English 10

Today I handed back the "Romeo and Juliet" Act One quiz, and then we spent the rest of the class in the library working on "Romeo and Juliet" projects.

Reminders:

• Act 2-3 Quiz: Monday, May 2, 2016
• "Romeo and Juliet" projects: Tuesday, May 3, 2016

English 9

Have fun in Cuba (for those who are going)!

We started off the day with silent reading. After that, I explained the plot of "Pyramus and Thisbe", as it relates to "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I read a quick summary, and we watched a video about the story. We then read Act Three, Scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and completed corresponding questions.

Reminders:

• Act Three, Scene 1 questions: due Monday, May 2, 2016

English 8

It's already May!
Today we started off with silent reading and worked on vocabulary from The Giver. We then simulated the 'Ceremony of Twelves' form The Giver; each student was assigned a number and a job based on random selection. The purpose of this was to understand the functioning of the community and the feelings of the characters in the novel. After that, students worked on questions for Chapters 8-10 in The Giver.

Reminders:

• The Giver questions (Chpt.8-10): due Monday, May 2, 2016
• The Giver Quiz: Monday, May 2, 2016

English 9

We started off the day with editing practice, and then reviewed the events form Act Two, Scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". We finished reading Act Two, Scene 2, and worked on questions. We also watched the scenes on the movie. In addition, we played a quote identification game.

During the second period, we started off with silent reading. I then introduced the students to the Independent Novel Study Portfolio project. They worked on a journal response and a title page for their portfolios.

Reminders:

• "AMSND" Act Two questions due: tomorrow!

English 8

We started off with silent reading and more practice with subjects and predicates. Students then worked on questions for Chapters 5-7 in The Giver. After that, we read Chapters 8 and 9 as a class. During the second half off class, students started a creative assignment for The Giver and we spent the period in the IT Lab working on it. We'll have another period to finish this.

Reminders:

• The Giver Chapter 5-7 questions: due Friday, April 29, 2016
• Read Chapter 10 in The Giver: Friday, April 29, 2016
• Quiz on The Giver: Monday, May 2, 2016

English 10

Today we started a creative assignment for "Romeo and Juliet" and spent the first block in the library working on it. You'll also have Friday's class to finish it. During the second part of class, we read Act Four, scenes 1-4 and worked on corresponding questions. We finished off with a game of quotation identification.

Reminders:

• "R&J" questions (Act 4, Scenes 1-4): due Friday, April 29, 2016
• "R&J" Act 2-3 Quiz: Monday, May 2, 2016

English 10

We started off by reviewing some of the events in Act three of "Romeo and Juliet". We then finished reading Act three, watched the scenes in the movie and worked on corresponding questions.

Reminders:

• Questions (A3, Scenes 3-5): due tomorrow

English 8

We started off with a lesson on complete sentences, subjects and predicates. We then discussed Chapters 3 to 5 in The Giver, and students worked on questions. We then read Chapters 6 and 7 as a class.

Reminders:

• Chapter 3-4 questions: due tomorrow!

English 9

Today we read Act Two, Scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and watched the scene in the movie. We'll work on questions tomorrow.

Reminders:

• No homework

English 8

Today students wrote a grammar quiz, and then we read Chapter 2 of The Giver in class. Students then completed a worksheet and started reading Chapters 3 and 4 silently.

Reminders:

• Chapter 2 worksheet: Thursday, April 21, 2016
• Read Chapters 3 and 4: Thursday, April 21, 2016

English 9

We started with silent reading and grammar today. We then read Act One, Scene 1 of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and watched the scene on the movie.

Reminders:

• Open-book grammar quiz: tomorrow, April 20, 2016

English 10

Thanks for your patience getting through the reading today!

We read Act Three, scenes 1, 2 and 3 in "Romeo and Juliet". We also watched a couple of the scenes on the movie.

Reminders:

• No homework

English 9

Today we went to the library and picked our novels for the Independent Novel Study, and also got copies of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". We then worked on a comic book and questions on the 'Life of Shakespeare'. We went over questions as a class.

Reminders:

• No homework!

English 8

Today we started our unit on The Giver. We read Chapter 1 and worked on questions.

