Monday June 19

Tuesday June 13

We got to the cool part of the story - Malcolm X's second transformation. He also worked with Muhammad Ali, leading up to this fight in 1964 against Sonny Liston.

What. A. Bout.

Right, we read to the second page of Chapter 11 where he starts talking about his Hajj. It was also interesting to see the shift in the point of view of the GN and we'll see how it changes in the film as well.

I posted Question Set Five inside the D2L, too.

Monday June 12

I do have mark updates for everyone - I did think that I spoke to everyone on Friday about their marks, but I may have missed people.

If so, let me know and we can sit and chat about the marks I have for you.

Today we tried to keep it relaxed in class and we watched the film. We have just over an hour left in the film. It should be all good for finishing the film by Friday.

I did get a number of people asking about the remaining days in school - we will be working on Malcolm X until the end of the semester. It's what we have left to do in our box of things to do for this course.

We will be reading tomorrow (Tuesday) and working through the novel for the rest of the week. Question Sets will continue to be posted online, too.

The expectation is that if you are away, that you check in to the D2L site at some point in time, too.

Malcolm X as Malcolm X

Thursday and Friday June 9

We continued our study of Malcolm X. We read to page 70 or so.

I did post question set 4 on the D2L site, too.

And ... I'd like some Discussion going on the two Discussion ideas in the Discussion area of the D2L, too.

All of this is getting "marked" and included in the final mark for this course - our study of Malcolm X counts!

On Friday, we also talked about a few films, the links to the IMDB pages will be on the right-hand side in the Malcolm X links.

Don't forget to get a plan together for this summer - get some volunteer hours done of you don't plan on taking a summer school course or working!

Ok, woo!

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday June 7

These three days we worked on the Malcolm X unit.

We've read to page 53 in the text and gotten up to Question Set (QS) 3 made available in the D2L system.

I've also opened up three topics in the Discussion area as well. I'll have to remind my students that all of these will be used in the course evaluation, too.

I don't see the point in working on something, handing out assignments and then not assessing them for the course.

On to Thursday!

Friday June 2

A Friday in June.
A nice sunny Friday in June.
Half of the class missing.

Are these things related? Dunno.

We continued our online study of Malcolm X, we read until page 35.

I did add another topic to the Discussion part of the course - I already set up a Discussion about the value of reading a Graphic Novel in the class. The second Discussion is the setting of this piece of literature.

OK, well, it's Friday ... a sunny Friday in June. Be safe and I'll see you on Monday.

Wednesday and Thursday June 1

We got to June.

Oh, isn't that a great sentence to write ... I'm going to type that one again.

We got to June. Today is June the first. It is the first of June today.

Wow.

We worked in our D2L coursework. We got things assigned and ... students did them.

It's June.

Tuesday May 30

Wow. Just wow.

So many things conspired against us today. But at least we got done what we needed to get done.

We wrote the Ontario Comprehension Assessment, part 2 today. It's going to help us get ready for next year and the OSSLT.

I also extended the deadline for the Malcolm X webquest on the D2L system by a day.

There is always more Malcolm X.

Friday and Monday May 29

We've been working on the Webquest for Malcolm X these days.

I did let everyone know that if I'm away, or the door is locked, someone should go to the VP's office to let them know that something is up.

In any case, the Dropbox for the Webquest will close today.

Thursday May 25

This was the first day ... first official day of the Blended Learning Unit on Malcolm X, the graphic novel.

I put up a webquest and asked that students watch at least one video and comment on it.

There was a total of three questions to answer before moving on to the first question set for this unit. We'll get to them tomorrow as well.

Onwards!

Wednesday May 24

Last day of Culminating Activity.... ahhhh

Done. Done. and Done.

On to our next unit!

Tuesday May 23

We are almost done the CA

Tomorrow is the last day!

Thursday May 18

Today is Day 4 of the Culminating Activity

No work should leave the portable.

Don't forget to complete Appendix A before you leave - it will be with the rest of your material that the teacher will hand out and collect at the end of the period.

If you are "Done", go back and complete any material you missed from the Blended Learning Unit.

Wed May 17

This was officially Day 3 of the CA.

Woo !

Tuesday May 16

We finally finished off the film Coach Carter today - whew! man, that film seemed to go on and on!

We finished up Appendix B and C together, just to make sure everyone had something in those boxes, as I handed out the Newspaper Article assignment -I believe is Appendix D.

I'm sure a student will remind me ...

In any case, we did some work together, reminding ourselves about writing articles that we've done in previous units.

We also took a good look at reflecting on what we are doing in class with a bit of a checklist on Appendix A.

In any case, I do have the due dates for the Culminating, I'll post them tomorrow.

Onwards!

Monday May 15

We worked our way through to very near the end of the Coach Carter film today.

We also took notes on the film and made sure we understood what was happening through discussion and note taking.

And note taking.

On to tomorrow!

Thursday and Friday May 12

We continued our efforts to watch the film Coach Carter. We have about an hour left in the film. We worked a little on our rough notes, too.

Tuesday and Wednesday May 10

We did the last bit of the BLU today - responding to the "BLU Wrap Up" email.

I'm still not quite getting why this is difficult, but I have to move along to the next thing.

The next thing, as repeatedly announced in class, is the Culminating Activity for the course.

We started it by watching a very poorly lit/projected version on Netflix.

Meh, I will get a better projector tomorrow. Pinky swear.

What we saw in class today, sadly.

Monday May 8

Class today

This was our class today - stuck in the 1900's ... the EARLY 1900's. I'm going to break out the chalk and horses soon.

Seriously, we worked on the BLU for the course. I'm hoping that things will go better tomorrow, which is our last day for the Blended Learning Unit.

Keep on eLearning!

Friday May 5th

We continued work on the BLU - the Blended Learning Unit.

I did work with two or three people today on the various tasks. I got one young person almost all the way through the unit in one 75 minute period.

I still have three people not yet logged in. I have more than a few without even the first assignment completed.

We will continue this on Monday - my students can, of course, keep working on the unit over the weekend.

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