Your feedback on the textbook project and units in A2

Hello all-
I can't believe we have only a week to go! You have done so well and progressed so much!

This is the last weekend to catch up on your blog - and add the last comments

1. Give your rection to the text book project: what strategies did you use to study? Were
they helpful? What would you change?

2. Please give your comments on some of the units we worked on this session:

Which ones did you learn the most from? What skills in particular?
Which did you like or not like or feel were not as useful as others? Why?
Which units made you think?
Anything else you would like to let us know about.

super skyscrapers
language learning
evolution
male/female communication
happiness
experimentation on animals
discrimination
video memory pill
looking for a job
Canadian English (whatever you did)
Engineering the Impossible
Who is responsible?
and, of course, on blogging itself

Remember - this is a free writing! This means you don't spend hours and hours perfecting what you write. It is your ideas we are interested in. You can take 10-15 minutes to edit for errors, and that's it!

Please be on time Monday for the discussion of articles, Tuesday for the video, Wednesday for preparation for the debate with your partner, and Thurday for the writing.

Have a great weekend,
Adrianne

Saturday in school

Hello everyone,

We had quite a working day today. Good job!

I will be in school tomorrow, Saturday from 2 or 2:30 to 5 in case anyone wants to come in for help.

Good luck on your work. Send whatever you have to me or to Sherry on e-mail for online feedback if you are not coming in.

It's almost there!!! Keep it up!

Adrianne

This coming week

Hello everyone-
We trust you are focussing in on your research paper and will have something to show Monday, either some writing, or, for a couple of you, a map of main ideas and some basic organization so you are ready to write.

We will be watching a terrific video in the morning, and then, while we have mid-term interviews, you will be able to work on your paper. After Monday there will be less class writing time.

Your work is very interesting and we look forward to seeing the rest of your ideas on your topics.

Enjoy the day - take a walk, sit on a terrace for a little while as a break from your work.

See you Monday morning,
Adrianne

Plans for next week

Hello all-
Ii haven't received any desperate e-mails, so I trust eveyone is marching on, preparing the debate and reading for your paper.

As requested, we will do the debate Monday morning and write Tuesday. Please bring your research materials Monday as you will have time to work in class during the afternoon. Yes, work at school, and not at home! We want to be there to answer questions and help.

Wednesday and Thursday will be the mid-term; Wednesday for listening, Thursday reading.

More information will be coming.

Take advantage of the rainy weather to get ahead on your work. Then you can be freer to enjoy the sun when it comes!

See you tomorrow,
Adrianne

Relax, you are doing fine!

Hello all-
This is the time everyone starts to worry about the research paper. Never fear, you are right on schedule and Sherry and I are sure you will do well.

Please bring in material to work on tomorrow. We'll take a look at some tables of contents to help with your planning, and read a few introductions from past papers to give you some ideas of the variety possible.

We'll also begin framing the debate, so please remember to highlight the articles Sherry assigned to you.

See you in the morning,
Adrianne