Wed Thur and Friday

Wednesday was the end of the Unit onTKAM.

Thursday I was in a meeting with a good chunk of the English department here at the school. It will help with passing the OSSLT.

Friday we started Twelfth Night (12N) and got the first two questions for homework.

Whoooooo!

Tuesday Nov 27

As announced, we did our quiz on TKAM.

We are going to move on to the next unit and get that done before Christmas.

19 days left. Nine. Teen.

I handed out the Webquest on Twelfth Night today, too.

I also had this to try and help regulate today:






I'm hoping that we can tone it down a little bit in class, people.

Just breathe, man. Breathe.
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Monday Nov 26

Today was ... ok.

We are finishing off the TKAM Unit, we have a quiz tomorrow and I did a soft introduction to the Shakespeare Unit.

And that went over like a lead balloon. Man ... eesh.

Anyway, we are going to move forward tomorrow.



 
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Thursday and Friday Nov 23

Man ... Thursday was a football game that most of the school attended and Friday was the PD or PA Day ... I had to go to Corpus and learn about teaching stuff.

It was pretty cool.

In any case, we'll get back at it on Monday.

Wed Nov 21

I'll make sure this gets up as a download:

But here is the Quote journal assignment and rubric for To Kill a Mockingbird

Part Four: Quote Journals

1. Complete “Quote Journals”

2. Two are due by the date Part One is handed in. Two are due by the date Part Two is handed in.

3. These should be completed online, but LEGIBLE paper submissions are allowed.

During the play, Mr. Chesser will pick out / point out / freak out about several important “meaty” quotations from the novel. Students will be using informal writing but must conform to where we are and what we are doing together as a class. What I’m interested in reading about is how you respond to the quote. That is, what you think about it, what you might be thinking if you said it, how you might respond of you heard it first-hand. If you like, you can write about personal stories that you remember while reading the quotes. What is important here is “resonance” - how the novel affects you.

"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Using the quote above, let’s talk about a couple of things:

Who says it?

When might this character say it?

What theme of the play might this quote be a part of / hook into / illustrate / develop?

or 

What does this say about the character that says it?

Tues Nov 20

We read to the end of Chapter 30 today. We also finished the film, too.

It was pretty epic.

We read the attack .. and who the Mockingbird is in the title of the novel.

We also learned about a lot more than we expected to, too

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Monday Nov 19

A student in another class said I bear a resemblance to this teacher.

This week is a wild one ... I hope you strap yourself in!

Monday and Tuesday are going to be the "normal" days.

Wednesday is the International Food Day fundraiser schedule.

Thursday is the Football buy out day.

Today, though, we read Chapter 27. I complimented my students for their patience and dedication to working through the novel together. It is almost done.

We read the chapter and then got a chance to watch the film for about a half hour.

Friday Nov 16

There was no snow day.

All we did was watch the film - most of the class was not there, as they either had a retreat or were stuck at home.

All good.

Have an awesome weekend - next week is a three day week!

Thursday Nov 15

So we read to the end of Chapter 26. We are machines, people. Machines.

Reading machines.

I also added a gadget on this blog to put "What Chesser is read" ... it si on the right hand side of the blog, under the Gif.

Any case, we got another set of questions for the last two segments of the novel. Today we got 1 and 3 from Ch 25-028 Questions.

We are awesome.

I will ask for your prayers for tomorrow.

Wed Nov 14

So ... it was Take Your Kids To Work Day.

I taught two classes of Grade Eights about Poetry and various things at ND.

Tuesday Nov 13

It was a weird day, today.

We got a good chunk of reading done. We got to the end of Chapter 24 read ... and we got to the end of the questions for 22-24 done, too.

Relax everyone, there will be more questions for tomorrow.... ;)

Anyway, I also collected the last few outstanding Short Story Unit Journals today. #justsayin #itisafunnystory

I also chatted briefly about our CA in this course and what we will be doing for the end of TKAM and the start of Twelfth Knight

Woooo!

Monday Nov 12

So ... today we got to the end of Chapter 23 and got questions #6 from 19-21 and 1 and 2 from Chapter 22-24.

It was a fairly good day of reading together and working through some of the difficulties in the text.

I got some time to work with students and fixing one or two marks for the mid-term reporting.

On to tomorrow!

Fri Nov 9

We didn't get much done today, as it was in the middle of the rather odd day we had today.

In any case, we did watch the film version of Atticus' speech to the jury at the end of the trial.

Wed and Thursday Nov 8

These two days were ... interesting.

We read to the end of Chapter 20 today ... we got to the end of the court proceedings. We need to see the film version of the speech by Atticus. Man ... what. A. Speech.

Right, I also got a chance to show (almost) everyone their updated mark, too.

On to Friday!

Tuesday Nov 6

Uuuuuuuggggh

We did House Meetings today ... so there was no class for us Period 2 today.

Everything gets pushed back another day.

ah, man.

Monday Nov 5

Here is the video to watch after finishing the stuff on Monday:

 

Friday Nov 2

We went to a presentation by the Halton Regional Police Service.

It was ... wow.

Thursday Nov 1

We got to the end of Chapter 19 in the text, mid way through the trial.

I also finished off the Character Sketches for the class. ;)

We got all the questions for 17-18 for homework, too.

See you tonight!