Thank you

Thank you for a wonderful semester.  I enjoyed working with all of you and I wish you the best of luck on your Provincial exam today.  Have a safe and enjoyable summer break.

Mr.Tobacca

Exam Review

Today in English 10 we continued with Part B of the practice provincial exam.  Tomorrow we will finish with part C.  If you haven't yet please start reviewing your literary terms to help prepare you for the exam.

Important Notice Room Change: Thursday's class will be in room 109

See you all tomorrow.

Mr.Tobacca

Review Week English 10

Hello parents and students.  I apologize for not keeping up to date on the blogs for last week.  We had a busy week of review.

Tuesday June 12- we analyzed how we will be marked on the provincial, we looked at a quick scale writing rubric, and discussed compare and contrasting writing, reviewed PEEC

Wednesday June 13- we discussed integrating quotes and we did a compare and contrast literary response

Thursday June 14- we reviewed integrating quotes and took a break from review for a couple of days

Friday June 15- review break- watched dual survival

In today's class we started a practice English 10 provincial exam online.  Students will have the next two classes to complete their test.

Thanks for a hard week of review.  Please continue to go over your literary terms on www.studystacks.com

See you tomorrow

Blake

Welcome back.  This is an important week in English 10 because we will be preparing for your final provincial exam which will be at 9:00 am on Friday June 22.

In class today we covered the following:
1.) Journal- tell me about your weekend
2.) What did we cover in English 10 this semester?
3.) Layout of the provincial exam
4.) Made flashcards for literary terms on- http://www.studystacks.com/

See you all tomorrow.

Mr.Tobacca

Last full class work day

In English 10 today students were given another full class to complete their Romeo and Juliet projects.  Projects(10 marks) and study guides (90 marks) will be due on Monday June 11.

On Monday we will start reviewing for our provincial exam.  Please come prepared to learn!

Thanks
Mr. Tobacca

Romeo and Juliet Work Day

Today's English 10 class was shortened due to our tutorial day.  In class we discussed when our Remeo and Juliet assignments are due- Monday June 11.

Students were given 60 minutes to either finish their study package or work on their final R/J project.

Thanks for the hard work today!

Mr.Tobacca

Welcome Back

Hello parents and English 10 students.  In class today we covered the following topics:
1.) Silent Reading
2.) Romeo and Juliet Study Guide Work Time
3.) Discussed the Globe Theater
4.) Discussed Romeo and Juliet Final Project

Please bring your materials tomorrow to work on your R/J project.

Thanks
Mr.Tobacca

Act 4 and 5

In English 10 today we finished watching Act 4 and 5 of our movie and spent 25 minutes of class time working on our study guide.  At the end of the play we learn that only death can end the ancient family grudge between the Capulets and Montagues.

Please work on your study guides this weekend.

In English 10 today we continued with our Romeo and Juliet.  In class today we covered the following:
1.) Instant Activity- silent reading
2.) Analyzed Act 2 Scenes 1,2,3,4,5
3.) Worked on our study packages Act 2 section

Please keep up to date on your study package it will be a large mark for this unit.

Have a great night.

Mr.Tobacca

Romeo and Juliet Act 1

Hello parents and grade 10 students.  In English 10 today we covered the following topics:
1.) Watched Act 1 Scenes 1-5 of Romeo and Juliet
2.) Did a summary of what happened in each act
3.) We worked on our R+J study packages

Please complete up to Act 2 in your study package for tomorrow.  Please bring a novel to class that you would be interested in reading during silent reading.

Tomorrow we will start Act 2 Scene 1

Thanks

Mr.T

Welcome back.  Today in English 10 we went and signed out our Romeo and Juliet texts.  Please bring your textbook to every class for the next 2-3 weeks.  In class we completed the following:
1.) Introduction to the characters in the play
2.) Basic introduction to the Scenes and Acts.

Tomorrow we will start to analyze Act 1 Scene 1, and 2.

