Monday November 16th & Tuesday November 17th

Monday, and part of Tuesday was spent working a segment of our ongoing Media unit.

We spent the majority of Tuesday's class at the Youthspeaks presentation.

Make sure you are to the end of Chapter 15 in TKAM.
Tomorrow's period will be spent doing ISU research in the library.

Thursday November 12th & Friday November 13th

Thursday was spent as a work period. Students had time to complete TKAM journals, ISU Reader's Notes (that were overdue), as well as complete any reading from TKAM they were behind on.

Everyone has had amble amount of time given to complete work in class. The majority of the last month has been spent on ISU Reader's Notes and TKAM journals. There is no reason why this would not be able to be completed on time.

Friday, we discussed TKAM. We specifically looked at the mad dog scene.

Wednesday November 11th

More topic brainstorming and researching was completed today in the library.
Everyone should have a specific, clear topic for their ISU research report. If it has not been approved by me, it must be done tomorrow.

Tuesday November 10th

Topic brainstorming with a partner was completed today. If you still do not have a topic, continue this brainstorming at home tonight. Everyone should have a specific topic for conferencing tomorrow.

The newspaper article, "School of hard, wet knocks" questions are due tomorrow.

Questions:

1. a) Who?
b) What?
c) When?
d) Where?
e) Why?

2. How long does it take for the boys to row to school?

3. What do they have to negotiate in the river

4. One day, what did villagers catch?

5. How long have students been riding the Kampar River?

6. Summarize the news article into exactly 7 sentences.

Monday November 9th

The ISU Research Report process began today. After a lesson on researching, using the library's databases, most people got off to a good start on choosing a topic.

Remember, your topic needs to be specific, it will make writing your reasearch report a lot easier!

We will continue with topic brainstorming tomorrow. On Wednesday we will be in the library for the 2nd of our research workshops. I will be conferencing with everyone on Wednesday to confirm their topic for the report.

Continue to read TKAM and work on journals tonight.

Friday November 5th

Monday is the final deadline for any short story assignments that have not been handed in.

As well, all your Reader's Notes (#1-5) and your first 4 TKAM journals should already be handed in.

Reminder to have Chapters 12-14 read by Monday.

Thursday November 5th

TKAM Part 1 Test was completed this period.

We began to watch the Academy Award winning version of TKAM.
We'll continue on with the discussion of Part 1, and onto Part 2 tomorrow.

Reader's Notes #5 (last set) are due tomorrow.