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Today we answered and went over the questions for Chapter One of “The Outsiders”. Afterwards, we read Chapter Two by ourselves and were assigned the questions for this chapter. We did this to better understand what is happening in the story, and these skills can be used outside of Humanities when reading a book on your own.

For homework, we had to finish our Chapter Two questions which are due on Friday.

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     <sub>Today in Humanities class we went over the answers for our "Judging Without Trial" worksheet. We did this to help us understand how to do the questions better, and also to help us clarify our answers, and fix any if necessary. We also got a vocabulary worksheet for "The Outsiders" and did numbers 1 to 8. We did this so that we can get a better sense of the words used in the book "The Outsiders" and what they mean. Lastly, we read part of Chapter One of "The Outsiders". We read this book because we thought this good could teach us a good lesson, or that the morals introduced in the story are still taught today. Connections beyond Humanities class include being able to understand the words we are reading, no matter what class we're in, and comprehension in general.

     We had homework today, and that was to finish reading Chapter One of "The Outsiders", then do question number one on the "The Outsiders--Chapter One" worksheet.

                                                           --Alice</sub>

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     On Monday we had a worksheet on judging others before we meet them and we also had a paragraph  on prejudice and ten questions. You had to find hints in the paragraph to answer the questions.


due date: 26/11/2013

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^{(I was supposed to do this on Monday, but forgot about it. Still pretending it's Monday...)}

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    Today we got our marks for this class, and also were given back some of our work that was done before, marked. We put our piece of paper with our marks on and our work into our portfolio, and gave back our "in-context" textbooks to Ms.Snodden. Then at around 10 a.m , we went to the main gym to set up our innovation week projects to display for many guests attending (the project displaying lasted until lunch).
    Ms.Snodden marked the papers and gave it back to us , so we would both know (the teacher and the student) what we need to improve on. We put our work into our portfolios, so at the end of the year we could take out some of the work and compare so that we see how much we've learned or improved since then. The purpose of displaying our innovation projects were so that we could show other people the works we have done, and perhaps give other people some inspiration to create their own projects to make this world a better place or just simply for their own interests.
    We could use our innovation skills basically anywhere in the world, anytime. This world will always need creativity and innovation to create stuff. I think that the whole innovation week idea is a great way for people to bring their inner potential.
    We didn't receive any homework, because we spent the majority of class in the main gym and in the morning we were collecting stuff for our portfolios.

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 Today in humanities we were introduced to descriptive paragraphs.We learned about topic sentences and supporting details. We did this to better understand the default structure of a descriptive paragraph and improve in writing topic sentences and supporting details.These skills can be used outside of humanities when writing a paragraph for another class. There was no homework.

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               Today we wrote a good copy of our descriptive paragraph (describing a person or place of our choice). We did this to practice using topic sentences, supporting details and concluding sentences in the correct manner and to describe things using words that appeal to the five senses (sight, smell, sound, taste and touch). These skills can be used outside of Humanities when describing things to people who have not seen the same things as you, and being able explain what you have seen descriptively can help them picture the image more vividly. No homework was assigned in class today.

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          <sub>Today in Humanities class we wrote a rough draft of our descriptive paragraph (to describe a person or a place) based on the "descriptive paragraph brainstorm" we were assigned yesterday. We used the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to write this rough draft. We wrote this paragraph so we can develop better writing skills, in terms of descriptive language, and to learn how to write paragraphs with the default structure: topic sentence, supporting details, and concluding sentence. Connections beyond Humanities include being able to write a proper paragraph for written assignments in other classes, and using descriptive language when writing paragraphs for other classes, or just for pure enjoyment. There was no homework today.

                                             --Alice</sub>

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        Today in humanities we learned how to do good concluding sentences. We worked on two worksheets that helped us write concluding sentences. We also had a worksheet on writing a descriptive paragraph which helped us use words that appeal in senses: sight, touch, sound, smell, and taste.
Theses skills that we did could help outside of humanities class  for writing a good descriptive paragraph and concluding sentences .


HOMEWORK!

         Today's homework is the descriptive paragraph booklet if you didn't finish the two question on the front page and choosing one thing to write about which is describing a person OR a place and brainstorming ideas. If you need help just look at the back of the booklet for the criteria for your brainstorming.

 Tips/reminders 

          Use the examples and ideas in the descriptive paragraph booklet for brainstorming. The brainstorming is due on November, 6/2013. 




                                                                                                                   
                                                                                      Merna Elias