Narrative essay's were due today.

See you tomorrow.

Happy Friday

In class today we took a break from our writing and completed a stranded in the desert challenge.  After that we spent the rest of the class editing each others narrative essays.  Final copy, rough draft and outline are due on Monday.  On Monday we will start our Romeo and Juliet unit.

Thanks for a wonderufl week.  Have a safe weekend.

Mr.Tobacca

Narrative Essay Revisions

Today's English 10 class was devoted to the following:
1.) Writing a rough copy of our narrative essay- please keep your outline it is worth marks
2.) Making revisions- a revision checklist was provided

Our collection of poems from our poetry unit was due today.  This project is worth 45 marks.  Please hand it in tomorrow if you didn't do so today.

Thanks

Mr.T

Narrative Essay Outline

Today in English 10 we continued to learn about how to write a narrative essay.  In class we covered the following topics:
1.) Read a narrative essay called "The Chase"
2.) We looked to identify- the grabber statement, thesis statement, the bait, vivid verbs.
3.) We worked on finishing our narrative essay outline

Tomorrow we will be writing the rough copy of our narrative essay as well as making revisions to our stories.

Introduction to Narrative Essay Writing

Welcome back.  In class today we started to look at how to write a Narrative Essay.  We discussed the following topics:
1.) Having an anecdote, grabber statement and bait
2.) We read and analyzed a narrative essay called "The Dare"
3.) We started brainstorming ideas for our own narrative essay.

Homework- please come up with a grabber statement and thesis statement for the introduction of your narrative essay.

Thanks

Mr.Tobacca

Poetry Test Day

Today we wrote our poetry unit final test.  The students had to respond to three short poems.  The unit test was intended to mimic the poetry section on the provincial exam.

Have a wonderful long weekend!  I look forward to starting narrative essay writing with everyone on Tuesday!

Today was a day of review.  In class we worked on finishing our found poem and reviewing fro our test tomorrow.

These are the thigns we covered:
1.) Found poem- collection of poems are due on Thursday May 24
2.) Jeopardy- poetry terms review

Please study for your poetry test tomorrow.  There is an online link on our blog to help you.

Thanks Mr.T

Work Day

Today in English 10 we covered the following topics:
1.) Acrostic Poem
2.) Found Poem
3.) SIFT ing a Poem

Please start reviewing your poetry terms, putting together your collection of poem (Due Tuesday May 22) and notes because we have a poetry unit test on Friday.  Tomorrow we will be doing a Poetry walk and unit review.

Thanks
Mr.T

SIFTing a Poem

Today in English 10 we discussed how to unpack a poem.  We discussed a strategy called SIFT which stands for sensory information, imagery, form and the title.  It is important to look for these things after reading the poem.
These are the following topics covered:
1.) Unpacking a poem
2.) Unpacked the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noes
3.) Made a found poem

Tomorrow we will be starting our acrostic poem and finishing our found poem.

Haiku vs Tanka

Hello parents and students.  I hope that you had an enjoyable weekend.  In English today we covered the following topics:
1.) Poetry Crossword
2.) Haiku vs Tanka
3.) Finished our slam poetry documentary

Please start putting together your collection of poems and reviewing your poetry terms.

Thanks

Mr.T

Form

In English 10 today we discussed the following:
1.) Biographical Poem
2.) Reviewed Imagery
3.) Discussed Form

Tomorrow we have a poetry terms quiz and will finish our Slam Poetry Documentary.

Please study your poetry terms that were handed out at the start of the unit.

Thanks
Mr.T

Imagery

In English 10 today we covered the following topics:
1.) Reviewed Melody- Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance, Onomatopoeia
2.) Discussed Imagery- metaphor, simile, personification, symbols, allusions
3.) Completed a biographical poem and discussed our collection of poems assignment

Tomorrow we will discuss form.

Poetry terms quiz Friday May 11

Thanks for a great class.

