Monday, October 2 - Friday, October 6

Friday
Time to work on the Performance project (Adobe Spark page).


Thursday

Today and tomorrow you have time to work on the Performance task for the Identity Unit.
Your Evidence of Understanding for the 5 stories we read is due tomorrow.
Block C/G  - Legend  of Sugar Girl - look in your personal folder/term 1. You will find 2 questions about Legend of Sugar Girl. Answer using complete sentences.

Wednesday
45 minute class - Performance task for the Identity Inquiry details are in OneNote/content library/

Tuesday

Look at the leaves day!

1. Irony practice.
2. Complete the work on Just Lather That's All - it is in OneNote/Collaboration space - you can do it in groups of 2 or 3. Paste a copy of the completed work into your personal folder.
3. Finish up the work on The Legend of Sugar Girl in OneNote/Collaboration space. Create ONE document in your own folder called The Legend of Sugar Girl. Paste ALL 4 of the documents into one page. It is up to you to ensure the work is completely done.
4. New Boy? done?

1. Today we will cover the last text for our Identity unit. Later this week you will be working on the final project for this unit.
2. POV - 5 types. There will be a quiz on short story terms at the end of this week:
plot, initial incident, exposition/introduction, rising action, climax, falling action/dénouement, conclusion, protagonist, antagonist, conflict (internal/external), point of view, character (dynamic, static, round, flat, stereotype, foil), mood, tone, epiphany, juxtaposition, flashback, foreshadowing, theme, chronological order.
2. Today's question is How is identity shaped by morals/values?

Monday, September 25 - Thursday, September 28

Thursday
Today we have computers booked.
Block C/G
- improve the group work for New Boy - put a copy of your group's work into your personal OneNote folder. Title it New Boy
Block B/F
- complete the group work on New Boy - put a copy of your group's work in your personal OneNote folder - 15 minutes
- complete the group work on Sugar Girl - create a page called in your OneNote folder - copy and paste all the pages into one document called Sugar Girl in your personal folder - 15 minutes

- work on your journals for your novel

Inquiry questions to use in your journals:
How does the world around us shape our sense of who we are and what we value and believe in?
How does family affect/influence identity?
How do life experiences affect/influence identity?
How do social connections affect/influence identity?
How does culture affect/influence identity?
How do our morals/values affect/influence identity?



Wednesday
Finish your novel by the middle of next week.

How does culture affect identity:  The Legend of Sugar Girl.
Look at the form answers for Rock Bottom
Block B/F - time to finish New Boy discussion.
Block C/G - you need to go back an look over your work on New Boy

Tuesday

Today is National Better Breakfast Day

I will be asking some of you to come in a lunch time this week to get caught up on late work.

Today we will spend a few minutes reflecting on the stories you have read so far and discussing how they fit with the "identity" of a short story.
Look at the form for Rock Bottom
Next, we will look at the question, How does culture shape identity and read the story, Legend of the Sugar Girl.

Monday
I was away, but you had the choice to read or view "New Boy". To show your understanding of the identity question, How is identity shaped by social connections, you are to place the answers to the Fact and Interpretation questions into OneNote, in your personal folder.

Monday, September 18 - Friday, September 22

Friday

"What a great idea!" I scream.

1. Fixing run-on sentences QUIZ.

2. Rock Bottom. How is identity affected by life experiences?

Thursday

Did you know...

Today is World Gratitude Day

What are you grateful for?

QUIZ on Friday! How to fix run-on sentences.
1.Today you have computer access.
2. The first thing to do is go over the poem you wrote last week, and using the criteria and the sample poem provided, write a reflexion in which you state what score out of 6 you should receive and why.
3. Today's question: How is identity shaped by family? Wild Horses short story.

Wednesday
QUIZ on Friday! How to fix run-on sentences.
Today is the first of our 45 minute Wednesday classes. We will do a gallery walk of your identity posters. As well, we will review the "identity" of a short story using Answer Garden. I will read a simple children's story - The Cat in the Hat - to review short story elements.



Tuesday

Who knew...

1. Complete the run-on edit sheet.

2. Choose your novel, if you haven't already done so. Read and journal in the form of a t-chart.

3. What elements affect a person's identity? Does a person's identity change/evolve over time?

4. TASK: "Container of Self" - 10 items/visuals/quotes that define you. 

3. Block G - we need to go over the back of the parallelism sheet.

Monday

Apparently it is Rice Krispies Treat Day

1. We will mark the parallelism sheet from last week sometime this class.
2. You will work on an "Edit Sheet" based on the Death of a Toad responses.
3. Discuss Death of a Toad responses in small groups.
4. Book talk for the Identity unit: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Indian Horse, Into the Wild.

