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Term Three

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I love the start of a new term: it’s another new beginning. And after last term, I need a new beginning. The problem with new beginnings is that while people look forward to them, they often don’t change. What’s the point of a new beginning if you aren’t going to do anything thing differently?

So, things that I’m going to do differently this term:

  • I’m going to bring the game aspect back to the classroom this term. I just didn’t have it in me to do it for Term 2.
  • I’m going to bring back the Sneezes for Term 3. Students liked it. I liked it.
  • I need to start posting my objectives and all that jazz on the board for The Man.
  • I’m going to have to start being a cell phone Nazi. If I ask you to put your phone away, do it. If I ask you to drop the phone off in the Brig, do it. Don’t waste time by making me get the Ekster to get the phone from you.
  • I want to use the blog more. Not only with more Scribes, but with other things as well. Just more posts. Like this one. Maybe even for Term 4, I’ll give my pirate wannabes a blog of their own. At least once a week.
  • And Survey Monkey. I loved Survey Monkey. Why did I stop using it?
  • And I think I’m going to start making at least one happy phone home a week. I was going to say day, but then I remembered to keep my goals reasonable. Will you be the call of the week?

In any case, I’m looking forward to Term 3 and hope you guys are, too. Remember – the work isn’t hard and it isn’t excessive, but I do require you to think. If you wait until the last week of school, it’s going to be really hard to pass. My class is really about time management: use it wisely! 🙂

9/23/11

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We started out today with Riley giving each person a random word. Some sample words: cousin, fear, peanut, goat, random, duck. You couldn’t choose your word, but you could swap with someone. Riley wrote about her cousin.

We then talked about the “encounter” (aka quiz) from yesterday and she reviewed her major points that we’d need to know to understand the story.

However, that “encounter” gathered attention. And not the good kind of attention. The English Navy is on the search for the pirate who got into that fight, and we aren’t a position to fight the entire Navy. It’s time we slink into obscurity and wait for the heat to die down. We ended up meeting a group of 29 people at the Tabard Inn who were going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. This was the perfect opportunity for us to hide out with them and wait for the authorities to calm down.

The only thing is that since we are travelling with these people, we have to know who they are. It would be a dead giveaway that we didn’t belong with these people if we didn’t even know who they are!

As we meet these people, we will take down notes about them to help us out in our journey so that it will look like we know what we are talking about. We’re going to use The Pilgim Cheat Sheet in LMS.

We were introduced to the Knight today and we filled out the cheat sheet about him together.