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Month: June 2007

  • No Class is Complete Without a Film Study

    Watch Kingdom of Heaven and consider the following questions: What religious symbols are prominent throughout the film, and what was their purpose and place? Have you ever been in a conversation that was cut short with the phrase “god wills it”? “To kill an infidel is not murder, it is the path to heaven!” Discuss.…

  • Leaving STJ? Take your blog with you.

    Dashboard–>Manage–>Export Save the xml file to your disk/USB. Start a new blog at WordPress.com or Edublogs Dashboard–>Manage–>Import–>Wordpress Done. You could start your own blog on a shared server, but for true blog freedom, master your own domain and install WAMP MAMP or LAMP and WordPress yourself. I don’t plan on “pruning” the server database till…

  • Students Choose Questions on Religion 25 Final

    I have too many questions. Only 49 will appear on the exam. Look at the list of questions students have submitted and suggest the questions that should be dropped. Additional or replacement questions can be suggested as well. Oh, the essay question is NOT optional. Recall the deal about the cookie swap we have planned.

  • Business tests students: Part Deux.

    From Alberta Education: Computer Adaptive Assessment Computer Adaptive Assessment (CAA) is a made-in-Alberta approach to address the individual learning needs of our students through an innovative use of technology. It is a school-based computer assessment tool that immediately ‘adapts’ or tailors the difficulty of each test to the individual student. The CAA initiative provides an…

  • Private business vending tests to students

    I heard about our school division particpation in a private business site geared at “vending” standardized acheivement tests to students, today . . . a day before an English 30 final, 3 weeks after the L.A. 9 final Part A, and a week after all grade 10 classes have wrapped up. A third party, non-government,…

  • Cell Phone and iPods Banned from Students

    Peruse the articles linked below. Find your own sources. Defend your own position, hyperlink your sources. Contribute to the discussion in the STJ forums. Write your own post in your blog. Trackback here. From New York… When Olivia Lara-Gresty saw the metal detectors at the entrance of Middle School 54 on the Upper West Side,…

  • English 30-1 Tips for Personal Response to Texts

    Examples of Student Responses to English 30-1 Diploma The Personal Response Assignment from June 2006: (literature in the question is included in the exam) The puppet master in Keith Carter’s “Pinocchio” manipulates the marionette’s strings, giving it the illusion of free will. In the poem “Come In,” the speaker resists the allure of an appealing…

  • Creative Response: English 30

    Choose from the following: (Partner up if/where necessary) Write a folk song. Create a dialogue in the forums between any 2(or more) authors. Create a dialogue in the forums b etween any 2 or more characters Create a new scene to be inserted into a text synthesizing a character(or 2) from outside the text. Trackback.…