Tuesday, March 31, 2009

March 30 to April 3

9/10 English:
A research essay on the life of William Shakespeare was due Monday, March 30th. If not in by Tuesday, students are on homework lunch.
Short story has been assigned, due April 30th. Students are free to develop their own story, but no one can die in the story.
The class is reading 12th Night, by William Shakespeare. Students must volunteer to read parts, to complete their speaking and listening skills for the term.

9 English:
Short story has been assigned, due April 30th. Students are free to develop their own story, but no one can die in the story, and the main character is 15.
The Class is reading the novel Touching Spirit Bear. Questions will be osted on this blog. Ch. 2 questions are on the previous week's blog.

Chapter 3 questions: Answer each of the following questions with complete sentences: Give page nujmbers with your answer like this: (Mikaelsen, 2001, p62).
1. Why does Cole feel like nobody cares for him?
2. What does he tell Garvey that he hates about his life?
3. Why did Garvey keep pressing Cole to be more specific?
4. What secret about his dad did Cole reveal to Garvey?
5. When Cole's mother knew what his dad was doing, what did she do?
6. Explain what Garvey did with the contents of the brown paper bag.
7. Why do you think Garvey asked Cole to taste each ingredient? What was the purpose?
8. Describe the emotions Cole experiences in this chapter. How do you know these emotions?
9. What does Cole do to escape the island?
10. Write about a time when rage completely overcame you and you were out of control. (At least one paragraph - intro, supporting sentences, final statement)

12 Media Studies:
The class is working on photo stories about Grand Manan. These are due Thursday.

12 Hospitality:
The class is working on a Food Service unit. We have discussed order of service, in a formal meal:
1. canapé: a thin piece of bread or toast or a cracker spread or topped with cheese, caviar, anchovies, or other savory food.
2. hors d'oeuvres: an appetizer served before the meal, finger food, usually not served at the table. This could be a cheese as well.
3. appetizer: the first course of a meal served at the table. This is a light starter food, such as shrimp cocktail, baked stuffed mushrooms, or crab cakes.
4. soup course: The course is a light soup, served before the main meal. Usually this course is a cup of soup, rather than a bowl of soup (that might be served as a luncheon item).
5. salad course (this is American service) Salad goes after the main meal in European service.
6. fish course or pasta course: this is a small portion, fish and perhaps one vegetable or garnish, or a single simple pasta with a light sauce.
7. meat course: This is usually thought of as the main meal. This course would have meat, starch (such as potato, yams or rice), and vegetables.
8. dessert: a sweet food or fruit dish that could include cheese.
9. coffee

Drinks with the above courses:
1. cocktails or an apéritif (strong wine to stimulate the appetite, such as vermouth, or sherry) served with the canapés and hors d'oeuvres
2. white wine served with the appetizers and the fish course
3. red wine served with the meat course
4. a sweet wine or ice wine served with the dessert course
5. a liqueur may be served with coffee, such as Bailey's, creme de café, Grand Marnier
5. after dinner drink, after the coffee such as cognac

Thursday, March 26, 2009

March 23-27

9 English
Midterm will be Monday. AIMS teting will be Wednesday.
We shall be beginning the novel Touching Spirit Bear. Questions for the chapters will be on the blog. Students will be given time in class to complete questions, but they will be for homework, if not completed.

Questions for chapter 1:
1. What characteristics do we learn about Cole? How do we know the characteristics (By what he says, does, others say, narrator tells the reader, or how he interacts with others). and on what page do we learn this?
2. Who is Garvey? What do we learn about him? Who is Edwin? What do we learn about him?
3. In what voice is the story told? (1st person, 3rd person, or omniscient)?
4. What has been revealed about the stting? (Describe)
5. Why do you think Cole has been in trouble?
6. What is restorative justice as you understand it from the novel?
7. Who was Peter Driscal? How did he complicate the conflict?
8. Speculate why Garvey kept visiting Cole?

Questions for Chapter 2:

1. Why was Cole being taken to the island in Alaska?
2. What provisions were given to Cole?
3. What is Devil's Club? Why do you think it was mentioned?
4. What four things did Edwin tell Cole to learn?
5. What did Garvey give to Cole to take care of? What do the Tlingits call this?
6. How did Cole receive instructions from Edwin? Why?
7. What happened to Cole's knuckles in his jail cell? What did he say happened?
8. What did Cole do when Garvey and Edwin drove away in their boat?
9. Why do you think Cole is so rebellious and defiant?
10. What did Edwin tell Cole about his treatment of the animals?
11. Write about a time when you felt defiant or rebellious. What did you do? Were there any consequences?

