Monday, February 22 - Wednesday, February 24

Wednesday


  1. Parallelism practice. NEW!
  2. Practice parallelism with a friend @ http://www.chompchomp.com/structure01/structure01.01.htm 
  3. “Cousins” finish reading this story. “Cousins” finish reading the story. During reading, create a t-chart (like the one you see below) track Joe's emotions from scene to scene. 

              Scenes                            l                      Joe's emotions                       

                                                       l                                                                     
                                                       l                                                                     
                                                       l                                                                     
                                                       l                                                                    
    Some examples of scenes are:  at home with his parents; playing on the Slip nSlide with his cousin; in the car with his great-aunts, and so on. 

Tuesday

  1. Return paragraphs on Rock Bottom. File in folder
  2. Review parallelism practice from Monday, define parallelism and create an example.
  3. Share the posters about Residential Schools.
  4. “Cousins” finish reading the story. During reading, create a t-chart (like the one you see below) track Joe's emotions from scene to scene. 

              Scenes                            l                      Joe's emotions                       
                                                       l                                                                     
                                                       l                                                                     
                                                       l                                                                     
                                                       l                                                                    
    Some examples of scenes are:  at home with his parents; playing on the Slip nSlide with his cousin; in the car with his great-aunts, and so on. 


Monday
I am away today at a curriculum workshop. Here are your instructions for today's class:

1. Silent read for first 15 minutes of the class.
2. Complete the next parallelism practice. Mark together. Put it in your folder.
3. Complete the poster your group was working on related to the Residential Schools: 
3,2,1 summary: 3 points Heres what we know; 2 points So What? why is this important? what does this mean? how do we interpret this info?; Now what predictions for the future, an implication, or a question for further study.
4. Before reading the story "Cousins" do the following: Copy out the 5 questions below and answer them T or F. During reading, create a t-chart (like the one you see below) track Joe's emotions from scene to scene. Put scenes on one side of the t-chart and Joe's emotions on the other side of the t-chart. Some examples of scenes are:  at home with his parents; playing on the Slip nSlide with his cousin; in the car with his great-aunts, and so on. 
Questions to copy out:
1. Every family is dysfunctional in some way or another.      
    T      F
2. Being a family simply means being related by blood/marriage nothing more   T   F
3. I treat my family members differently than I treat other people in my life.  T  F
4. Family meant more to people in the past than it does now.     T    F
5. Family means ___________________________ . 


          Scenes                             l                      Joe's emotions                       
                                                   l                                                                     
                                                   l                                                                     
                                                   l                                                                     
                                                   l                                                                    

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