Period 1--ELA B 30
Today we started in with the novel study of Night by Elie Weisel. The students had been assigned to read this for today. We talked briefly about the book and then I gave the students a handout with their assignment for the rest of the week on it. The first thing they need to do is think about four events from the novel that impacted Elie and what his personality was like at each event. From here, they need to think about how Elie's personality changed throughout the course of his ordeal. Toward the end of the class, we played a Jeopardy game to remind them of the some of the events in the novel.
Period 2--ELA B 30/AP 30 split
We finished watching the last scene of Hamlet today. We continued to examine the movie vs. the text for inconsistencies. As well, we discussed some of the motivations of Claudius as he allows Gertrude to drink the poisoned wine. I handed out some summaries of the last three Acts (we had to abandon writing our own summaries since the final exam is looming next week). With the remainder of the class, the students were asked to write down one question they still have about the play. We shared these questions and spent some time answering them together in a class discussion. Tomorrow we will be working on Gatsby for the AP students and Night for the regular ELA class.
Period 3--Pre-AP 10
We started our presentations of Animal Farm today. The students were presenting their "real" characters so we can make the connection between the fictional animal in Animal Farm and the real counterpart in the Russian Revolution.
Period 4--History 10
This is the second last class to work on their project on the Glorious Revolution. We'll be starting some review on Wednesday.
Period 5--History 30
We continued to look at Canada's role in World War I. We ended the class with a discussion of the "War Measure's Act" and whether the students think it is a good thing to have or a bad thing.
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