Thursday Jan 30

that's it, we are done!

Good luck second semester!

Wednesday Jan 22

Tuesday was a one day withdrawl of services and there was no class.

Wednesday we took one final look at the exam review ideas and I conferenced with any student that wanted to see their mark going into the exam.

I shared that the exam for Period One is going to be tomorrow, Thursday Jan 23 in Portable 2. You should plan on shwoing up at about 8:30 am.

Ok! Good luck and thank you for a great semester!

Monday Jan 20

We are in to the final stretch of the course.

I did show my students their mark with the CA included today.

We spent the period prepping for the exam and getting those last few assignments owed in to the teacher for assessment.

Keep going!

Friday Jan 17

I'm away again.

I will feel better, I promise.

Read this article as exam / OSSLT prep.

Answer these questions ... and I'll mark them - hand them in via email.

1. What's the point of view of the story?

2. What is the most significant conflict in the story?

3. What would YOU be willing to give up to get the best life ever?

Thursday Jan 16

I'm away today.

Read this story as a part of your exam review.

Email me your responses to the following questions. This will be marked.

1. What's the point of view of the story?

2. What is the most significant conflict in the story?

3. How important is your phone for you?

Wed Jan 15

Today was made up of a few things

We did some exam review. We read this article and chatted about both Part A of the exam and Part B of the exam. On the actual article is an example of a Part B type longer answer question that a typical English teacher would use as a writing prompt on an exam.

I'm running out of interesting articles on that link, and so I'll begin to mine my stack of exams from previous years for examples of readings. We start that tomorrow.

Another round of nagging and showing students what they needed to have handed in for the All About Me unit was also done.

I showed an example of a Task Three Writing Portfolio completed and an example of a completed Task Four Professional eMail done as well.

Finally, we watched this

That Alan Watts. What a guy.

Tuesday Jan 14

Well we had one more presentation to go today.

We also read this article for the OSSLT and exam prep together too.

Monday Jan 13

...and on to Monday.

One of the last Mondays in this class. It was a good one, too.

Anyway, we continued finishing off CA presentations and we also worked on finishing off the All About Me Unit. Quite a bit of this unit is owed.

In order to practise for the exam we read this article and did a similar exercise to what is on the exam.

Here is the list if you wanted to go forward and read a few as a part of your own prep for the exam.

Friday Jan 10

Today we worked a bit on one of the parts of the OSSLT that we at ND do well on - the reading section. In any case, I also had to do a limited amount of nagging in period one.

I needed to post the News Report from yesterday, too:

Onwards to Monday!

Thursday Jan 9

Sadly, we did some work today on the exam and prep for the OSSLT.

We read the article "How writing changed my life" by Darius Foroux together and we worked through an example of how the exam may ask us to write about it.

We also got a little bit of nagging done for missing assignments.

Wed Jan 8

I like this Baby Yoda motif I have for this blog

We finished round one of nagging for outstanding assignments from students today - and also some work on preparation for the Literacy Test in March.

We worked on News Reports today. I'm still getting my Adobe Reader to stop giving me the beach ball, but it was working today during period one.

News reports need :

Tuesday Jan 7th

We continued today with finishing off stuff from the semester.

I also gave some one on one time for OSSTF preparation for a few students and some conferencing time as well.

Monday Jan 6

We got back at it today - we conferenced about the Culminating Activities and what was missing for the assignments / updated marks today.

We also got this from the 2017 Literacy Test: