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Yesterday was Father’s Day in North America. Here is a song from my favorite artist, a British singer/song writer named Peter Gabriel. This song is from his 2000 album Ovo. Most critics didnt like it. Here is a good review.  It is a moving and sad song about the relationship between father and son.   

This song [...]

Assignment: My Dream house!

What you need to do
1. Find a city and state in the USA. Use Google maps
2. Go to www.realtor.com (or www.homeseekers.com) to find a house you like.
3. Write a post including;
a. city and state
b. the price of the house
c. how many bedrooms/bathrooms
d. what the outside of the house looks like
e. what you like best about [...]

An update on the presentation project

Well students, sometimes in life things don’t always work the way you want to; that is what makes life interesting! This week we had some technical problems as the main server room got wet, wet, wet!  Thankfully,  there was no major damage to the school server.  On the other hand, we were without [...]

Powerpoint presentation: research and text (4/14-4/18)

Now that your outline is up on your blog,  you should have also started your research. This week you will continue with the research and start writing the text for your speech.
You can use your box.net account to save your work.
remember: If you want to do a good job, you need to do some work [...]

Assignment #5: PowerPoint Presentation Topics

Your next post will be about your possible choices for a presentation. You’ll give 3 possible topics, in order that you prefer. Then after each one, write 1 (or 2) sentences about WHY you want to do that topic.
If you  do this with a partner, make sure you put both your name and number ON [...]

Assignment 4: Weird/funny news

A woman in India got the shock of her life last week when she accidentally gave birth to a baby while sitting on a toilet in a train. In India, the toilets have holes that go through to the train tracks. Guess what happened? You are right! The baby fell through and down onto the [...]

My hobbies: Assignment 3

I have a had just a few hobbies in my life, and none that I did for very long. Sometimes people say doing sports (swimming, basketball) are hobbies, but I dont think so. What about reading? Do you think it is a hobby? IF you say yes, then I have had that hobby for a [...]

It’s all about the links! (Assignment #2)

When you blog, links are very important. We use them to show where we got something:
The weather in Taichung tonight will be cold, between 14 to 16 degrees.
Or when we want to write what someone else wrote we also use links to show where we got it:
The elections in Pakistan are underway. Who knows [...]

Creating a blog with Edublogs (Assignment #1)

Hello grade 8 students. It’s very cold! Welcome back from your holidays. Well, actually it’s pretty warm today, but when I wrote this post the first day back, it was cold–even for a Canadian like me! I hope you had a nice time and that you got lots of fat red envelopes.
Let’ get retarded started!
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