April 25

Hist 30: April 25 Unit three notes / discussion…

  1. For each of the past units, I’ve taken the notes and had them typed in a handout for students. We continued with this today by beginning unit three’s notes. We took advantage of the beautiful day and started outside but the surroundings were a bit too distracting. We finished inside and continued adding the correct answers in the spaces empty in the student handout.
  2. There will be a short quiz on Friday with anything we have taken since the chapter handout on the CPR.
Category: History 30 | LEAVE A COMMENT
April 25

ELA B30: April 25 Grammar, grammar, grammar…

  1. Today, we continued in our endeavour to reconsider some of our uses of grammar in our writing. Some of the things we discussed seemed basic for students, but just relooking at ‘why’ we use one word instead of another helps to make writers, hopefully, just more aware of their writing choices.
  2. We had fun with this class, believe it or not! 😀
Category: ELA B30 | LEAVE A COMMENT
April 23

MdSt 20: April 23 Cultural relativity and freedom of press in journalism…

  1. We reviewed, today, the handout given by the sub on Friday. We discussed the concept of Cultural Relativity, which means you cannot critique or condemn another culture unless it is your own culture. Without being immersed in a culture, knowing the background to its traditions and reasons for practices and rituals that it has, you cannot judge another culture from the outside.
  2. We drew a comparison of Muslim culture compared to American/Canadian culture. While several students were shocked at the idea of female genital mutilation that is performed on young girls to ensure they stay pure and faithful for their husbands, we compared a possible Muslim response to the amount of sex, adultery, divorce etc that occurs in the American/Canadian culture. An individual looking into our own culture may look at it and be judgemental of how promiscuous people seem and say that it is a direct cause of the loss of family in America. A person outside a Muslim culture could say they are going against basic human rights by prohibiting women from several freedoms. Both insights are only valid if they are critiqued and judged from within their own culture.

    The link to journalism, and in turn our media studies class, asks the question of whether journalists should be free to write their opinions of other cultures and their practices or whether we should withold our criticisms for our own cultures only.

  3. There was a paragraph assignment given on the back of the handout. Students were to write their response and post it on the weblog for April 20’s media studies blog entry.
Category: Media Studies 20 | 1 Comment on MdSt 20: April 23 Cultural relativity and freedom of press in journalism…
April 23

ELA B10: April 23 Sask. Learning Reading Assessment today…

  1. Students were very patient this morning while taking the Reading Assessment test given / requested by the Saskatchewan Learning of all Grade ten students in the province. The students worked on it in sections all morning but were fortunate to have long breaks between so they didn’t outdo themselves.
  2. Anyone who was missing (there were five) will have to complete the test during lunches or after school in the next coming week.
Category: ELA B10 | LEAVE A COMMENT
April 20

MdSt 20: April 20 Morning Grade elevens…

  1. I’m at my seminar in Regina but stole away for a moment to begin today’s blog so you’ll have a place to post your formal paragraph responses.
  2. Be sure to proof read your paragraph. Maybe, if you type it into a word document and spell check, etc, it would be a good idea. This is a ‘formal’ paragraph remember. Be sure to include your opinion but give evidence to support it.
  3. Hope you enjoy your day! M
Category: Media Studies 20 | 12 Comments on MdSt 20: April 20 Morning Grade elevens…