8C Book Review Score sheet

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YD6NoyJn7q7pdzS8yLSzR5GbZuc3M9niklI7BXrokvI/edit?usp=sharing

May 11, 2026

 Apple Education Store

https://www.apple.com/ca-edu/store?afid=p240%7Cgo~cmp-21281799273~adg-165151416209~ad-707045655050_kwd-1496193080~dev-c~ext-~prd-~mca-~nt-search&cid=aos-ca-kwgo-txt-edu-edu-bts-revert-093025-

MacBook Air - Education store, $1349 + tax

- good for four years

May 11, 2026 These are some things for you to remember after the real life algebra lessons

Mortgage or buying a car. What you should do to minimize your interest payment over time

• Be nice to your parents

• Put as much down payment as possible (even if you have to skip a vacation or take a part time job). At least 30% of the item

• Pay (rapid) biweekly instead of monthly

• No difference in interest payment between weekly and biweekly

• Pack your own lunch, and you dont need to have the newest gadgets in the market

• Balance between academic, work and life style

• Raymond should have rented out the basement of his townhouse so he can have more income

May 8, 2026

History link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vGuuilj8i4f0PdAF4fX50DgEk8EPcgRQNMzyIJaaBOU/edit?usp=sharing

 8C Book Review Template and Google Slide due on Sunday May 10

- Presentation will start on Monday, May 11. Each presentation should be 5min to 8min long. Nothing longer

- Give your recommendation in the last 30sec of the presentation. Rate the book out of five stars

e.g. This is the worst book I have ever read in my entire life. It is boring, and the plot is uneventful. The ending does not make sense because the villain actually survives the battle and rules the world and no one lives happily ever after.  

No star!

Buying a condo, mortgage and other expenses

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3OZ5xl8P2UXxE4g3AK2K9ZWxI3qSRojluz78yG3WsQ/edit?usp=sharing

- find your condo, assuming you dont have a car that is less than $800K

- provide the details

- estimate and find all the related expenses on the Doc.

- Mortgage options (biweekly or rapid biweekly is the best option to save interest payment to your bank)

Grad Names and Health/Development form due on Monday

 Please let me know at lunch or after school.

May 7, 2026

 8C, Period 4, Louis Riel information

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louis-riel

- write a page of notes on a piece of paper. There will be a test tomorrow on this guy

8C Math: No downpayment, buy something you like and pay back later. It is almost free and you will enjoy your week in Hawaii or the 3 hour NBA final game. Nobody can do better than the Bank of Crooks.

May 6, 2026

8A Louis Riel

Friday May 8 - Freezies will be sold at $2/each to raise money for Grade 8 graduation 

G8 Science

- Three Gorges Dam in China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxokVgwFqH8

Building of Hoover Dam in 1931 in Nevada (no calculator, no computer, no cell phone). The sacrifices of these workers to build dams so electricity can be generated 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD_ryWxfMg

May 5, 2026

 7D - read, take notes, quiz next class

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/food-web/

8C

Share with parents: when buying something expensive (car, condo, house) and need to borrow money from the Bank of Kwok, keep in mind that you should

* higher monthly payment (as little as $25 more) and a higher down payment will let you pay off the car/house faster. I pay off my house in TEN years

• be nice to your parents so they can help you with the downpayment. Kwok Senior did

• the bank wants you to pay as little as possible (monthly, and down payment) so they can profit from you for the rest of your life.

- Math: the Raymond questions

- finish tech project. Learn how to add a video in the slide, like the one below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K9RjtRJlRNQj3U3C2VkMMeVH49fwl8Z8/view?usp=sharing