EN 10: Reminders from Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Today students began creating tableaus from scenes out of The Snow Goose.

Once finished, students began considering their topic for the upcoming in-class write.  There are three theme related topics to choose from:

• society's rejection of the "disabled"
• the destruction that war causes to nature and mankind
• nature's own destruction

Students formed groups and found quotations from the novel, providing evidence for each theme.

We will continue to create outlines for the writing assignment next class.

EN 9: Reminders from Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Happy Leap Year Day!!

Today we began with a journal entry.

Students then completed their study guides  (elements of fiction) for their novel study test this coming Friday, March 2nd on The War Between the Classes.

EN 10: Reminders from Tuesday, February 28, 2012

We began the class with a quiz on sentence fragments.

Students were then given some time in class to practice reading a section of The Snow Goose using a dialect of their choosing.  This was a chance for students to experiment speaking in a way that is foreign to them, as well as understand the reasons an author might write using different dialects.

We then read chapter ten together and students then finished up chapter 8-10 study guide questions.

The Snow Goose test will take place this coming Thursday.

SS 10: Reminders from Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Today we began with a quiz on the Metis.  This was an open book quiz and students had about 15 minutes to complete the quiz, which we then marked in class.

We then began notes on the Battle of the Fur Trade.

We had a shortened class due to course selection with Ms Dimond.

EN 10: Reminders from Monday, February 27, 2012

Lit Terms: personification, persuasive, plot, point of view, propaganda

Students completed their chapter seven study guide sheets and then we read chapters eight and nine as a class.

Students watched the following you tube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYmrg3owTRE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_KKLkmIrDk

We then discussed the use of dialects in a given work and what effects they have on the mood of a story.

Finally, students completed their chapter eight and nine study guides.

There will be a quiz on sentence fragments tomorrow.

EN 9: Reminders from Monday, February 27, 2012

We began the class with a refresher on common and proper nouns.

Students then finished reading the story, Exiled and we examined whether or not phrases were fact or opinion.  Students then created a list of facts and opinions about themselves and shared with the class.

Finally, we began filling out an element of fiction sheet as a study guide for the upcoming test on The War Between the Classes. 

The unit test on The War Between the Classes will be on Friday, March 2 2012.

SS 10: Reminders from Friday, February 24, 2012

We began by accessing background knowledge of Canada's Confederation.  We read pp.130-134 in the textbook and then completed activity 4-2 to 4-3 and questions 1-3 on p.134.

Homework: pp.155-162 in text and pp.69-73 in the handbook.

There will be a quiz on the readings on Tuesday.