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 …
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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
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 …
Tuesday October 18
8-04 Be prepared to present your Middle Ages projects tomorrow, Wednesday October 19. Make sure to look over the rubric to see what is expected. I will randomly select students to present so everyone must be ready. This is the only fair way to do it. I was pleased to see how things went the …
Monday October 17
Mr. Fodchuk is now teaching both 7-01 & 7-07 and he will be doing so until the end of November. He will be using this Homework Blog to record his new and assignments. Beginning October 31 he will also begin teaching 8-04. To contact him please visit the “Contact” section of D2L and find his …
Thursday October 13
7-01 & 7-07 We continued working on our memoir by examining the Questions for Memoirists activity that we started last Thursday. We then did a workshop that had the students narrow down their topic so that they could begin the first draft of their memoirs. We looked at some terminology and definitions related to the …