Dec 20, 2012

HUM 8 AND ENG 11

No homework. Please enjoy your break. Happy holidays. I will see you in the New Year.

Dec 18, 2012

HUM 8

Find any images you want to use for your mind map. Please bring them in. Bring in pencil crayons to class next day to work on the final version of your mind map on Charlemagne.

PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR SECRET SANTA GIFT

Here is the clip on why and how to make a mind map.

ENG 11

Look at the the last thing Proctor says on page 143- the speech about his name.(near bottom of the page)  Be able to discuss that piece and why it is key to the play and connect it to an Eq.

Dec 14, 2012

HUM 8
Most of you finished the work we did in class today before we began the presentations. In case you did not finish the classwork I would like you to finish it for home work.
 * finish the map
* finish magnet noting pgs. 26, 27, and 28 of you text book( Charlemagne, and the Anglo Saxons)
* finish the chart on the leaders

BRING YOUR SECRET SANTA GIFT FOR TUESDAY

ENG 11
Please answer the questions to Act 4

Charlemagne

Dec 10, 2012

HUM 8

Please magnet note pg. 23 and 24 of your textbook if you did not finish it in class.
Secret Santa gift Exchange; please bring a gift max $10 by next Tuesday Dec. 18

ENG 11

Please finish reading Act 3
Bring in any notes from your pre- Crucible presentations.

Dec 6,2012

HUM 8
Nothing to do.

Eng 11
Please read at least until page 103 of ACT 3.

Dec 5, 2012

Here is a preview of what we will be doing in the next few classes.( HUM 8)

Dec 4, 2012

HUM 8

 

A quick recap on Vikings.

ENG 11

Please finish Act 2 questions and begin reading Act 3

Nov 29,2012

HUM 8
Please have a classmate peer edit your paragraph on the Vikings.

Review how to find main idea and supporting details. look through your notes and what we did. You will be reading a handout on Tuesday about the Vikings and will have to find the main idea and supporting details. You will take notes on it. What ever strategy we did that works for you, will be the one that you can use. Cornell notes, outline, or web(yet to be taught-but many of you know it already).

Eng 11

Finish reading ACT 2 of The Crucible(or you can read the entire play)
Some need to come in early and finish your place mat.
Your first entry of your character journal is due. Feel free to write more entries for your journal if you have time and you find you have info.

Nov 27

HUM 8

Please bring your textbook and novel to class on Thursday. I will be collecting the novels.
If you have a laptop or Ipad please bring one to class.

ENG 11
Please read up to page 66 in the play.
Finish the questions for ACT 1

NOV 23,2012

HUM 8
Please work on your role plays. You will have 15minutes in class to pull them together. This is all oral. The written part will be an individual mark based on what you have done with your group. You need to do the role play and understand the work to write your individual write up.

Here is part of the clip we are working on to help make connections to our novels.

ENG 11

Please Read up to page 32 in The Crucible.

NOv 21,2012

HUM 8

I believe many of you finished working on your role plays for Tuesday Nov. 27.
If you did not finish it, please finish it. You do not need to hand in a script- you will be writing an individual reflection afterwards in class.( You need to do the role play to write the reflection).

ENG 11
Get set to start reading The Crucible next day.

HUM 8
You have a break today. :)

ENG 11
You have a Break today.:)

Nov 15,2012

HUM 8
Please finish the movie guide sheet from what you saw in class today. Most of you finished it in class.

ENG 11

Think about how the song connects to what you wrote in your quiet write. Please find what you can on the internet to share with your group for discussion purposes only anything on the Kitty Genovese murder.

HUM 8
Finish finding words for POWERFUL SOCIETY. I know most of you finished it in class, just in case you didn't,please finish it.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS RE OUTSTANDING WORK. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL MISSED, LATE OR INCOMPLETE WORK TO ME BY 8AM MONDAY NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 19TH. AFTER THAT THE WORK WILL BE DEEMED INCOMPLETE AND YOU MAY NOT BE MEETING ALL OF THE LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THIS TERM AS YOUR LEARNING IS STILL IN PROGRESS. YOU COULD POTENTIALLY BE AT RISK OF RECEIVING AN "I" ON YOUR REPORT CARD REGARDLESS OF YOUR %.  YOU WILL THEN BE REQUIRED TO COME IN AFTER REPORT CARDS ARE ISSUED AT LUNCH TO REMOVE YOUR "I" BY COMPLETING ALTERNATE WORK TO MEET THE MISSED  LEARNING OUTCOMES.


