Careers 10:  We went over the results of last day's review, and added a little more about post secondary options.  Complete these two tasks now:

1)  Save your Time Management Assignment as a pdf, and upload it to your myBlueprint CLE 10 Portfolio.  Be sure the TMA has an effective file name.  Make a CLE 10 Portfolio if you don't have one.

2) In the myBlueprint home screen click the left Work tab, choose Occupations, and make sure you have at least 3 Occupations clicked as "favourites", and added to your CLE 10 Portfolio.

3)  Upload your error free resume into your CLE 10 Portfolio.

All tasks for this course must by completed by next Friday.  Thanks for your hard work!  A career path is something that needs constant consideration, adjustment, and attention, and its good to see everyone being thoughtful:)

Chemistry 11:  Finish Organic WS #2 for Monday.  We will have a quiz on the names of the 10 alkanes, in order, on Monday.  We will finish Lab 6C on Monday.

Chemistry 12: U5 # 36-40, 44 is due Monday.

Careers 8:  After eating some Timmy's treats [Thank you Ashley!, and Happy Birthday!], we spent time on our Time Management Assignment and on the myBlueprint Personality Assignment.   Complete these two tasks now:

1)  Save your Time Management Assignment as a pdf, and upload it to your myBlueprint Careers 8 Portfolio.  Be sure the TMA has an effective file name.  Make a Careers 8 Portfolio if you don't have one.

2) In the myBlueprint home screen click the left Work tab, choose Occupations, and make sure you have at least 3 Occupations clicked as "favourites", and added to your Careers 8 Portfolio.

All tasks for this course must by completed by next Friday.  Thanks for your hard work!  A career path is something that needs constant consideration, adjustment, and attention, and its good to see everyone being thoughtful:)

Chemistry 12:  Quizzes were handed back, and a short mini review followed.  We learned how to use the table of standard reduction potentials to find out if a reaction is spontaneous or not, then we read section  5.3 and did U5 # 7,9-14, and any 2 from # 24.  The last bit of class time was given for Lab 21D, this is due on Monday.  We took notes on Electrochemical cells, watched a How Its Made video, read 5.8,  and did # 34 and 35.  Lab 21C was prepared, and we finished off with a quiz on balancing full redox equations.    We are about 3 weeks from your Chemistry 12 Final Exam, so now is a good time to begin reviewing.  Pick a former unit, try some Hebdon Problems, do a little reading perhaps.  Make condensed notes.  When you are ready, I will give you a practice final.

Chemistry 11:  We started off with Lab 6C, Part I.  After this, we wrote notes on Organic Chemistry and did WS #1.  We finished off with a lesson on isomers, structures with the same components, but with different arrangements.  We drew an named all of the isomers of hexane (5) and heptane (9).

Careers 10:   We started with little review of interview skills, Resume verbs,  and Post secondary school names in BC and Alberta.

Time Management Assignment:  follow the instructions below:

1)  With Excel open, create a time vs day timetable.  In Column A, make rows for each half hour of the day, starting at midnight.  On row #1, create 1 column per day for 1 week, starting with Saturday. 

2)  Use the fill colour button, and make all of your required school hours blue.

3)  Repeat, making all of your sleeping hours yellow.

4) Repeat using a different color for all the categories of time spent:  Work, Soccer Practice, Church, etc.  Leave "free time" white.  School lunch hours and any "spares" you have in your school timetable are free time.

5)  Create a key to explain your color scheme.

6)  Show the total number of "free time" hours per week near the top.

7)  Save this with a useful/searchable file name to your "One Drive", and share it with me, Mr. Gale.

When you are done the Timetable, finish your Resume.


Careers 8:

After we looked at the most in-demand jobs in BC, we watched a video about Scott, a  User Support Technician in Nelson. Then we took out the lap tops and completed the following tasks:

A)  Time Management Assignment:  follow the instructions below:

1)  With Excel open, create a time table.  In Column A, make rows for each half hour of the day, starting at midnight.  On row #1, create 1 column per day for 1 week, starting with Saturday.

2)  Use the fill-colour button, and make all of your required school hours blue.

3)  Repeat, making all of your sleep hours yellow.

4) Repeat using a different color for all the categories of time spent:  Work, Soccer Practice, Church, etc.  Leave "free time" white.  School lunch hours and any "spares" you have in your school timetable are free time.

