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