Welcome back from the Easter holidays! Veronica and Lucas, please have chapters 15 & 16 read in your novel and be prepared for discussion tomorrow, particularly author's style.

March 26 th, 2014.

For students absent today in sec. 1 & 2 ELA, we discussed important events of chapter 7 of The Breadwinner. Then you were to discuss important ideas of chapter 8 and pick out particularly good writing traits used by Ellis in this chapter. ie. excellent word choice, sentence structure, voice, foreshadow, figurative language, etc.

March 11, 2014.
 Students please take note of the remediation schedule set up on my door. If you need extra help, I urge you to sign up and take advantage of the extra time. Remember 3rd term is VERY important!
Day 1  FSL sec. 4 & 5
Day 3  your choice
Day 5  ELA sec. 1 & 2 
Day 7  FSL sec. 1 & 2.

February 13th, 2014.

I am retrying the blog ! Hopefully I can be more faithful keeping up with it this year. Please check it out from time to time and leave me a comment. :)

Back to my blog. After the ice storm in February that we experienced, I decided to have my sec. 1 & 2 students research a bit about the 1998 ice storm which struck Quebec, eastern Ontario and some states. This led to research into other Canadian disasters. They are reading and writing (reports and narratives ) about and discussing  natural disasters that happened in Canada.
Sec 1 & 2 please see the page for due dates for your assignments.  

Secondary 3 took a walk on our return to school from the ice storm to capture some of nature's beauty.

          ice coated lobster traps.

January 17, 2012

Winter is here finally. We've had some snow but not enough for a snow day yet! Everyone is back in the groove of school after a very short Christmas break. Right now our sec 1 & 2  and the sec. 3 ELA classes are rereading fairy tales. Sec. 3s rewrote "Sleeeping Beauty" from Maleficent's point of view, and showed that actually she was not such a villain after all. The sec. 1 & 2  are working on news writing and will shortly be producing a newspaper reporting all the news events in the lives of our fairy tale characters.