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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday – September 18, 19, 20, 21

Agenda:

 

Thursday:

 

  • The rest of the FEC questions are due – have them up on your desk and QUIETLY play Free Rice or Bean, Bean, Bean
  • Discussion of the questions and work on the plot sheet

 

Wednesday:

  • Homework Check for # 1, 2 and 3 for FEC
  • play Free Rice or Bean, Bean, Bean during the check

 

Tuesday:

  • discuss the setting clues for pages 5 – 8 of FEC
  • read the rest of the story and work on the questions

Monday:

  • Free Rice
  • Review of Friday’s lesson
    • Setting etc.
  • First Story is in the Short Story Tab
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Monday – Thursday, September 18 – 21

Agenda:

 

FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

  1. BRING a PAPER COPY of your essay to class, and you will have an opportunity for someone to edit your essay or for you to use the checklist to review it. The good copy of the essay will be due Monday, September 25 to TEAMS.
  2. Complete Chomp Chomp Parallel Structure 2 (on the blog) but is #3 on Chomp Chomp website 1 – 10 by Tuesday, September 26

 

Steps for writing:

  • review the assignment documents: graphic organizer, instructions, attribution and quotes, rhetoric docs
  • steps to get you started
    1. Read through some of the other resources
    2. answer the questions in the organizational thoughts document in point form in your own words
    3. which quotes from the Ted Talks (which address the big ideas) are the most significant? how can those quotes connect to discussion of AI in education from the resources?
    4. start formulating a thesis, a stance, an argument… which resources from the ones provided will help you
    5. play around with Chat GPT: how can you utilize the tools for organization – perhaps an outline?
    6. use the graphic organizer to organize your thoughts and understanding of both sides of the issue – due Wednesday, Sept 20
    7. start writing

 

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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – Sept 18, 19, 20

Agenda

 

Wednesday

  • Homework check for #1 and 2 Pathways to Theme with Beekle
  • play Free Rice during the HW check

 

Tuesday:

  • continue with Beekle… discussion
  • start work on the Pathways to Theme document for Beekle (in the inquiry tab)

 

Monday:

  • one more video:
    • feelings? purpose? evidence? questions that emerge from the big idea explored?
  • Beekle: in groups of 2 or 3 answer the questions
  • if time, Pathways to Theme with Beekle
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Thursday, Friday – September 14, 15

Agenda:

 

Thursday

  • Introduction to Inquiry into the Human Condition
  • what is the human condition? discussion
  • we will review quotes, images, and videos from the Inquiry Tab to discuss the HC
  • Create a document, title it Exploration into the Human Condition

Friday

  • continuation of yesterday’s activities
  • discussion of the turn-in to TEAMS for your intro-writing assignment, which is due tonight

 

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Thursday, Friday – September 14, 15

Agenda:

 

Friday:

  • homework check for the 10 sentences with parallel structure (Ch. 26) – review
  • discussion of the Pro-article
  • go over the essay assignment

 

Thursday

  • homework check for #1 – 11 the Con article – discussion
  • read a pro-stance article #3 in under the Assignments heading in the RED TAB – discuss
  • introduction to the essay documents
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Thursday, Friday – September 14, 15

Agenda:

 

  • Reminder that your Visual Resume is due tomorrow night – we will review the turn-in process to TEAMS on Friday
    • remember your are saving your PP as a PDF – the PDF will be uploaded to a blog post (which you can keep private if you want), then you will turn-in the PUBLISHED blog post link to TEAMS
  • Intro to the short story unit – take some notes on the class discussion on a piece of paper or a Word document – title it ‘Notes on the Short Story’ and save it in your English 9 folder – Short Stories:
    • a. what is literature?
      b. why do we tell stories?
      c. why are stories important?
      d. What is a short story? …other than it is short
      e. How can we better understand a story when we read?
      f. Brainstorm about what is being communicated in this image?:
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Tuesday, Wednesday – September 12, 13

Agenda

Wednesday

  • quick homework check for #1 – 8 (sets of 4)
    • work on the Con-article questions (#1 – 11) during the homework check
  • We will go over the parallelism and discuss the next activity (the 10 sentences that are not parallel) in Ch. 26 doc – this is due Friday, Sept 15
  • Finish the questions for the Con-article – due tomorrow (Thursday, Sept 14)

Tuesday

  • discuss the assignment: the what and the how of it (the document is on the red tab)
  • Intro to parallelism – first part is due tomorrow (document is in the Writing and Grammar tab)
  • review the rhetorical strategies in the two Ted Talks (see docs in the red tab)
  • read an article – do the questions
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Monday, September 11

Agenda:

 

Today is a shortened schedule day:

  • Homework check for the Annotations on the AI Ted Talks assignment- we will discuss this today
  • please play either of the following English Language enrichment games during the homework check:
  • Introduction to other forms of Rhetoric and Parallelism (documents for this are in the Writing and Grammar Tab of the blog)
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – September 11, 12, 13

Agenda:

Wednesday:

  • last class day to work on the Visual Resume (see order of work below)
  • how to turn your PP into a PDF
  • MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ENGLISH FOLDER WHERE YOU ARE SAVING ALL YOUR WORK FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT: THE POWERPOINT, PICS, WORD DOCS, THE PDF ETC.! – ALL SHOULD BE IN ONE PLACE

Tuesday:

  • We will continue to work on the Visual Resume
  • Steps:
    • the paragraph for the three prompts should be finished and ready for editing: proper capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure
    • decide on your colour scheme based on the connection to your personality traits – see the template of the PP
    • write the first page – the cover letter – edit… same as above
    • choose your images for the second page – items, places, activities that reveal aspects of your personality – these images can be personal photos or internet icons/images
    • don’t forget about your quotes: one that someone would say about you and one that reveals/explores your philosophy of life
    • take a good selfie or get a good head shot photo from your personal photos to use one page one and two of the Visual Resume

 

Monday is a shortened schedule day:

  • Homework check for the assignment Step One of Visual Resume
    • you have picked three of the prompts and made thorough notes on each
  • please play either of the following English Language enrichment games during the homework check:
  • Introduction to the writing assignment (the materials for this will be posted on the top RED tab of the English 9 drop-down pages on Monday)