Monthly Archives: February 2019
Wednesday February 6th, 2019
Good Afternoon,
*We Will continue to read our novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake”. We are now on chapter 6.
*Connections:
*”Identities” paragraph…where are we at?
New Short Story: “Long Long After School”. We will be reading this aloud in class.
Wednesday February 6th, 2019
Good Morning!
http://noredink.com/
Once at this site you will login with the username/password I give to you….When you first log in, it will ask you a series of questions based on your interests in pop culture. After this, there is an activity for you to complete on Building Compound and Complex Sentences. Make sure you go through the tutorial!
Yesterday, we completed the short story elements activity for “Long Long After School”, and worked on a Venn Diagram for Wes and Ms. Trethway.
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Open in new tab Your good copies will be due on Thursday September 14th, 2018
*Please print off your paragraph and submit on paper (sorry I find it is easier on my old eyes to mark on paper).
*I would also like you to post this on your Edublog. Please Tag the post with
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-We will go over the short story elements Worksheet for the short story “Long Long After School” (D Block)
-We will go over the Venn Diagram for Wes and Ms. Trethway.
-“A Teachers’ Rewards” –read aloud.
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Tuesday February 5th, 2019
Good Afternoon!
*We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake”. We are now on chapter 5.
*Connections:
-Peer edit
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Tuesday February 5th, 2019
Good Morning!
Yesterday, we looked at writing rough drafts from the template that you completed. We also looked at using transitional expressions and style within your writing. In addition, we continued to look at the short story “Long Long After School. You had time to complete your group activity on the short story elements of “Long Long After School”.
*Adding Quotes to your paragraph:
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Monday February 4th, 2019
Good Afternoon!
*We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Wake Before I Die”. We are now on Chapter 4.
*Connections of the day…
*Reminder that you will have a short stories quiz
Paragraphs on “Identities”.
The template that should be complete:
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Some resources I want you to think of as you transform your paragraph template into a rough draft:
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Monday February 4th, 2019
Good Morning,
Yesterday, we worked on the paragraph template for the short story “Identities”. We then moved on to the short story “Long Long After School”.
The template that should be complete:
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Some resources I want you to think of as you transform your paragraph template into a rough draft:
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You will have time to write your rough draft of your paragraph on “Identities”.
Complete the document below as a group on office 365:
How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike? Venn Diagram: Synthesis
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Friday February 1st, 2019
Good Afternoon,
*We will continue to read our novel “If I Should Die Before I Wake”. We are now on chapter 3.
*Connecting ourselves to the world around us:
-Reminder…you should be reviewing your prose Fiction terms
-Kahoot
-Yesterday, we worked on our paragraph template for our paragraph on “Identities”. Today, we will continue with this and you should now be typing up your template into paragraph form.
Friday February 1st, 2019
Good Morning,
On Thursday, we looked at the “yes/no chart” for Identities and looked at persuasive writing techniques as seen through commercials
We didn’t have a chance to look at the paragraph template…I would like to take a look at this template.
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This is a paragraph that we will be submitting for marks
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*Find Examples of ‘Irony’
Complete the document below as a group on office 365:
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