Multicultural Literature
Warm-up: Photos of the Week discussion Reviewed "What is Multiculturalism" via powerpoint Students were reminded of YouScience and given time in class to work on logging in and completing the YouScience Scavenger Hunt or (in some cases) starting/completing the tests American Literature Warm-up: Students were asked the following questions and each student responded orally and discussed their answers:
Mr. Broome introduced the Origin Story Assignment (due THURSDAY the 3rd on FlipGrid, NOT CTLS) Multicultural Literature
Warm-up: Students analyzed newsphotos of the day, looking at what was happening and guessing where it was happening. Mr. Broome reviewed expectations for the day: complete both the What is Multiculturalism Summarizing Graphic (also found in CTLS under Lesson Assignments) and the required comments on the NowComment website. Students must create an account using their full name, use the link provided to them in Remind and make two comments:
American Literature Warm-up: Free-write friday [10 mins of writing about whatever you want to] Discussed Independent Reading Expectations Class discussion on the Genesis biblical story as an entrance point to discuss Native American Myths and how stories can predict a culture's beliefs and ideals Students read "When Grizzlies Walked Upright" and answered the questions from the Native American Origin Myths Oganizer. HW: Complete all readings and/or assignments from this week. Be ready to review the "Grizzlies" origin story on Monday. Multicultural Literature
Warm-up: Students looked at a series of current newsphotos and tried to decipher what was happening and where before discussing what was actually taking place. Mr. Broome shared the Principal Stewart's FlipGrid video for students Students then re-visited the "What is Multiculturalism?" article and were allowed time to work on their assigned summarizing graphic organizer and to make their assigned comments on the website NowComment (must respond to one of Mr. Broome's comments, and one of their peers') American Literature Warm-up: Students answered the prompt: If you were re-incarnated as an animal, what animal would you be? And why? [Base your answer on your own personality, not on the animal which you think is the coolest, or on your pet]. Mr. Broome shared number of errors he found in students' practice CEI paragraphs and allowed time (10 minutes) for students to revise their CEIEI paragraphs due today. Introduced the concept of Origin Myths, particularly Native American origin myths by looking at the background and by beginning to read "Earth on Turtle's back" Students were provided with a graphic organizer to help analyse the story. Multicultural Literature
Mr. Broome pointed out the Remind sign-up information listed on the CTLS class board:
Reviewed yesterday's YouTube video and discussed the What's in a Name assignment Students were given time to work on the assignment and were able to ask questions.
American Literature Reviewed where to located information on the CTLS home page. Mr. Broome shared the Remind sign-up information listed on the Class Board:
Reviewed yesterday's YouTube video and the assignment requirements Students were allowed asynchronous independent work time, during which the class remained in a live session and the students' questions were answered. Hello, All!
Today was the first day of our new Virtual Learning environment and although there were some hiccups with logging in, I'm sure things will be much smoother in the days/weeks to come. Below are lists of what was done today in class. Please read, especially if you were unable to log into CTLS this morning. Multicultural Literature Reviewed Classroom expectations:
Watched the Youtube Clip of actress Uzoamaka Aduba speaking about her name in preparation for an assignment which will be introduced tomorrow. American Literature Warm-Up: Students answered a series of questions in the live chat as well as providing the name they would like to be called. Reviewed Classroom expectations:
Introduced the "What's in a Name" assignment, due Thursday 8/20/20 |