Monday, 5 October 2015

October 5

Humanities 8

Today after our check-in and silent reading (chapter 7).   Students were asked to brainstorm answers to the following questions.

What are the features of newspapers?

What are the questions that a newspaper article answers?

After that students were introduced to an newspaper article assignment.  At this point students were directed to plan out their 2 page newspaper.  

A small quiz on chapter 7 will be given at the beginning of the class tomorrow.  

English 10

Today we started off with a brainstorm on the following question:

Why is creative writing an important skill to develop?

Next we discussed the narrative option writing piece of their final exam and we did a practice piece of writing.  The prompt was:

You'll never guess what happened.    

When students completed their writing, they were asked to write an A-Z list of types of writing.  For example:  

A - apology, adventure story 
B - biography
C- cartoon   


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