Thursday Jan 31

Well, we are done.

I'm working away on the final marks - don't have them yet.

See you Monday!

Friday and Monday and Tuesday

We finished the writing part of the CA on Friday.

Seriously, we did

and now we are on to the presentations.

Presentations started Monday and today. We will finish them off on Wednesday.

Thursday Jan 17

We started the CA today.

It's due tomorrow at the end of the class.

Let's get this done, people.

Wed Jan 16

We kept working on the CA's today - they are looking awesome!

Tuesday Jan 15

We did a couple of things today, then got to work.

We chatted very briefly about Thursday and Friday this week.

We also talked about what the Non-Fiction and CA pieces of writing should look like.

I then turned the students loose and they used class time to work on their CA's.

During this time, I also did one on ones with the students present and showed them updated marks.

Monday Jan 14

Here is the exam review

I will dress this post up after Period Three is over today.

Woo. Go us!

I will remind everyone to check the exam review tonight for tomorrow's class.

Check the exam review!

Fri Jan 11

We worked on our Non-Fiction piece of writing and our CA piece of writing.

It's all good.

I look forward to reading it all.

Thursday Jan 10

We continued today on the writing tasks.

I did also post the due dates for the Culminating Activity.

I will post a document to hlpe you with it and an exam review shortly.

Wed Jan 9

We continued work together using conferenceing on the piece of writing.

And we also started a soft opening to the culminating activity to this course today too.

I will post the due dates shortly.

Tuesday Jan 8

So ... today in class we are working on the other parts of the last unit ... here is the assignment we begin today:

Task Three - Non-Fiction piece of Writing

What is the best way for a person like yourself to learn something that would help them in their chosen career or life path?

APA Style report, due Jan 18 of about 300 words.

Knowledge/ Understanding Topic/Theme	·   demonstrates a limited understanding of topic or theme	·   demonstrates some understanding of topic or theme	·   demonstrates a considerable understanding of topic or theme	·   demonstrates an insightful understanding of topic or theme
Thinking/Inquiry Explaining	·   explains the issues with limited effectiveness	·   explains the issues with moderate effectiveness	·   explains the issues with considerable effectiveness	·   explains the issues with a high degree of effectiveness
Forming Conclusions	·   forms illogical or no conclusions from evidence	·   forms flawed conclusions from evidence	·   forms logical conclusions from evidence	·   forms insightful conclusions from evidence

Monday Jan 7

Happy 2019!

We started with a discussion of what to expect for this course over the next few weeks. The Culminating Activity dates we picked are Jan 17, 18, 21 and 22. I did try and avoid making my students have more than on CA being due with those dates.

We continued on with our unit on Non-Fiction.

Due dates for the Non-Fiction unit assignments were mnetioned and are on the right hand side of this blog. I finished a few presentations today and have a few more to do tomorrow.

I did hand back all material I had marked and recorded for this class. I'll have updated marks by the end of the week.