ENG 11
Finishing up the presentations.

Nov.8,2012

HUM 8

If you did not finish your main idea and supporting detail sheet on the Vikings in class( the one connected to the handout with the six paragraphs) please finish it for homework.

Also FINISH your novel. I know most of you have finished your novel.  The few who remain, please finish it. If you didn't finish the conflict/resolution sheet in class today, please make sure you finish it.

ENG 11

Group Crucible presentations due on Tuesday. Those of you who were not ready to present today, will all present at lunch on Tuesday.

Nov 6, 2012

HUM 8

Please finish main idea and supporting detail note sheet. (If you did not finish it in class.)
Please READ your novels. I would like to finish them up this week.

ENG 11

Presentations on Identity due next class-Thursday Nov. 8
Group presentation on your topic for The Crucible is due Tuesday Nov. 13. Please post handout by 7pm  Monday on Edmodo so I can photocopy a set for the class.

OCT 31,2012

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Hum 8

Please read 30 mins daily. You should be nearing the end of your novel.

Eng 11

Please work on your summative final unit task. Due Thursday Nov. 8
Bring laptops etc to class on Fri to work on this task.

Oct.29,2012

HUM 8

Please update your setting write. Make any changes that were suggested in class today. It is now a summative write and is due on Wed OCt 31.


Here is the clip we watched on Thor to practice what we learned on characterization
:Here is the clip on Thor.

ENG 11
Paragraphs due Wed.

Oct 25,2012

HUM 8

Finish writing about setting and your novel. Some of you finished it last day in class. Some of you might have done it onEdmodo in class today. Either way works. The question is on Edmodo. The setting piece is due Monday.

If you get a chance, scroll and see what your classmates have posted about setting and the novels. This may inspire you as you write.
Please check EDMODO. If any parent wants access to our Edmodo site, please email me at dcaldwell@sd38.bc.ca and I can give you your parent code.

ENG 11

HOMEWORK IS YOUR PARAGRAPH FOR WED.


Also you have the Summative Final task due Thurs. Nov 8. Everything with samples is on Edmodo.

Oct 23 ENG 11(HUm 8 is on the previous post)

Eng 11
Please write a draft copy of a paragraph where you address one EQ and one element from the questions you answered about the two short stories.  Make sure you bring in evidence when you write your paragraph.
You need to use the two new short stories and one other piece( "Brother Dear" or the poems or your song).
You need to have three points in your paragraph.
You need to mention your EQ and the element you are addressing.
You need an intro sentence and a concluding sentence.
You need to cite your sources.
You need to have quotes.
If you have any questions email me at dcaldwell@sd38.bc.ca

Oct 23 Hum 8 (Eng 11 will have its own post today)

HUM 8

Today  we thought about our digital footprint and how safe are we online.Geo maps are due on Thursday Oct 25. Your answer about setting in the novel is due on Monday, Oct 29.

We also reviewed the basics of setting in our novel.

Oct 19,2012

HUM 8

Please work on your country projects. They are due this Thursday Oct 25. I want you to hand in your internet note sheet and any other note sheets as well. Remember to record all of your sources you have used for this project. There is no more class time for it.

ENG 11

Finish the questions for the second short story. You only need to find one example for each question. (Unless you want to find two:)).

Oct 16,2012

HUM 8
Please bring laptops or Ipads to class next day. We are going to work on your country group/individual projects. We are going to use what we have learned about internet research today and use it as you research your environmental issue.

