Ryan's Classes for Fri. Nov. 30, 2012

History 30

New assignment today: "Dialectic Essay" due Fri. Dec. 21 (see below).  We discussed this assignment in class and began working on possible topics.  You will have some class time to work, but we will continue to move ahead with class content. 

Dialectic Essay

Confessions of Faith

Reading period: Chapter 11 "Irresistible Revolution".  Questions due on Tuesday.  (see below)

Ryan's Classes for Thurs. Nov. 29, 2012

History 30

Today I assigned a notes worksheet corresponding to pages 51-67 of the "Nation Building" booklet.  This is due tomorrow.  Remember to consider a topic for your dialectic essays.

Bible Survey

Unit 3: The Patriarchs (Genesis 12-50) Unit Exam today!

Ryan's Classes for Wed. Nov. 28, 2012

History 30

We finished reading the "Louis Riel" comic books. 

Confessions of Faith

We discussed Chapters 9&10, but didn't have much time due to Fellowship chapel going overtime.

Ryan's Classes for Tues. Nov. 27, 2012

History 30

We continued reading our "Louis Riel" comic books.  We will finish this tomorrow.

Bible Survey

Unit 3 exam on Thursday.  Today I assigned a worksheet (due thurs.) and handed out a map along with Abraham's family tree (see below).

Ryan's Classes for Monday Nov. 26, 2012

History 30

We began Part Three of the "Louis Riel" comic book.  We will conclude on Wednesday.  Please bring your books to class.

Confessions of Faith

Today we read "The Irresistible Revolution" Chapters 9&10.  The questions below are due on Wednesday.

"Irresistible Revolution" Chapters 9&10 Qs

Ryan's Classes for Friday Nov. 23, 2012

Bible Survey

We finished watching "In the Beginning" today.  We had a pop-quiz.  Exam will be next Thursday.  We will review on Tuesday.

History 30

New assignment today!  Read pages 35-51 from the "Nation Building (1867-1911) booklet and take notes on the handout below.  This is due on Mon. Nov. 26.

National Building pages Notes Assignment 

Ryan's Classes Thursday November 22

History 30

Two things.

1) Work period for "Louis Riel" Qs from chapter 8 of "Boneheads and Bastards"  (see yesterday's blog for a printout of the Qs).

2)  For Section 2, we finished reading Part Two of the "Louis Riel" comic book.

Confessions of Faith

We spent the period discussing Chapter 7 & 8 questions.  No new assignments.

Ryan's Classes Wednesday November 21, 2012

Today was National Addictions Awareness Day at RJC.  Kathy Moorman came to raise awareness.

Bible Survey

No class today due to the Addictions Awareness presentation. 

History 30

***One section of History 30 missed class because of the Addictions Awareness presentation*** 

Today we finished reading section 2 of the Louis Riel comic.  The other sections will finish tomorrow.  I also assigned Chapter 8 questions from the "Bastards and Boneheads" textbook.  These are due for both sections on Friday.  The section that missed will receive them tomorrow. 

I went to the Leonard Cohen concert last night.  It was a great show.  Cohen is a poet, and Canadian icon.  Here is a picture from the concert.

Ryan's Classes Tuesday November 20, 2012

History 30

Today we continued reading "Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography".  Tomorrow we will finish 'Part Two' and continue reading from our 'Nation Building' booklets.

Confessions of Faith

Chorale came late due to pictures.  Chapter 7 questions due today.  Chapter 8 questions are due on Thursday.

Chapter 8 Questions

Ryan's Classes for Monday November 19, 2012

History 30

We began the class discussing your upcoming Grade 12 chapels.  Please frame you chapel in terms of a book, complete with titled chapters!  Talk to Ryan if you need some help with this.

After this, we continued reading "Louis Riel: A Comic-strip Biography".  We will continue with this tomorrow.

Bible Survey

We continued watching "In the Beginning".  We will finish this on Friday.  There will not be a class on Wednesday because of "Addictions Week" activities.  Unit Exam on Tues. Nov. 27.

Ryan's Classes for Friday November 17, 2012

History 30

We continued reading "Louis Riel: A Comic-strip Biography".

Confessions of Faith

We reviewed the questions from Chapter 6 in "The Irresistible Revolution".  Chapter 7 questions are due next Tues. Nov. 20.

