April 18

At the very beginning of class I asked you to hand in your Romeo & Juliet projects. Projects must be handed in today, or submitted electronically via e-mail prior to midnight in order to be considered handed in "on time". I really strongly urge you to hand these projects in earlier rather than later. For every day that they are late you will lose 10% off your total mark. If you do submit these projects before the "midnight deadline", you should be asking yourself this question,"Why did I leave this to the last minute?" or possibly even, "What kind of impression am I sending to Mr. Gilchrist by submitting it so late?"
Today I returned some assignments, and your Chapter 6-8 Test. We did corrections to your test as a whole class. I also returned your 2nd drafts of your entrepreneur essays today as well. These essays (good copy) are due on Friday. We also talked about doing Writer's Workshop over the next few weeks in preparation for your LA Part "A" (Written Response Test) which will be happening in about one month's time. I have given you a schedule of all of your Provincial Exam dates, but I will also post them here on this blog.

Here are some upcoming important dates:

• Entrepreneur Essays (good copy) due Friday, April 22nd
• USA Unit Final is on Monday, April 25th (the study guide is here)

Provincial Achievement Exam dates:

• LA Part "A" (Written Response) is on Thursday, May 19th
• Math is on Wednesday, June 22nd
• Science is on Thursday, June 23rd
• LA Part "B" (Reading) is on Friday, June 24th
• Social Studies is on Monday, June 27th