Wednesday, October 4, 2017 (Day 3)

French 8B

The students wrote their avoir quiz and did an introduction and some practice of etre (to be)

JE SUIS (I am)                  NOUS SOMMES (We are)

TU ES (You (s) are)          VOUS ETES (You (pl) are)

IL EST (He is)                  ILS SONT (They (m) are)

ELLE EST (She is)           ELLES SONT (They (f) are)

ON EST (One is)

ELA 9B

The students finished up their CATs.

FRENCH 7B

The students discussed seasons and weather.  Then we went through our first set of questions for Chaise Chaud (the Hot Seat), which will start next class.

ELA 9A

The students read for ten minutes.  Then they wrote poems in the following styles:

ANIMAL RHYMES - a 5 line poem based on an animal and containing 5-6 words that rhyme with that animal (ex: kitty cat - rat, sat, mat, pat, hat, fat)

NAME POEM or ACROSTIC - a poem using each letter of a person's name (or another word) as the first letter for each line of the poem

QUATRAINS - a four line poem that follows any one of four different rhyme schemes (AABB, ABAB, ABBA, or ABCB)

DADA POEMS - is a bunch of scrambled words including (verbs, nouns, and pronouns) which are arranged into lines that the poet likes

*CATs will finish up tomorrow for grade 9's except if students have missed a day.  Come out and watch our Football team at 4:00 as they go for their 5th win of the season!