Event Calendar: September 29 - October 3

Week 5 is here and that means, unbelievably, that we're nearly a quarter done the entire course. Both classes have already handed in quite a few assignments and soon I hope to have your marks for the course ready. The delay is due to a program called Markbook that all teachers must use to keep track of your marks. It will hopefully be up and running in the school soon so that I can generate some results for you all.


1P English:
Monday - Different Kinds of Ads
Tuesday - Term review, how to write a summary
Wednesday - Merchants of Cool movie
Thursday - Merchants response with summary
Friday - Ad work/end of non-fiction unit!


2D English:
Monday - New poetry selections, groups will finish their found poetry
Tuesday - Last poetry selections, groups will present their found poems
Wednesday - New words, begin essay unit
Thursday - read an essay, essay unit continue, time to meet with teacher for ISU
Friday - new words quiz, meet with teacher for ISU

ISU assignments are due on MONDAY OCTOBER 6th.
GET IN YOUR MACBETH MONEY/PERMISSION FORMS.

Event Calendar: September 22-26

Hard to believe that by the end of this week we'll already be a month down. This week we're wrapping up unit 1 and moving on to bigger things. Your first major assignments are due and, just to warn you, things continue to get more demanding on your time so make sure you don't get behind. **2D make sure you read part 1 of 'Death of the Centaur' for class**

ENG 1P1:
Monday - last grammar lesson, new literary term, group work on advertisement assignment.
Tuesday - grammar test, advertising terms, ad assignment work
Wednesday - Merchants of Cool movie
Thursday - summary, Merchants of Cool response, ad assignment work
Friday - summary, ad assignment presentations

Monday - blank ad creation, advertising terms quiz, ad presentations

*Groups for the ad assignment are: 1. Tyler, Matt, Johnny 2. Jasmine, Madeleine, Carolina 3. Doug, Victor 4. Jalen, Chris 5. Morsal, Safa, Thanula 6. Kelvin, Sahal, Hassan 7. Khalid, Anthony, Sean*


ENG 2D1:
Monday - "The Lottery Ticket" short story/end of short stories
Tuesday - Intro to poetry w/select poems **Early Alt Ending due**
Wednesday - Rhythm & "The Race" by Greg Birkett **Alt Ending due**
Thursday - Music & Poetry, Found poetry pt. 1
Friday - Computer poem, found poetry pt 2.

Monday - Present found poetry


If you have any questions about upcoming due dates or questions on assignments, please post them on the blog. Remember that your alternate ending assignment MUST include an original cover that you've created to go along with your "Lather" story.

Also, I'll be posting a short story called 'Death of the Centaur' in various parts on the website that will be discussed in class. It will be expected that you have read these sections and will be prepared to discuss them in class.

2D - Blog Assignment

Your blog assignment is designed to get you thinking about how blogging works and how it can effectively be used. Using your 'Create a Blog' assignment as a base, please make sure you fulfill all of the criteria that I've laid out for you.

The actual blog posts, which I'll be assigning in class, will also be marked later on, so don't worry too much about the content of your initial post. It should be welcoming or interesting at any rate. Please be aware that your blog may be seen by anyone at the school (even the principal) so be very careful of the kind of content you choose to display. Also, the blog will be the method in which you hand in your ISU assignment in a few weeks and the better it all looks, the better your mark will be.

Your blog will be marked based on the following checklist:

1. Does it have an original title?
2. Does it have a subhead (line of informal text under your title)?
3. Does it have biographical information about yourself?
4. Does it have a first post with info on who you are and what you'll write about?
5. Does it contain at least one picture in your post and one in the sidebar?
6. Does it have at least three links on the sidebar?
7. Are comments enabled so that anyone can post a question or thought?

Quite simply, if it meets all of the above criteria, then you'll get the marks. Later you'll get more assignments based on improvements and new content you've added to your blog, so try to never look at it as a completed project, but rather something that is always changing. Get your marks and become master of this interweb thingy.

UPDATED: Event Calendar: September 15 - 19

Hard to believe that we've already hit week three. The good news is that there are still 15 weeks to go! Not to worry as the work has barely begun. Soon you'll be buried under mountains of work but I promise you'll somehow manage to tunnel out to the other side. And if you can't, just make sure you leave me all of your stuff in your wills.

1P English:

Monday - library book talk
Tuesday - new grammar lesson, article on evicting an elderly widow
Wednesday - new grammar lesson, second article on eviction
Thursday - SHORT DAY, final article on eviction
Friday - sentence structure, grammar quiz


2D English:

Monday - Meet @ the library lab. There will be a short lesson first
***Tuesday - meet in the library for a second day of blogging time
Wednesday - new literary term, present/hand-in your exposition posters
Thursday - SHORT DAY, Lather & Nothing Else (short story) w/assignment
Friday - hot writing, The Lottery Ticket (short story) w/questions
Monday - Lather assignment due, begin poetry unit


If you have any questions, please bring them up in class. Be aware that there is a SECOND part to the 2D short story assignment that involves some artistic skill.

Event Calender - Week 2

Hey everyone. Hopefully all of your classes are going smoothly because the workload will soon be ramping up. The best advice I can give you is to do the work when you get it so that it doesn't pile up on you.

Other than that, it seems like summer is slowly fading away. It's getting darker sooner and light is hard to find first thing in the morning. What shall we do about that, you ask? I think tests all around are a good solution!

2D English:
Thursday - Fat Farm pt. 2, Exposition Posters
Friday - Short Story quiz, Exposition posters finished/begin presenting
Monday - Library period to create your blogs
Tuesday - finish presenting exposition posters/new short story

1P English:
Thursday - Verbs, grammar review, gossip article, continue writing your paragraph
Friday - Paragraph finish and hand in, grammar quiz
Monday - new grammar lesson, new article on slang

Mentor:
Today was a busy mentor period and part of what we assembled for wasn't covered. If any of you are budding artists and are interested in trying to make a poster to represent Terry Fox and Run for the Cure, you can stop by to see me and get supplies to make a poster. R.H. King has won this contest two years running and it would be great to keep up the trend.

For those of you who haven't handed in your fee and permission forms for Camp Robin Hood, please do so as soon as possible. You can leave this in either the English office or the Tech office. Make sure you clearly label anything you hand in so that there isn't any confusion.