Sunday, December 30, 2012

before the end of term...key dates etc

to be completed: the essay part of the verbal visual essay crime and criminals - complete that research report on your chosen criminal culminating activity/isp based on biography (hope you are all reading) (15% of final) get those blogs up to date and some crime and criminals stuff some dates: vv essay due Mon the 14th (time to work on it on the 8th and 9th) blogs due fri the 18th isp stuff due Tue the 22nd written exam(15% of final) is on the last day of exams: Wed. Jan 30

Friday, December 14, 2012

#28 the curious incident - overall - thoughts

the book overall did you like it.....best part?......worst part?....favourite character? least favourite? etc. overall thoughts

Monday, December 3, 2012

mon dec 3

handout read update blogs pick a criminal to research....no research today.....other than pick a bad guy (or gal) research report to follow

#27 Christopher Boone and you

seriously, list the ways you are like Christopher.....seriously,....list the similarities

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Temple Grandin and Christopher Boone - similarities

- very smart - don't like being touched - have difficulty understanding emotion - like being on their own - like animals - photographic memory - fear of social situations - think in pictures - fear of strangers - stress for parents - late social development - can be upset / set off easily - very particular about food - from single parent home - like solving certain kinds of puzzles - very specific interests - seem nosy / asks lots of questions

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