Grade 8 Language Arts students are busy planning scripts and filming their scenes from The Outsiders. We hope to host our film festival late next week to celebrate. Official Assignment outline HERE. On Wednesday, we will use our class time to work with Woodman's Artist-in-Residence Jacqueline Guest who will provide the following workshop: The Comic Book War: WW2 and Cosmic Comic Book Superheroes.
Grade 9 Social Studies students continue their study of the charter. Students are working on persuasive speaking tasks. Official Assignment outline HERE and a link to Mr. Wallace's research on persuasion HERE. I will be assessing student speeches next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Grade 9 Language Arts students began a study of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven this week. We listened to Christopher Walken perform the poem, annotated the poem as a class and are now representing our understanding through this assignment: The Raven in Social Media. This task is due Tuesday.
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