Nov 17, 2025

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

• Checking in
• Recapping last week
• Comic book due date has been pushed back
• Blocks 2 and 3
• Discussion: A (old) common vision of what life is supposed to look like, often repeated in movies and on tv, is to get married, buy a house, have 2.5 kids, get a dog and a cat. What do you envision for a happy life, many years from now?
• Making masks!
• Read aloud 2.1 (1/2)
• Film
• Student presentation
• Student reaction
• Freewrite
• Block 4
• Discussion: can people change who they are?
• Read aloud 1.2 and 1.3
• Freewrite
• Possibly reading ahead?
• For Tuesday, read the next section
• Recapping Assignment 7
• Basics of a comic
• Time to brainstorm

Nov 14, 2025

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

• Checking in
• Collecting THUG books - else you owe me moneyz
• Blocks 1 and 4
• Recapping yesterday
• Discussion: can people change who they are?
• Read aloud 1.2 and 1.3
• Film (cut short, because of sauciness)
• Student presentation(s)
• Freewrite
• For Monday, read the next section
• Block 3
• Recapping yesterday
• Much Ado
• Discussion: How open are you with your friends?
• Summary
• Act out part of 1.1 (2/2)
• Film
• Student presentation
• Student reaction
• Freewrite
• Tomorrow, read 1.2 and 1.3

Nov 13, 2025

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

• Checking in
• Recapping yesterday
• Much Ado
• Discussion: How open are you with your friends?
• Summary
• Act out part of 1.1 (2/2)
• Film
• Student presentation
• Student reaction
• Freewrite
• Tomorrow, read 1.2 and 1.3
• 3rd block:
• Feedback: what did you think of the Independent Novel Study? This will be helpful for future courses (like next semester)
• Much Ado
• Reviewing the character chart
• Finishing 1.1.1-155 on No Fear
• The film
• Recapping assignments
• Student presentation
• Student discussion
• Freewrite
• Collecting book numbers
• For tomorrow, read through the end of 1.1 on your own. Feel free to read summaries and the No Fear version, but in class we'll be discussing the original language

Nov 12, 2025

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

• Checking in
• (3rd block: we're going to be in a film?)
• Feedback: what did you think of the Independent Novel Study? This will be helpful for future courses (like next semester)
• Much Ado
• Reviewing the character chart
• Finishing 1.1.1-155 on No Fear
• The film
• Recapping assignments
• Student presentation
• Student discussion
• Freewrite
• Collecting book numbers
• For tomorrow, read through the end of 1.1 on your own. Feel free to read summaries and the No Fear version, but in class we'll be discussing the original language

Nov 10, 2025

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

• Checking in
• Recapping last week
• Hand in essays! Make sure everything is included
• AM: 
• Remembrance Day Ceremony - instructions
• Final report card interviews will have to happen at either FIT or lunch
• Kieran, Oliver, Tezzy, Estelle, Liam, Wesley, Nicky, Cohen, Monica
• Much Ado
• Finishing 1.1.1-155
• Act it out! Benedick and Beatrice
• The film
• Complete your character chart
• Final report card interviews
• On Wednesday, we'll begin presentations!

Nov 7, 2025

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

• Checking in
• Background on Shakespeare
• Discussion: What do you know about Shakespeare? How do you feel about Shakespeare?
• What we know about him
• Language
• Iambic pentameter
• Thee/Thou/Est
• Theater at the time
• The Globe
• Elizabethan England
• Quick video on who he was
• Much Ado About Nothing - 1599
• Looking ahead to the next three assignments
• Note the pun in the title
• Note how the numbers work. Today is 1.1.1-155
• Character chart - to be completed by Monday
• Reading a summary of 1.1
• Read aloud 1.1.1-155
• Time to work on your character chart
• Student mid-term interviews
• On Monday, we'll practice acting out this scene, and watch the film

Nov 6, 2025

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

• Checking in
• Note: I'm delaying the due date for the essay, as well as the start to the play
• Time for essay!
• How to peer review
• You need to show physical evidence of THREE peers offering thoughts on your essay. This might look like:
• Track Changes on Word
• Different colours and font on google docs
• Good ol' pen and pencil on a physical copy
• Pictures of people studiously considering your essay
• When editing, consider:
• Spelling, commas, and essay structure
• Mr. McLean's Writing Tips
• Compliment sandwich at the end
• Reminder about final copy:
• Good copy (a title page is always a nice touch)
• Works Cited Page
• Rough copy (should feature evidence of three peers editing)
• Original plan (can be different from what the end result is)
• Mid-term report card interviews!
• Tomorrow, we'll begin Much Ado About Nothing, and work on a character chart.