Period 1 & 2--ELA B 30/AP 30 split
We continue with Chaucer--we reviewed the "Miller's Tale" from last Thursday by summarizing it together and then looking at potential themes and purpose for the story. We determined that there is little in the way to offer with a theme by the Miller, given that his purpoe was primarily to mock the valour and chivalric concepts in the "Knight's Tale." With period 2's class, the APs spent a bit more time analyzing some of the interesting aspects of the "Miller's Tale" and learned about fabliaus as a literary genre. In both classes, we moved on with Chaucer by watching clips of animated versions of a few other tales: "The Nun's Priest's Tale," "The Knight's Tale," and the "Wife of Bath's Tale." I was able to locate clips of a few other tales so after we summarize and analyze the themes for these three tales, we will look at a few others. The final assignment for Chaucer for the regular B 30 class will be to write a persuasive essay as if they are Harry Bailey and they have to choose the winner of the story telling contest. The AP students will be doing a timed write.
Period 3--Pre-AP 10
We finished with our Assessing and Reflecting assignment on their own writing (Timed Writes from Macbeth) and moved into a quick lesson about point of view. We looked at the difference in a passage from first person point of view and then changed it to a 3rd person point of view narrative and examined the differences--strengths and weaknesses. After this, we started to get ready for the viewing assignment on Friday--most of the class will be attending the theatre performance of Twelfth Night and the ones that are not attending will view the movie version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The assignment I've prepared will work nicely for both options and covers 6 of 10 viewing outcomes for CR B10.2. We are all looking forward to this field trip and exciting opportunity to attend a play. We will continue getting ready to view in the next few days by doing pre-viewing activities and information about Shakespearean comedies as well as viewing strategies and techniques so the students are not just passive viewers.
Period 4--History 10
Miss Campbell very nicely left me a sticky note with what they covered in class and I promptly forgot it at school so I will update this tomorrow. I do know that they were focussing on Louis XVI, his wars in Austria and they were doing a reading with some questions on them. Sorry--I will be more specific tomorrow!
Period 5--History 30
We spent the first 10 minutes of the class reviewing the timeline at the back of the room together, focussing on the events that will be on their exam tomorrow. The students had this as a work class. They could study for their exam tomorrow or work on their assignments that are due Friday.
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