Grade 6: Find Your Fit: Occupations of Interest

Grade 6s: you will be going to a presentation at the old Mount Benson School next week called hosted by WORK BC called Find Your Fit.  It is about finding out what sorts of careers are out there, and perhaps finding an occupation that might interest you.  This is part of the new curriculum.  Many students leave school and don't have a clue what they want to do in life.  Not you! Let's get started.

1. Write your name on your handout in pencil.
2. Read your Occupations of Interest handout cover to cover.
3. Fill in Page 2.
4. Click on this link and enter the occupation you are most interested in into the JOB TITLE search engine.
5. Answer the questions on page 4 of your handout.

THEN: Post the details that you recorded on Page 4 of your handout.  Copy and Paste the questions in italics from below and add your answers as you wrote them in your handout.  COPS!!!  Don't forget to check out other students' answers when you've posted.

Select one in-demand occupation from the list and write it the space below.

What are the general responsibilities of a person working in this occupation.

What are the essential skills required for this occupation?

What is the median salary in B.C. for this occupation?

What are the top regions in BC where the outlook for this occupation is promising?

Science Review Quizzes

Grade five and six students:below are two links to a Science review quiz for you to do to help you study for your upcoming quiz in class on Friday.

You don't need to type your name into the box, or print the quiz.  Just click check your work, when you are done.  Then make a note of any answers you got wrong.

1) Post below and tell which question(s) you answered incorrectly.
2) Tell what you think the correct answer is, and
3) Tell why you think it is the correct answer (don't say that you know it is, tell why it is).

Grade 5 Quiz on Forces

Grade 6 Quiz (only answer qustions 3, 4, 5, and 9).

A Night Divided by Jennifer A Neilsen

We will be reading A Night Divided by Jennifer A Neilsen about the rise of the Berlin Wall.  

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family divided overnight. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can’t help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their own citizens; she, her family, her neighbors and friends are prisoners in their own city.

Go to the following website and read a little background on the Berlin Wall.  

Watch the following videos: 

video#1 

video#2 

video#3

Write one question you have about the Berlin Wall and post it.  If you can answer someone else's question, go ahead :-)

Private Peaceful - Last Post...

Answer the following question in a complete sentence answer.  Make sure you add lots of detail and three openers in your answer.  Short, unimaginative answers will be rejected.

Remember:

Draft your answers in MS WORD. Edit them for clarity and details; PROOF READ them for COPS and sense using WORD TALK before copying them into the blog editor and posting them.  Remember to post with your first name only.

1. Is Charlie’s court martial fair or unfair in your opinion? Give evidence or reasons to support your view.

Coding

You will be learning some basic coding to create games on line.  These 19 lessons are tutorials.  That means they will teach you as you do the lessons how to code and make objects and characters move on your screen..You will need about an hour to finish them.

Go to this website

(https://code.org/learn)

1. Click Begin Now.. be patient and wait for it to load, 
2. Watch the short video.
3. Then follow the instructions.

Private Peaceful: A Minute Past Three

This is a picture of typical trench where soldiers spent their days and nights.

1. Who is Captain Wilkie? How is he different from Sergeant Hanley? (p.120)

2. Is the war going well for the soldiers? How do you know this? 

3. What problems were there in the trenches? 

4. Anna, the girl from the estaminet, reminds Tommo of Molly. Write about a time when you saw someone who reminded you of a person you know.  Tell what it was about that person (not just looks) that reminded you of them.

Draft your answers in MS WORD. Edit them for clarity and details; PROOF READ them for COPS using WORD TALK before copying them into the blog editor and posting them.  Remember the blog rules.  You can read them. ->

Markus

Here are some facts we know from When You Reach Me:

• The notes from the Laughing Man suggest Sal will die unless he saves him.
• Markus notices that Laughing Man always avoids him, running away quickly.
• Markus punched Sal because of something his brother said.

In your opinion:

1. How does the Laughing Man know that Sal will die unless he saves him?
2. Why does Markus make the choice to come back and save Sal even though Markus sees the Laughing Man die?
3. Would you change any of the choices that Markus/The Laughing Man made and how would this affect the story?
4. Given that you know Markus comes back to save Sal, how would you describe his personality and character?

Do all questions in Microsoft Word and check it with WORD TALK. Use all your COPS skills and include as many openers as you need to make your answers as interesting to read and as descriptive as possible.