Tuesday Feb 28

Well, it was a decent day for us in the portable. Lots of laughing, anyways.

We read all of chapter 8 of the novel and into chapter 9

We got the due date for part one of the Hunger Games Unit. It's going to be March 7th.

Check the portable cork board or the right-hand side of the blog for more details.

Monday Feb 27

So ... I'm back!

We read Chapter 7 from Hunger Games together. We got these questions:

And we had a nice relaxing time in the sunshine .... ahhhhhh.

Tuesday Feb 21

A catch-up day for people who needed to write their quiz or complete their paragraphs. 

Everyone else started reading chapter 1 and had a small recap discussion.

We will begin working on the first chapter questions before moving on to chapter 2. 

Thursday Feb 16

Managed to conference with everyone, will begin round 2. 

Great job staying on task today!

Wed Feb 15

In class today, we talked about paragraph writing and what makes a good paragraph (descriptive writing, formatting, style). 

We began conferencing with students about their paragraph assignment. The second half of the class will get the opportunity to conference before the second round of conferencing takes place. There are some great ideas coming out of this class - keep working at it, keep going!

Chesser was emailed a rather cool looking document of the notes taken, too. He likes learning and teaching in the 21st Century. And team teaching is pretty cool, too!

Feb 13

Well, I'm not there. That's just to make it official.

I'm at home, resting after emergency surgery on Sunday. Everything is ok, and I'll be back in a few weeks. In any case, I got this from Miss Perino, who is the teacher now.

We read "On the Sidewalk Bleeding". Talked about the discussion questions before filling in the answers independently. Also made note of the literary elements (Setting, protagonist/antagonist, conflict, POV) 

We introduced to the idea of the Comparative paragraph and began to jot down ideas for what character student will compare ourselves to for the paragraph assignment!

Sounds like a great class!

Friday Feb 10

So ... we started today taking up the homework on "Vital Factor".

We also chatted very briefly about using your time while in class ... do your homework while in class and it makes getting through high school a lot less sticky.

Then we read the story 'The fun they had" by Issac Assimov. I found a reading on youtube:

After that, we got some time to work on the questions and terms for Monday.

Then ... in the last 20 minutes of class we did take a look at the Task Three Paragraph piece of writing that is due Feb 21.

Thursday Feb 9

So ... I updated yesterday's post - I got confused between the two English classes I'm teaching at the moment. I can honestly say ... that happens!

In any case, it's fixed now ... and we moved on, too.

We started today by talking about and taking up homework on The Sniper.  Then we read "Vital Factor" by Nelson Bond. We got the questions and the terms for homework tonight, too.

During the reading, I talked about a famous engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk and his attempts at doing the same thing at SpaceX, one of his companies.

Tuesday and Wednesday Feb 8

Tuesday was a "snow day".


OK, so today we started the Short Pieces Unit.

We read the first story "The Sniper" by LiamO'Flaherty. What a story!

We got the questions for that story, and we also got the terms




All good, all good.

I'll make sure I get the due dates up on the wall of the classroom and on this blog for everyone to see.

Monday Feb 6

So we started the class today - with the usual tracking sheets and course outlines.

I did get students to email me at Chesserhandin1 at gmail dot com. (I write it this way so that spammers won't get to that email address.

Please, if you haven't emailed me there yet, please do. I was just looking for something that I could read to find out about my students.

After that, we had a few minutes, so we talked about the course

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Day 1 - and Welcome!

Hey there!

We are in class together and I'm showing this off to you.

This will be a place for us to work on together and make it helpful for our needs.

Check this one out!