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Entries from March 27, 2009

Character Trees, please: Lesson Update for Friday, 27 March 2009

March 27, 2009 · No Comments · Lesson Updates

Today in Hum class both divisions did essentially the same stuff.  Here’s what shook down: A Dramatic Warm Up The lesson called for some acting so, to get warmed up, we played the following drama games: Boom… zap… bang! Hey, what are you doing? The Martha Game Tableaus Once the creative juices were flowing, each [...]

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Showtime! (Take 2): Lesson Update for Friday, 13 March 2009

March 23, 2009 · No Comments · Lesson Updates

Today was a day to showcase the creative talents of students in both Division 19 and Division 17. In blocks A and B, students in Div 19 finished off their 5 Dimensions of Health short films and presented them to the class in a gallery walk.  Many thanks to Learning Through the Arts educator Charlotte [...]

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Talkin’ ‘Bout Book Conversations: Lesson Update for Friday, 6 March 2009

March 11, 2009 · 1 Comment · Lesson Updates

Greetings Div 17 and Div 19.  If you are in Division 19, please read to the bottom of this post for an important reminder about our MovieMaker project in HCE class with Charlotte.  For all classes, here is a summary of what happened in this week’s Humanities lesson: Book Refresher: We did a placemat activity to [...]

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Crispin’s Journey Begins: Lesson Update for Friday, 27 February 2009

March 2, 2009 · No Comments · Lesson Updates

It’s the dawning of a new era in Humanities lessons this week as we moved away from anything advertising and commercial related and shifted our focus to a novel study.  for the next several weeks we will be working with the novel Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi.  The book cover looks like this: [...]

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