Good afternoon,
Today was a highly productive day in the humanities classroom with students working on several activities including a writing assignment and a BTHRILD activity workbook.
Students began a writing response on the short story, "The Novitiate", that we read yesterday. For their assignment, students have to choose one of four different options for responding to the story (see assignment and rubric link below). Many students were able to complete their brainstorming and rough drafts in class and those who were not able to finish, must do so by Friday's class. This assignment will give me an idea of how well students understood the reading and will reveal students different writing abilities. For the students, this is an opportunity for them to begin exploring their voice as a writer/responder in the ELA classroom.
To introduce the first chapter on the Renaissance, students began BTHRILD worksheets (see link below). These activities are excellent learning tools which help students gain an overview of the chapter contents and are also wonderful study tools when it comes time for quizes and unit tests. Students will have another opportunity to do some in-class work on their chapter overviews and then a due date will be set for completion.
Keep up the great work! See you tomorrow.
Ms. M
Novitiate assignment and rubric http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgg9kgjk_05zqzvwc2
BTHRILD Chapter 1 http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgg9kgjk_1gpsz2mdj&hl=en
