October 9

Humanities 8

Today we discussed criteria and students were reminded about the need to have a plan, a rough draft and a final draft to show evidence of the writing process for the project.  The remainder of the class was a work period.  Students were reminded that they have one more in class work period (in the library on Tuesday) to finish their project.  The project is due Thursday October 15.

English 10

Today we started off with a look at figurative language (language that is used to express deeper meaning beyond the literal meaning).    Some examples of figurative language are: simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole. Students were asked to start making a glossary of these examinable terms for English 10.  We went over definitions and students were asked to include examples as well. 

Today we did some reading and below are the tasks assigned.  Make sure your work is dated and kept in your binder!

Before:  

1. What would your dream life look like if there were no restrictions?
2. What is a self- fufilling prophecy?

During:  

Find 3 examples of figurative language (different types if possible) and identify what type they are!

After:  

1. Do you think Junior's parents fate was a self - fulfilling prophecy?  Discuss.
2. Draw (literal meaning) or analyze one of your examples of figurative language.  

October 8

English 10

Today we started off with a look at figurative language (language that is used to express deeper meaning beyond the literal meaning).    Some examples of figurative language are: simile, metaphor, personification and hyperbole. Students were asked to start making a glossary of these examinable terms for English 10.  We went over definitions and students were asked to include examples as well. 

Today we did some reading and below are the tasks assigned.  Make sure your work is dated and kept in your binder!

Before:  

1. What would your dream life look like if there were no restrictions?
2. What is a self- fufilling prophecy?

During:  

Find 3 examples of figurative language (different types if possible) and identify what type they are!

After:  

1. Do you think Junior's parents fate was a self - fulfilling prophecy?  Discuss.
2. Draw (literal meaning) or analyze one of your examples of figurative language.  

Humanities 8

Today we are going to continue to work on our Outsider Newspaper articles.  Students should be starting on their rough draft today!  Here is a checklist to make sure your plan is complete before you start working on your draft.  Remember the whole process of creating this project will be assessed! You will be asked to include you plan, rough draft and final draft of your project!

Checklist – Outsider Newspaper Assignment Name: ______________________________________

PAGE 1

 Name of newspaper

 Date

 Price

 Headline

 Picture

 Caption for picture

 1-2 sentence summary with reference to page 2

PAGE 2

Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes 

 Who?

 What?

 Where?

 When?

 Why?

 How?

 Who did you interview?

 What did they say?  Use quote marks!

 Include a writer of the article – yourself, staff reporter or make up a name

Your choice article

 Who?

 What?

 Where?

 When?

 Why

 How?

 Who did you interview?

 What did they say?  Use quote marks!

 Picture?

 Caption?

 Include a writer of the article – yourself, staff reporter or make up a name

Editorial Section

 Editorial #1 –who?

 Editorial #2- Who?

 Editorial #3 –who?

Rough Drafts 

 Juvenile Delinquents Turn Heroes

 Your choice article

 Editorials

Editing

 Spell check? Proper sentences?

 Formating? Organizing?

 Editor ____________________________________________________   Initials ___________

Final Draft

 Self-assessment

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

October 6

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. 

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

Humanities 8

Today we started off with a quiz on chapter 7.  Next we went over the important components of the newspaper article assignment.  Students were given the entire class to plan their newspaper assignment.  Their plan should be complete for tomorrow, so that they can start work on the computers. 

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   

October 2

English 10

Today we started off class by making some predictions about the novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by looking at the cover (title, pictures, text/font).  Students were asked to record their answers and date it as it will be part of a unit collection of work.   We discussed our answers as a class and there were some excellent predictions and comments made!  Next we looked at a powerpoint with some background information about the setting of the novel, which is a reservation in Washington State.  Finally, we listened to the author, Sherman Alexie, read the first chapter of the novel.  

*Students were reminded to hand in their Marcus the Great work. 

Humanities 8

Today we started off with silent reading (chapter 6).  We followed this up by reviewing the significance of sunsets and sunrises in the novel.  Finally, we worked on similes and metaphors.  We identified them on a worksheet, picked our favourite one and recorded a reason why we liked it so much, and then wrote our own similes and metaphors (3 each).  The topics were:

friendship 

school

weekend

cellphones 

novel 

(your choice)

My example of a metaphor:  Friendship is an anchor in the wild and unforgiving sea. 

An example from pop culture:  Life is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you are going to get.  (Forest Gump)

October 1 - Terry Fox Run

English 10

Today we did a quick review of bias with reference to the Indigenous vs Western Economic Worldview video clip and the comparison of the aboriginal and biblical creation stories.

Next we brainstormed a reading strategies prior to reading the story Marcus the Great.  Students were asked to do the following tasks and hand their work in at the end of the class.  

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?

Humanities 8

Today we started off with a quiz on chapter 5.  Then we completed a worksheet that helped analyze the Robert Frost poem in The Outsiders.  Finally, students were asked to write from a prompt related to chapter 5.   Students handed in their writing at the end of the class. 

Here are the choices:  

1.  The most beautiful view I had ever seen

2.  My over-active imagination was running away with me again

3.  A change of hairstyle/color

4.  Being homesick

5.  Words from a song/poem that are special to me

6.  Heroes and heroines