 

Ryan's Classes Thurs. Nov. 15, 2012

History 30

Today we discussed the Nation Building questions and handed out the "Louis Riel: A Comic-strip Biography".  We will begin reading these tomorrow.

Bible Survey

We watched "In the Beginning".

Ryan's Classes Wed. Nov. 14, 2012

Confessions of Faith

Today was a reading period for Chapter 6 from "The Irresistible Revolution".  Chapter 6 questions are due on Friday Nov. 15. 

"Irresistible Revolution" Questions for Chapter 6

History 30

Remember to hand in your "NHL Lockout" questions today. 

Today we read pages 35-40 from a new booklet: "Nation Building (1867-1911)".  You will need to get this from Ryan if you missed today.  There were questions to go along with the reading assignment (see below).  These questions are due tomorrow (Thurs. Nov. 15). 

"Nation Building (1867-1911)" Questions for Pages 35-40

Ryan's Classes Tuesday Nov. 13, 2012

History 30

Today we started "Unit 3: External Forces and Domestic Realities".  I handed out the curriculum guides, and we read the first few pages.

For the second half of class we completed the "NHL Lockout" questions.  These are due tomorrow.  See Ryan for these handouts. 

Bible Survey

We continued watching "In the Beginning" 

REMEMBRANCE DAY LONG WEEKEND

Remembrance Day Long Weekend (Fri. Nov. 9 - Mon. Nov. 12)

Remember to take a moment to reflect on the cost of war.

Ryan's Classes for Thurs. Nov. 8, 2012

35 min. classes today, and finished by noon due to Parent-Teacher-Dean Interviews

Have a great Remembrance Day long weekend, and take a moment to reflect on the cost of war

History

Today we watched the Dominion Institutes "Memory Project" video.  This video shares interviews with war veterans from Canada. 

Confessions of Faith

Today we discussed the questions from Chapter 5.  These were due today.  I will assign the Chapter 6 questions on Tuesday after the break.

Ryan's Classes for Wed. Nov. 7, 2012

Ryan's Classes Tuesday Nov. 6, 2012

History 30

Study Period.  Unit 2 Exam tomorrow.

Confessions of Faith

"Irresistible Revolution" Chapters 3&4 questions due today.  Today was a reading and work period for Chapter 5 questions (due Thursday Nov. 8).

Irresistible Revolution Chapter 5 Questions

Ryan's Classes for Monday Nov. 5, 2012

History 30

Rebbecca Gibbons from Conrad Grebel at the University of Waterloo shared with us in class today.  The exam review will be tomorrow and the unit exam will be moved to Wednesday.

Bible Survey

Today Ryan lectured on the biblical concept of 'covenant'.  We then began watching the movie "In the Beginning", which we will continue on Wednesday and Friday.

Ryan's Classes for Friday Nov. 2, 2012

Confessions of Faith

We began the class with Ryan talking about some of the questions from chapters 1&2.  The rest of the period was a reading and work period for chapters 3&4 (due Tues. Nov. 6).

Irresistible Revolution Chapters 3&4 Qs

History 30

We discussed the unit exam coming up next Tues.  Students also signed-up for grade 12 chapels.  "Confederation Waltz" notes are due on Monday, but you don't have to hand these in.  On Monday we will have a review.

Ryan's Classes for Thurs. Nov. 1, 2012

Bible Survey

Today we started Unit 3: The Patriarchs.  We read and discussed the story of Abram and read from the Bible.

History 30

I handed out a copy of the new article "Outlook Looks Brighter" from the business section of the news.  We had a class discussion about the importance of exports to the Canadian economy.  The remaining time in class was working time to read "The Confederation Waltz" handout. 

Ryan's Classes Wed. Oct. 31, 2012

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

Confessions of Faith

Today we discussed the questions from Chapters 1&2.  There is no homework from today's class.

History 30

Today I handed out the "Confederation Waltz" handout along with a notes worksheet.  You will be expected to read the handout and take notes on what you have read.  Unit Exam on Tues.

Ryan's Classes Tuesday Oct. 30, 2012

Today was Deeper Life Days until period 3

Bible Survey

Unit 1 Exam: Beginnings

History 30

Today Zach Peters from CMU shared about post-secondary options, and highlighted programming at CMU.

Ryan's Classes Monday Oct. 30, 2012

Today was Deeper Life Days, so it was a Day 3 and we only had period 1&2 classes.