Wednesday 27 May 2015

Wednesday, May 27th

Bl. B - FN 12:  Students have been getting a lot of work in, and are doing a chapter 6/7/8 quiz at present.  We will mark this as a class and then move on to Chapter 9  - Acts, Charters, Court cases, etc.  Attendance is somewhat improved, so let's keep that going.

Bl. A- English 10:  Students know that they will be writing a well developed paragraph on their novel, about the "setting", next week.  Today, we changed things up a bit, and students are going to use their hero's jouney template (from before with ATDPTI) to view V For Vendetta.  We will review what we saw today - the first 45 minutes - and discuss The call to adventure, refusal of the call, etc.  Because this is a complex film, much focus is needed.  Also, many great ideas are introduced which will be discussed further. For example, "Artists use lies to tell the truth" and "I've been wearing a mask so long, I have forgotten who I was beneath it".  There is a writing assignment for this on the board.  Be sure to copy it down or snap a pic.  We will return to our poetry after this.

Bl. C - Humanities 8:  After a nice reading period, students got to work on their booklets.  Clayton's mom brought in a medieval replica Broadsword and dagger.  Students got to hold them and feel the weight.  (all supervised of course  :) ) They were asked to imagine how strong and trained a Knight at Arms would have to be to wear 100 lbs of armour and wield a sword that weighed over two and a half kilograms. Thank you Mrs. Rogers.

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