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.