Monday, May 4, 2009

Monday, May 4th -- Day Six

Period One -- Social 20
Students were asked a series of questions of which the answers come from this morning's Leader Post. They were also given a handout to be read for tomorrow relating to assumptions made about Aboriginal populations. This should be read as an understanding of this material is critical to completion of tomorrow's assignment.

Period Two -- ELA 10
Collected activity related to the short story "A Kind of Murder". We made a diagram relating to the use of the word discrimination. From that the short story "The Fan Club" was assigned to be read.

Period Three -- ELA 20
Work period for Trilogy and Newspapers

Period Four -- ELA 9
Students were asked to retell the myth of "Savitri and Satyavan" in no more than seven sentences. From there, students were asked to write their own myths explaing the presence of any two of the following:
How the skunk got its scent? How the elephant got its trunk? How the zebra got its stripes? How the beaver got its tail? How the porcupine got its quills? How the raccoon got its darkened eyes? These are due tomorrow.

Period Five -- ELA 10
Students were asked to complete their reading of "The Fan Club". Once finished they are to complete questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for tomorrow.

Period Six -- ELA 20
Work period

Period Seven -- Social 10
They were given a newspaper assignment based on this mornings Leader Post. Once done they were given the remainder of class to study for Wednesdays exam...