Today we had a QUIZ on the history of William Shakespeare.
Students were able to use their 3-ring binders. (I hope you took copious notes.) Good luck! -Mrs. Coller
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We began reading Taming of the Shrew today. Can you tell why Shakespeare was so popular? The jokes! The humor! The attitude!
To keep in mind while you are reading:
Have a lovely evening! -Mrs. Coller Today students received their Taming of the Shrew texts. Woot! Woot! (Go, Billy Shakes!)
**Please NOTE that I underlined the title of this PLAY.
In class today, we began to take notes on the preface of our text focusing especially on SHAKESPEARE's LIFE. You will be able to use your notes to ROCK a quiz Thursday. If you don't have good notes, it will be harder to pass the quiz. Have a great night! -Mrs. Coller At the beginning of class, we watched a short YouTuber video of Taylor Mali talking about the importance of speaking with clarity and conviction instead of ambiguity and uncertainty.
But how do we PRACTICE clear speech?
To emphasize the idea of clear communication, we discussed the elements of a sentence, basically, SUBJECT and PREDICATE. A subject of a sentence is a NOUN or pronoun. A predicate is the verb. (Don't forget that there is more than one kind of verb: action, helping, linking). For fun (and... oh, yeah, education) we watched some videos on grammar parts of speech: remember Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny? They had pronoun trouble, my friend! Have a great day! -Mrs. Coller Bring a novel of your choice to school today. I am giving you time to read.
For parents, guardians, and other authority figures who would assume I am not doing my job here: *I believe that one of the most powerful tools I can give my students is the love of books. Maybe you have already begun this process at home, but I realize that we all get busy in this world of athletics, full schedules, and internet. So I have chosen to give my students a day per month to read with no strings attached. Just read. It is wonderful. Find "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable; if anything is excellent or praiseworthy" find these things and read them!! So... enjoy! Have a great night! -Mrs. Coller Your groups began discussion today.
The steps: 1. Review the main topic and subtopics. 2. Record a 1-2 minute conversation between the two people in your group. 3. Transcribe the conversation onto Google Drive. Share this with each other and share it with me at [email protected] Have a great night! -Mrs. Coller In groups of two, students chose a topic and two subtopics to discuss Thursday while being recorded. Then they had time individually to create discussion points so that their conversation would not be full of dead space, but rather vibrant and thoughtful.
The goal: to have an intelligent conversation in which the two participants toss ideas at each other, respond thoughtfully to the other's concepts while expanding on them, agreeing, disagreeing, or determining more questions to be asked. Have a great night! -Mrs. Coller Yesterday we discussed various ideas that the author of "The First Seven Years" might have had in mind when he wrote. TODAY we determined some truths that the author might have addressed in his story. The question is:
What does he teach us about the topic ___? Each student chose two topics on which to focus, then began writing an outline containing thoughts about each topic. The outlines addressed: *various aspects of each topic *ways to look at each topic *questions about each topic Have a great night. -Mrs. Coller "Life's a long and winding ride
Better have the right one by your side And happiness don't drag its feet Time moves faster than you think" -Kip Moore Today you chose over forty different topics from our story, "The First Seven Years". I will list them below, but we are going to be using these topics as a discussion point later in the week. Yes - you will get to use your iPhones in class! You and a partner will record your discussion about ONE topic, what readers can learn about that topic from the text, why it is relevant to current culture (text-to-society), and why it is relevant to students (text-to-self). Topics: Forgiveness, dedication, meddling, fear of the future, soul mates, power of reading, status, confidence, betrayal, false impressions, wrath, parents approval of spouse, envy, disobedience, money, education, patience, materialism, pride, trust, rage, disapproval, desire, sadness, dependence on others, wealth, love, secret love, pride, age, arranged marriage, happiness, self image, perseverance, understanding, lust, relationships, sacrifice, independence, selfishness, work ethic, loyalty Whew! You guys ROCK!! (For anyone who was not in class but still reads this blog, these 10th graders came up with these topics with ZERO help from me. They are SO MUCH smarter than you think!) Have a great night! -Mrs. Col In Friday's class, we began to read a story (due Monday, along with your final creative story from Veldt vocab) about a proud man named Feld who wanted his daughter to marry the man of his choosing, a man who had a college education. At the same time that he was trying to set up his daughter with Max, his assistant Sobel was getting frustrated.
The class determined that Feld had not paid enough attention to his daughter's actions. She had been reading notes tucked sweetly between the pages of novels traded with Sobel for years. But Feld had no interest in Sobel, except that he was one of very few trusted assistants in the village. Read more on the short story tab under ELA10H (blog) |
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