Scholastic Book orders for November are due on Monday November 7. 8-04 Create a 30 second to 1 minute speech, no shorter, no longer, that you will be giving to the class on Thursday November 3. Remember to use the suggestions from class to help you prepare as that is how you will be assessed.
Tag Archive: Humanities
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 …
Thursday October 6
Please remember that there is no school tomorrow and Monday. Also, Tuesday October 11 is a Day 7. 7-01 & 7-07 Continue working on your Questions for Memoirists as we will be looking at this on Thursday October 13. 8-04 You should have your primary research done and have started to make a list of …
Monday October 3
Yes, it is already October. Wow, has that ever gone by quickly. We had a practice evacuation today that went very will especially considering Tom Baines has never done this before. October Scholastic Book Orders are due on Tuesday October 11 as there is no school on Monday October 10. 7-01 & 7-07 Students presented …