Thursday Dec 1

Yeah, snow.

It's coming. Be prepared, ladies and gents.

Speaking of which, I let people know about the dates for the Culminating Activity for this course. In any case, I did get word that the CA will consist of an essay. I do have them, but I also asked my students to use their electronic devices to write them into their own calendar apps. We'll work on it together in class during those days I asked the students to input into their own devices.

I'll post the dates later on, too, loyal non-student readers. Although you might ask and see if our students did, in fact, input the dates for themselves.

Right. For the current unit, we read to page 71 in the teacher version and the 78 in the blue version. We also made mention of the name of the river in class, called "The Pooky Bear" river. An inside joke there, sorry.

We also commented on the "life is over" idea that people have for Phineas. It warmed my heart to have some of my students reference Wheelchair Sports, even the Invictus Games as places where people with physical disabilities can excel.

Wednesday Nov 30

today we got reading ... we finished Chapter 4 in the novel.

"it's ok to be jealous of your friends ..." line was discussed. I gave an example from my own life with a university buddy of mine, Dr. Geordie Rose. He was a teammate of mine back at McMaster in the early 90's and has gone on to do fairly well for himself.

At one point in time, we were asked about what we thought about what a game of Blitzball might look like. I did have a few suggestions:

Kabaddi
WheelChair Rugby
and Able Bodied Rugby, too

We watched a bit of them today. Interesting to see if any one of my students takes these sports up in any interest.

I'm not sure how, but we also mentioned Kelly Slater's new business, too. Watch this:


Kelly's Wave from Kelly Slater Wave Co on Vimeo.

We also saw the start of the 2004 film version of the book. I doubt we'll have time to see that during class time, but it's at least there.

I did also suggest a few ideas about the Culminating Activity in the class today.

Tuesday Nov 29

Teacher copy and the Blue copy

So today ....

yeah, We read until the middle of Chapter 3 - page 36 in the teacher copy and 44 in the Blue copy ...

and got 6, 7, 9 and 11 for homework.

We also watched this:

Monday Nov 28

What we dealt with today in class

I won't lie, it was a tough slog through A Separate Peace today.

We made it to page 19 in my copy of the book but that's complicated by the fact that we have three different versions of the text. We did get into chapter 2, though.

And we also got questions 1-5 for work for tomorrow. I will post due dates tomorrow, too.

And ... I found a bunch of work int he "to be returned" box at the front of the class and returned it today. Weird, no one was looking in it.... hashtag all good.

Just to keep people in the loop, this is what the teacher is reading:

So far, a pretty good read.

Thursday Nov 24

What a day, what a day.

We handed stuff in today - the essay on Othello was due. I also got some Othello part II questions as well.

After that, we had a discussion about the Pathways Presentation that went on during period two. I'm always a strong proponent that there are always many pathways to success.

After a bit of that, we got into the new unit, A Separate Peace.

During the reading, we heard about this and I said that I would post a pic of the northern lights on Jupiter:

I think I can see my house from here ....

Wednesday Nov 23

We got to Step Four in class ... well, that is I got to step Four in front of the class.

Seems I will go home tonight and finish my essay off and be ready to hand it in tomorrow.

On wards!

Monday Nov 21

Hey, just before class started, I posted this as a link you can see if you can download the .doc version of the Essay outline handout.