Math
Please answer the following using pictures, numbers and words.
"A pair of jeans costs $50. They are on sale for 20% off. You have to add the HST (13% tax) to the final cost of your jeans. Which method of calculating the final price results in a lower price?
a) calculating the sales tax on the jeans BEFORE taking the 20% discount
OR
b) calculating the sales tax on the jeans AFTER taking the 20% discount."

Monologue
Everyone who submitted a draft to me has now received feedback. Please begin revising your draft and practicing for your oral presentation. Presentations will be next Monday. Please make sure your keeping checking the rubric to make sure you know exactly what I am looking for.

The Bridge Home
The greate debate is tomorrow! Please make sure you know your role and when you will speak. Remember! All team members must speak at least once.

Treaties Recognition Week
Our class is looking at our school land acknowledgement.
"At Moraine Hills we would like to acknowledge that we live, work and play on Dish With One Spoon Treaty lands. This treaty agreement is an understanding that all people - past, present and future - who share this land are responsible for making sure that we are kind to ourselves, kind to one another, and kind to the land that we call home. In this spirit, we are working towards peace, reconciliation, and equal rights for our indigenous partners."
Why do we say this at the beginning of assemblies and other important events?
What do you know about The Dish with One Spoon Treaty?

Math
In a traffic study done on a busy highway, it was found that 40% of all cars contained two or more people. Of those cars containing only one person, 25% of these people were NOT wearing sunglasses. Determine the percentage of all cars which contained exactly one person and that person was wearing sunglasses.
Please have a full answer - pictures, numbers and words - for Monday.

Literacy
Please make sure you know your role in our debates.
Every team member must speak at some point.
Monday will be your team's practice and Tuesday is the debate.
Format:
1. Opening statements
2. Questions
3. Open debate
4. Closing statements

Another amazing job with our buddies today! Thank you!

Have a wonderful weekend - and don't eat too much candy!

Halloween!
Tomorrow is our Halloween dance.
A few things to remember:
1. Costumes are not to include masks
2. Costumes are not to have accessories (ie. replica weapons)
3. In the afternoon the student council will be hosting a dance. If you do not want to go to the dance there will also be a games room option available.

Monologue assignment
Please remember the first draft of your monologue is due Friday for feedback.

Math assessment
Your assessment on decimals is due at the end of class tomorrow.
Please make sure you are checking the rubric so you can do your very best.

	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Knowledge and Understanding of decimals and operations with decimals
Thinking  - making a plan with appropriate strategies - ensure solution is reasonable
Communication -  - expresses and organizes mathematical thinking - appropriate math vocabulary
Application  - Using knowledge in familiar and new situations

Trupp monologue
Please get working on your monologue assignment.
Think carefully about the possibilities for Bernice's life before the story - they are endless!
Your first draft is due for feedback on Friday.

Writing Rubric

Thinking: What you say Including ideas, inferences, character voice Discuss the past, present, and future Use word choice that is interesting and sophisticated  Use sentences that are varied in length and style

Communication:  The way you say it Including sentence fluency, conventions, Makes no errors in SPG (Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar). Organizes ideas logically.

Application:  The way you connect it Including reasoning, connections, ect. Makes connections between inferences and evidence in the book and other texts

Knowledge: What you write Including text form, elements Monologue using object/character point of view

Oral/Drama Rubric

Use of voice and body to convey character Maintains focus, clear voice, use of body language

Relationship between audience and performer Engages audience, maintains audience interest

Dramatic elements Speaks in character and conveys emotion

The Bridge Home / Trupp
Continue to think about what the words Home and Homeless mean to you.
Add to your reading journal.



Another beautiful day in the forest.
We did a great job at our first solo sits.
Now that our mapping of the spray painted trees is complete we have an idea of the gaps that will be in our beautiful forest. What can we do about this?

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Geography
Test Tuesday!

Math
Please finish the multi-step problems we started today.

Literacy
Great knowledge building circle today!
Here is what this beautiful conversation looked like:

Two literacy assessments and one math assessment have been returned marked.
Please share these with your family at home.

Halloween dance! Bring in your $2 for the Halloween dance and support your student council!

Math: Please finish the work on dividing decimals.