Monday, January 18 - Friday, January 22

Friday

After silent reading, we spent some time going over what a thesis statement is and where it should appear in a basic essay (last sentence in the introduction). Everyone took the "Thesis Pledge" to ensure that on their essay they would not produce a deficient thesis. We will finish taking a look at the sample thesis statements and assessing their value next week. At the end of the class there was some more time to finish off the life-sized characters for Unwind.
Thursday

To begin today we headed down to the library to collect a new novel of the realistic fiction kind. We skipped the essay practice related to thesis statements to provide more time to work on the life-sized characters and the novel autographs.

Wednesday

After silent reading we did the Unwind final quiz and then marked some of it - the remaining questions are ones I will evaluate.

Tuesday
I collected the filled-in notes about the sections of Chapter 5 from the Crossroads textbook. Afterwards we did an SQ3R for the remaining sections of the chapter which involved looking at the headings on the 5 pages, coming up with a question related to each heading, reading each section and finding the answer to our question, or creating a new question which did have an answer to it in the text.

Monday
Once silent reading was over, we returned to the Crossroads textbook and went over the sections on factories and child labour, completing a set of notes by filling-in the blanks. The handout about these sections is due tomorrow. Towards the end of the class, we looked at a portion of another "Industrial Revelations" video for 7 minutes and continued adding to the ABC brainstorm about the IR. At the very end of the class, we looked at the Bitesized history web site to continue adding to the ABC sheet.