Grade 10s rock!!
I just wanted to let everyone know how awesome the grade 10 class has been doing this year. Their second assignment, "Dracula on Tour", was due this past Tuesday. It involved making a fictitious tour advertisement for the upcoming tour of the play Dracula. They could do anything from making a poster to creating a video trailer. On Tuesday, I received amazing projects, all unique and well done. AND every project was handed in on the due date. Very impressive grade 10s! I let them know how appreciative I was by bringing them popcorn the following day. I challenge other classes to be as diligent as this one, and I will reward with some sort of treat!
We are still in the first unit which is based all around the "unknown". In class we have been discussing the future, and unknowns associated with it. Yesterday, the students began their pre-writing activities for their essay "Life in 2060". The students are going to be using the writing process to complete an essay about what they think life will be like 50 years from now. Your child has a list of the requirements in his/her ELA binder if you would like more information about it. The essay is due November ninth.
In order to break up the material a bit, the Grade 10s will be having a mid-unit exam on the 28th of October. This text will cover all material that we have taken up to this point, and will therefore make the end-unit exam much more manageable.
Also, we have an exciting field trip coming up with the grade 10s. The Vic Juba Theatre is putting on a production of "The Monkey's Paw", which is a play that we have already read as a class. I have secured 20 seats for the play, 12 which will be filled with students from grade 10, one for me and one for Mrs. Shirtliffe. That means that we will have 6 seats left, some which are going to be offered to senior art students, and the others will be open for parents who are interested in driving students and attending the play. If you would like to attend, please let me know!!
In other ELA news, ELA 9 just received their Outsiders exams back. You may want to inquire as to how your son/daughter did on the exam, and I encourage you to ask them. If you would like more information about it, feel free to contact me at school, or we could talk about it at P T interviews.
The grade 11s are working on culminating activities of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Their unit exam is on October 28, which is next Thursday. The "Something to Write Home About" letter assignment is also due on the 28th. Next week we will be beginning essay writing as the students choose from a number of given topics and write a literary essay on the novel. They will only be required to use one source, the novel itself, and so it requires a deep understanding of their chosen topic. Students should choose something they are interested in and something that they can relate to or are excited about writing.
ELA 30 is continuing on in the Canada-based unit where we are about to begin the Regional Perspectives sub-theme. We will be reading some classic Prairie literature like A Field of Wheat, The Painted Door, and The Lamp at Noon. You may remember these from your English course, and while they are 'oldies;, they are most definitely 'goodies'. In fact, Sinclair Ross' story "The Painted Door" is still the most heavily referenced piece of literature on the Saskatchewan Departmental for ELA 30. I think that says that students love the quietly shocking plot of John, Steve, and Anne!
Stay tuned for more updates.
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