Happy Valentine's Day! I realized too late, that I should have been doing all kinds of love poetry today! Oh well--maybe next year!
Period 1--AP 30
We corrected their proof-reading and editing worksheets together. From there we moved onto looking at their thesis statement assignments. We went through the poem first. This took up the rest of the class, so we'll finish up with this tomorrow and move onto some satire by Jonathan Swift after that!
Period 2--Pre-AP 20
They had this period to work on their timed write. They were given two sonnets from which to choose to write their in-class essay. They will be able to have time to finish it tomorrow.
Period 3--ELA A 30
They had time to complete their proof-reading and editing worksheet as they missed out on it. then, we moved onto a new poem. We did some pre-reading activities by anticipating what kind of "Canadian voices" we might learn about in ELA A 30 and what types of things those voices might write about. This segued nicely into looking at native voices. We discussed some more about the point of contact between First Nations people in Canada and Europeans and the lasting impacts on both parties. The discussion led us to review (for those that have already taken History 30) smallpox, assimilation, treaties, Residential Schools, and acknowledge the societal guilt that many Euro-Canadians feel as a result of these rather brutal aspects of our shared past. Before the bell rang, we just finished reading the poem "Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border" by Alootook Ipelli. We'll continue this tomorrow.
Period 4--Pre-AP 10
We went over their editing/proofreading worksheet together as a class which taught them a few things about WHY some of their writing was ineffective. Yesterday we finished practicing creating thesis statements from an old AP exam. We did this together as a class. Today, they received an "new" old exam and their assignment is to come up with one thesis statement for each of the essay questions. To help them along, I helped them deconstruct/unpack the prompts and read the passages out loud to them. These thesis statements are due on Friday.
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