I hope everyone has enjoyed their March Break as much as possible. Certainly, things are very different than we all expected them to be at this time. I wanted to send out as much information as possible so that you have an understanding of what things should look like moving forward. I will do my best to answer any questions you have.  At this point, we are operating on the direction we received from the school board last week. The school closure, however, maybe extended. The school closure should not affect any student marks or credits the way things stand now.  The Ministry of Education has posted resources for parents and students to access in order to keep up with their studies. The resources can be accessed and at this point are only optional. The resources do not replace what students are learning, they are meant to compliment learning.

THIS WEEK’s WORK (Next week’s work will be posted March 30^th).

1. Read chapter 3: The Roaring 20’s and write a 3-paragraph summary of the Roaring 20’s for me. Tell me why it was called the Roaring 20’s, why the economy was doing so well and if you think we will have a similar economic boom in your lifetime, what was some of the slang used at the time, any inventions? Any changes to the culture?
2. Test material: The clips we watched in class on time summary: The clips on the timeline of the Earth and universe is about how perspective of timelines is a complicated issue. Joan of Arc is much closer to use on the timeline than Ancient Egypt. So is Cleopatra. Though it doesn’t feel like it. We have more than a 20-billion-year timeline of our universe that shows the best estimates of major events from the universe's beginning to anticipated future events. Zero on the scale is the present day. A large step on the scale is one billion years; a small step, one hundred million years. The past is denoted by a minus sign: e.g., the oldest rock on Earth was formed about four billion years ago. The "Big Bang" event most likely happened 13.8 billion years ago. We start out with the beginning of everything - the Big Bang, which gave rise to the Universe 13.8 billion years ago. The event birthed the oldest known star in the Universe, Methuselah, located about 190.1 light-years away from Earth. This strange star has caused quite a bit of trouble for astronomers in the past, because estimates had at one point put its age at around 16 billion years - well before the birth of the Universe, which doesn't make sense at all. We can go ahead on the scale an see a time when the last of the stars in the universe go cold and are dwarfs and then they dissolve and there is only black holes and the age of star light comes to an end. And then trillions and trillions and trillions of years from now the last black hole left dissolves leaving nothing in the universe is except darkness. There is no matter. Nothing. Time becomes meaningless. This is both depressing and fascinating.

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