January 8 - 12

Friday

1. Work on your mini-inquiry project.
2. Play a Kahoot!

Thursday
1. Present your min-inquiry proposal.
2. Read your novel.
3. Kahoot - drama terms - QUIZ ON TERMS NEXT WEDNESDAY!






Wednesday

1. Quiz on drama terms next Wednesday.
2. Practice drama terms.
3. Complete the proposal for your "Mini-Inquiry" - Thursday (tomorrow), in small groups, you will be pitching your mini-inquiry idea to us.




Tuesday

1. Bring your silent reading books to class for the rest of the semester.
2. Block B - Pear Deck
3. QUIZ on drama terms NEXT Wednesday, January 10

tragedy

juxtaposition

soliloquay

monologue

sonnet

iambic pentameter

blank verse

metaphor

simile

oxymoron

puns

alliteration 

hyperbole 

imagery 

allusion

4. Write the proposal for your mini-inquiry - DUE DATE is Thursday, January17:

PUT this work in the page in OneNote called "Mini-Inquiry

PROPOSAL

What is your essential question? Please share why it is meaningful to you?

What is your “performance task” going to be?

You are responsible for finding one quality example of the type of work you want to do and showing it to Ms. Adams 

You are responsible for finding a rubric to evaluate your performance task and going over it with Ms. Adams 

How will you make your learning public?

What will you need to read, research, and study to help explore your essential question?

What are your goals for your free inquiry?

What learning evidence (for your blog) will you gather to capture everything you are learning about your essential questions?

What is your plan? Create a calendar and day-to-day plan to help your free inquiry unit be a successful learning experience. Put this calendar in your blog

Create an inquiry ; - find a rubric - find an expert? or find an example to model- do a calendar plan for next week for each day work that will be done.

Monday

1. Welcome back and chat.
2. Mark quiz from before the break.
3. Pre-quiz + Literary terms & Pear Deck - you must find examples from Romeo and Juliet - QUIZ ON ?
5. The remainder of term 2 - Free inquiry

composition - written communication

For this inquiry, you would read and study compositions by other writers and consider a variety of styles as models for the development of your writing. You could write a narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, or an opinion piece. You would be using the planning, drafting, and editing processes. You would be writing for a specific audience.  If you choose to do a research report, you would investigate how to cite sources, consider the credibility of evidence, and evaluate the quality and reliability of the source

creative writing

This inquiry will give you an opportunity to build your writing skills through the exploration of your inquiry question in a range of genres such as slam poetry, oratory, rap, drama, song, graphic novels • creative non-fiction, historical fiction • poetry, song lyrics • multimodal creative forms that combine visual, written, and oral texts

focused literary study

This option encourages you to delve more deeply into literature where you can explore specific themes, periods, authors, or areas of the world through literary works. For example: poetry, short stories, novels, drama, graphic novels, children’s literature • Canadian literature • First Peoples’ texts • thematic studies • specific author studies

new media

If you choose to focus your inquiry on media and film studies, some possible inquiry areas might be the influence of the media on you; a documentary you are interested in, the influence social media has on you. 

You could do an inquiry about journalism and publishing —how could you become a professional journalist; what does it look like to be a journalist in the age of social media? what is citizen journalism? Is local journalism important? Is school-based journalism relevant? 

Or, you might decide to explore digital communication — your question might relate to blogging, writing for the web, writing for social media, gaming, podcasting

spoken language

This choice of inquiry will  provide you with an opportunity for performance, storytelling, or public speaking.