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"