Monday, April 20 - Friday, April 24

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Friday
We did a quiz today on the terms and devices related to essay writing. I handed out the criteria for the annotation of the piece about second chances. Monday will be the day to do the actual annotating on the article. At the end of the class we tried a couple of rounds of a new word association/knowledge game called Anomia.

 Thursday
I was away on a field trip to UVic today. Here are the notes that I left with the TOC:
Silent reading for first 10-15 minutes – they have their own non-fiction novel to read.

Before reading the text – This will be the text students will annotate, but I have not been able to put the colour images on the network for Thursday’s class, nor have I completed the criteria sheet for this assessment. So… for today, they will simply get into the article and the annotating will be done in class Friday. Please remind them of the quiz tomorrow on essay terms and devices.

The War on Second Chances

Before reading: Google (use their phones) these two names: Omar Khadr and Christopher Simmons of Missouri. No need to read much about them, just give students 5 minutes. Write the two names on the board and ask student to have a discussion in pairs about which one of the two deserves a second chance. Have one of the pair come up and put an X under the name of the person they believe deserves a second chance. Discuss briefly if you wish.

During reading: As they read the text, put a series of + marks to indicate where they stand on things the author mentions with which they agree. They should put a series of – marks on the text when the author mentions something with which they disagree.


Study for quiz tomorrow.

 Wednesday

 For most of the class, we looked at a few examples of how to annotate a text and we developed the criteria for what a quality annotation should look like. Afterwards, I assigned the section on headings and sub-headings in the hand-outs on presentation techniques.

 Tuesday

  We began today by doing some partner quizzing on essay terms. Next we did a competitive quiz in pairs to practice the terms a bit more. We also returned to looking at presentation devices such as titles, fonts and headings.
Monday

I was away today. Here are the notes I left for my replacement:


1.     Students should ensure they have completed reading the article on cities. After reading they should do a summary of the article based on the various presentation devices used in the article. I have made a worksheet up to make it easy (hopefully) to do the summary.

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