Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday...I came home and decorated the Christmas tree with my family, and then had a family night after that. I just forgot to update! Here is what we did yesterday!
Period 1 & 2--ELA B 30/AP
The regular B 30 and AP 30s will be reading Hamlet at the same time, but their evaluation will be different, so for the most part, I can post these together. We finished going over Elizabethan England to set the stage for the mind-set of Shakespeare as he was writing these plays. Again, the focus is on the religious upheaval during Shakespeare's own lifetime and how that threads itself into the writing of Hamlet. After this, the period 1 class moved into jotting down a character map of the people to know in the play and then we were able to continue on to Act I. Period 2's class is still finishing up the power point for next class--because it has the AP group in it, we took a little more time to delve deeper into the antecedent action info. They will catch up as we start reading the play.
Period 3--Pre-AP 10
They were given this class period to work on their critique of Twelfth Night or Midsummer Night's Dream which is one of the requirements of the revised ELA B 10 curriculum. To "AP" this assignment up, I've assigned the kids the monumental task of not only critiquing the play they viewed, but comparing comedies to tragedies all at the same time. It is a difficult assigment, to be sure, but this is a talented group. I gave them a place to start and we outlined the structure together as a class and them go to it. While some struggled, others were able to dive right in. In order to help, I spent some time creating a sample of what it could look like that the kids will view on Monday to see if it will "kick-start" them. I will also be giving their Macbeth essays back on Monday. The students will have the opportunity to review my feedback and then re-do if they want.
Period 4--History 10
Miss Campbell is winding up her teaching with this group and when they are finished the French Revolution, she will move on to observe other classes. She has done an excellent job with these kids and I think we will all miss her when she finishes her intership at OHS. They summarized their information from yesterday to start out the class and then finished some questions and took them up together. She then had them watch a video clip on Napoleon and gave the kids some notes. They summarized this class's info and started in on a review assignment. They will continue to review on Monday for their test next week. It WAS going to be Tuesday, but she has now changed the date to Wednesday to accommodate for other exams that are going on that day for the grade 10s.
Period 5--History 30
Miss Lee continues with this class. They reviewed the information from yesterday by filling in the cloze exercize from the video clip they viewed. They had another chance to watch the video as it outlined the struggles the Fathers of Confederation had when going to London to get Queen Victoria to sign the British North America Act. There were a few notes we went over in the package she gave to us yesterday and some more blanks to fill in as they viewed. Miss Lee did a very good job of stopping and explaining the information as the kids viewed it.
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