Reminders:

• The Giver Chapter 1 worksheet: due tomorrow
• Open-book Grammar Quiz (apostrophes/capitalization): tomorrow

English 10

Today we read up to half of Act Three Scene One in "Romeo and Juliet" - we're halfway through the play!!!!

Reminders:

• Questions (Act Two, scenes 5-6): due tomorrow

English 10

We started off class with some grammar editing and a quiz on Act One of "Romeo and Juliet". We then read Act Two, Scenes 3-4 and worked on corresponding questions.

Reminders:

• Act Two, Scenes  3-4 worksheet: due next class

English 8

Today students wrote their final test for The Outsiders, then worked on a wordsearch/crossword.

Reminders:

• The Outsiders Newsletters : due today!
• Crossword/word search: due next class if it was not finished today

English 9

Today students wrote their final test for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, then worked on their projects and literary paragraphs. Please hand these in Monday if you haven't already done so.

Reminders:

• BSP projects: due today!
• BSP Literary paragraphs : due Monday, April 18, 2016

English 8

We started off class with silent reading and a worksheet on capitalization. After that, we completed a review booklet for The Outsiders test. We then finished watching the movie version of the novel.

After the break, students worked on a vocabulary crossword puzzle and we went to the IT Lab to finish the Newsletter assignment.

Reminders:

• The Outsiders Test: tomorrow, April 15, 2015
• The Outsiders Newsletter: April 15, 2016 (in my dropbox please)
• The Outsiders Crossword puzzle: tomorrow April 15, 2016

English 10

We did some practice with compositions for the first half of class today. We looked at good examples and mediocre examples of compositions to see how they are grade on the Provincial Exam. Then students spent the period writing a composition on with the following topic:  "The unknown can be surprising".

During the second part of class, I did a full review Powerpoint of Act One in "Romeo and Juliet" (since there is a quiz Friday), we read Act Two, scenes 1-2, and completed a worksheet. We then watched the movie of the famous orchard scene.

Reminders:

• "R&J" Act One quiz : tomorrow, April 15, 2016
• "R&J" worksheet (A2S1-2): tomorrow, April 15, 2016

English 9

We started off the day with grammar editing, and students continued working on their literary paragraphs they started last class. I will be asking for the paragraphs to be turned in after the BSP test on Friday.

After that, we finished going over the test review worksheet and also completed some notes on the main themes in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. If you were absent, make sure to get the notes on both these things; the content will be on the test.

The last line of The Boy int eh Striped Pajamas states: "Of course this happened a long time ago and nothing like this would ever happen again. Not this day in age." We discussed the  verbal irony of this statement and looked at a couple of videos demonstrating the history of the genocide in Rwanda and in Bosnia.

I then gave the class time to work on their BSP final projects.

Toward the end of class, we watched the first 20 minutes of Shakespeare in Love, as an introduction to Shakespeare. Our next unit will be "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Reminders:

• BSP Test: Friday, April 15, 2016
• BSP Project: Friday. April 15, 2016
• Thursday is the last day to hand in assignments for Term 1!

English 10

Today we read the final scene in Act One (scene 5). It's the scene where Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time. We also watched the movie version of the play and worked on corresponding questions.

Reminders:

• "R&J" worksheet (Act One, scene 5): due next class
• Thursday is the last day to hand in assignments for Term 1!

English 9

Today we started a literary paragraph and a test review for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. We'll continue both activities next class.

Reminders:

• BSP Test: Friday, April 15, 2016
• BSP Project: Friday. April 15, 2016
• Thursday is the last day to hand in assignments for Term 1!

English 8

Today students completed a worksheet on adjectives and an activity on Ponyboy's dynamic character in The Outsiders. We then continued watching the movie version of the novel.

Reminders:

• The Outsiders Test: Friday, April 15, 2016
• The Outsiders Newsletters: Friday, April 15, 2016
• Thursday is the last day to hand in assignments for Term 1!

English 10

Today we reviewed the worksheet assignment for Act One, scenes one and two for "Romeo and Juliet". We then read scenes three and four, worked on corresponding questions and started watching the movie version of the play.

