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2/10/2012

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Pretty much, we just finished up our Quilts today and took a quiz with our partner. If you were absent yesterday, you just had to read all the sections by yourself, write down four nuggest for each section, and then take the quiz on your own.

Remember, we are now in a new “unit” – The Canterbury Tales. We are no longer Beowulf. If you still owe daily work from Beowulf, it will only be worth half credit.

We have completed a major writing assignment (Beo-Boast) and a major test grade (Metaphorical Response).

Make sure that you are at least Level 3: Cook on Monday!

2/9/2012

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Wiglaf followed through on Beowulf’s contract to help us rebuild our ship, and went above and beyond what we were expecting. We sailed happily for two weeks, when all of a sudden, we were greeted by a cannonball from a French galleon!

What the…?

Weren’t we friends with the French? We need to find out what happened to prompt this attack! (I think it’s because Raven was flirting with some guy who had a girlfriend.)

We partnered up (if you were absent, you are on your own, sorry!) and we read parts of The Middle Ages (found in the Canterbury Tales folder in LMS). Highlight the important sections, narrowing each selection down to the four most important words.

 For each section, make a quilt patch. Under the flap, write the KEY WORD and an explanation of that KEY WORD. On the top flap, sketch a picture to represent it.

 

Pretty nifty, huh?

 Check out the awesome pictures of the French quilts in the next post! 🙂

1/20/2012

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We are all now officially pirates with Cap’n Riley. We tried on chain mail today – check it out:

Riley is known for unprovoked attacks on students
 

Vistas students are just as creepy as Cap’n Riley.

We then did a Word Storm, which means we generated as many words as pissbole about the Anglo-Saxons. We sorted them by syllables. The group that gets the most words gets awarded booty on Monday!

 
We ended the day with a sneeze. About peanut butter.