Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Day 1 (Sept 23)

Block A (1-1) English 9

Congratulations to Jennifer She for winning the second jelly bean prize for identifying the speaker of the quote in my profile!

We read Chapter 3 of In the Heat of the Night
You had the rest of class to work on questions for chapters 1-3 and the reframed rewrite of Chapters 1 and 2

FOR NEXT CLASS: Have RELEVANT definitions written for the 25 vocabulary words so far (10 for Chapter 1, 5 for Chapter 2, and 10 for Chapter 3)

Block B (1-2) English 9
We read Chapter 3 of In the Heat of the Night
You had the rest of class to work on questions for chapters 1-3 and the reframed rewrite of Chapters 1 and 2

FOR NEXT CLASS: Have RELEVANT definitions written for the 25 vocabulary words so far (10 for Chapter 1, 5 for Chapter 2, and 10 for Chapter 3)

Block C (1-3) English 11
Yay for TP-CASTT!!! :)
You were given three Canadian war poems and asked to analyze them using the TP-CASTT method. You handed in any complete ones and will have the others done for next class.

FOR NEXT CLASS: Complete TP-CASTT analyses for the remaining Canadian war poems

Block D (1-4) Socials 10
You were given a reprieve for the presentations (postponed until Monday). You handed in the Take-Home Map projects. (Any forgotten at home will be accepted tomorrow at latest). You listened to "Canada is Really Big" by the Arrogant Worms and, with a partner, composed a creative expression of Canada's geography.

FOR NEXT CLASS:
1) PRESENTATIONS! (for real, this time)
2) Bring an example of a creative representation of Canadian landscape/geography. Poem, artwork, song lyrics, etc.