Reminders:

• "R&J" A1S3-4 worksheet: due next class

English 8

We started off the day with some questions on Chapters 10-12 in The Outsiders. We then spent the rest of the period in the library working on The Outsiders Newsletters. I'll be giving another 30 minutes on Thursday to finish them.

Reminders:

• The Outsiders Test: Friday, April 15, 2016
• The Outsiders Newsletters: Friday, April 15, 2016
• Thursday is the last day to hand in assignments for Term 1!

English 9

I hope you guys enjoyed to assembly today!! Marks were updated, so make sure to hand in assignments before Thursday :)

Reminders:

• BSP Test: Friday, April 15, 2016
• BSP Project: Friday. April 15, 2016

English 8

Today students wrote a rough copy of a personal ad and an obituary, as part of The Outsiders newspaper assignment. We then started watching the movie version of the novel.

Reminders:

• 'Greaser/Soc' collages: due today!!!
• The Outsiders 'Personal ad/ obituary' worksheet: due Monday, April 15, 2016 

English 9

Over the past few days, we finished reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and watched the movie version of the story. We also worked on the final project for the novel today.

Reminders:

• BSP Final project: due Friday, April 15, 2016

English 10

Today we started "Romeo and Juliet"; we read Act One, Scenes One and Two. Students then completed a corresponding worksheet.

Reminders:

• Character paragraphs: due today!!!
• "R&J" worksheet: due Monday, April 11, 2016

English 10

We started off the day by going over questions for "The Landlady", and the played a Jeopardy review game for the Sightlines unit. After that, we looked at an introduction Powerpoint of the history of Shakespeare, analyzed a Shakespearean Star Wars Prologue, and got copies of "Romeo and Juliet" from the library.

Students wrote a Sightlines test during the second half.

Reminders:

• Character paragraph: due Friday, April 8, 2016

English 8

Today we started off with silent reading (for the Independent Novel Study), and then finished reading The Outsiders as a class. We then finished working on the Greaser/Soc collages and students completed a 'school satisfaction survey'. During the second half, we worked on the library on The Outsiders Newsletter Assignment.

Reminders:

• Greaser and Soc Collage: Friday, April 8, 2016

English 9

Today we worked in the library on a final assignment for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Students then wrote a quiz on the novel at the end of class.

English 8

We started off the class with a quiz on The Outsiders and then students were given silent reading time for their Independent Novel Study books. After that, students wrote an advice column using details relating to The Outsiders, and we read Chapter 11.

Reminders:

• Advice Column (yellow worksheet): Wednesday, April 6, 2016

English 10

Today we went over a definition/matching exercise for short story terms as a review for the test tomorrow. I then gave more time for students to work on their character paragraphs (this was the last class time given for this). Towards the end of class, we watched and read Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream" from Sightlines and students worked on corresponding questions.

Reminders:

• Sightlines Test: tomorrow, April 6, 2016
• "I have a dream" questions: tomorrow, April 6, 2016
• Character paragraph: Friday, April 8, 2016

English 8

Welcome back!!!

We started off class with some notes on apostrophes. We then discussed Chapter 9 in The Outsiders, worked on questions, and students worked in groups on a quotation worksheet. We finished class by reading and discussing Chapter 10.

Reminders:

• Chapter 9 worksheet: due next class
• The Outsiders Quiz (Chapters 1-8): Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Engish 9

Welcome back!!!

We started off with some grammar editing; afterwards, I went over important quotes and themes in Chapters 12-15 in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Students then worked on questions and we read Chapter 17 as a class.

Reminders:

• BSP questions Chapters 12-15: due next class
• BSP Quiz (Chapters 1-15): Tuesday, April 5, 2016

English 10

Welcome back!!!

To start off today, I gave a review hand-out for the upcoming Sightlines 10 test on Wednesday, April 6, 2016. After that, we watched a video version of Roald Dahl's "The Landlady", which we read before the break. Students worked on corresponding questions afterwards. At the end of class, students started working on a literary character paragraph.

Reminders:

• "The Landlady" questions: due next class
• Sightlines 10 Test: Wednesday, April 6, 2016