Mr.T

Poetry

Tuesday
In English 10 today we discussed the following:
1.) Reviewed Rhythm
2.) Introduced to Melody- (Rhyme)single, double, triple, internal, imperfect, end
3.) Identified Rhythm and Rhyme in a variety of different poems

Monday
Today we did a basic introduction to our new poetry unit.  These are the things we discussed
1.) Poetry terms(handout provided), poetry booklet and the four components of poetry
                     1. Rhythm 2. Melody 3. Imagery 4. Form
3.) Introduced to Rhythm- how poetry is measured based on syllables(beats), and line length (meter)
unstressed vs stressed syllables

CIDN Unit Complete!

In English 10 today we completed our novel study.  On Monday we will start our Poetry unit.

This is what we covered today:
1.) CIDN Unit Test
2.) Watched our CIDN movie trailers

Last reminder to hand in the following overdue work:
1. Compare and contrast response to Rainman (movie) vs CIDN (the novel)
2. Socio-Gram

Thank you for an excellent job on your movie trailers and your hard work during this unit.

Have a great weekend!

Mr.Tobacca

Last Day of Computer Time!

Hello parents and students.  Today was the last day to edit our movie trailers.  The students worked really hard over the past week to put together some really funny movie trailers.  Tomorrow we will watch them as a class.

Important Reminders:
-Novel Unit Test Tomorrow
-Reader Response Booklet Due Tomorrow
-Movie Trailer Due Tomorow

On Monday we will be starting our Poetry unit.

Thanks for a great week and please study tonight!

CIDN Movie Trailer

Hello parents and English 10 students.  Today we conitnued to work on filming our trailer for the movie "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time.  Students were also asked if they wanted a paper our online provincial exam.

Important note: please be finished your novel by tonight- Unit test will take place this Friday.

Thanks

Mr.T

Happy May 1!  Only 1 month in a couple of weeks left.  Remember that you want to finish the race sprinting not jogging or walking through term 4.

Tuesday's Class
In today's class we
1.) discussed paper vs online provincial exams
2.) discussed the expectations for the week- Unit test on Friday and reader response booklet due
3.) Filmed more scenes- Thursday is our last computer class

Reminder you should be finished your novel for tomorrow.

Monday's Class
We started filming our CIDN movie trailers
We learned how to create a drop bucket and import video files in Windows Movie Maker

In English 10 today we covered the following:
1.) Journal/Handed in Socio-Grams
2.) Quiz #2 The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night Time
3.) Started Story Boarding for our final project

Please be working towards the final Chapters of your novel this weekend because you have a unit test next Friday.

Thanks

Mr.Tobacca

Thursday

In today class we covered the following:
1.) Silent reading- you need to be at chapter 163
2.) Socio-Gram work time
3.) Discussed project that we will start tomorrow

Quiz #2 tomorrow please study
Socio-Gram due tomorrow
Compare and Contrast was due today! If you did not hand it in please get it in.

Thank you

Mr.Tobacca

Wednesday English 10

In English today we completed the following:
1.) Silent Reading
2.) Compare and Contrast Writing Work Time
3.) Sociogram- you will also be given time tomorrow to work on this- it will be due on Friday

Please be at Chapter 163 for Friday- Quiz #2 on Friday

Thanks

Mr.T

Tuesday April 24

Today in English 10 we finished Rainman and started writing our compare and contrast response to the following question below.

Compare and contrast the relationship between Raymond and Charlie to Christopher and his father?

Compare and contrast responses and planning/notes are due tomorrow.
*Please read up to chapter 139 for tomorrow!

Thank you

Mr.Tobacca

Monday April 23

We continued to watch Rainman and reviewed two compare and contrast writing models.

