Course Notes and Power Points
All course notes and power points will be uploaded here. I will also post the day to day of what we did in class that day and upload any documents that were handed out.
Block D1December 17th, 2014
Today, we played a rhyming game. We then wrote rhyming poetry to be decorated and handed in. December 15th, 2014
Today, we continued with poetry. We learned about poetic devices and then we wrote acrostic poetry. The homework was to write a good copy of the acrostic poem, decorate it and hand it in.
December 10th, 2014
Today, we started on poetry. We did poetry stations. Station one was book-spine poetry. Station two was magnetic poetry with little words cut out of a story. Station three was blackout poetry. At the end of the class, you should have had three poems. I have several poems that were abandoned and I would love to return them to you. December 8th, 2014
Today, our short story was due. We did an activity where we read our classmates stories and offered them good feedback in the form of a compliment sandwich. December 5th, 2014
Today, we had our final work block for our short story assignment. You must come with a printed copy on the 9th. December 3rd, 2014
Today, we had our first work block for our short story assignment. We will have one more work block for this assignment before it's due date on December 8th. You must come with it printed on the 8th. December 1st, 2014
Today, we talked about plot. We mapped out our stories on a story mountain (going over exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution). We also learned how to write proper dialogue. November 28th, 2014 Today, we moved onto short story writing. We worked on character and setting and went over what our next assignment will be.
November 26th, 2014
Today, we has a classroom game of hangman with the literary devices we have covered in class. Our autobiographies and biographies were due today. November 24th, 2014
Today, we had our final in class work period for the biographies/autobiographies. November 19th, 2014
Today we had a work block for our autobiographies and biographies. We went over the literary terms from the scavenger hunt. November 17th, 2014
Today, the new assignment was explained. We also did a literary device scavenger hunt.
November 13th, 2014
Today, we switched mini units and moved onto creative non-fiction. During class we wrote persuasive speeches on any topic of personal interest. I wasn't here, so Mr. Topping covered the class. November 10th, 2014
Today, our news article was due. You were supposed to come in with two copies of your article. We covered a brief history of newspapers and then constructed our classroom newspaper, The D1 News.
November 5th, 2014
Today, we had our final work period for the news article. Remember to come to class on November 10th with two copies of your article. November 3rd, 2014
Today we launched into working on our articles. The laptops were booked and there was time for students to do research on their article and begin working on a first draft. Remember to meet in the library for next class.
October 29th, 2014
Today, we launched into our journalism mini unit. We started by picking the name of our classroom newspaper: The D1 News. We chose the sections of the newspaper we wanted to write for and picked our article topics. We also learned about the different parts of a newspaper.
October 27th, 2014
Today, we didn't get too much done, but we did get started on some creative activities. We did a collaborative story writing activity.
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Block D2December 16th, 2014
Today, we played a rhyming game. We then wrote rhyming poetry to be decorated and handed in. December 12th, 2014
Today, we continued with poetry. We learned about poetic devices and then we wrote acrostic poetry. The homework was to write a good copy of the acrostic poem, decorate it and hand it in.
December 11th, 2014
Today, we started on poetry. We did poetry stations. Station one was book-spine poetry. Station two was magnetic poetry with little words cut out of a story. Station three was blackout poetry. At the end of the class, you should have had three poems. I have several poems that were abandoned and I would love to return them to you. December 9th, 2014
Today, our short story was due. We did an activity where we read our classmates stories and offered them good feedback in the form of a compliment sandwich. December 4th, 2014
Today, we had our final work block for our short story assignment. You must come with a finished printed copy on the 9th. December 2nd, 2014
Today, we had our first work block for our short story assignment. We will have one more work block for this assignment before it's due date on December 9th. You must come with it printed on the 9th.
November 27th, 2014
Today, we talked about plot. We mapped out our stories on a story mountain (going over exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution). We also learned how to write proper dialogue. November 25th, 2014
Today, we moved onto short story writing. We worked on character and setting and went over what our next assignment will be.
November 20th, 2014
Today, we had a classroom game of hangman with the literary devices we have covered in class. November 18th, 2014
Today, we had our final in class work period for the biographies/autobiographies. November 14th, 2014 Today, we had our first work period for the biographies/autobiographies. We also went over the literary devices we covered in our scavenger hunt.
November 12th, 2014
Today, we assigned our new assignment. We also did a literary device scavenger hunt.
November 7th, 2014
Today, we switched mini units and moved onto creative non-fiction. During class we wrote persuasive speeches on any topic of personal interest. November 6th, 2014
Today, our news article was due. You were supposed to come in with two copies of your article. We covered a brief history of newspapers and then constructed our classroom newspaper, The Daily Cougar.
November 4th, 2014
Today, we had our final work period for the news article. Remember to come to class on November 6th with two copies of your article. October 31st, 2014
Happy Halloween! Today we launched into working on our articles. The laptops were booked and there was time for students to do research on their article and begin working on a first draft.
October 30th, 2014
Today, we launched into our mini journalism unit. We started by picking the name of our classroom newspaper The Daily Cougar. We chose the sections of the newspaper we wanted to write for and picked our topics. Then we learned about the different parts of a newspaper.
October 28th, 2014
Today, we didn't get too much done, but we did get started on some creative activities. We did a collaborative story writing activity.
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