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Week 26: February 27 - March 3

2/28/2017

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Week 22: January 30- February 3, 2017

1/31/2017

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WELCOME TO A NEW SEMESTER!

1/24/2017

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This week we not only welcome a few new students to our 10th grade honors English class at the start of our new semester, but we also welcome Ms. Lohr, our student teacher this semester. Ms. Lohr comes to us from Grand Valley State University, where she is majoring in English, Education, and German with an Applied Linguistics minor. She has worked with students in a variety of settings. She has helped tutor high school students in E2020, a credit recovery program in English, math, and history. She also spent last semester teacher assisting in an eighth-grade classroom in Kentwood, Michigan. Previously, she was a mentor to sixth grade students at the Grand Rapids Museum School in downtown Grand Rapids. 

WELCOME!

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Exam Week

1/17/2017

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Grading Your Online Writing Portfolio

1/17/2017

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Uh oh! Another snow...ice day.  Remember, in addition to your objective reading exam for our English 10 honors course, you also need to turn in a self-assessment of your online writing portfolio.  In case you need some help assessing your online writing portfolio, the tutorial video below walks you through how to copy the rubric and grade your writing pieces.
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WEEK 19: January 9-13 

1/9/2017

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Week 18 Schedule: January 4-6, 2017

1/4/2017

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Environmental Connections

12/8/2016

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It's research week for us, and we've been getting hands on with our research!  On Wednesday, our tenth graders used a Google Hangout to learn from Ms. Ondrea Spychalski, the Water Projects Coordinator at the West Michigan Environmental Action Council. Then on Thursday, we used a Hangout to learn from Ms. Emma Marris (check out the videos below). Students also interviewed staff and volunteers at Ionia's animal shelter on Thursday as they volunteered their time. On Friday, we have a crew of students cleaning the vacant lot in town across from our McDonalds, teaching Rather Elementary students about trees and bees, and we have a group canvasing local businesses about their recycling habits. We are learning hands-on!

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Researching our local environment

12/2/2016

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We've wrapped up our readings for your Unit 2 study of the "Natural World."  Over the course of the past month, we have read and discussed Emma Marris's TED Talk from this past summer titled "Nature is Everywhere" as well as her writing on the Everglade pythons, Barbara Kingsolver's "Called Out," Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," Jane Goodall's "Hope for Animals and Their World, " Wallace Stevens' poem "Anecdote of the Jar," Margaret Atwood's "My Life as a Bat," and a  selection of articles and poems about man's impact on nature.
In the upcoming week, we are pulling together all of our readings in order to think through how we have impacted our local ecosystem and what we might do to address an environmental issue in our area.  Students in our class have already started to research and connect with local experts on conservation, local bat populations, the decline of honey bees, our deer population, recycling, and so much more.  During the first full week of December, students in our class will be interviewing experts and planning ways to address these issues.

In fact, on Thursday, December 8th, our tenth grade students will be virtually connecting with Emma Marris (whose recent TED Talk is above) to ask her questions about her experiences researching ecosystems and the environment.  We'll be recording our conversation, so be sure to check back next week to see how our conversation went!
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11/30/2016

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    An interest in helping young people discover and define their writing voice and reading interests drives Ms. Jennifer Ward to cultivate a student-centered learning environment, one that supports individual learning goals and incorporates purposeful use of technology. In March 2016, she was named a TED-Ed Innovative Educator and is also a Google Certified Innovator, National Writing Project Fellow, and a 2014 PASCD Emerging Leader. She is  active in NCTE, the Flipped Learning Network, and an organizer with Edcamp. Jen taught for 13 years in a Philadelphia suburban district and returned to her home state to teach high school English at Ionia High School in 2015. This year, she is excited to join the Grandville High School bulldogs!

    ​And when not in front of a class or a computer, Jen is either in front of her sewing machine or has a glue gun in hand, ready to craft whatever her two little boys can imagine. 


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