Hey everyone ... I'm doing this blog post at the front of the room ... I guess so that people can see just how straight forward doing this process of updating a blog can be.
In any case, we care close to the end of the unit on Eye of the Dragon. We got to page 344 of the text, which is chapter 107.
We also got the due date for part 3 of novel. It's Thursday, November 24th.
Today was a bit of a trouble focussing. We did get through to page 302, but when given time to get some work done together, I saw a lot of struggles with self-regulation.
All good. We will strive to get better.
Here are the questions that are due with Part Three ... so far....
So ... those are the questions we got today. Seems I printed off the wrong ones yesterday.
Ah, it happens.
In any case, we had a short quiz today, as announced. We are moving on to the last section of the novel, and we got to 270. Should be awesome for the rest of the week!
A nice day, in the bigger scheme of things. Things will continue as they have for us here. Or at least they should.
We did read until page 199 in the book and got all the questions from Chapter 55-59 from the list of questions .... and we will be getting the next set tomorrow.
I will be posting the link for the questions on the blog, as I have a few students away at the moment. They can download the questions at their leisure.
I did also talk very briefly to the rest of my students about their marks I'm inputting for them this week for the midterm.
We did a couple of cool things today. The coolest was reading from the book - we got to page 172 in the book and ... got a bunch of homework for tomorrow.
We also got a chance to conference with each student about the midterm mark today. Most are ready to go, some have some material still to hand in.
So ... there was a still a number away today. I'm honestly hoping you are keeping up with your courses, including this one.
Today we did a fair amount of work together on the Theme and Terms Study for Eyes Of the Dragon. We did also have an example of student work from a quiz. We took a look at the structure of a level four answer from a quiz that was done recently. It was a very good dissection and discussion of what worked and what did not work.
We also did a couple of fun things - on "how to use you phone for things other than Instagram" or "How to use your phone as a tool, not a toy". I showed students a few apps I use - Learn Swift, Polar Beat, ICE and At Bat to name just a few.
Learn Swift is an app designed to help people learn how to put together their own apps for the iPhone. Polar Beat is an app that can monitor your heart rate as you exercise, as long as you have the heart rate monitor chest strap. (A student asked me; I have the H7 Polar HR Monitor). At Bat is an app that let me watch major league baseball games off of my cell phone with a monthly fee. I watched most of the season either on my phone or on my Apple TV at home.
The ICE app is not shown but is a way of letting EMT personnel make a phone call off of your phone, just in case you can't speak to them in an emergency.
After we finished with the projected material, we got to read to page 142 of the text. It's almost halfway through the book, and we have some material due tomorrow!
One other thing I said I would post for this class was this:
We were a little light in terms of people in class this morning ... I'm hoping if you were away, that you are reading up on what we did this morning in Period One
Well, we read to page 130. We are getting into the search for the assassin.
We also got chapter 32,33 ..36 questions 1, 2 and 3 for homework.
We were going to do the Theme Study and Term study sheet today, but I'll leave that until tomorrow when I have all my students here.
So we did some one on ones today - giving back essays, updating and discussing some things owed to the teacher for class and some even did quizzes for me.
Preparation for midterm marks being entered this weekend/Friday-ish.
We had a bit of time after we finished that, so we read to page 117 in the text.
Then we had a light discussion of the Theme/Terms study we need to get started in the next few days.
Actual picture from class today. Well, not really.
