Today's the big day!! It's Unit Final day. I hope everyone got some good rest last night. Remember your breathing to control anxiety and ace this baby!!
Today I want to touch base quickly about your unit exam tomorrow. You will need to study your texts tonight and make sure you remember the characters, setting and important ideas we've covered about each one. The other half of the exam is reading comprehension.
I will also allow you time today to start preparing your written piece for your writing on Thursday. We will start the outlining process today. Today we will be looking at an exemplar for your personal response to text assignment in preparation for your in class writing on Thursday. The rest of the time you will have to work on your projects.
Today is a continuation of yesterday's assignment. Another work day. If you have completed your work, today there is time to work on your final project on Perspectives
We are definitely running a little behind...today we have a quick quiz to make sure that you read the rest of the story last night. Then I will be doing an introduction to writing proofs with the 30-1s and a letter writing assignment with the English 30-2s. If time we will work on our final projects.
Today we will watch 2 film clips about perspectives...how we see ourselves versus how others see us. Then we'll discuss a little about the Vietnam war and the impact it had on American life. We will then read the short story "On the Rainy River" and complete the assignments if we have time...
Whew!! Where did September go?? We are coming to the end of our first unit of study. Below is a list of what our end of unit looks like for us:
Sept 29 Monday (single) - Finish watching "All my Sons", practice reading comprehension Sept 30 Tuesday (double) - Open book quiz on "All My Sons" Oct. 1 Wednesday (single) - Read "On the Rainy River" - 30-1 - Proofs assignment, 30-2 Letter writing assignment. Oct. 2 Thursday (double) - finish proofs/letter and hand in, work on final project Oct. 3 Friday (single) - Looking at writing exemplars and preparing for the final creative in-class writing assignment. Oct. 6 - Monday (double) - Project work/ Unit exam review Oct. 7 - Tuesday (single) - Project work/Unit exam review Oct. 8 - Wednesday (double) - Unit Exam Perspective Oct. 9 - Thursday (single) - Personal Response to text assignment in-class - Project is due That's the next two weeks of ELA 30. Please ensure that you are present on the days of the unit exam and the in-class essay. My marks are due into the office on October 14th so it is very important that nothing come in late. There is a lot of time in this schedule for you to accomplish the work that you need to. If you have concerns, please let me know sooner as opposed to later!! We will watch a stage production of the play All My Sons. This is both to solidify our knowledge of the play and to create a spring board for discussion about director's choice: characterization, sets, costuming etc. There will be an open book quiz on All My Sons on Monday.
Today we are going to go over our final assignment for our unit on Perspectives. Then we will finish our character work on the final act of the play.
We will begin class today by exchanging our pieces of critical writing and looking for the four aspects of critical writing that we covered on Monday. We will then edit our writing. After we will hopefully finish reading the play.
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