Today

Today we listened to book reports - videos and all.  We experienced some technical difficulties but by the end of the day everyone had finished.
Tomorrow the students are assigned a script to write - from any story in the Crossroads anthology.

Today

Today we had muffins, had a guest reader for two poems and a play and then did an in-motion Santa dance:)
Students will present book projects tomorrow - 2 classes.  Then the students have to write a script - either individually or with a partner using any story from the Crossroads book.

We tried searching the youtube video... for Social script:

Miss Rachul's Grade 9 Social Studies class created, wrote, directed and performed the following play to teach the Grade ½ class about Treaties.  The play can be seen at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQFMjbh7Eo.

Test Outline

Conflicts, Challenges and Choices

Selections:

-          “And the Lucky Winner Is”

-          “Signposts on the Journey”

-          “In the Silence”

-          We Are All One Poems – “my father hurting”, “If You Think”, “Tires Stacked in the Hallways of Civilization, “how do I feel”

-          “The Long Journey”

-          Listening – “Native Residential Schooling in Canada” and Stephen Harper’s speech to apologize to the country

-          “Halting Hatred”

-          “The Highwayman”

-          “David”

-          “Consorting with Frogs”

-          “Shoes”

-          “Birdfoot’s Grandpa

-          “The Last Leaf”

Other items:

Literary Devices: simile, personification, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, irony, idiom

Grammar: run-ons, fragments, compound sentences, simple sentences, complex sentences

Basic Structure of an Essay and Paragraph

Book Report

BOOK REPORTS ARE DUE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20.
THEY MUST BE GIVEN THIS DAY; WE HAVE TWO CLASSES TO COMPLETE PRESENTATIONS.

English Test

We will have a test on Thursday, January 5 on all of the selections from our Unit: Conflicts, Challenges and Issues: Doing the Right Thing.  We will go over and list all of the selections before the break. 

January Reader Response letter is also due Thursday, January 5th.

We are working on our videos and book projects this week.  These are due on Monday.

We have a couple more selections to read from the unit in the next week.

Choices, Challengees and Conflicts: Doing the Right Thing

How do the following video stories fit into our unit?

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskw0fLqYyM

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb0q8SL_kLY&feature=related

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKxsiRYC9Q


How does the picture book: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? fit into our unit?

How does the following picture fit into our unit of study?

The HIghway Man

Pictures - to illustrate one stanza - due tomorrow.

Tomorrow we will read "David".

Book Report

Grade 9 Book Report

Name: __________________

Components:  You may choose how to present your report: orally, Power Point, poster

/10         Video (10-15 pictures)

/2            Setting

/3            Characters

/5            Plot (including conclusion)

/2            Persuasiveness or how it fits into the theme

/2            Choice – length of book – 150 pages

/5            Volume

/5            Fluency and eye contact

Tuesday

We will be working on reading some poems from the Unit Issues, Challenges and Conflicts.  Students will have a few questions to answer, with a partner and then will be asked to write a poem about a current issue.

Later this week:
The Highway Man
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/thehighwayman.htm

This Week

Thank you to everyone for coming out to conferences!  The kids did a great job!  Please remember if you have specific issues or concerns to call me directly or send an email to hiltz.catherine@prairiesouth.ca


This week will continue to read selections from our unit Conflicts, Challenges and Issues: Doing the Right Thing.
We will start the week with Stephen Harper's public apology regarding residential schooling.  We will then continue to read some of the selections from the Crossroads anthology.

Also - start another novel for a book report that will be due right before Christmas!