Period 1& 2--ELA B 30/AP 30
We continued with some of the background work for Hamlet by focussing on Elizabethan England to help the students understand what the audience would be experiencing. This always creates interesting conversation as the kids realize the difference between modern society and society during Shakespeare's time.
Period 3--Pre-AP 10
We finished looking at the technical aspects of the plays viewed last Friday and moved on to looking at an exemplar of a critique. We read a critique about a stage play of Macbeth set during Stalin's Soviet Union. Some of the descriptions of the play made it sound "interesting" to say the least, but the kids were able to see what the power of the critique is like. Their job is to write a critique on the movie/play they viewed, but to make it more complex, they have to formulate their critique by analytically comparing the comedy to the tragedy we all read (Macbeth). This is definitely a challenging assignment but I think they're up to the task.
Period 4--History 10
Miss Campbell had the students summarize the rise to power of Napoleon. Then, they went over the questions from yesterday's lessons. A power point with some notes followed as well as a handout with some more questions for them to tackle. THE STUDENTS HAVE AN EXAM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DECEMBER 6, 2011. After this, I'll be taking over the class as we examine the Glorious Revolution and the English Civil War.
Period 5--History 30
Miss Lee taught the class again today. They continued the confederation clip from Canada: A People's History Video Series. They were then given some time to fill in some blanks they should have gotten from the video. After this, we corrected them together as a class. Miss Lee followed this up with another video clip to show the conferences leading up to confederation at Charlottetown and Quebec. An exit slip followed where the students had to consider if each region should have equal representation in government.
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