Monday, February 22, 2016

Monday, February 22 - Friday, February 27


Wednesday

  1. Review plot terms and a few other short story terms. 
  2. Game about short story terms. Hot seat.
  3. Begin reading the short story “ New Boy.” Before reading: 4 Quadrants of a thought based on film version - language, images, physical sensations, emotions. During reading: 4 Quadrants of a thought based on the text of the story. After reading: Group placemat.

 Tuesday

  1. Look at a few more slides from the French Revolution slide show. Work on filling-in the placemat. In the bottom right box put thoughts and actions related to the revolution - for example: things individual citizens might have been feeling, or doing, ideas or movements that were beginning to form in groups of people, changes in the society and the system/government.
  2. Model how to do synectics. Marie Antoinette and cake. When you receive your picture and synectics paper, you must state how your person is/is not like ONE of the things. Then pass the paper on to another group. Don't know anything about your person? You have a world of information in your phone.
  3. Crash Course in History video: the French Revolution. Ancienne Regime, Englightenment, Estates General, National Assembly, Tennis Court Oath, Storming of the Bastille, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens (DROMAC), Constitutional Monarchy...
Monday

  1. French Revolution slide show. Before viewing, fill-in the top left of your placemat with reasons why you believe a revolution took place in France. Think about the information we covered last week. In the top right box, write down what the slide show suggests were the reasons for the revolution. In the bottom left box, record info about the 3 Estates. In the bottom right box put thoughts and emotions related to the revolution. In the middle box OR top left things individual citizens were feeling; bottom left, ideas/movements that were beginning to form; top right, things individuals were doing; bottom right, changes in the society and the system/government.
  2. Complete work on a famous person from the French Revolution.  Find a good image of them from an online source. Show it to me and I will help you print it. Get it from the library. Complete the synectics boxes with 2 terms/ideas that are in some way connected to the French Revolution ex. prison, guillotine, war, tennis court, palace, society, tax. When you receive your picture and synectics paper, you must state how your person is and isn’t like the two objects and why.
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Monday, February 15 - Friday, February 19


Friday
  1. Complete the research about the Enlightenment thinkers. Put this in your folder.
  2. Sign-up for a famous person from the French Revolution.  Find a good image of them from an online source. Show it to me and I will help you print it. Get it from the library. Complete the synectics boxes with 2 terms/ideas that are in some way connected to the French Revolution ex. prison, guillotine, war, tennis court, palace, society, tax. When you receive your picture and synectics paper, you must state how your person is and isn’t like the two objects and why.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Jacques-Pierre Brissot

  • Charles de Calonne

  • Lazare Carnot

  • Marquis de Lafayette

  • Louis XVI

  • Marie-Antoinette

  • Jacques Necker

  • Maximilien Robespierre

  • Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès 
Thursday

  1. Complete work on "Horrible Histories" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8pgbnN7PII and produce 4 Quadrants notes. During viewing: in 1 of the quadrants write/draw Summary (who, what, where, when, why, how). After viewing use the other 3 quadrants for: Organization  -  form, structure, features, PAM (purpose, audience, message); Quotes
  2. Personalities of the Revolution - anticipation guide
  3. Complete the research about the Enlightenment thinkers.
  4. What I don't know about you: partners pick an Enlightenment thinker they want to know more about. Ask your partner as many questions about them as you can. They must repeat back as many of your questions as they can remember
Wednesday

  1. Review the 3 Estates of French Society: Walkabout Review: Recollections, New Understandings, How can I apply this/ connect this to school, to life?
  2. Watch "Horrible Histories" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8pgbnN7PII and produce 4 Quadrants notes. During viewing: in 1 of the quadrants write/draw summary (who, what, where, when, why, how). After viewing use the other 3 quadrants for : organization: form, structure, features, PAM (purpose, audience, message); quotes
  3. Personalities of the Revolution - anticipation guide - complete the research about the Enlightenment.
  4. French Revolution Power Point
Tuesday

  1. Draft 2 of your essay is due http://www.grammarcheck.net/ultimate-essay-writing-guide/
  2. The French Revolution timeline - go over together 
  3. The FR in a nutshell    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo
  4. French Society. - human pyramid to understand the Estates. View:  Horrible Histories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8pgbnN7PII
  5. Complete viewing song about the French Revolution http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution
  6. Personalities of the Revolution - anticipation guide - research the people of the Englightenment
  7. French Revolution Power Point
Monday


  1. Draft 2 of your essay is due tomorrow http://www.grammarcheck.net/ultimate-essay-writing-guide/
  2. NEW! What were the causes of the French Revolution (FR)? 
  3. Graffiti quotes - move around the room in groups responding to the quotes about the French Revolution 
  4. The FR timeline
  5. The FR in a nutshell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEZqarUnVpo
  6. Song about the French Revolution http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution
  7. Personalities of the Revolution - anticipation guide
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Tuesday, February 9 - Friday, February 12

OOPS... It's Thursday and I haven't posted all week? That's a first. As a short-cut, I am pasting in the daily schedule that is up in the classroom each day.

Friday

  1. Silent reading
  2. Edit quiz & mark
  3. Finish quotes sheet
  4. Time to work on D2 of essay - see me for help if needed - good copy is due on Tuesday

Thursday

  1. Return essay + provide feedback
  2. Using quotes in an essay
  3. Edit practice - quiz tomorrow!!!
Wednesday
  1. Silent reading
  2. Transition practice
  3. Essay worksheet #3
Tuesday

  1. Mark transition practice
  2. Essay practice #3 - conclusions
  3. Essay evidence of quality on essays
  4. Assess the novel autographs
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Monday, February 1, 2016

Monday, February 1 - Friday, February 5


Friday
Today we were in room 100 for the entire class to give everyone a chance to work on the essay for Unwind. Draft 1 of the essay is due on Tuesday, February 9. The rubric for the essay was handed-out in class on Thursday and it can also be found in the links section of this blog.
The topics for the essay are listed below.

  • Discuss the value of human life as it is presented in the book.
  • Discuss government control as it is presented in the book.
  • Discuss survival as it is presented in the book.
  • Discuss parenthood as it is presented in the book.
Thursday
We tried some new techniques to add to our toolkits for persuasive writing: transitions
embedding quotes. Tomorrow will be you chance to get the draft of the Unwind essay well underway, or even done! See below for some good info about essays.
essay writing: http://www.grammarcheck.net/ultimate-essay-writing-guide/
Wednesday
After silent reading, we looked at two strong examples of grade 9 essays to pull out of them the elements of quality essays. This produced a bunch of post-it notes with your ideas about quality which I will turn into a rubric that you can use to write your essay, and I can use for the assessment/evaluation of your essays.

 Tuesday
Happy Groundhog Day! During silent reading, I handed back the essay practice about introductions and we tried writing a hook/general opening in the form of a question. Remember! Your first sentence can be a question, but your thesis should not be a question. Following that, I handed back yesterday's thesis statements and we tried choosing a different topic for the essay and writing a new thesis statement. Towards the end of the class, there was time to get down to writing the introduction of your Unwind essay.
Monday
We are going to focus on English for most of this week in order to get the first draft of the Unwind essay completed by the end of the week. So, we reviewed thesis statements and why they are so important and where they appear in the essay. Next, I offered four topics to choose from for the subject of the essay. We practiced writing thesis statements and sharing them with others.
I collected the SQ3R work that was done related to pages 150-154 in Crossroads.
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