Thursday March 24

Update for Mar 22 and 23

The last two days have been ... light on attendance to say the least. I'm just wondering what's what.

In Period One we had to keep reading, and we got to page 116.

In Period Three we lost the period either Mindfullness or to Obie. Or both. Cute fuzzy doggie.

Update for March 21

Well, we made it back from Break. I think I can say "Woo." for all of us at this point in time....;)

In any case, we read today. In period one, we got into page 98 before time ran out on us. We'll keep watching the film version in order to get everyone back to the same page.

Period Three, we got into Chapter 5, and I'm hoping that everyone is enjoying the novel. We talked about a site I learned about over the Break called docastaway.com. Honestly, if you wanted to do some research and have a crack at putting together an essay/research project on this I would be more than happy! Something about relating the text to self or text to world is most assuredly there, my friends.

In any case, we also saw the video from which I took this screen shot:

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday March 10 updates

It might be one of these people.

Period one - we got reading ... and we read. We are now on page 75 of the novel. People are starting to fall victims to the murderer, whoever that is. I have no idea who the bad guy is in this novel. It's a mystery.

I also just found out that this novel was redone as a miniseries in 2015 by the BBC. I jsut saw it for sale on Amazon. Very cool.

Period three we read a lot of Chapter 4. We did stop to discuss what was happening in the book, too. At one point in time, the narrator of the book mentions that the rest of society had been destroyed in a nuclear exchange. Of course, the teacher mentioned a film called The Day After that came out in 1984 and was a huge draw for viewers. Quite simply, back in 1984, I thought for sure that we were going to see a nuclear exchange before 2010. I was never happier to be wrong.

Masks let us behave differently.

In any case, we also talked about the ideas of what goes on when people put on masks or make up in order to alter their appearance. Maked people begin to alter their behaviour and quite literally become someone else.

Finally we had a rather humourous discussion about voting for someone using the "Choir Boy's chant" from Lord of the Flies.

Monday March 7 update

So, yeah. I'm doing this late. Sorry. This was a weird and wild day.

Gramophone

For Period One, we started with taking up questions 1 and 2 as a "class". We then read until the scary voice was played on the gramophone and accused every person present of being a murderer. The name of the LP that was played was "Swan Song", and I had a brief discussion of that with the class. The voice's accusations were getting some people interested, let me tell you. We were then assigned questions 4 and 6 for homework.

Period Three we read until the middle of Chapter Four. I have to admit, this class is going rather nicely. I will take up the questions for Chapter two tomorrow. Should be a fun time.

Thursday March 3 update

Period one .... what to say about that period one class. Hey, we made ourselves to class and I'm pretty happy about that. We read to page 39. And got questions 1,2 and 3 assigned for tomorrow. Or Monday. Let's make it Monday, man. See the wall or the right-hand side of this blog for details on the due dates for this unit.

In any case, keep coming to class and we will get through "The Boring Introduction Parts" together.

Period Three ... we got through to the start of Chapter three and got the next set of questions. It's all good. We did some crawling through the bottom of YouTube and saw this while we did some work together as a group. Awesome.

Due dates for this unit were also posted today - see the white board for details ... or the right-hand side of the blog, too.

Tuesday March 1 update

right, Period one ... we had one person in, again. We worked on the vocabulary list and thought about cool stuff. I'm planning on moving forward with the reading of the book. You need to come to class if at all possible. It's a good book, really.

Period Three we read until about a third of the way into Chapter 2 of the novel. We got to the point in the book where the boys put together a big pile of wood and leaves for a fire and then discovered that they had no way of lighting the wood on fire.

And so we started to discuss a few things. I mentioned this app again. We also had some discussion of Les Stroud (who is a Facebook friend of mine, by the way) and this scene in the film Castaway:

Anyway, keep yourself in the loop. Red this blog. Pray for a snow day.

Monday Feb 29 update

First off, let me just say that I'm sorry that this is so late. Man, I was just out of my brain busy.

For my period One class ... we had no one in class that was up to date on everything, so I had the people in class play catch up on the work they missed or get reading the novel to where we left off in class.

For my period Three Class, I found this online:

We finished reading Chapter One of Lord of the Flies and we got the questions assigned too.