5)  Create a key to explain your color scheme.  Use a thick black border around your Key, and label it

6)  Show the total number of "free time" hours per week near the top.

7)  Save this with a useful/searchable file name to your "One Drive", and share it with me, Mr. Gale.

B)  Complete Tuesday's tasks.

Careers 8:  We started with the interview activity from Monday, refining our responses and talking about greeting others in the world of work.  We spent time finishing the myBlueprint Personality Activity.  Watch three videos on Work BC's Career Trek website that correspond to the 3 occupations that you describe on page 7 of the Personality Activity.  Add 1 or 2 comments about the video onto  page 7.  See Mr. Gale if you have trouble connecting your listed occupation one of the Career Trek videos.   We finished off with a myBlueprint Famous Person Activity.

Chemistry 11: After the Solutions test we worked on Lab 16A (all Questions, Follow-up Questions, and a fine conclusion) , which is due Thursday.

Careers 10:  After a short session on interview skills we looked at sample resumes and identified all the verbs.  There were a lot!  We logged onto myBlueprint and created a resume, which when done cannot have ANY errors or formatting inconsistencies.  The sample Grade 12er resume had about 20 verbs, all in the past tense, which is a good standard for your resume.

Chemistry 12:  We learned how to balance full redox equations using the half cell method.  Amongst the problems were at least one disproportionation reaction (where the same species is both oxidized and reduced) .  U5 # 24 (any 5 acidic reactions, any 5 basic reactions) is due Thursday.  Some time was spent on Lab 21D.  We had a homework quiz at the end - 3 half cell equations.

Careers 8:  Today we started with an introduction to interview skills.  The we worked on the myBlueprint Personality Activity hand-out, to learn about "Multiple Intelligences"  With a laptop, log into Mentorcity, check-in with your mentor (explain that you are back in Careers for this week), and do activities 2.1 to 2.8.  In February we did 0.1 to 0.6 and 1.1 to 1.7, finish these first if they are not yet complete.  See Mr. Gale if you have completed all this.

Careers 10:  We started off with a little review of educational pathways, followed by a short session on the language of business.  Consider your responses to these 5 questions:

1) Tell me a bit about yourself
2) What are your strengths and weaknesses
3) What extra-curriculars are you involved with?  What do you do with your spare time?
4) What are you favourite school subjects and why
5)  Why should I hire you [for this job]?

Complete the myBluepring Knowledge Activity hand-out by going to the library and logging into myBlueprint.

Chemistry 11:  Answers for the Solutions Practice Test were provided, and we had a short discussion about why "like dissolves like" in Lab 16A.  Time was spent finishing lab 16A (all questions, FUQs, and a fine conclusion).  This is not due Tuesday - you would be better off studying the solutions unit notes and assignments for your Solutions Test on Monday.  We finished off with a short discussion on Organic Chemistry, our last unit.

Chemistry 12: 

Chemistry 11:  Today we did Lab 16A, about polar and non-polar solvents and solutes.  The Solutions Practice Test is due today, but I will provide an answer key on Monday.  Our Solutions test is on Tuesday.

Chemistry 12:  After a short discussion of the key points of Electrochemistry so far (loss of electrons is oxidation, gain of electrons is reduction, oxidation number is the charge an atom would have if it were an ion) we did lab 21D.  Nothing from your lab is due Monday. Unit 5 # 1-6 should be done by Monday's class.

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Chemistry 12:  Today we read sections 5.1 5.2, and did Unit 5 # 1-6.  Be sure to check your answers.  You also need to have Lab 21D prepared for Friday

Chemistry 11:  Today  Unit 9 # 6-8 and the "WS titled Review of Molar Concentration" were collected.  We read pg 198 - 202 in Hebdon and did Unit 9 # 9-12,  30 - 36, and the Solutions Practice Test.  The Practice Test and # 9-12 are due Friday.  We also prepared Lab 16A, and read the pre and post lab discussion.


Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Chemistry 12:  Today we did the Acid Base Unit Test.  Be sure to high-five your partner to celebrate that the biggest unit is done:).

Chemistry 11:  Today we read section 9.1 adn 9.2.  Due Wednesday is Unit 9 # 6-8 and the "WS titled Review of Molar Concentration".