Wed Oct 30

We had quite the day in Period Four today.

We ended up in th elibrary, and got a chance to chat about the due dates for the CA ... and we got a chance to walk ourselves through the CA too.

Tuesday Oct 29

Students will watch this:

1)Using whatever device they can, or sharing someone’s device, watch the video posted on the course blog.

2) Answer the questions posted on the course blog and email them to the teacher Chesserhandin1 AT gmail.com

3) Continue working on their Research Presentations due on Nov 5th

 


Here are the questions:

Most memorable statement/quote –

A question you want to ask /something you still want to know –

Something new you have learned 

Monday Oct 28

Right on, we took up homework from yesterday and chatted about the homework for tomorrow - #23.

We read to page 195 together.

I gave the class some time to work with their Presentation partners if any. I did chat with a few that were already done, and I was quite impressed.

Of course ... others ... had not started. We got together and we conferenced about it.

Someone is researching about this guy

Thursday and Friday Oct 25

Thursday we read to Page 176 in the text and we went and selected ... or at least some selected their Research Presentation topics from a handout that is in the classroom.

I'll post some of the links you can use to gather information for your presentations ont he right hand side.

Thursday night was Parent Teacher Nights.

On Friday we read to 186 and got Question 22 from the Unit Outline for homework. I also took care to get everyone present to sign up for a topic for their Presentataions.

I also assigned a due date for the last section of the A Long Way Gone Unit. Nov 5th!

Ok - have a great weekend!

Monday Oct 28

Right on, we took up homework from yesterday and chatted about the homework for tomorrow - #23.

We read to page 195 together.

I gave the class some time to work with their Presentation partners, if any. I did chat with a few that were already done, and I was quite impressed.

Of course ... others ... had not started. We got together and we conferenced about it.

Wed Oct 23

Today we read to page 170 in the text and we got the Presentation Topics at the end of the reading.

We will post the due dates for this and for the CA up in the classroom and up on this blog by the end of the week.

We also will have the due date for the last part of the Novel Study, too.

Right on!

Something we should all strive to be

Tues oct 22

1.     What does the line “we must strive to be like the moon” mean to you?

2.     What is it about this line that has stayed with the author for so long?

3.     What is so disturbing about the Wheelbarrow vision in Chapter 2?

4.     In Ch 3 what do you think that Ishmael means “That night for the first time in my life, I realized that it is the physical presence of people and their spirits that gives a town life.”

5.     In a single sentence description for each, name five boys Ishmael runs away with in Ch 3.

6.     What were the boys looking for in Mattru Jong?

I put those first few questions from the Unit on ALWG on here for a student not in class today.

In any case, we got back in the portable today - it was a nice and calm day.

We read to page 160 and got questions 20 and 21 from the list of questions.

We did do some chatting about the Parent-Teacher night this Thursday and about the mark Update that should come shortly, too.

I also recommended that students leave their CA novels in their lockers, just in case we get a day to read them in class in the next few weeks.

Monday Oct 21

Today we were in the library, picking our people for Culminating Activity.

We heard from the Librarian and then we interviewed and I wrote down choices of people.

Then, we started working on the books.

Details by the end of the week.

Back in the portable tomorrow!

Pic is unrelated ... or is it?

Thursday and Friday Oct 18

Thursday was a quiz day.

After we got that done, we chatted about the CA and the PT night next week.

We also handed in the journal for Part two - see the due dates on the right-hand side of the blog.

Friday, we read to page 144 and we got 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18 and 19 for homework.

Right, off we go then.

Wed Oct 16

Ok, well ... we got up to the end of Chapter 14 read today.

I don't want to change anything for tomorrow, so I've not assigned any work today so far.

I did chat about two or three ideas for the CA for people in this class, including Morrie Swartz, Elon Musk and Shaquille O'Neill. All really cool people and good ideas for 15% of the final mark.

More details on Monday Oct 21, the day we are to pick people for this assignment.

I also showed the class this link. It's an idea for the unit wrap up assignment which I'll start chatting about next week.

Tuesday Oct 15

Today we worked a bit on things that are due Thursday.

We chatted a bit about the 26-50 Vocab that is due Thursday, as well as the Character Sketches.

We finished today chatting about ways to pick a person or topic for the Culminating Activity for this class.

I recommend the Burlington Public Library's audiobook section for topics.

Wed and Thursday Oct 10

My class made it onto the big screen...

Wednesday we read to the end of Chapter 11 and worked on the TWD - ALWG comparision in class.

It was pretty epic.

Thursday we read to page 106 and we chatted about the same assignment, as well as what is due when and finally talked about the date for picking a person for the culminating.