7-01 and 7-07: In the reading workshop, we took down notes on author purpose and theme. In social studies, a new project due on November 10. 8-04: student-teacher introduction and Edo Japan unit introduction.
Monthly Archive: October 2011
October 28, what has been accomplished this week?
7-01 and 7-07: *Please have your book in class on Monday We completed a peer review of everyone’s memoir on Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, the class created criteria to evaluate another persons work. On Thursday, I handed out criteria to evaluate memoirs in another peer review. Throughout this week we chose a topic in Canadian …
Thursday Oct 27
8-04 Today our Reading Response Journal entry was due. Your next response is due two weeks from today, Thursday November 10 Since many of you seemed really excited about the possibility of doing some slam poetry I decided to show off some other examples. If you are interested just do a google search and I …
Wednesday October 27
8-04 Please check your online marks for comments about your Middle Ages project. Today we spent some time working on writing and exploring poetry. It is great to see so many more people wanting to share their work with the class. I was even more surprised when you asked about doing a Poetry Slam after …
Tuesday October 25
7-01 Worked on choosing a topic from post-confederation Canadian history. Finished peer review of memoir. 7-07 Worked on making better notes using the 4 key concepts of notetaking and students are expected to have notetaking complete on their topic by this thursday. Finished peer review of memoir.
Tuesday October 25
8-04 There are still many of you forgetting to bring your books to class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You told me that you do not feel like you have the skills required to do research and present your findings. Therefore, I am going to work with you over the next little while to improve these …
Monday October 24
8-04 I am happy to say that we have finished our presentations on the Middle Ages. I have learned a lot from these presentations. I realized that many of you need some help with developing your research and presentation skills. The majority of you agreed based on the question I asked you this morning. I …
Wednesday October 19
8-04 We continued working on writing poetry and explored “alliteration” and its use in poetry. My hope is that everyone will begin to see poetry as something that they can enjoy and that it is not scary, or at least should not be. I am asking that everyone works on writing poetry. It does not …