Day 8

Happy Halloween!  Make sure that if you are heading out tonight that you are safe.  In today's class we covered the following:

English 10
IA- finished the video
-Wrote our compare and contrast response
-Quiz #2- tomorrow
-Sociogram- tomorrow-Christopher's name surrounded by 4 character traits (+illustrations), supported by 4 quotes(pg# included), 4connections to 4 other characters in the novel (connected by a relationship word) + illustrations to beef it up
Homework: yes you do have homework if you didn't finish your compare and contrast response in class.

English 9
IA- Diamante Poems
-3 poetry term presentations
-Explored Imagery- Metaphors and Similes
-The Road Not Taken

Leadership 8
-Finished the Birthday Board
-Continued Shackleton

See you tomorrow!

Mr.T

Day 7

Hello parents and students.  In class today we covered the following topics:

English 10
-Finished watching Rain Man
-Started a compare and contrast response to the movie and the CIDN
Quiz #2 tomorrow- scan your chapters, look at the study guide on our blog



English 9
IA- rhythm and rhyme review activity
-Three poetry term presentations
-Discussed Melody- (alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia)
-Constructed Acrostic poems using onomatopoeia

Leadership 8
 Birthday Board

Great job today!  See you tomorrow.

Mr.Tobacca

Day 6

Hello parents and students.  I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend.  I look forward to another awesome week at Vanier!  This is what we covered today:

English 9-
IA- two word poems and poetry term presentations
-Discussed Rhythm- the beat of poetry (syllable structure,- heavy vs light accents)
-Explored Melody- the sound of poetry (rhyme- single, double, end, imperfect)
-How to explode a poem and SIFT a poem

Homework: prepare for your poetry term presentation if you are presenting this week.  Your cue card must include- poetry term in bold letters, definition, connection, illustrations, colour.

English 10
IA- silent reading- be at chapter 113
-Compare and Contrast Raymond vs Christopher
-Analyzed the movie Rainman
Homework- fill out your note taking sheet (it will be marked at the end of the movie)

Leadership 8
Birthday Board

Thank you have a great evening!

Mr.Tobacca

Day 5

Hello parents and students.  What a wonderful week.  Thank you for all of your hard work this week.  I look forward to working with all of you next week.  Today was a short day due to the X Block and AG.  These are the following things that we covered:

English 10
-Read Aspergia Story
-Discussed/brainstormed our own Utopia
-Creative write- write a story about your Utopia (a place where you would go if things get to stressful) Due on Monday (Duo-tang)
Homework: read to chapter 101 for Monday, finish your Utopia story if you didn't finish it in class.
Poetry Assignments were due today

Leadership 8
-Shackleton Video
-Birthday Board starts on Monday
Homework- nothing!

English 9
-Watched the Highwayman animated poem
-Discussed the poems: tone/mood, rhythm, history, form, imagery
-Wrote about the meaning of poetry and completed a pair/group share
Homework: Twisty Tale if you have not handed it in yet!
Zack- Diction, Tara Rhythm, Dallion Rhyme Scheme- Poetry Term presentations on Monday

Thanks and have a great weekend.

Mr.Tobacca

Day 4

Hello parents and students.  Today was a day full of activities that encouraged critical thinking skills.  These are the concepts covered:

Leadership 8
1. Qualities of good and bad leaders- what leadership qualities do you have
2. Good vs bad leader drawing- if you didn't finish today you must complete it for HW tonight
3. Analysis of a good leader- Enerest Shackleton Video Analysis

English 10
1. Silent Reading CIDN- please be at 89 for tomorrow
2. Putting ourselves in Christopher's shoes- Simile and Metaphor activities
3. Signs activity
4. Group Share

English 9
1. Instant Activity- video Shane Koyczan "We are more"
2. Poetry terms scramble
3. What is poetry? What does it consist of?- 1. Rhythm 2. Melody 3. Imagery 4. Form
4.  How to explode a poem
5. Poetry term presentation draw
(Twisty Tales were due today- -1 mark for each day they are late)

Thanks for an awesome day.  Keep up to date on your homework and I will see all of you tomorrow.

~Mr.Tobacca

Day 3

Hello parent's and student's.  I would just want to thank all my new students for a wonderful day yesterday.  It has been a very nice transitions and I appreciate the hard work that every student is putting into our lessons.

Topics covered today:

English 10
Instant Activity: Paragraph writing- prove that Christopher is not dumb, provide at least 4 examples from the novel.
-Quiz #1
-Facial Expression Game
-Video
-Work Time

Homework- read up to chapter 79 for tomorrow.  Review the difference between a simile and a metaphor.

English 9
Instant Activity: Riddles
-Editing Conference- please make changes to errors in your twist tale and write/type a good copy for hand in tomorrow.
-Writing time- final copy

Homework- complete final copy of twisty tale for hand in tomorrow (there will be no more time to work on our twisty tale because we will be starting our Poetry Unit)

Leadership 8
-Qualities of a good vs a good leader (T-Chart)
-Qualities of a good vs bad leader (T-Chart)
-Video on leadership quotes
-Good vs bad leader drawing

No Homework- man you guy's are pretty lucky!!

Day 2

Hello parents and students.  Today was another jam packed day that was full of a variety of learning activities.  Thank you for another awesome day at Vanier!

English 10
These are the following things that we covered:
1. Stop, drop everything and read- please be at chpt 61 for Wednesday- remember the chapters are in prime numbers!
2. Autism Jigsaw

Poetry assignments need to be handed in by no later than Friday Oct 26.
Homework: Study for quiz tomorrow!

Leadership 8
These are the following things that we covered today:
1. What are 5 effective ways to lead a group?
2. Ice Breaks- led by students
3. Peer Evaluation/Reflection

English 9
These are the following things that we covered:
2.) Discussed what makes an effective twisted tale
3.) Discussed the marking criteria for the twist tale assignment
4.)Wrote our twisty tales- due this Thursday
Homework: finish rough copy for editing conference tomorrow

Day 1

English 10
Hello parents and students.  In class today we covered the following:
1. Introduction to Mr.Tobacca (class expectations, class blog, daily overview)
2. Discussed our new Novel Unit- The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time
3. Character Profiles

Homework: Prepare poetry assignment for hand in (evaluation hand out provided)

English 9
Hello parents and students.  In class today we covered the following:
1.  Introduction to Mr.Tobacca (class expectations, class blog, daily overview)
2. Tales With A Twist Continued
3. Video (movie with a twist)

Homework: Brainstorm ideas for your tale with a twist assignment

Leadership 8
Hello parents and students.  In class today we covered the following:
1. Introduction
2. Ice Breakers

Homework: be prepared for your icebreaker for tomorrows class

Thank you for a wonderful day.  See everyone tomorrow!

Mr.Tobacca

Secret message: Halloween is coming

Welcome

Hello student's and parents. 

Welcome to our learning support blog.  My name is Mr.Tobacca and I will be filling in for Mr.Stevens until he returns in early December.  I look forward to establishing an open communication network with all of you.

 Please bookmark www.tobaccavanier.blogspot.com in your favourites section on your computer.  This will make it easier for you to develop a habit of checking our blog daily.  Our classroom blog is important because it will work as a means of communication to help support learning.  It is intended to keep parents and students up to date on what is happening in our classroom.  On the left side of the blog you will see a section for important reminders about due dates of assignments and upcoming dates for tests/quizzes.  Below that are learning support links to further help support the concepts we cover in class.  Thank you for taking the time to become familiar with our new blog.  I look forward to keeping everyone up to date so we can work together to improve learning.

Thank you,

Mr.Tobacca