Block Method-
Paragraph #1 discuss the movie
Paragraph #2 discuss the book

Similarities to Differences-
Paragraph #1 similarities (book + movie)
Paragraph #2 differences

Thursday

Yesterday in English 10 we looked at how Christopher doesn't understand metaphors, similes and signs.  We learned that he thinks to logical and literal to understand figurative language.  These are the things we covered:
1.) Silent Reading
2.) What is a metaphor and a simile + group activity
3.) Signs Activity

Friday April 20, 2012
In class today we will be watching the movie Rain Man and compairing the relationship between Raymond and Charlie to the relationship of Christopher and his father.
Students will be required to take notes to help support their compare and contrst response on Monday.


Please take some time this weekend to complete your compare and contrast outline because you will be required to write a compare and contrst response during Monday's class.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

Mr.T

Wednesday Identifying Facial Expressions

Hello parents and students. In class today we covered the following:
1.) Journal
2.) Facial Expression/Emotion Activity
3.) Completed our Autism Jigsaw
4.) Silent Reading- please be at chapter 71 for tomorrow.

Tomorrow we will be looking at why Christopher finds similes, metaphors and signs confusing.

See you all tomorrow.

Quiz this Friday!!

Novel Study

Hello parents and students. In English 10 today we covered the following:
1.) Silent reading
2.) Reviewed characterization, theme, plot, mood
3.) Austism Jigsaw

Remember to stay up to date on your reading (check the unit outline) and your response booklet that was handed out today.

There will be a quiz this Friday.

See you tomorrow.

Mr.T

Welcome Back

Welcome back! I hope all of you enjoyed your break and that you are all recharged for the final term of the year. Over the next three weeks we will be working on a novel study. It is important that you are keeping up to date on your readings in order to understand the activities we are doing in class.

In class today we worked on the following:
1.) Picked up the Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time
2.) Introduction to the book
3.) Silent Reading
4.) Discussed different types of characters

You must be at chapter 41 in your novel by Tuesday
Thanks for a great class. See you all tomorrow.

Work Day

In class today we worked on writing our persuasive essay. We discussed the criteria for writing a good persuasive essay. Tomorrow final copies will be due.

Essay Criteria
- Introduction- general to specific with a strong thesis statement
-Variety of sentences including different sentence starters.
-Quotes that support the thesis statement.
-Strong paragraph form- PEEC
-Transitions- used at the start of the supporting paragraphs
-Strong Conclusion- rewords the thesis
-Conventions- correct spelling, grammar and punctuation

Thanks for a great class.

After Spring break we will be starting a novel study.

Persuasive Essay

Over the past three classes we have been working on researching information to help us write a persuasive essay. Today's class was devoted to finishing our research and note taking. There will not be any more time issued for research, so if you are not done you must work on it tonight.

Wednesday
-discussed transitions in essay writing
-research

Tuesday
- the network was down so we watched a movie

Monday
-reviewed essay format Introduction- thesis statement Body- supporting details Conclusion- rewording thesis statement
- research time

Friday

Hello parents and grade 10 students. This week was a great week of learning and improvement. We have been working really hard to improve our writing and I happy to say that I've seen many improvements.

In Friday's class we covered the following:
1.) Silent Reading
2.) Editing Conference for All The Troubles of I-Robot (final copy is due on Monday)
3.) Brainstormed a topic for our Persuasive Essay- (starting on Monday)

It is important that you come to class on Monday with a topic that you would like to persuade other people to believe. We will be doing some research and writinf a persuasive essay.

During Thursday's class we spent some time looking really closely at the structure of an essay. We discussed the following topics
1.) Introduction and Thesis Statement
2.) Body- Supporting Paragraphs and PEEC
3.) Conclusion- rewording the Thesis

Wednesday was a test day. The students wrote their short story unit test which consisted of the following:
1.) Literary terms
2.) Media and advertising
3.) Compairing two texts- literary response(these were done well)

Overall a great week of learning. This is the last week of term 3 so it is important that you hand in any missing assignments before Spring break.

