Friday, September 28, 2012

The Last Samurai I / Vocab Quiz - Masque Finale

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Grade 12 Deathline reminders: Group A journals due on Tuesday and essay #3 (quest 27) due on Tuesday for peer review Finished discussing ...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Hero Journey: Real Life Example / "Masque" continued

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Grade 12 Wednesday: Review, finish video, discuss If time, show Eric Clapton's answer to the question, "What drives you?"...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

POM continued / Constructed Response II and "The Masqu of the Red Death"

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Grade 12 Journal: What have you gotten out of the video so far? What do you remember? What resonates? Share Collect group B journals. ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

College App Essay Scoring & Power of Myth / "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe

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Grade 12 Collected essay number 2. Note: If you are absent for peer review, I still expect to collect TWO copies: a heavily edited forst...
Friday, September 21, 2012

POM III / "Soft Rains" Finale

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Grade 12 Yesterday: Read college application essay sample accepted by Harvard. Peer review on Essay #2 (Quest. #29 in question packet)...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

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Grade 12 Collected Group A journals. Handouts: The Seven Deadly Sins of Writing Bloom's Taxonomy Mazlow's Hierarchy Brief ...
Monday, September 17, 2012

College App Essay - Mythology / "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

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Grade 12 Collected Essay "Loss of Innocence" essay. Read college app essay sample accepted by Princeton. Students rated the es...
Friday, September 14, 2012

The College App Essay - Mythology / "The Story of an Hour" Finale

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Grade 12 Discussed tips to writing the college application essay. Read an example sent to the University of Chicago  and discussed why i...

Thursday's Post...

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Grade 12 Finished peer review on loss of innocence essay. Discussed some college stuff: College visits: leave a record of your presenc...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Please Stand By

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Will have today's entry done later, I hope! Faculty meeting!
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Peer Review! / "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

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Grade 12 Read and discussed rubric for peer review. Explained peer review process Assigned teams Began peer review on "Loss of In...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Loss of Innocence / "The Last Unicorns" II

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Grade 12 Reviewed and discussed the Jewkes essay from yesterday. Read, responded in journals, and discussed "Fertile Ground" b...
Monday, September 10, 2012

A Word of Advice / "The Last Unicorn"

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Grade 12 Discussed the tech guidelines with period 1 and 4. (See last post.) Students were strongly encouraged to make sure everything h...
Friday, September 07, 2012

Personal Voice / Life Stories

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First a word about technology.... Computer/Technology Guidelines When I taught Computer Literacy for SUNY Plattsburg, I warned my student...
Thursday, September 06, 2012

And They're Off!

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Now that you're here, hit the Like button up there. Lots of changes this year, ladies and gentlemen! A new grading policy that does a...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

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Grade 12 Finish the book. Make sure all notes are done. Grade 10 Read Chapter 24.
Monday, June 04, 2012

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Grade 12 Discussed the Wart's time with the geese and his discussion with Merlyn about becoming a knight. Gave back research papers....
Thursday, May 31, 2012

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Grade 12 I suggest everyone get the reading and notes done. Some of you aren't and this is not the time to slck off. We will be done ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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Grade 12 Read and note chapter 16 Reminder: quiz, notes and research paper grades are going to be averaged with the interim grade. Get t...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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Grade 12 Reading assignment through Monday: to page 141, end of chapter 15. Grade 10 Reading assignment through Monday: to page 113...