Monday, March 16, 2009

March 16-20

Grade 9 English
Midterm is on Friday. The midterm is a reading and writing evaluation. Students cannot study for this test--it simply measures how much they have imporved their reading and writing skills.
Tuedsay and Wednesday, students are presenting their two minute speaches to the class, on the topic: "If I could change anything, I would change..." The next speech will be: a three minute speech on "If I could change one rule or law, it would be..."

9/10 English
Midterm is on Monday. After speeches have finished, the class will begin a unit on Drama. The next speech after "If I could change anything, it would be..." is a three minute speech on "If I could change one rule or law, it would be..."

12 Hospitality and Tourism
Midterm is on Thursday. Accommodation project must be finished this week.

12 Media
Preparation for midterm on Wednesday. After midterm, we begin a unit on Adding Audio to slide presentation: Using Photo Story. Students have selected their topics for this assignment.

Monday, March 09, 2009

March 9-13, 2009

12 Media:
All assignments should be in by Friday, March 13:
Media Log
History Timeline
2 Articles to be published
Plane crash story
Yearbook Award story
Premier's Visit story
Editorial

12 Hospitality:
Students are working on their accommmodation project.

Grade 9/10 English:
Begin public speaking assignments.
1. Introduce yourself. You are taking a second year anthropology class, in university. (The study of man, culture, man's development). First state your name, home town, school, and why you want to take this class.
2. Introduce another person. You are attending a leadership conference in Ottawa. You have been asked to introduce the person next to you. Name, home town, school, several items of interest about the person, what the person wishes to do after high school.
3. Introduce a speaker at an assembly. Begin with: It is my priveledge today to introduce (name). Prodeec with why the speaker is here, then a brief description of credentials. End, by saying, Please give a warm welcome to (name once again). Begin applauding.

Novel Assignment is Due Friday.
This assignment is an essay on how the main character in your novel was developed. In other words, how do you, the reader, know what the character is like, what are the character's personality traits? Characters are developed by what they do, what they say, what toehrs say about them, what the narrator tells us, and how the character interacts with others. Either determine the characters personality traits and them describe how you know that information, or take each way a character can be developed and tell what you know about the character by that method. The essay must have an introduction, a paragraph at least for each charactgeristic or each method of determining a character's traits, and a conclusion. The introduction must have a thesis statement, a plan of what is in the essay, and a connecting sentence. The conclusion must restate the thesis, sum up the main ideas in the essay, and have a concluding sentence. Each characteristic and each reference to the novel, must be referenced with page numbers. So, if John Smith wrote the novel, and you found a line on page three, that describe the character's personality, it would look like this:
The reader learns early in the novel that John was humorous. "Sarah and Susan both agreed that John was very funny" (Smith, p.3). Please note the period comes after the final bracket, not at the end of the sentence being quoted.
You would give the full reference at the end of the assignment, on a separate page.

Reference:

Smith, John (1998). The Last Gentleman. Toronto: United Press.
(Author) (date published) (Name of novel) (City published: publisher)

Grade 9:
This week we are finishing Fast ForWord testing and answering the following questions on the program:
1. What levels did you do in Fast ForWord?
2. What did you like most about Fast ForWord?
3. What did you like least about Fast ForWord?
4. What did Fast ForWord do most to help you in Language Skills?
5. Is there something you wished you had learned in using Fast ForWord?
6. If you could change one thing about Fast ForWord, what would it be?
7. How easy was Fast ForWord to use? Why?
8. Did you have any technical problems using Fast ForWord? What were they? Were they resolved?
9. If given a choice, would you use Fast ForWord again?
10. How useful was Fast ForWord?
11. Would you recommend next year's grade nine use Fast ForWord, why or why not?
12. What was the most difficult part of the program, and what was the easiest part of the program?
E-mail your answers to griffroa@nbed.nb.ca

Novel assignment due Friday. See notes in 9/10 English on how to do the assignment.

Begin public speaking assignments.
1. Introduce yourself. You are taking a second year anthropology class, in university. (The study of man, culture, man's development). First state your name, home town, school, and why you want to take this class.
2. Introduce another person. You are attending a leadership conference in Ottawa. You have been asked to introduce the person next to you. Name, home town, school, several items of interest about the person, what the person wishes to do after high school.
3. Introduce a speaker at an assembly. Begin with: It is my priveledge today to introduce (name). Prodeec with why the speaker is here, then a brief description of credentials. End, by saying, Please give a warm welcome to (name once again). Begin applauding.