I have added a device called "Statcounter" to the right. It counts how many unique visitors our blog has. I figured that would be interesting to know. Please read the post below that contains important information about your homework.
Have a nice weekend!
Statcounter Friday, January 16, 2009
No English class Tuesday January 20 Thursday, January 15, 2009
Please note that the English class on Tuesday January 20 is cancelled. Instead your homework is to write a blog post of your personal opinions on the "Sarah and Musa relationship" that we have read about.
Use the text A Teenage Love Story (page 62 in Toolbox) and the article How the child Bride Grew Up that we read in class today. You can find the article in my post below.
Your post should be a discussion of the issues raised in the texts and the issues we talked about in class. Try to look at the story from many different perspectives. Also make sure you comment on at least one of your classmates' posts!
Deadline: Tuesday January 20 at 10 pm (22:00).
How The Child Bride Grew Up Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Here is the article I was talking about in class today: How The Child Bride Grew Up Click on the link to read it. You will find out what happened to Sarah and Musa...
Comment if you like :)
Question the text: A Teenage Love Story Monday, January 12, 2009
In tomorrow's class we will spend some time discussing the text that is your homework: A Teenage Love Story. We will list the questions and ideas that we come up with and prepare for a writing assignment where you will be asked to discuss this story from different people's perspectives. Please make sure you read the text a couple of times before class. See you at noon tomorrow, 12:00.
Back to business Thursday, January 8, 2009
In today's class I asked you to come up with some ideas for improvement of the blog. How can we use the blog for you to learn more English? These are some of the ideas that you came up with:
- More discussions in the blog
- Post short stories and news items in the blog
- 15 new words each week
- Write short essays in the blog
- Read books and write about them in the blog just for fun and for the learning experience
- Use songs in the blog (for example hip hop songs)
- For example every Friday we summarize our week and what we did during the week
- Watch a movie or a TV show and write about it in the blog
- Post all of our homework in the blog
- Watch YouTube clips and write about them
- Different quizzes
- Entertainment clips or pieces of news
- Ghost stories
- Write about a topic of your choice that you find interesting
- Give us different tasks to make reading each other's posts more interesting
- Post jokes and fun links that make you laugh
- More corrections of our writing
- Some of the tasks could be typed in the blog and some can be handed in the old-fashioned way for more variation
- Comment more on each other's posts
I will definitely take these ideas into consideration. Thanks for contributing.
Your homework for Tuesday Jan 13 is to read the chapter "A Teenage Love Story" (page 62-64) in the book Toolbox. Make sure you understand everything. I left some books in the classroom for you to pick up.
Do not hesitate to comment and add more ideas to the list. They are much appreciated. Also please note the change of schedule in my post below.
Welcome back Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Welcome back to English class on Thursday January 8 at 8:30. I hope you have all had a nice and relaxing holiday!
For the first part of this term we will be studying different texts in a book called Toolbox. We will also keep using the blog for assignments, information and discussions.
Please note that there will be a change in your class schedule. During the spring term your English schedule will look like this:
Tuesdays 12:00 - 13:20
Thursdays 8:30 - 9:30
See you on Thursday!
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