We will be using EDMODO until June - please visit this site for assignment
details and class notes. Remember you can set up automatic email or text for
alerts of new postings.
Romeo and Juliet will be our unit of study until Easter - please see Edmodo
(www.edmodo.com)for assignment details. If you misplace your account details
please email me.
Research paper now due Monday Feb 13th - Please submit final paper with APA
guidelines and rough copy in a duotang folder. ( if you choose not to get
your edited draft your final copy is still due Monday
January 2012
January 27th- this week was spent researching. No more class time will be
devoted to research. Students have APA booklets for paper guidelines and
instructions on how to create reference page using Word 2007. Rough copy of
papers are due Friday, February 3rd. Final copy is due February 10th. I am
available outside of classtime during the second half of lunch and
afterschool on Wednesdays.
We are now starting the research component of the curriculum. Research
proposals are due Jan. 20th - research paper details will be discussed in
class January 16th. Papers will be due 1st week in February.
Nov 28th - Students were given term projects for novel study - due Dec 16th
POSTPONED - these projects are now due January 9th, 2012
In class writing assessment- center on assignment sheet will ake place in
class on January 6th
1st journal entry for Speak is posted on Edmodo - this is due Nov 23rd
Glogsters are now due Monday Nov 21- make sure you log on to Glogster edu -
click edu green icon lower right of glogster home page.
Nov 14th - Short Story tests were returned today - students have until
Wednesday (Nov 16th) to re-do one question from their test. The answer is to
be posted on edmodo.
On Monday Nov 14th we are starting the novel Speak by Laurie Anderson.
Scary stories are now due on Nov 14th. Please use a duotang folder and have
the following order:
Title page
1/2 page about the author
Final copy
Rough copy
4 planning sheets
2 editing sheets
If you have printing issues please email your story and come see me before
class on Monday morning.
Glogster presentations start Nov 15th.
First Term Quiz November 7th and 8th - Short story and Poetry
We are currently working on scary stories in class. These stories will be
polished at home.These stories are due Nov 7th -
"Golden Girl" questions due Oct 19th
Oct 6 - please complete all questions on "Gore" for tomorrow
Oct 5th - Hollett 9(5) - absent and band students please complete vocab and
questions sheets on "Gore" for tomorrows class.
Oct 4th -
9(4) Read "Gore" page three Sightlines - absent students please log on to
edmodo and print terminology sheet( in Gore folder) - complete defintions for
homework. The examples from the story will be completed in class.
9(5) - complete worksheet on "Gore"
October 2nd 9 (4) - Please complete three questions and vocab on "The
Interlopers"
Wednesday and Thursday _ Sept 28/29 Band and absent students please view the
following video clip and complete the journal entry on a sheet of loose leaf
and in pen.
View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V1PQTS54zg
Do you agree with hunting and killing the animals responsible for the girl’s
death? Do you think that this will help prevent other deaths? Connect to
coyote and moose problem here in NL. What should happen to these animals.
Explain.
Tuesday Sept 27- please edit edmodo accounts and complete assignment posted.
Monday Sept 26 9(4) - please finish "How to tell reanta for tomorrow."
Thursday Sept 22 - 9(5) (Hollett) all questions on "How to Tell Renata" must
be completed for tomorrow's class. Please bring independent novel as well.
Tuesday Sept 20 - 9(4) Conroy - will present to class tomorrow. Please come
prepared. All worksheets for "Lamb to the Slaughter" corrected.
Started "How to tell Renata" p.119
Remember to bring your independent novels to class everyday.
Friday Sept 16th - Journal Entry completed in class on Mary and role of women
in media - see question sheet.
"Lamb to the Slaughter" in Sightlines p.10. All worksheets ( Mary's
character, point of view, types of irony) to be completed by
Monday September 19th.
Please bring your independent novel to Fridays class.
