Wed March 22

Man, I have to apologise ... keeping this blog up to date has been a real benefit to support the learning of my students in this class.

I will do better.

In this class, we continue to read Eye of the Dragon. We got to the end of Chapter 23 today. I will get a picture of the list of questions for the class up on this blog tomorrow.

In any case, I will do better - keep up your hard work.

I also did show all present students an actual mark in class today or yesterday. Of course, I had a number of assignments without a name on them, and so I will get these marks updated before too long.

Thursday and Friday March 3

I am sorry for not posting yesterday.

It was nice and boring in Period One both days. We read the book, we talked about the homework and chatted about Stephen King and his writing.

Educational and a bit of fun. Creepy, too. Eye of the Dragon, like most of Mr. King's writing, is starting off nice and slow. He is setting up the pieces of the story for later on in the book.

We've gotten to Page 39 and got the following questions for homework so far:

Please be safe this weekend and we'll see you on Monday!

Wed March 1

Well, it's Ash Wednesday, so we ran a Mass Day Schedule today, making Period One a very short one.

We got the Unit outline for The Eye of the Dragon. I'm going to wait to post the .pdf file as a link until someone ... there is always that someone ... asks me for another paper copy. I'll provide one paper copy to each of my wonderful students, but any second copy is going to be digital.

We read the book until our time ran out, about ten minutes. We got to page 9 in the text. I'll post the due dates tomorrow!

Tuesday Feb 28

Today was a day that I demonstrated my flexibility. We were supposed to start a unit on Malcolm X, but I got to the book room there were no more copies to borrow. So .... we're going to start Eye of the Dragon by Steven King.

We got a webquest to start. Basically an exercise in 21C learning to activate prior knowledge and to expand knowledge about the author. Here it is, as I had to do this on the projector

Everything will be awesome- the webquest you can email or hand in on paper (how odd that is for a teacher to see in 2017, by the way .... ) as it will be marked.

The rubric was on the screen today, and will be on the screen tomorrow.

Monday Feb 27

So ... I'm back!

We took today to take a peek at the Task Three presentation today.

We will start Malcolm X tomorrow!

Woo!

Tuesday Feb 21

I love long weekends. Hope you enjoyed yours!

Kind of a catch up day: some people wrote their quiz, others took time to get their paragraphs handed in and mostly everyone started with presentation research. 

Remember to sign up for your presentation on the paper at the back of the room. 

We won't have class again until Thursday, which half of it will be to given to working on your presentations while the other half will be our Malcolm X intro. 

Thursday Feb 16

Today we conferenced and then conferenced some more. Lots of great ideas and paragraph writing happening. Looking forward to reading them on Tuesday.