October 7

Humanities 8

Today we briefly reviewed the tasks for today at the library.  The most important priority was to print off pictures to go along with the 2 newspaper articles the students are preparing.  After that students were directed to work on their plan for their paper.  A few people were ready to start drafting their articles. 

Please makes sure you have notes for both articles that look like this before starting the drafting stage:

Article Name

Who? 

What? 

Where?

When?

Why?

How?

Quote (from a pretend interview!) 

The remainder of the class was for students to work on their projects!

English 10

Today we started off the class with a look back at the story Marcus the Great after a last call for last weeks work on this story.  Students were asked to fill in a chart comparing Marcus and Kelly using exact words from the story whenever possible. 


                                          Marcus                                  Kelly

Appearance

Environment

Personality traits

Likes

Goals

Self -talk (story)


After completing this chart students were asked to answer the following:

How do the themes of identity and story relate the story Marcus the Great?    Students had been asked to do this a couple of classes ago.  After assessing student work it was apparent we had to revisit this topic.  Students were asked to hand this work in when they were finished or to finish it off for homework. 

Finally. students were asked to start making a glossary of English 10 terms.  Students were asked to define the terms and provide an example (if possible).  Here are the 5 terms:

bias
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole