Thursday and Friday Dec 20

Worked on the presentations and the CA.

Also showed off updated marks for a few students.

All good.

Merry Christmas!

Tuesday and Wednesday Dec 18

So we finished off a few more CA presentations today.

Awesome.

A bunch to go though.

We spent the rest of the class getting our updated marks and seeing the results of hard work in the class with conferences/one on ones with the teacher and the laptop.

Mon Dec 16

"Being done is being adult."

CAs are due ... were due on Friday and as of 12:50 on Monday I have 4 of 17 writing pieces in to me.

We did have three CA presentations today that I thought went well. Those present saw a nice selection of ideas presented from research done since Oct 16th.

CAs should continue to come in this week as that is the focus of our time together.

Get them done, get them in.

Fri Dec 13

Ok, the written portion of the CA is Due.

Get the written potion in - paper would be my personal preference.

Let's spend the day getting the Presentation ready to go.

We'll do a little on what to do and what not to do for a presentation .... exactly like we did in the story unit back in Sept. I put this preentation on "How to Present" together in front of the class, too.

We will sign up for dates to present and make sure that we are in class on those dates.

Thursday Dec 12

Yup, it's a Mass Day, as advertised.

Last Day for us in the library. Get the piece of writing done. If you are done, work on the Presentation due next week.

You got this.

Wed Dec 11

We are back in the library today working on the writing part of the CA.

It is recommended that you show the teacher what you have as a draft or as a working set of pages.

Anything else ... talk to the teacher ...

Tuesday Dec 10

We are back in the library today.

Yoda has it right: you should be done a draft version of your piece of writing today. If you aren't at that step yet, you have some work to do.

I was also asked ot post a rough outline of what the piece of writing should look like. Here is a level one. I will also post this under the electronic copy of the CA Outline.

Monday Dec 9

This is a click and paste from Friday ... as I got the same questions today as I got then:

I want to point out that you can ask for a paper copy of the CA, but an electronic copy is already posted under the "CA for 4C" list on this course site for you.

If you are looking for your topic, look back in your email on or around October 16th - its the day you left me know what Horror Film you were going to study and what topic you were going to study for your CA.

It should be in your sent email. Check there.

I also have people who are unable ot check their own email, are away or never sent me an email when requested.

Fri Dec 6

It's the first day of work on the CA in the library today ...

I want to point out that you can ask for a paper copy of the CA, but otherwise it's already posted under the "CA for 4C" list on this course site for you.

If you are looking for your topic, look back in your email on or around October 16th - its the day you left me know what Horror Film you were going to study and what topic you were going to study for your CA.

It should be in your sent email. Check there.

Right, onwards and upwards to the end of the course!

Thursday Dec 5th

No more Glass Castle

So we are finished our study of Glass Castle today. All official like.

Now we move on to the CA for the course.

We are in the library tomorrow.

Check yesterday's post for ideas on how to check what you signed up for as a topic.

A better look for Jeanette

Wed Dec 4

Today was a period to chat with the teacher about things due and not handed in.

I also reminded people about their Culminating Activity Topics  - the would have emailed me their topic on Oct 16th or there abouts. Here is the link to the day's write up at which I asked for people to email me their idea.

Most people in the room had done as asked. Some have not - need to get that done.

Ok, Quiz tomorrow and stuff due tomorrow also mentioned.- we are officially done Glass Castle after tomorrow!

Tues Dec 3

So today we finished the novel.

Ahhhh ... on to the dribs and drabs of this course and on to the CA, too.

Due dates are ll set up for the end of Glass Castle and for the CA - take a peek on the right-hand side of the blog for both.

Right. Woot!

Mon Dec 2

We read to page 270 in the text - we are almost done this novel - due date is within our reach as Dec 5th.

We will have a quiz that day, too.

Right after we did the reading for the day, we also got a chance to give feedback on pieces of writing in order to help for the CA for this course.

I was also able to give out a checklist of Glass Castle mini-assignments to each student. There were five assignments that each student was to hand in by the end of specific classes during this unit. All students owed at least one assignment. The Checklist was to establish what each student owed.

We begin the CA formally on Friday. I have paper copies in the portable and the eCopy was posted last week and is still on this blog.