English 10

In English 10 today we covered the following:
1.) Last day of literary presentations
2.) Discussed what will be on the short story test tomorrow
3.) Discussed how to write a conclusion
4.) Wrote our two supporting paragraphs for I-Robot and All The Troubles Of The World (this is for homework 5 marks if you finish it)

Reminder that we have a short story unit test tomorrow. Please study!

Mr.T

Welcome Back! Monday

Hello parents and students. In class today we finished watching I-Robot. Students were also given a outline for their essay that they need to complete for homework.

Tomorrow we will writing an essay on the story "All The Troubles Of The World' and the movie "I-Robot"

See you all tomorrow!

Mr.T

Happy Friday

In English 10 today we covered the following topics:

1.) Provided evidence from the story "All The Troubles Of The World" to support a given prompt.
2.) Watched I-Robot

It is important that you have read the entire short story and watched I-Robot because we will be writing a compare and contrast essay on the two.


Thanks for a great week and have a wonderful weekend!

Mr.T

Thursday

Hello. In English 10 today we covered the following:
1.) Lit Term Presentations
2.) Read All The Troubles In The World
3.) Summarized the big concepts of short story

Tomorrow we will watch I-Robot and compare it to All The Troubles in The World.

Thanks for a great class

Mr.T

Wednesday March 14 A Day Of Work

Hello parents and students. In English 10 today we had a work day. We worked on the following:

1.) Literary term presentations
2.) Literary term quiz
3.) Editing Conference for the students who did their homework and brought their rough copies
4.) Work time for compare/contrast literary response

Please have your final copy completed for tomorrow (compairing Nightingale and Coppola).

Thanks and have a wonderful evening.

Mr.T

Tuesday

In class today we did the following:
1.) Read Internet Is Hero's Window- page 162 and Enligthenment and Muscular Dystrophy on page 190
2.) Wrote a literary response on the following question- with reference to the story and poem, discuss how both Nightngale and Coppola show determination.

Please have your rough copy done for tomorrow. Literary term quiz tomorrow!

Have a great night.

Power Outage

No school today due to a power outage. Our literary term quiz will be moved to Wednesday. Tomorrow we will look at comparing and contrasting a poem and a short story. Please bring your Crossroads textbook.

Have a nice evening and we will see you tomorrow.

Mr.Tobacca

Friday

Hello parents and students. Unfortunately we only had 11 students in class today. Instead of continuing on with instruction and so many students missing, students were given work time to catch up on any missing assignments.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Compare and Contrast

Hello parents and students. In class today we focused on the following:
1. How to intergrate quotes with transitions- TIE
2. Comepare and Conrast writing
3. Editing Conference

Sniper 2 is due tomorrow. See you all tomorrow.

Anti Bullying

Hello parents and grade 10 students. Because of the PARTY program today we did not cover much.

1.) Journal- Topic: satisfaction comes from helping others
2.) Edited our Sniper 2 short stories

Please have a final copy, rough draft and plot diagram completed for Friday.

Thanks and have a great afternoon!

Mr.T

Monday and Tuesday

Monday Feb 27

On Monday we completed the following:
1.) Journal- sometimes our toughest struggles in life are with ourselves
2.) Read "Man You're A Great Player"
3.) Discussed Satire and Jargon
4.) Wrote a literary response. Q: Is the hockey player in the story a hero?

Tuesday Feb 28
Today in class we worked on the following:
1. Silent reading- Stains
2. Discussed how to integrate quotes into our writing- lead in, "quote" (pg#) and explanation.
3. Stain Quote Activity- used quotes from the short story Stains to support a point.

Reminder- Please come to class with your rough draft of Sniper 2 because we will be editing them. Thank you and have a wonderful evening!

Mr.T

Happy Friday

Hello parents and grade 10 students. In English today we covered the following topics:
1.) Silent Reading
2.) Reviewed Sentence Starters
4.) Planned Sniper 2- plot diagram, rough draft due on Monday

Thanks for a wonderful week. Have a safe an enjoyable weekend. Please come to class with your rough draft of Sniper 2 on Monday.

