Thursday Dec 22

Today as a quick quiz and then on to reading.

We got to page 152 in the text, too.

I also collected Part 1 of the Unit today, too.

Tuesday and Wednesday Dec 21

Tuesday was the last day we were working on our CA in class.

Wednesday we went back to reading and studying Speak.

We got to page 132 in the text and we talked a lot about the novel, as we took about a week off to get the CA done for the class.

Questions and the Theme study are due tomorrow. Short quiz, too.

Then, back to Speak.

Monday Dec 19

Ahh... I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Tomorrow is the last day for Culminating; then back to Speak and the Break. We will, of course, be doing Speak and possibly Poetry after the Christmas, too.

I also updated the due date for Speak, Part 1 - it's Dec 22 instead of the 20th.

I'm hoping that I've helped my students by scheduling the CA ahead of other classes that my students are doing.

In any case, I know that this week I'll be marking these and other major projects.

Friday Dec 16

The first Newspaper article was due today.

I'll be marking them over the weekend.

On to the next part of the Culminating Task and then back to Speak next week!

Thursday Dec 15

We finished watching the film Coach Carter, so according to our schedule, we are on Day 2 of the CA.

It was a pretty good film, in my opinion. A great message and currently on Netflix.

We are back in the portable on Friday and working on the next step in the CA together.

Wednesday Dec 14 and Help with stuff

Potential headlines from Coach Carter

Entire Richmond Basketball team suspended.

Another Basketball player arrested


We continued to watch the film for the CA, Coach Carter in class. It's going along ... well. I was hoping to be done watching the film by now, but ...ah well, it's a decent film.

In any case, we are back in the portable for tomorrow, too!

Tuesday Dec 13

So ... we are going to be taking a quick break from Speak and going on to get our CA done for the course.

If you have any questions or concerns about what we are doing and why, please just ask.

In any case, we started watching the film Coach Carter today in class.

#awesome

We also go the CA today - the writing for which we will be doing over the next few days.

Friday Dec 9 and Monday Dec 12

Friday was a school Mass day. There was a special schedule out and I think we had a very brief class.

Monday was a regular day. We read Speak and got to page 113 in the text.

There was interesting discussion about various topics, not the least of which was talking about a beeper back in the 80's. See pic below.

In any case, keep going with your questions and your listening!

No games, no texting ... only one way communication.... not nearly cool

Thursday Dec 8

First, this

Today, again with Batman as our guest teacher we got to page 77 of the text.

We did get the unit outline for Speak ... and we got the due date posted both in the classroom and on this blog.

We'll be doing a Mass tomorrow and the Culminating Activity next week.

Wednesday Dec 7

So ... we clawed our way through some reading today - my throat made me sound like Batman, so it was a tough go. We got to page 56 in the text.

We got these questions to do for homework, too:

Monday 5 and Tuesday Dec 6

It's the feast day of St Nick .... wooo!

We read some of the novel Speak ... I still have to get the links up for that novel onto this blog. We needed to get the newspaper article on Eye of the Dragon in to be marked.

We also got these questions for homework:

Unit out tomorrow, ladies and gentleman.

I also forgot to get the update done yesterday. We did the OCA part 2 yesterday. It's getting marked today. Should be really exciting.

Friday Dec 2

So today in class ... we did a little work on the Newspaper Article for Eye of the Dragon.

At the other half of the class, we started reading the novel, Speak.

No questions for homework, just reminders about due dates!

Oh and we talked about these apps today too:

Thursday Dec 1

So we worked on our newspaper articles.

We took a look at a couple of articles from today's Milton Champion to see the structure of the article and plug it into the model we got.

I asked the students to work on their article and then showed them how to work by putting together an article while on my laptop.

We set the due date for the article Monday, Dec 5th.

I also set the CA dates, too. I did ask my students to put them into their own electronic devices, but I will publish those dates here later. I'm hoping that my students got those dates into heir own devices this morning.

It's the opening paragraph...