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Courses: English 9, English 112, History 112 and 113

Notes

Posted: September 14, 2015

History 112: September 14, 2015

Today in class we went over The Enlightenment: Section 2 answers. Please make sure you have these questions answered correctly as they will be apart of your study guide for the upcoming test.  Homework: Tomorrow there will be a quiz on The Scientific Revolution (p 538-545). Please refer to your homework answers from Section 1.   

Posted: September 14, 2015

English 9T & 9U: September 14, 2015

Today we worked on our autobiographies. We focused on writing an interesting/audience-grabbing introduction.Autobiographies will be due this Friday September 18, 2015.  *Reminder: Please find a novel for your independent novel study. Students should be reading at least 20-30 minutes per night.

Posted: September 14, 2015

English 112: September 14, 2015

Handed out 2 sheets: 'Use of Literary Devices in Short Stories' and 'Irony and the Short Story.' These are important for the upcoming quiz this week (date to be determined). Please make sure you have these sheets to study from.  Homework: Finish up questions from "The Lottery" #5-15. *Reminder to all students to find a novel for their independent novel study. Students should be reading at least 20-30 minutes per night.

Posted: September 13, 2015

History 112: Week One (September 8-11)

Welcome to Grade 11 History! This week we went over the extensive outline for this class. There is a lot of material to cover so there will be homework given on a regular basis in order to get through all material. There will also be a test every 2 weeks in this class so there is a lot of studying in order to pass this course. This is a course students must pass in order to graduate. Each student was assigned a History book which they will need for this course.  Wednesday September 9th: Started Chapter 17 in the book and read Section 1 as a class (The Scientific Revolution). Students were assigned questions from a handout (#1-3)Thursday September 10th: Went over answers that were for homework from Section 1 and finished questions from handout (#4). This was assigned for homework as it was not completed in class. September 11th: Went over question #4 Section 1 that was assigned for homework. Read Section 2 (The Enlightenment) in class. A handout with questions was given out (and discussed in class). ALL questions were assigned for homework and are due on Monday. 

Posted: September 13, 2015

English Grade 9T & 9U: Week One (September 8-11)

Welcome to High School English! This week in grade 9 we went over the course outline and discussed the materials needed for class, the units that we will be covering and most important, that this class will focus on preparing each grade 9 for the Literacy Assessment written in January. Students must pass this Literacy Assessment in order to graduate! It is extremely important for students to be in class as this is where skills in reading and writing will be developed.  Grade 9 started their first writing piece for this class; an autobiography. The final copy is due Friday September 18th.   We also started our journals and have written 2 entries.  *Reminder to students: Please find a novel by Monday's class for your independent novel study.  

Posted: September 13, 2015

English 112: Week One (September 8-11)

Welcome back! In this first week of English 112 we discussed the course outline and dove right in by starting Unit One: Short Stories.There was a handout given on the first day, Elements of a Short Story, that is very important. There will be a test on these elements next week!  We started our first short story: "Twins" by Eric Wright. We read this in class, discussed, and there were vocabulary and questions assigned for homework. The answers were gone over in class on Friday. We also started our second short story: "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. Vocabulary and questions (#1-4 on sheet) were assigned on Friday and will be discussed in class on Monday. *Reminder to students: please find a novel by Monday's class for your independent novel study. 

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