As I was away at the Dentist office all day :( these were the plans for the student on Friday:
Period 1 & 2--ELA B 30
There were a few kids who had to present their Beowulf Boasts today, so that was the first order of business. They would have been taped in my absence. After this, the students were to get down to work with Chaucer. The kids were given the prologue in their History of Language Booklets and they should have been split up into groups and assigned a character to two to translate. Once this is completed, we'll share our translations, so that each person isn't responsible for translating all 10 characters we will be studying.
Period 3--Pre-AP 10
The students were to continue with the poem "David" and are doing what's called a choral montage. They had to individually choose the 10 most importnat lines from the poem and then rank them in order of importance. There was hopefully some discussion about these lines as a class. These discussions usually lead to a greater understanding of the poem. After this, they should have split into groups where they would share their lines. As a group, they need to take their 40 lines and organize or re-organize them into a new poem that maintains the same general idea as the original. It's interesting to see the different interpretations the kids come up with. We would then share the "new" poems as a class.
Period 4--History 10
They were in the computer lab working on their American Revolution Timeline assignment with Miss Campbell.
Period 5--History 30
Sadly, with me not there, the only way I was confident about getting them the information was to give them handouts with questions. The reading wasn't exceptionally difficult, but it should cover the information on the American Revolution and Canada's contributions to the war. We'll finish up these questions and correct them on Monday.
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