1D Class Content from Wiki February 2012 – June 2012
February
1 - course overview; introductions; general classroom information; short story - "Gore"; homework: brief assignment for Friday
2 - DEAR; short story continues; refresher of terms
3 - shortened class; "Gore"; bananagrams; hand in intro assignment
6 - "Gore"
7 - peer edit anecdotes; listen to and discuss "This is me in grade nine"; homework: read "Lamb to the Slaughter"
8 - "This is me in grade nine" creative assignment; "Lamb to the Slaughter" analysis
9 - DEAR; hand in Anecdote; "Lamb to the Slaughter"; compare and contrast with "Goodbye Earl"; homework: do a plot graph
10 - Finish up "Lamb"; watch movie; start next assignment: storyboarding
13 - last bits for "Lamb"; storyboarding + work time; "The Interlopers"
14 - finish up "The Intelopers"
15 - "The Blue Bead"
16 - DEAR; finish "The Blue Bead"
21 - teacher home sick - students given time to finish "The Blue Bead" and then read "The Taste of Melon"
22 - Storyboard finished version due; take up "The Blue Bead"
23 - mock story test; DEAR - when finished; writing assignment - characterization paragraph
24 - take up the mock test; homework: 11 sentence paragraph in rough for Monday on either topic: a. Barrhaven is a fun place for teenagers. OR b. Cats are better pets than dogs.
27 - Short Story test; DEAR - when finished test; teacher home sick
28 - teacher home sick; paragraph writing activity with supply teacher;
29 - Essay structure review; review of Monday and Tuesday's activities; Extra time at lunch for test to make up time lost during fire drill
March 1- DEAR; Essay unit - writing one based on one of the short stories covered in class; lunch time for short story test
2 - essay; write introduction and start of body
5 - essay work; first body paragraph due today
6 - Anyone who didn't have the first body para in class yesterday needs to show it to the teacher today; Overview of writing essay conclusion; Introduction to To Kill a Mockingbird
7 - TKaM; peer editing of essay; comma splice information
8 - DEAR; Essay due; TKaM
9 - TKaM research assignment in library
19 - Note on meaningful questions for Discussion Director; work time on novel tasks; hand back and discuss marking
20 - Go over lit circles activities; prep for the circles; handouts for symbols and themes and secondary characters
21 - First lit circle meeting; class work on novel; handouts on Urban Myths, Mood & Inferencing, Vocab
22 - Quiz; hand in your notes/reading logs; DEAR; continue working through handouts
23 - assembly during this period
26 - TKaM research assignment due + presentations
27 - TKaM presentations continue; Lit Circle prep time; discussion about chapters 4-6; take up Mood/Inferencing handout
28 - Lit Circles; discussion about chapters 7-11
29 - EQAO literacy test - longer period; DEAR; hand in Lit Circle materials; discussion continues
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April 2
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5 - start Scottsboro video
April
10 - Finish Scottsboro video
11 - prep time for lit circles
12 - opinion para rough; prep time for lit circles; movie
13 - Quiz Part 4; lit circles; hand in notes for part 4
16 - wrap up discussions & activities; movie
17 - finish wrap up; last bit of movie
18 - essay; homework - choose topic, complete a full page of brainstorming
19 - essay; homework - finish introduction and first body paragraph for Monday
20 - Assembly
23 - Lab 201 to start typing essay - goal: complete intro and 1st body para; homework - write second body para
24 - 20min or so for essay help; myth unit; homework - continue work on essay; give out summative books
25 - Eva Olsen presenation; homework - finish wriitng essay
26 - Lab 201 to finish typing essay
30 - peer editing of essay; myth work
May 1 - essay due to Turnitin; myth work - introduction of skit assignment + work time
2 - work time for skit; assignment for planning a comic for a myth
3 - prep time for summative lit circles; time for comic planning
4 - lit circles; time for skit
7 - skit presentations
8 - myth content quiz; start Twelfth Night
9 - teacher home sick; work on comic plan and lit circle materials
10 - Myth Comic Planning assignment due; finish myth presentations
11 - Summative Lit circles; note about Shakespeare's life and times; homework: keep reading summative novel + look up three interesting facts about Elizabethan England