September 27th - October 1st

ENG1P: This class is working on their independant short stories. Throughout the month we have looked at characterization, establishing a setting, selecting a point of view, developing a plot and adding dialogue. The class will take all that information and work it into a short story with marks for process on the way. The first will be development, the rough copy (with peer editing) and finally the good copy due in early Oct. The class will also be deciding on when they would like their first Unit Quiz next week.

HFN2O: This week the class is making loaves/bread. We are still in the quick bread section of our lessons but we are moving from safety in the kitchen and ingredients to the nutritional aspects of food and the role they play in our lives and our health and development. Cooking will be Wednesday of this week as the loaves take an hour or more to bake.

ENG1D: This class is also working on their independant story but are expected to select a genre for their story and make sure literary techniques are used within their creation.
See ENG1P for more details.

September 20 - 24th

ENG1P: This class has worked on two short stories so far. The class is able to identify the introduction, rising action, conflicts, climax, falling action and conclusion of a story. They can also tell me about the setting and the character(s) with detail. Next week we will look at how to make our own stories; that will mean a follow up on use of adjectives in a story, describing a person/location and some group work on a story summary. We continue to have a busy September in English.
ENG1D: This class will also being doing group work, but will have to identify the type and genre of a story of the group's creation, as well as the work mentioned above.

HFN2O: This class has prepared themselves for their first food lab on Friday Sept, 17th. Six groups of four will make four different types of muffins in this lab. This will required them to take the safety instructions, recipe reading and measuring learning and apply it to their creations. Next week we will come out of the kitchen to the library to look at cook books; their function and usefulness to a newcomer to the cooking scene. We will end the week back in the kitchen to prep for our second food lab of bisquits - all part of the quick bread family.

September 13th - 17th

ENG1P/1D
The first week of classes went very well for such a hot and enjoyable summer.
We have reviewed the parts of speech, punctuation, confused words and homonyms. Then we jumped right into the first unit; Narrative Voices.
Both classes start off very similar with the work load and expectations differing.
Next week we will continue to look at specific aspects of a Narrative (Setting, Characters, Point of View, Theme, Atmosphere and Conflicts). This all leads into the creation of each student's personal Narrative. They will have some practice telling stories in class by viewing images and identify story type, genre and mood and then move to creating a character or a setting by using our reviewed adjectives.
There will be lots of creativity and imagination needed for this first unit.
Enjoy being back to school.

HFN2O
The first week of class went very well. We have gotten to know the various utensils that are used in the kitchen as well as safety issues for the Food Labs. A list of general policies will be coming home to be signed as well, there are still a few students who have to pay their $20 course fee. We ended the week with some taste testing and guessing at products and prices but even the nervous students seemed to have liked at least one new food.
Next week we will review safety procedures with a couple handouts and get ready for a food lab on Friday. Groups for the first couple labs will be assigned by me until I can see that friend groups won't be a negative issue in the kitchen.
Enjoy being back to school.