Lesson 32

 Students started the block with a quick read of their personal novels.

We looked at a piece of art called "Architecture of Return" and watched a Grass Dancing Santa reel.

We worked through a couple of their key questions, then started reading Toronto at Dreamer's Rock. A couple of very gracious readers (and excellent caw-ers) got us started. We read through to the middle of page 20.

We stopped class just a bit early to do the Grade 9 Yearbook Poll.


I also posted the following on Teams - just in case parents need a reminder:

"As promised, this is a quick reminder to say that most students' standing is developing at this point in the year. By no means does this mean that there are not multiple skills that folks are already proficient in, or that proficient is out of reach.

What it means is that most folks have yet to become proficient in all of the competencies covered thus far. In the many months to come, we will re-visit all of the skills we have touched on so far - It is very likely that, so long as feedback is received, and learning implemented, the vast majority of the developing marks on this recent snapshot will be proficient's by the school year's end.

In the meantime, pop into tutorial to go over those paragraph pieces, and maybe head to the Writing Lab in the new year for even more targeted skill work."

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