I hope everyone had an excellent Easter Break! I spent 10 days in Italy and France, so while it wasn't exaclty restful, it was a lot of fun!
Period 1--ELA B 30
We are continuing with Beowulf but needed to backtrack a bit today to remind the students of what we had studied to get their heads in the right space to tackle this Old English, epic poem. We reread the handout from before the break that explains what epic poetry is, a bit of the history/culture of the temporal setting and then moved into an anticipation guide that we had started before the break. The questions were discussed orally and we had very little time for reading the graphic novel. We will continue with this tomorrow.
Period 2--AP 30
In an effort to continue our exam prep, we spent today looking at the prose excerpt from the 2012 exam. We read the prompt together and looked at the importance of coordinating conjunctions when making sure they've answered everything! The students had a few minutes to go through the prose passage, consider the prompt and then write a thesis statement for an essay they could write. For the last few minutes of class, we examined the free response question--again, the coordinating conjunctions are important to guide the essay responses.
Period 3--AP 10
We actually spent some time talking about the French Revolution because many of these kids already took it in history and I saw a lot of the things we learned about in History 1o while on my trip. After they asked as many questions as they could to waste as much class time as possible, we got down to work after a few good laughs! We are going to be taking the play version of Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" so there were some pre-reading questions we discussed to get the students thinking about the issues surrounding parenting, responsibility, and technology that they will see in the literature. We will start reading tomorrow.
Period 4--History 10
Due to the fact that we couldn't get any computer time to work on our research assignment before the break, we used today and will have tomorrow for the kids to use it. I'd like this to be finished for Tuesday after their class so I can get the information together to create their open-book exam.
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