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-submitted to Dr. Petrina
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-finding the best site to host my blog for my needs
-asking cohort members, colleagues and administrator -
-emailed them regarding permission to blog with students
-told me I need to get my principal to request domain -
-had viewed other blog sites from staff members at my school and other schools in my district
-came across my principal's blog and discovered a District blog domain -
-gained access to my own blog domain
-began to set up the theme, menu, pages -
-submitted to Dr. Petrina
-narrowed my focus to English class for inquiry -
-put together a proposal letter and attached consent forms for comments and images that would be sent him to parents
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-shared my inquiry topic with my students
-students encouraged me in my personal growth -
-consent obtained to use student images and comments in my thesis
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-formative assessment
-students shared their favourite movie that is based on a book -
-formative assessment
-lesson for the Terry Fox Run -
-students wrote a personal reflection on whether animal testing for human purposes was acceptable or unacceptable
-students then chose a side for debate purpose; collaborated using Google Docs
-we did a class debate (rules were clearly established beforehand with them)
-students wrote post-reflection -
-formal assessment
-"The Veldt" short story
-relationship to technology (positive and negative aspects) -
-current events post on Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature (first songwriter to win)
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-formative assessment
-personal reflection of two poems for Remembrance Day -
-shared the video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's speech
-used as an introduction to our novel study to discuss the context of the civil rights movmement -
-students created an alternate ending to one of our short stories that we analyzed in our unit
-alternate endings were created using Pixton
-I shared the comics on the blog -
-I shared pictures of our guest speaker who had come into my English classes to share her experience of growing up in the USA during the civill rights movement
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-used Google Docs to generate a list of our favourite books
-I posted our list onto our blog for all to see
-also included the BCTF Top 100 Books List for Secondary Students -
-students created mindmaps for our novel (In the Heat of the Night)
-mindmaps created using Inspiration, Bubbl, Simple Mind, or Popplet -
-shared the TED Talk on "Does Grammar Matter"
-showed this video in class as an introduction to the Parts of Speech -
- formal assessment -wrote a literary paragraph in the form of a formal book review for our novel (In the Heat of the Night)
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-feedback surveys completed in class using Google Forms
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-informal feedback interviews conducted with students in class (voluntary)
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-continued work on writing thesis for my inquiry project
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-presented my inquiry project to examination panel, cohort members, and also to members of my family
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-submitted my thesis to my examiners, Dr. Petrina and Dr. MacDowell
