December 19, 2011

Period 1--ELA B 30
These students had this class to work on their representing assignment from Act II in Hamlet.  They had to choose a quotation from Act II and depict that quotation in visual format.  It is due on Thursday before we go off on holidays.

Period 2--EL B 30/AP 30 split
ELA B 30--These students worked on the quotations from Act II and then we went over them together in class.  It allowed for a good overview and review of the content in Act II.
AP 30s--The wrote their timed write during this class.

Period 3--Pre-AP 10
The students read Martin Luther King, Jr's speech "I Have a Dream" and they highlighted 5 things from the speech that they found particularly poignant.  After they were finished, we reviewed the speech together as a class and discussed why we chose the passages that we did.  As we did this, the students gained a broader understanding of the content and a finer appreciation of some of the rhetoric and oratorical devices employed by King.  Tomorrow, we will look at some of those devices in more detail and listen to Dr. King's speech.

Period 4--History 10
We continued with the English Civil War today by learning a bit about James I of England (James VI of Scotland) and the struggle that mounted tension between the British parliament and the monarchy.  We moved onto a power point with a cloze exercize that examined the mistakes made by Charles I.  The students are prediciting dire things for the monarch!  We were just getting into the Roundheads vs. the Cavaliers as the bell rang.

Period 5--History 30
Miss Lee finished the idea about the Sunny Way by going over the old fable that inspired Laurier's famous compromise.  After this, she had the students provide her with some feedback about her teaching.  I took over the class again and we jumped right into dealing with the treaties signed between the First Nations and the federal government.  As always, we had some excellent converstations about self-government and the pitfalls that could present as well as learning new information about how the treaties were signed.  In order to help us organize our information, the students wrote on a sticky note what they THINK they know about the treaties and we started a RAN chart.  We are reading a  handout called "Hard Bargains" and the studnets will see if what they wrote down was correct or a misconception.  We will also figure out what they learn from reading this handout!