Wed Thurs and Friday Nov 30

Wednesday we had a soft opening for the new unit and I got to conference with most of the students in the class for their paper due Dec 4th

Thursday we had the quiz for the DOAS unit and then I think I got the rest of the class that was there in class conferenced with for the paper.

Friday we got the unit for Non-Fiction started officially and we had to watch something cool, so we watched Dr Brian Cox talk about the Thin Blue Line.

Tuesday Nov 27

We did a bit more on the writing today in class.

We will move on to the end of that tomorrow.

I did conference with every student present about their piece of writing, too.

We worked a bit on the stuff due Thursday, too.

Monday Nov 26

Notes from the board. This is what you write about.

and also the DOAS Webquest

So today in class we talked about the Pice of Writring we have to hand in ... and the due dates for DOAS part II, too.

We also got the questions for the rest of DOAS and ...lots of things.

I think by my count, we have 19 classes until the Break. Keep going!

Thursday and Friday Nov 23

Man ... Thursday was a football game that most of the school attended and Friday was the PD or PA Day ... I had to go to Corpus and learn about teaching stuff.

It was pretty cool.

In any case, we'll get back at it on Monday.

Wed Nov 21

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So ... it was a make up day. My art on the board wasn't nearly as good as it should have been, but ... I'm going to say one more time that I'm an English teacher and my sketching skills are lacking ... for now.

In any case, I had about ten students write a make up quiz and the other half of class were putting together the character sketches for the class.

These are the questions we should have done by now:

The ones under the lines

Ok on to tomorrow!

Tuesday Nov 20

So we got through the one version of the play.

We need to do a few more things before putting this unit to be and getting on to the next thing, though. We will continue tomorrow and then get on with the non-fiction unit!

On to tomorrow!

Monday Nov 19

A student in another class said I bear a resemblance to this teacher.

This week is a wild one ... I hope you strap yourself in!

Monday and Tuesday are going to be the "normal" days.

Wednesday is the International Food Day fundraiser schedule.

Thursday is the Football buy out day.

Today we got through to the start of Part 2 of Death of a Salesman and got 1,3 and 4 from 51-74 for homework.

We also chatted about doing a make up quiz date as there were so many away from school on Friday. It's all good, we will make it happen.

Thursday and Friday Nov 16

We continued with our DOAS unit, we got ready for tomorrow ...

There was no snow day today.

We did a quiz on DOAS, and then we thought about what we are going to do after DOAS.

All good.

Have an awesome weekend - next week is a three day week!

Wed Nov 14

All was good today.

It was weird in that I had to teach Grade Eight students during period two, and that I was missing a number of students today, too.

In any case, we worked our way through what a Quote Journal was today.

I remembered that I was supposed to post the Theme Study document yesterday and forgot. It is here.

Anyway, we moved forward on the play and got 2,3 and 4 from the questions from page 41-54.

All good all good.

Tuesday Nov 13

Ok ... I'm doing this rather late for me...

We discussed the next bit of Death of A Salesman, we watched the next part of the film and we were assigned some questions for homework.

I really, really want you to keep up with the homework.

We also talked about the Theme Study today

We'll do a quote journal together tomorrow, too.

Finally ... a bit of bad news ... Spiderman creator Stan Lee passed away today.

Monday Nov 12

Today we did the best with what we had.

We got to question 1 from pages 31-40 for homework.

I also set the due dates for the DOAS part one - it's Friday Nov 16.

What you have to hand in is on the right hand side of the blog and by the door of our classroom.

I was also able to conference with students about mid-term marks and input a few marks and correct errors in recording/reporting/handing in.

I also tried ot get the DVD player to work on the desktop in the room and .... no dice.

We will try again tomorrow!

Fri Nov 9

Yup, it's a weird day.

It's been a weird month so far.

In any case, we watched this video to illustrate an alternative theme in the play




We will start again on page 28 in the book version of the play on Monday.

Wed and Thursday Nov 8

Wed and Thursday were odd little days.

We finished off most of the seminars for Into Thin Air and got started on DOAS. I also handed out the Unit Outline for DOAS, too.

I also got to show (almost) everyone their mark in the class. I have to get updating a few marks, but I'm relatively happy with the way things are.

On to Friday!

Happy looks different in Avatar ... 

Tues Nov 6

Well, we got through two of the four seminars today.

We also watched the start of DOAS as I conferenced with students about their marks.



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Mon Nov 5

Here it is ... this is what you should watch after making sure that everything on the list is ready to go.


 

Fri Nov 2

Today we got our last quiz on Into Thin Air done.

We also had to hand in the last section of questions, too.

Then we started on our Death of a Salesman unit, but also watched a bit of this video, as a bit of an counter idea to that of the main character, Willie Loman:

Thurs Nov 1

Today we were working in the library on a bunch of material

Our seminars

Our material due tomorrow, along with prep for a quiz

and the material on Death of a Salesman, too