Photostory: Personal Fulfillment

by Julianne Huff and Ruxandra Ristea

Class Minutes

Today we started class we handed in the homework, which was the Personal Composition outlines. After we finished watching the Photostories. Next we got into our assigned groups for the Essay project. We were given our essay genre and went over some ways to teach our type of essay. The project will be due after the break.

Loss of Reason Photostory

Dec 11 - Class Minutes

For the start of class, Mrs.Wall opened with a prayer stating that "precious things in life can not be bought". Next, she brought up the PC Writing style, and elaborated on what we will be doing. We were handed out a booklet, "Literacy: Development and Teaching Strategies". This booklet has assesement methods and activities described in it. For a 'Before Reading Activity', Mrs.Wall handed out a sheet with a T-chart on Personal Essay vs. Transactive Writing. We had to spend about 5 mins to fill out the Tchart on our own. We were then showed the information to write down in the Tchart on the Smartboard. Our next activity was a group activity. Each group was given an article (ex: "Tomorrow will be a better day"), and each of us looked for Retorical Devices, and the authors purpose. Later, Mrs.Wall gave us a handout on Personal Composition/Guiding Information. This handout is to help us when writing our essays. Lastly, as our 'After Reading Activity', we were given an Essay Outline. If we didn't get it finished, it is for homework.

To end the class we watched a reflection video on 'Selfishness' by Katrina and Ashleigh.

December 9th Class Minutes

We presented out photostories to the class, introducing them with a brief introduction to the topic, theme, and music selection. Remember to publish your work on a public domain, either on the class blog or youtube. If you chose youtube, send the html link to Mrs. Wall's email: wall@acrss.org or allilytle@gmail.com. For those students who had trouble accessing your video today, make sure you save it as a .wmv file.

Loneliness By Willaim Bowe and Andrej Rehak

Loneliness Photo Story

Picture Story Loneliness

Conformity

Conformity

Dec 7th class minutes

In class we worked on our short story unit test which took about 20 to 25 mins.
Afterwards we went to the library to work on our projects

Motherhood by Tarah and Angela

December 3rd, Class Minutes

Completed unit summmative compare and contrat multi-paragraph composition. See Mrs. Wall outside of class time to arrange an opportunity to complete if you didn't finish during today's block.

Loyalty Photo Story

Class Minutes

Today we started with prayer. Then Mrs. Wall gave us 10 minutes to finish our theme posters that we started last class. After, together as a class we made a list of 12 subjects that we covered in the short stories. We split the list into two groups of six. Then Mrs. Wall told us about our photostory project. She showed us an example of a loyalty photostory. We then went over the criteria for our photostory's. The project will be in groups of 2-3, and it will be due on Wednesday December 9th. We were also told that we have a unit test on short stories. We were told to study the short story templates. The test will be on Monday December 7th. After that each group rolled a dice to find out what sudject we could be doing our photostory on. Then Mrs. Wall gave us a Multi-Paragraph that we started and will be finishing next class. The multi can be on any of the 12 subjects that we discussed.

Class Minutes

Today, we wrote down notes on "The Painted Door" and received a handout for notes on "The Japanese Quince". We also marked the thesis statements that compared and contrasted "The Lottery" and "The Japanese Quince". The class also had a small PowerPoint presentation on misplaced and dangling modifiers. For homework, we received a slip of paper which contained a sentence with either a misplaced modifier, or a dangling modifier. We are to draw what is written down in the sentence on the card provided, and write the sentence on the other side of the card.

Class Minutes

Today, we started with prayer. After prayer we had our quiz on the Painted Door. After marking the quizes we watched the movie version and filled out a worksheet comparing the movie to the short story and answer how the Painted Door connects to the unit theme of emotion vs. reason. We also received our multis and maps back and we have to mark thesis statements due next class.

Class Minutes- November 12

Today we began the class with a prayer, consisting of a video made by the writing 12 class. We then had a quiz on short story terms, which came from the Google Doc. We marked the quizes in class. Then Mrs.Wall handed out a story entitled "The Japanese Quince", which we read and answered questions on. For our "ticket out the door" we wrote a compare and contrast thesis based on "The Lottery" and "The Japanese Quince". The only homework that was assigned was to read "The Painted Door", from our short story books.

Classroom Minutes

Today we started class with a prayer. After prayer we discussed an advantage of joining a summer course that can give kids entering grade 12, 3 credits towards university. Mrs. Wall then took attendance in her happy-go lucky mood. We began finishing our paragraph's on symbolism from the short story, "The Lottery". We went over how to join the blog again. After that we got a new project. We have to draw a tattoo that we think represents who we are and write about the symbolism of that tattoo.

November 9, 2009 Class Summary

In today's class we started by finishing our, "the Lottery" Symbolism paragraphs. If you haven't done this you need to finish it at lunch. Next we went over how you need a G-mail account or you will start losing marks. Finally we started a new assignment.

New Assignment.

-First you have to draw a tattoo using symbols to describe your personality.
-Next you have to write an approx. 150 word non theme based paragraph describing how the symbols in the tattoo represent you.
-Ms. Wall recommends that you draw the picture on a separate piece of paper and then glue your picture on after you've printed your paragraph out as to avoid confusion. (such as ruining your picture by printing the paragraph upside down or over your picture by accident.)

-Due Thursday

Classroom Summary

Summary of Nov. 5th/09 Day :1-2

In class this day we started out with a prayer. Then we discussed our GMail accounts, which everyone should have made by now, if not that is very important. Using our GMail accounts Mrs.Wall sent us a definition worksheet, which we all need to contribute to. In class, Mrs.Wall assigned us each a word, which we needed to have found the definition of and added it to the google docs. Next we received a notes worksheet on which we took notes from the board. This sheet can be accessed on moodle, and the notes you will have to get from a friend or fellow classmate. Then we were handed back a lot of work, which he organized into our portfolios. We got handed back:
- Lord of the flies acrostic
- scantron form previous test
- questions on the Lord of the flies movie
- questions on tradition
- beasts worksheet
- Golding vs. Yeats thesis statement
- Quiz on chap. 10 and 11

We then spent the rest of the class writing a paragraph on how symbolism reveals theme, in the lottery.

Classroom Minutes for Nov. 5th 2009

English 11
Block 1-4

Today in class we talked about how to get a g-mail account. You should set one up as soon as possible if you do not already have one and to follow the blog, Euphonious 11. You can access it through moodle. You will need to have done this by Monday. The people in the class that already had a g-mail account were assigned a short story term to do online. As well, during class we were given a note template for the short story "The Lottery", which was what we read last day. We filled it out during class with the notes on the smart board. We did not have to write down the symbols since we already were given notes on them. Also, we updated out portfolio with work that was handed back. We also started writing a paragraph on the symbols within the short story "The Lottery" which we will continue writing next class.

Podcast of Romeo Dallaire speaking of meeting the 'devil' in Rwanda

Podcast of Romeo Dallaire speaking on the failure of humanity during the genocide in Rwanda

Survey