September 11 - September 15

Friday
I have now completed a sketch of the Inquiry units for this year based on your preferences. We will be doing the Identity unit, but you can vote for Aliens, Life after death and Fake News. The top two will be the other units in addition to the Free inquiry where you can decide what you want to explore  - it just has to have a language arts elements to it somewhere.
Thursday
I was away today and I hope you have some creative writing (poems) to show me tomorrow!

Wednesday

Today is International Chocolate Day! ENJOY!
1. New parallelism practice.
2. Rubric for Death of a Toad - Sample paragraphs. Rubric.
3. Metaphors/simile/hyperbole - Top Gear - Write your own - abstract and concrete objects.

Her anger was a Styrofoam plate: sturdy, yet it easily crumbled to pieces.

Tuesday

1. Go over yesterday's parallelism hand-out. Hand it in to me. 

2. Review 3 levels/questions for reading. 

3. Block G - we have the laptops for you to write your reading response for Death of a Toad. Block F - we are in the library using the laptops there to write a response to Death of a Toad. 

Monday

What happened on September 11, 2001?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMQWzdc175A

Block B - I have the laptops booked for you
1. Introduction to parallelism.
2. Introduction to "3 questions for reading" - What does the text say? How does the author say what they say? What is the BIG IDEA (theme or message about life, society, human behaviour)?
3. Listen, sketch, draft - response to "Death of a Toad".

September 6 - September 8

TGIF! You made it through the first week of classes! WOOT! WOOT!

Block B
1. Advocating for these topics and voting.
2. Completing the gathering of info about your "Wants" for this course.
3. Begin to pull your group ideas together so that I can type up a course outline on the weekend.


Block H
We will be in room 506 for today's class. We will be taking a look at OneNote, and I will show you how to sign in at school and at home.

1. Advocating for these topics and voting.
2. Completing the gathering of info about your "Wants" for this course.
3. Begin to pull your group ideas together so that I can type up a course outline on the weekend.


Thursday

1. Today I am going to challenge you to help me co-design our course curriculum for the semester. All courses have a particular amount of "must-know" material which is determined by the Ministry of Education. My job during this course is to make sure all the must-know matter is included in our plan. Your job today and tomorrow is to contribute so that your voices and your choices are included in the curriculum plan we co-create for our class. 

Wednesday

Whew - it's hot outside!

Welcome to English 10!

1. Attendance - which pronoun do you prefer?
2. Fire drills.
3. Ice breaker - Your first pet's name + your mother's maiden name = your "nom de plume"
4. Course outline
5. Blog + OneNote/Office 365
6. Question 1 : What does poor learning and teaching look like? Make a list.
7. Question 2: What does really good learning and teaching look like? Put your cards on the table and sort them.
8. If you could show your understanding in English in any fashion, how would you choose to do it?
   - essay
   - writing a creative piece
   - speaking aloud to me, a small group, or to the entire class
   - making a visual (poster, Prezi, Keynote, PowerPoint, video, etc)
   - using artistic methods (painting, sculpture, dance, woodwork)
   - taking a traditional test (multiple choice, true/false, short answer essay)
 9. Consider each of the following and how you would like to see each worked into our class:
   - What are you most passionate about?
   - What are your goals?
   - What challenges do you enjoy discussing?

LAST WEEK OF CLASSES! Monday, June 15 - Friday, June 19

Monday

We watched the end of the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet today. As there was still 15 minutes of class remaining, we checked out a few minutes of the 2013 version.

Monday, June 8 - Friday, June 12

Friday
Today we watched the first part of the 1996 version of Romeo & Juliet.

Thursday
We had some technical difficulties, but eventually were able to view another short explanation video about Romeo & Juliet. Next, we took a look at the Prologue which was correctly identified as a sonnet by someone in the class. We spent some time reading the Prologue aloud "in the round". We also spent a bit of time on some terms and definitions related to drama/Shakespeare such as soliloquay, monologue, blank verse, puns, oxymoron, etc. At the end of the class we looked at three movie trailers for the various film versions of the play. I will try to have all three on-hand tomorrow and we can decide which one to watch.

Wednesday
We took a break from writing today and talked about Shakespeare's time. We listened to some Old English, Middle English and surprised a few people with the news that Shakespeare wrote in modern English! We looked at the Reduced Shakespeare Company's 12 minute version of Romeo and Juliet.

Tuesday
I was away today. The instructions I left with the TOC advised them that everyone should work on completing their essay.

Monday
I spent some time speaking to everyone individually about their essay thesis today. The essay beginnings that people shared with me looked good. Remember to think about Christopher as a person who grows and changes during the novel. Also, think about why the author might have decided to feature a person with Asperger's as the main character. What might Christopher's unique characteristics allow the author to point out about human behaviour, society, life?