English 8 & 9
Our poetry unit continues amid great student enthusiasm for poetry which is heartening for their teacher. My English 9 class, in particular, is having mature and introspective class discussions about poetry. They are filling up their Hilroy notebooks with glued-in poems, notes and paragraphs, which I am collecting this weekend for an initial, formative evaluation. After about one more week, students will choose one of their paragraph responses to expand in a good copy, then we will start writing poems.
Social Studies 11
Test on Chapters 6, 7 and 8 is tomorrow: Friday, April 26, last block. There will be 50 multiple choice questions and two written answers. Note for students reading this blog: Aboriginal people in Canada won the vote in 1960. (We ran out of time in our review today.) Now we are finished history!
Next week we start our Canadian politics unit and will be participating in Student Vote activities which will liven it up a bit. The politics unit is only three chapters (and three weeks) long: 9,10, and 12. (Law in chapter 11 is no longer in the course.) Also, there is no essay on politics on the provincial exam, so we will just be focussing on facts.
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