September
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ELA 20: Sept 8 “Remember Mum When I Mocked You?” essay…
- Students were reminded their two assignments (Interview writing and Chart Boundary) are due tomorrow. They asked, to clarify, the late policy. As long as they hand it in before I’ve marked the others and am ready to hand them back, I’ll still accept them. However, they’ll have no way of knowing whether I’ve marked them already Wednesday night and trying to hand it in on Thursday may be too late. In that case, they’d have to start over. The risk is up to them! 🙂
- We talked about the reality that a child-parent relationship will change over time and may even, one day, become more of a friend-friend relationship. There will likely even be a time when they are nearly equals within a certain context and will be able to confront or challenge their parents about something. I gave two examples where I was in a position to encourage my mom to do something she knew was the right thing to do but was a very awkard situation to be in. As children grow, they see changes develop in the relationship they have with their parents.
- This was the introduction to the next piece of literature they were going to study, called “Remember Mum When I Mocked You?” They were asked to read it on their own and answer the question sheet. We discussed their answers together as a group and they shared a few stories about times when they realized their parents weren’t invincible anymore.
- The next literature piece is a reflective essay titled “Back to Wolf Willow”. I explained to them the characteristics of a reflective essay and as we read they are to highlight or circle the evidence found of one in this essay. We’ll finish reading it tomorrow, do questions, and then they’ll soon have their first big assignment – to write their own reflective essay.