Mr.T

Wed

In English 10 today we covered the following:
1.) Silent Reading
2.) Responded to the Sniper
3.) Discussed Theme, Character and Conflict
4.) Discussed what makes an interesting story

Tomorrow we will re-write the story in a first person point of view.

Thanks for a great day see you all tomorrow.

Tuesday

Hello parents and students. English was a jam packed today. We covered the following:
1.) Literary response to Superman's Song
2.) Background information of the short story "The Sniper"
3.) Read The Sniper

Thanks for a great class. See you all tomorrow!

Mr.Tobacca

Welcome back from your weekend. This week we will continue to focus on our short story unit and literary terms. Each student will be responsible for presenting one literary term to class over the next 3 weeks. In today's class we covered the following.

1.) Silent Reading
2.) How to correct run on sentences
3.) Superman's Song
4.) Literary Response

Thanks for a great day and I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Mr.T

Thursday

Hello parents and students. In English 10 we covered the following:
1.) Journal Reflection- goal setting
2.) When and when not to use capital letters
3.) Media Quiz
4.) Plot Diagram
5.) Self Evaluation- Action Hero Paragraph

Have a great evening!

Mr.T

The Michelle I Know

Hello parents and students. In English 10 today we covered the following:

1.) Silent Reading
2.) Discussed literary terms for the course
3.) Plot diagram for the short story "The Michelle I Know"

Just a reminder that we have a media quiz tomorrow. Action Hero paragraph needs to be handed in tomorrow.

Please study.

Have a wonderful night.

Action Hero

Good morning! In class today we discussed the following topics:
1.) Avoiding Colloquial Writing
2.) Read- Action Hero
3.) Literature Response

Thanks for a great Monday. I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow!

Mr.T

Reading Power

In class today we discussed the following topics:

1.) Mass Media
2.) Reading Power
3.) How Media influences people
4.) Advertising strategies

Thanks for a great class!

Media

Hello parents and grade 10 students. I had a wonderful day yesterday learning about reading strategies that I really look forward to using in our classroom. I hope you all enjoyed your day off. In English today we discussed the following:

1.) Journal Reflection
2.) Introduction to media
3.) Bus Stop Activity

Thanks for a great class and have a wonderful evening.

Mr.Tobacca

Awesome Grammar Support Link

http://www.kidinfo.com/language_arts/grammar_helper.html

Happy Friday!

Hello students and parents. In English 10 today we covered the following.

1.) Paragraph Structure
2.) Review
3.) Discussed Voice
4.) Editing Conference

Thanks for a great week. Please have your final copy of your paragraph for hand in on Tuesday Feb 7th.

Reminder to have a novel to read and your journal for Tuesday (I will be giving you a mark for bringing your journal)

Mr. T

Today and Yesterday

Today in class we continued to focus on paragraph writing. We discussed the following topics:

1.) Topic Sentence, Supporting Details, Concluding Sentence
2.) Editing Conference
3.) Riddles

Yesterday
1.) Sentence Structure
2.) Sentence Openers
3.) Riddles

I look forward to starting our Media unit. Please remember to get a journal by tomorrow and have a novel for silent reading.

See you all tomorrow!

Mr.T

Hello

Hello students and parents. In English 10 today we covered the following:
1.) Sentence Structure
2.) Varying our sentences
3.) Types of sentences
4.) Sentence starters

Thanks for a great class and I will see you all tomorrow!

Mr. T

Welcome to English 10!

Hello grade 10 English students and parents. Thank you for taking the time to read today's post and for being committed to checking the blog on a daily basis. Our class blog is intended to help you stay up to date on what is happening in the course. Every day I will provide an overview of what we have covered in class and any details on upcoming events/homework. There will also be learning support links provided shortly. I would like to wish you all a fun and enjoyable learning experience this semester in English 10.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow.

Mr.Tobacca