Wednesday and Thursday Feb 25th

I put thie fish back - keep feeding them!

oh my ... I got so involved in stuff yesterday I forgot to update this blog. Man, I will try and get better at this.

Wednesday was the last day for us working together on the PowerPoint Presentation assignment and the Task Three Piece of Writing assignment, too.

Right then, on Thursday during Period One, we started our new unit on the novel "And then there were none", by Agatha Christie. I haven't taught this novel in years and I'm really looking forward to reading it again. Should be excellent.

We read to page 11 in the book and got the unit outline, too. I'll have some helpful links for this novel up on the right side of the blog soon.

On Thursday for Period Three, we started the unit on William Golding's Lord of the Flies. I've read this novel a number of times over the last decade. This novel is like an onion to me, to be frank. I can see something in the novel and peel it away and another layer of meaning is there underneath.

We got to about halfway through the first chapter before we ran out of time in the class. I also ran into technology issues yesterday and could not print off the questions for the class for homework. Ah well, it's just something for us to work on together on Friday.

Not that this is curriculum related, but I also saw this tweeted out today too:

Monday and Tuesday this week

Monday and Tuesday we worked on getting the presentations together.

Tuesday I also collected Task One, the Journal. Number sign Awesome

I don't think anyone is finished everything yet, so keep reading, writing, thinking and creating!

Woo!

Update until Thursday Feb 18

Wednesday we read a story in the period three class and did a quick review in the Period One class.

Thursday we did a focus on "how to do powerpoint well for Chesser" day.

This is a good review of the day ... one which I have to admit, even though it is about PowerPoint, is actually pretty darn funny. The guy that I showed in Period Three, which no one really liked, is here.

I had fun. I hope you did, too.

This Task Two thing is due on March 2.

Review of Tues Feb 16th

First of all, some good news. Well, it's good news for me, anyways.

Secondly, it was a snowy day and I missed a few students, or they came after period one. It's ok, that's just how days like today work.

We did nothing "new", as in no new stories. We did take a good long look at the Presentation/ Task Two that are due March 2.

That's right, I have to post the due dates for stuff here. Ok, I will do that tonight.

Yes, you have to put together a power point presentation for me. Yes, it's due March 2. The topics from which you have to pick are on the right side of the webpage here.

If you are reading this on a mobile device, you have to use the "Web Version" of this page, not the "Mobile Verison" to see the links. You get that by scrolling all the way to the bottom and clicking on "See Web Version". Not as pretty, but it's what you need to do.

I'd pick two or three links as choices, as there are no "repeats" allowed - you can't pick the same link as someone else. Yes, you have to tell me/email me what your choices are. I'll let you know which ones are still available.

Ok, be safe, get to class.

Feb 9-12 review

This was a series of bouncy days. A visual for these days would be

I'm hoping that we can continue bouncing like that  ... it's awesome, isn't it?

So, today we got caught up on work for our Journal Task for the Short Story unit. We also chatted about the links on the right-hand side of the webpage - those are the topics for the presentations we have to put together.

Poke around, click on them and read, watch and experience them. I think I got a wide perspective, so if there is something you'd like me to include, let me know.

I will have the due dates for Unit One posted here, too.

Feb 8 review

That was a nice start to a new semester.

I'm hoping that you are doing well, too.

We talked a little bit about planning the semester - we decided on two things,  The first thing was the novel, which we said we'd do Lord of the Flies. The second thing was the drama unit ... we are going to do Macbeth.... I mean the Scottish play...

I'll make sure that there are plenty of resources for those units and the current Short Pieces unit, too.

Welcome!

This will be a part of the online experience for the Period three course at Thomas Merton.

Should be a real trip.

Lots of extras and help will be posted here during the semester.

Keep in touch!