Period 1—AP 20s
They started a
timed write yesterday that many of them need to finish. They are welcome to about half of the class
to complete this, but I don’t want them to take much more than that. They have to learn time management skills in
their writing. For the remainder of the class when they get
finished, they can use it as a “clean-up” class. They have a “take” due on Friday and also
need to have their novel completed for tomorrow’s class (it’s about half and
half—many are reading Life of Pi and
the rest are reading Huckleberry Finn). We’ll be starting our study of this tomorrow.
Period 2—AP 30
Jon Farrell (Eli’s
intern) is teaching this. They are just at the closet scene, so there is a lot going on.
Period 3—AP 10
We started Animal Farm yesterday, and their
assignment was introduced. There is a
paper copy of the assignment that I’d like to be handed out. They get computer time to start on this
tomorrow. In the meantime, I’d like you
to go over some of the info/analysis of the novella.
Show the
students the power point. Some of this info may help them with their
assignment. Once that is finished, they
can start planning out their assignment.
We don’t have the computer lab until tomorrow, but they still have to
decide what character and then they can start making a list of characteristics
of their chose. I was going to choose
for them, but since I’m not there, they can choose from: Squealer, Old Major, Napoleon, Boxer,
Snowball, Mollie, Farmer Jones, Moses, the dogs, and any other characters I’m just
not thinking of. Encourage them to not
all choose the same one. If I find that
they have, I will have to assign new characters when I come back tomorrow.
Period 4--History 10
We are
continuing with the French Revolution.
We’ve been watching a fabulous documentary. The kids have
about 20 minutes left to go to watch the documentary. They are supposed to be taking notes down as
they watch. Once they are finished
watching it, as a class, we share our notes and discuss what we learned. This will probably take most of the
class. If they finish a bit early, there
are a few that need to do the questions that were assigned the other day when
Mrs. Adelman was in. If they are
finished everything, they can start DEAR time early. In case you can’t find the documentary, this should be the
address you need. 
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