Hope you are enjoying the outdoors a little...but don't get carried away. Remember the paper?! Send us your work as soon as you have done a page or two....The paper needs to be finished by Tuesday. Tuesday morning will be dedicated to final touches only: Coversheet etc.

Also, if you haven't commented on the lecture project, please take a few minutes to do so. Thanks.

Here is the schedule for the oral presentations:(If there is a problem and you need to change dates, please try to negotiate with each other):

Wednesday(May 23rd): Alina, Alice, Hajji

Thursday (May 24th): Cathy, Jennifer, Alex

Friday (May 25th): Jeremie, Artie

Monday (May 28th): Sang Yun, Ivan

Tuesday (May 29th): Khuloud, Yang

Wednesday (May 30th): Mohamed, Eriko

Keep in touch and send us your work!!

Remember the transportation strike...

See you Tuesday.
Lili

Wekend of May 12-13th

Hi there,

Just a reminder....am expecting some drafts of your research papers...send by e-mail please. We expect to get something from everybody, at least a few pages...you don't need to finish a section, just send whatever you have done.

Try to be on time on Monday morning (I am an eternal optimist). Patricia Tokai, a teacher at CELI will be giving the class. The topic will be looking for a job: cv's, letters, interviews - I believe) Should be very interesting.
I'll see you on Monday.

Lili

By the way your answers to the questions and your opinions regarding the population topic were very interesting.

End of week 5!!!

Hello dear students,

Beautiful day today wasn't it (a little cool but beautiful nonetheless).

Sorry I didn't post earlier. Assignments for Monday:

1. Blog your answers to the Discussion questions on Population. Read each other's blogs and react.

2. Introductory paragraph in which you clearly state your focus, and paragraph on one of the main ideas integrating information from the "intelligence" articles.
Remember to attribute using the APA style...eg. Curran(2005) points out.... or According to Curan(2005) intelligence..... Also remember to make a reference list.

3. Tentative outline of your research. We will also be collecting your list of sources.

Have a good day tomorrow and see you on Monday at 9:00 (mid term evaluations will begin at 9:00.

Lili

April 28-29th

Hello everyone,

We just completed a very full week: Book Reviews, happiness summaries, lecture project, research project! What's coming up?

Next week we will continue working a little on the happiness summaries.
As well, we will be starting a new unit which will lead into a debate and an argumentative writing.
Also at the end of the week we will be giving you a reading and listening mid-term evaluation(this evaluation does not count for marks but is important for both teachers and students since it will allow us to examine how you are doing on an individual level in these two receptive skills.

Your homework assignment for this weekend is:

RESEARCH PROJECT

Search for books and articles on your topic.
List the sources (on the worksheet Adrianne gave you asking for the title, author etc.) you have found up till now.
Adrianne and I would like to see where you are at in this search.
It is important for you to start surveying and scanning the books and articles you have in order to see if you have enough material or not...

We have not given you any other homework, so please take advantage of this and try to find most of your sources for your topic.

Have a good weekend. If you have any questions comment on my blog and I will answer by commenting on my comment section of the blog as well. If you want to write to me privately, you have my e-mail address.

See you all on Monday!

Lili