Knowing Yourself and Orientation to School

UNIT 1 WORK DUE Feb 16th

The rubric for the unit work is in blue font and underlined below.  Please look at the rubric before you start your unit work so you know how you will be evaluated. Make sure that you complete and hand in all work listed below.

Rubric for Assignments 

Print off the Orientation assignment below.  You will have to use your agenda, the school website (www.othspanthers.ca) and a walk around the school.  Once you complete the assignment, hand it in.

Orientation Assignment

The next worksheets deal with getting to know yourself and helping you succeed in the classroom.

The first file below called "my brand instructions" gives you instructions on how to create a title page for this course.  The second worksheet called "My Brand Worksheet" organizes the information before you actually create the title page. You will have to complete the brand worksheet and the title page and hand both into your teacher.

 Brand Instructions

My Brand Worksheet 

Open the Interests inventory file below.  You must fill in the worksheet with interests that you have at school and interests that you have outside of school.  Hand in to your teacher.

Interests Inventory

The following 2 quizzes to complete helps you figure out if you are a left brain or right brain thinker as well as give you tips on how you learn and if you learn by seeing, hearing or doing or a combination of the three.  These two quizzes will also give you tips on how you learn in classes.  Once you complete the two quizzes and have analyzed the results, hand in to your teacher.

http://homeworktips.about.com/library/brainquiz/bl_leftrightbrain_quiz.htm

Seeing, Hearing, Doing Quiz 

Self Advocacy Reading and Questions. Please open and read the pages. It is NOT necessary to print off the pages. There are questions that must be answered and handed in. The questions are:   Jump-In questions 1, 2, and 3.  "Why Self-Advocacy" Jump-in questions 1 and 2.  "Strategies" Jump-in questions 1 and 2.  Once all of these questions are finished, hand them into your teacher.

Self Advocacy pg1.pdf

Self Advocacy pg2.pdf

Self Advocacy pg3.pdf

self advocacy pg4.pdf

self advocacy pg 5.pdf

S-A 2a).pdf  (table to be used for Jump in Question 2a) pg 2.

The last requirement in Unit one is for you, a Learning Strategies student, to write your classroom teachers a letter telling them a bit about yourself and how you can succeed in the classroom with help from them.  The Self Advocacy Letter Grade 9 file is an outline for you to follow to prepare a rough copy of your letter.   Once you are finished the rough copy, show it to your teacher for some feedback and then you will prepare a good copy, word-processed.  A sample of proper letter format is on the bulletin board in the classroom. 

Self Advocacy Letter Rubric  (This is the rubric for the letter of self advocacy, grade 9 and 10.)

Learning Skills Checklist use this checklist at the end of each unit to indicate how you are working in Learning Strategies.  Hand the checklist in when you are finished each unit.

Note:  Students are required to complete the ALL THE RIGHT TYPE contract before the end of the semester.  This contract is to be completed as a warm-up activity or whenever the student has time remaining in class.  The completed contract is to be placed in the summative portfolio at the end of the semester.

All the Right Type Contract

Literacy 

UNIT 2 WORK DUE March 9th

You will need to work on your literacy skills the entire time you are in high school.  You will also need to pass the Ontario Literacy test in grade 10.  It is a graduation requirement.

Learning Strategies students are to access the literacy preparation wiki at http://othsliteracytest.pbworks.com/FrontPage   This wiki is to help students prepare for the OSSLT by simulating questions typical of those that will appear on the test.  Follow the instructions for each of the sections of the sample test and complete the written parts for each section.  You are required to hand in your answers for each of the four sections for evaluation. 

Communication

A Community of Character

UNIT 3 WORK DUE April 5th

The word search below introduces you to the character initative that the school board is promoting in each school.

Character word search 

Watch the DVD "Radio" and answer the questions on the handout.

Radio questions

Students are required to complete a poster showing that they understand the character they were assigned to research.  The poster is to be completed on poster size  paper and will be given to the students by the teacher.  The specific details of the assignment are listed below as well as the marking rubric. 

Character Poster Assignment

Character Assignment Rubric

Multitasking

Are you a multitasker?  The introductory activity for this part of the unit is a card game experiment.  Ask your teacher to go through the experiment with you and they will discuss the results of the game with you.

Game instructions

The last assignment in this unit requires that you research the advantages and disadvantages of multitasking.  You must use a valid search engine and websites because you have to write down the websites where you found the information. Open the link below for complete instructions.

Multitasking report

Managing You (organization, time management, goal setting, study skills, test taking)

UNIT 4 WORK DUE May 4th

The link below is the rubric for the assignments you have completed and handed in for marking.  Please attach this rubric to your assignments.

Rubric for assignments 

Organization and Time Management 

Read the Case entitled Tara's Vanishing Day .  When you finish reading the case, open the worksheet below. You will have to go back to the case and find things where Tara let her day slip away and list them, then suggest why it happened and how she could fix the problem.

Tara's Vanishing Day Worksheet

After you complete the worksheet, you are required to write an email to Tara.  She has applied for a job where you work and based on what you saw happen in the case study, you must tell her whether she has a job at your business or not.

Email to Tara Worksheet

Sometimes you need to organize your days so that you can get the most done in a short period of time.  Organizing your day also lets look at how many thing you have to do.  The link to the worksheet below requires you to look at your priorities and fill in a chart with your commitments to see how much free time you have.

How I Spend my Time Worksheet

Goal Setting 

Read the note on Smart Goals before completing the goal setting worksheet. 

SMART goals note  

Goal Setting worksheet.  Complete the worksheet using the SMART goals format in the note above. 

Note-taking

Open the file below called Ineffective notetaking.  With a partner, answer the questions.

Ineffective note making.doc

Open the Effective note making file.  Compare the changes that were recommended.  Did you list any of the changes that were presented in the file below.  

Effective note making.doc  

Extreme Locker Makeover

Does your locker look like your bedroom.  Now is your chance to organize your locker so that it can function properly and you can find what you need from it.  Open the link below and follow the instructions on the handout.

Extreme Locker Makeover  NOTE: Change to the assignment. Pick ONE of the messy locker pictures that follow and evaluate the locker.  Make suggestions to improve.   You are to sketch the improved locker.

messy locker 1

messy locker 2

messy locker 3

messy locker 4

Notebooks Check 

Notebook Check (Look at this evaluation sheet, organize your notebooks for Learning Strategies, and 2 other classes.  Your teacher will evaluate your notebooks.)

Procrastination 

Are you a procrastinator?  Take the quiz below to see if you are or aren't.

Procrastination Quiz

Read the article attached and answer the questions.Procrastination.doc

Study Skills and Test Taking

Study Skills Read pages 20-22 in the handout package (PDF file) and highlight the important points on studying. NOTE: Do not print out all of the pages as it is a complete chapter and you only need 3 pages.  Then open the last file and follow the instructions to complete the worksheet.

Study skills worksheet 

Study skills rubric 

Summative

The summative consists of two parts: a portfolio and a brochure.  Each part is worth 15% of your final mark for a total of 30%. The portfolio checklist gives you a list of the items that are to be placed in the portfolio with instructions.  The brochure instruction sheet tells you what information you are to place in the brochure. 

Each student has a file folder with their name on it to store your completed work for the summative.  The file folders will be left in the classroom in a filing cabinet.

Portfolio Checklist

Portfolio Rubric

Brochure Instructions

Sample Brochure without images

UNIT 5 WORK DUE June 8th