ENG 11

I was pleased to see that some of you took advantage and had your formative paragraphs written for last Thursday. I was able to give you feedback. For today's class, those who did not have it done were to have a copy done and then you were to rewrite your paragraph in class. It is unfortunate, that many of you had to use the class time to write your one and only draft for a summative piece of writing. Writing is a process and it improves as you write and rewrite.

HOMEWORK for Thursday: Finish questions off of sheet on one of your short stories.
                                             Read the second short story. As you read it you may want to fill out the chart and make notes and record any interesting quotes. Also connect it to a new EQ.

Oct 12,2012

HUM 8
Work on your create a country project. Due Thursday Oct 25.

ENG 11

Finish reading your first short story. Complete chart by finding points and quotes that will help you address an Eq that you have not yet answered in depth.
Also IN POINT FORM answer how does the short story you read address the theme of identity. Find five(5) specific examples.
If you have time you can read the next short story

OCt 10,2012

Hum 8
Please work on your create a country project. They are due Oct 25.(Thursday).


Eng 11

For homework today you are writing a paragraph that addresses an EQ. You have a choice, you can connect it to any two pieces we have studied so far. On the board one of the pieces was "Brother Dear". That is fine. SOme of you may find it easier to write about the two poems, instead of doing a short story and a poem.
This is formative and I will be giving you feedback on it. due Friday. Enjoy concert tonight to all the JB fans.
Also part two is to JUST find a song that connects with identity and either upload it or print off the lyrics for Friday's class.

Oct 3,m 2012

HUM 8

Finish your journal entry please. My first impression of the novel....( you can write about what you visualized, your connection, whatever you would like to write about).
Read your novel for at least 15minutes. Find 3 new words and write what they mean in your words OR find 2 rhetorical devices(simile, metaphor or examples of imagery) and write them down. Remember to include page numbers.

Here are some examples of a metaphor: Love is a rose.  Night is a wire. The classroom was a circus.

Country presentations and food to share with classmates are due on Friday as well.

Eng 11

Finish your reflection about a character you can identify with in "Brother Dear"

HUM 8

Finish your para for Mon Oct 1.
Gather research notes and any information, facts etc you can on your country. Due Mon Oct 1
Presentation with food dish on your country is due Fri Oct 5

ENG 11

Finish reading "Brother Dear"

Sept 24, 2012

HUM 8

Rewrite Your draft para into a good copy for Monday Oct. 1.
Your maps are due on WED Sept 26.
If you have a laptop, ipad, netbook, please bring it to class on Wed.

Eng 11

If you did not finish the good copy of your para in class today please finish it for WED. sept 26.
If you have a loptop, ipad, net book, please bring it to class on Wed.

Sept 20,2012

HUM 8
Please enlarge your piece of the world for Wed Sept 26. Remember to draw the scale on the small map first and then go to the big piece of paper.

I am projects due on Monday.

ENG 11

Draft of name para due on Mon.

Sept 18,2012

HUM 8

Please bring in for Thursday Sept 18 post its, your dividers, and make sure you have responded to the previous post. Please sign up on Edmodo as well.

Your homework for Monday Sept 24 is the I am collage or I movie, movie maker or power point. I will upload a copy of it to Edmodo in case you lose the copy given to you in class.

ENG 11

Please make sure that you have responded to the previous blog post and that you have signed up for Edmodo.

Please reasearch your name. Find out everything you can about it. Discuss why you were named what you were, where your name came from anything you can and bring it to class on Thursday. Also if you have a laptop , please bring it as well as you will  be doing some writing.

Welcome Back

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Welcome to the 2012-2013 school year

Hi and welcome to the new school year!

Homework and assignments for will be posted on this blog. We will also be using Edmodo where students can print off copies of handouts given to them in class as well. This way they can keep a copy at home or if they lose a copy they will always have access to what was given in class.( Most times- as long as it is something I have on my computer and am able to upload.)  Also this helps if they are away and they are able to see what they have missed.

I have created a confidential brief form to collect parent emails using Google docs. If you could please take Two minutes to fill it out, I would appreciate it.  Thank you in advance and I look forward to meeting you!
(If you click on form/email it should work).
Mrs. Caldwell
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