September 28

Humanities 8

Today we went over the current events quiz and discussed strategies for ensuring that we earn the mark which we deserve (proofreading, reading the question carefully etc).  We also went over a couple of common spelling errors (disease, drowning, their, they're, there).  Next we did a practice English quiz on our reading of The Outsiders.  Prior to this we reviewed the concepts of cause and effect.  We continued with our study of the novel by doing a worksheet on context clues and reading non-fiction pieces associated with topics in the novel.  Tomorrow students will write a short quiz on chapter 4. 

English 10

Today we started off the class by reviewing reading strategies and the comparison between aboriginal and biblical creation stories.  We followed this up with a discussion and some clips related to Orange Shirt Day.  Next we learned the word colloquialism and students were given an assignment on the short story Marcus the Great.  This assignment was handed in at the end of the class.

Here are the questions:

Before reading:  What are the similarities between you and your friends?  What are your differences? What similarities do you value the most?  What differences do you value the most?

During reading:  Pick out and record 2 examples of colloquialisms.

After reading: Write a response about the story.  What were your thoughts or comments about the story?  How does this relate to the concepts/themes of story and identity that we have been discussing?