Wed Feb 27

2D1
-peer edited paragraph
-info given regarding instructions and expectations for handing in assignments
-what are homophones?

Homework
-work on speeches
-read Mockingbird
-work on paragraph
-define your homophone

Tomorrow
-what is personal impression?

3C1
-took up questions on "Paid Up Member"
-what are flashback and foreshadowing?

Homework
-make sure all "Paid Up Member" questions are complete

Tomorrow
-what is symbolism?
"One of These Days"

Monday Feb 25

Here is your 2 week schedule, before the March Break, for both 2D1 and 3C1

2D1

Tuesday
-video on oral presentation skills (followed by a listening test)
-correct graphic text

Wednesday
-peer edit compare/contrast paragraph
-instructions for handing in formal assignments
-what are homophones?

Thursday
-what is personal impression

Friday
-rhetroical devices
-speech analysis

Monday
-speeches

Tuesday
-speeches

Wednesday
-TKAM quiz - chapters 1-11
-review for non fiction test

Thursday
-non fiction test

Friday
-reading period for TKAM

3C1

Monday
-what is irony?
-"Paid Up Member"

Tuesday
-what are flashback and foreshadowing?
-finish and correct "Paid Up Member"

Wednesday
-what is symbolism?
-"One of These Days"

Thursday
-peer edit Memo assignment-correct "one of These Days"
-what is suspense?
-"Barney"

Friday
-correct "Barney"
-what is "point of view"
-review for test

Monday
-test

Tuesday
-media assignment (in class)

Wednesday
-media assignment (in class)

Thursday
-introduce verbal/visual essay assignment

Friday
-work period on verbal/visual

Friday February 22

2D1
-assigned compare/contrast paragraph
-rough copy due Wednesday Feb 27 for peer editing, good copy due Tuesday March 5 or Wednesday March 6

This Weekend
-brainstorm and begin rough draft for compare/contrast paragraph
-continue to research for you oral presentation

Monday
-research in library (final in class time)

Tuesday
-presentation reminders and rhetorical devices/speeches

Wednesday
-what is personal impression?

Thursday and Friday
-oral presentations

Monday
-chapters 1-11 Mockingbird content quiz

3C1
-correct business writing handout
-introduction to writing assignment #1 - the memo

This Weekend
-work on the memo

Monday
-irony and "Paid Up Member"

Thurs Feb 21

2D1
-had the period to complete their website evaluation sheet and begin preliminary research on their presentation topic

Homework
-website evaluation worksheet is due on Monday
-continue reading To Kill A Mockingbird
-finish up graphic text homework (handout)

Friday
-introduction to comparison/contrast paragraph (rough copy will be due next Wednesday)

Monday
-final research day for presentation or work on paragraph

3C1
-wrote quiz on first 3 short stories and first 6 elements
-introduction to business writing (handout)

Tomorrow
-writing assignment #1 - the memo

Monday
-element of fiction #7 - irony
-the short story "Paid Up Member"

Tuesday Feb 19

Back from Family Day!

2D1
-went over presentation reminders, dates, rubrics and timelines (handout)
-review of What is Graphic Text? (handout)
-began graphic text assignment (Map of a Museum)
**presentation order is listed on the right side of the blog

Homework
-finish graphic text assignment (for Friday)

Wednesday and Thursday
-library work periods for research presentation assignment


3C1
-element of fiction - theme and nemesis (overhead note)
-review and reread and took up "Monsters are due on Maple Street"

Homework
-review for Thursday's quiz - first 3 stories and first 5 elements

Wednesday and Thursday
-introduction to Business Writing

Valentine's Day

2D1
-identified the various parts of a newspaper through a fact finding mission - mission completed (I hope)
-identfied main parts of a news article (overhead note)

Homework
-read Mockingbird

Tomorrow
-closer look at the news article through another fact finding mission and a group work assignment

Next week
-introduction to the oral presentation and comparison/contrast paragraph (both formal assignments)

3C1
-element of fiction - setting (overhead note)
-introduction and begin reading "The Mosters are Due on Maple Street" (page 47)

Tomorrow
-elements of fiction - theme and nemesis
-finish "Monsters"

Next week
-quiz on first 3 stories and elements of fiction
-writing assignment #1  

Tuesday Feb 12

2D1

-notes on chapter 1 and 2 of To Kill A Mockingbird
-began reading chapter 3

For homework

-finish reading chapter 3
-PS if you are bored tonight, as we were discussing in class, scroll down the blog and click on the Monroeville AL picture to learn a little bit more about Harper Lee's hometown upon which she based the fictional town of Maycomb AL on   

Wednesday

-review of chapter 3
-introduction to the newspaper/report

**Content quiz number 1 on To Kill A Mockingbird will be on Monday March 4 (thus, you must have read at least to the end of chapter 11, though I would suggest you plan to be a little farther by that point)

3C1

-watched DB Cooper Unsolved Mystery as a follow up to the short story

Tomorrow

-questions on "DB Cooper"

Monday Feb. 11

2D1

-read chapter 1 of To Kill A Mockingbird in class
-handed out maps and chapter questions

Homework

-answer question for chapter 1
-read chapter 2

Tomorrow
-check for signatures, 9 techniques for article writing, chapter 1 questions
-note on chapter 1, discussion of chapter 2, begin reading chapter 3

Rest of the Week

-the news article

3C1

-note on character
-more "Interlopers" questions
-read "DB Cooper" and answer questions on the story

Tomorrow

-finish "DB Cooper"
-DB as an unsolved mystery?

Friday Feb 8

Snow Day! The two greatest words in the English language.  Well, at least they are if you are a teacher or student.

2D1

-be sure you have finished your feature article chart and have made notes on the 9 techniques of news articles found on page 156 and 157 of Language and Writing 10
-we are now done with the concept of feature article/information text, so take a few minutes this weekend to review your notes on this topic

Next week

-begin To Kill A Mockingbird on Monday and Tuesday, review of the news article (which you studied in grade 9; we do this mostly to prepare you for the literacy test as you usually have to write one on the test) and, by the end of the week, we should be introducing your first minor writing assignment

3C1

-finished the short story "Interlopers"
-question sheet should be completely filled out except for the character chart (we will do that next week)
-take a few minutes this weekend to review the first element of fiction we have studied - conflict

Next week

-more elements of fiction and two short stories
-our first quiz is looking like next Monday (not the Monday coming up, the following Monday) 

Tuesday Feb 5

2D1
-overview of English and course guidelines
-note on information text
-handed out books

Homework
-bring magazine for Thursday
-have 3 guardian signatures for Friday

Wednesday
-more on info text
-read "Eye Spy"

Thursday
-correct "Eye Spy"
-work on magazine feature article

Friday
-intro to To Kill A Mockingbird

3C1
-overview of English and course guidelines
-finished note on conflict
-handed out books

Homework
-review note on conflict
-3 guardian signatures due Friday

Wednesday
-read "Interlopers"

Thursday
-continue with "Interlopers"

Friday
-read "DB Cooper"

Monday February 4

2D1
-went through course outline
-overview of unit #1 - non-fiction
-in this unit there will be a quiz, a test, an oral presentation and both a major and minor essay

Homework
-bring in a magazine for Wednesday

Tomorrow
-English and classroom guidelines
-what is information text?
-reading of an information text

3C1
-went through course outline
-overview of unit #1 - short stories
-in this unit there will be a quiz, a test, a minor writing assignment and major presentation
-pseudymns amd pseudynm quiz

Tommorow
-note on element of conflict
-read the short story "Interlopers"