Period 1--AP 20
We went through the writing sins that they've committed in the past few months. Then they were given some time to work on their Life of Pi or Huckleberry Finn essays. We will have one more class to work on these so the students have access to me before they are expected to write it on their own. The due date was set for the Friday when we are back from Christmas holidays. They were also handed out copies of Medicine River to read over the break. This is a great novel by Thomas King.
Period 2--AP 30
Mr. Farrell recapped Friday's reading by watching the last scene of Hamlet in Branagh's version. The students then wrote a paragraph on the choices made by the director and the possible reasons for them. With the last few minutes of class, we examined the Gibson version of the final scene so the students could contrast the viewing.
Period 3--AP 10
We went through the writing sins that they've committed in the past few months. Then, they were given their Macbeth essays back. I did not give them a mark with their essays, but the papers are "marked up" by me. The students were given an evaluation sheet and asked to mark their own. Then, they had a choice to make. If they wanted to a accept the mark I assigned it, I would give them their evaluation sheet. If they wanted to re-do the essay and make changes based on my comments, I would re-mark it. They had to make a choice though, based not on the mark they got, but on the evaluation comments I made throughout their paper. They have until after Christmas break. All of them chose to re-write.
Period 4--History 10
We listened to Amanda's current event assignment. Once that was finished, we were able to continue with our French Revolution power point about Napoleon. Then we had supplementary information on Napoleon in a handout given to them. We nicely finished it when the bell went.
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