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