Oct 7, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Reviewing yesterday's lesson
• Last class, finish Teacher notes
• Prep for quiz
• Quiz
• You may have your novel
• No notes, dictionaries, or thesaurus(es? i?)
• Recapping assignment 5 and 6
• Time for assignment 6
• Now that you've read a good chunk of the novel, what might your focus be? 
• I'll be writing down your first thoughts about a topic
• Time for assignment 5
• Brainstorm
• What communities will you note?
• How would you describe your place between those communities? Start with positive or negative, and then get more specific.
• How might you depict this relationship?
• Tomorrow, Nigel returns to finish the discussion started last week
• Thursday, read chapters 8 and 9

Oct 6, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Reminder: Details on the Independent Novel Project
• Checking on students missing work - A1 and A3
• Silent reading
• Policing in the news
• Student presentation
• Teacher notes
• Student reaction
• Recap of quiz details
• Time to prepare

Oct 3, 2025

  Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Silent reading - book number check
• Student presentation
• Teacher notes
• Student reaction
• Freewrite
• For Monday, complete Chapter 7

Oct 2, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Silent reading
• Student presentation
• Teacher notes
• Student reaction
• Reminder of Assignment 5 - no need to worry about it yet
• Freewrite
• For tomorrow, complete Chapter 5

Oct 1, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Reminder of the reading schedule
• Introducing Nigel Amenu-Tekaa!
• Tomorrow, come to class with chapter 3 already read

Sept 29, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Reminder: hand in your A3 pronto!
• Silent reading
• Literary terms
• Connection to quiz - you should be able to independently create your own examples of each of these
• Review of terms
• New terms
• Onomatopoeia
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Point of View
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Paradox
• Irony
• Freewrite
• On Wednesday, Nigel Amenu-Tekaa comes to visit, to discuss racism
• Before Thursday's lesson, read the first three chapters of The Hate U Give

September 25, 2025

 Hello! Here's what we're up to today:

• Checking in
• Time to read
• Collecting book numbers
• Reviewing the next four assignments
• Reviewing Assignment 4 (quiz)
• I encourage you to take notes, so that you remember what happens in each chapter
• Reviewing Assignment 7 (Presentation)
• The Hate U Give
• Discussion: where does a story start?
• Historical context of the novel (timeline - created by ChatGPT)

• Chapter 1 presentation
• Student reaction to chapter 1
• Freewrite
• Next reading day: one week from now, read chapters 2 and 3
• On Monday, we'll do a grammar lesson on punctuation and a review of literary terms (Heck yes!)
• Reminder: On Monday, try to wear Orange, in honour of Truth and Reconciliation