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.