Math

8C - page 488/489 # 7 and 8
8D - page 489 # 7

8A and 8B do not have any homework as they missed math class due to Festival in a Van.

Math

8A - page 483, #15 b using the Pythagorean Theorem FORMULA
8B - page 483, #15 b and c using the Pythagorean Theorem FORMULA
8C - page 488, #3, 4, and 6
8D - page 488, #3 and 4

Language Arts

Grade 8ABCD

Mrs. Edwards/Miss Mitchell

Due: Wednesday, May 6th

LA Journal - 5/5 points

(This will be collected at the beginning of class.)

Warren Pryor

When every pencil meant a sacrifice

his parents boarded him at school in town,

slaving to free him from the stony fields,

the meagre acreage that bore them down.

They blushed with pride when, at his graduation,

they watched him picking up the slender scroll,

his passport from the years of brutal toil

and lonely patience in a barren hole.

When he went in the Bank their cups ran over.

They marvelled how he wore a milk-white shirt

work days and jeans on Sundays. He was saved

from their thistle-strewn farm and its red dirt.

And he said nothing. Hard and serious

like a young bear inside his teller's cage,

his axe-hewn hands upon the paper bills

aching with empty strength and throttled rage.

Assignment: Written Response

to Warren Pryor poem

1. How does this poem make you feel? Why?  

Refer to three thoughts or lines from the poem

to explain your response.

2. Warren has more money than his parents ever

did, does not have to do physical labour, get dirty, 

or worry about crop failures, so why isn't he happy now?

What do you think is missing from his life that is important?

3. How might Warren and his parents have better

communicated with each other and worked things out 

so that everyone could be happy?

Math

8A and 8B - page 482/483 #6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
8C and 8D - page 483 #15 b and c using the Pythagorean Theorem FORMULA

Language Arts

Grade 8ABCD

Mrs. Edwards/Miss Mitchell

Imaginative World Writing  Assignment

Due:  Wednesday, May 6

Background:  We looked at W.B. Yeat's poem "The Stolen Child" and W. Clifford's poem "Maudie" which deal with fairy lore and fairy changeling children. 

Assignment: "Imaginative World"

You need to write a 1 page, single spaced, 3 paragraph creative writing description which addresses the following:  "If you were taken off into fairyland, what would go on there?  What sort of a world would it be for you?  What would lure you away to such a place?  What are the people like?  Give me details about this world, tell me what is better about it, what would tempt you to go there, and what the consequences would be for you when you were forced to leave and re-enter your own world."

Math

All Classes - have corrections for Algebra Quiz #2 in tomorrow (Wedneday, Apr 29), Tuesday (May 5th) at the latest.

8C - page 482 #4 and 5
8D - page 483 # 4, 5, 10 and 11

Social Studies - 8C

8C

Social Studies - Economics

Mrs. Edwards/Miss Mitchell

Due Thursday, May 7th

Two Week Budget Assignment:

1.  All sources of income and all expenses (by item and amount) documented.

2.  Needs & Wants identified (you evaluate your spending and tell me what was really needed, and what you just "wanted" to buy).

3.  Identify how you could save money to open a savings account by:  a) increasing your income; or b) decreasing your spending; or c) both.