Open House 2021

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by Teresa Silvagni24 views·Updated May 13, 2021
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  1. Hi ladies and gentlemen, it's Missile Vanni.
  2. I am your students, english language arts teacher and thank
  3. you for coming to virtual open house tonight.
  4. Um, I'm really proud and grateful this year for all
  5. that we've been able to accomplish, given the, um, just
  6. bizarre and extraordinary circumstances we found ourselves in this year.
  7. Um, we've gotten so much done, so We've done three
  8. units total.
  9. Our first one is called in pursuit and it looked
  10. at, um, goals and accomplishments and what drives people to
  11. achieve them.
  12. Um, I started the year getting to know the kids
  13. with and I am from poem.
  14. Um, and these were really great.
  15. I really recommend that you, um, kind of ask your
  16. kid if they can find the one that they wrote
  17. and have them read it to you or something like
  18. that. Um, We also looked in this unit at parts
  19. of plot.
  20. So talking about plot diagram was always a good thing
  21. to review um, for looking at fiction.
  22. Um, we went through a whole lot of texts in
  23. this unit, some where excerpts some were full stories, it
  24. just depends on um what the text was.
  25. And then we finished out the unit by having students
  26. interview someone who accomplished a goal or um some sort
  27. of mission that they were trying to achieve.
  28. And um then right creative nonfiction narrative about that person.
  29. Um In our second unit we looked at poetry and
  30. poetry is one of my favorite things and it's not
  31. always the students favorites.
  32. Um But we try to make it all right for
  33. them. We looked at several poems, we did a group
  34. of poems by Jack Polunsky.
  35. Um And then they had to write an analysis essay
  36. about that.
  37. Um Pawlowski has some funny poetry.
  38. If you um have never read his poetry, it's pretty
  39. it's pretty entertaining.
  40. Um So the kids seem to like it.
  41. Okay. And then the last thing we did was to
  42. kind of really go into looking at figurative language.
  43. We um had students create a poetry music website where
  44. they analyze the similarities between um the figurative language used
  45. in poems and also how it's used in lyrics of
  46. popular songs.
  47. So that was kind of fun.
  48. And our current unit, the third unit that we're currently
  49. working on, you can actually see this board right behind
  50. me here.
  51. Um is we are reading dystopian literature.
  52. So we're doing this in kind of like a book
  53. club format where Students are Reading one of 4 different
  54. books. So we're talking about, okay what's the difference between
  55. something that's a utopia or dystopia then how do these
  56. um worlds in the books that they're reading qualify as
  57. those things?
  58. Um Here's their little cute faces with their books.
  59. I was did this as an assignment, a book selfies
  60. so that they could prove that they had picked up
  61. the book for me.
  62. Um Then um we're going to finish this unit up
  63. sometime this week.
  64. Um It if you want to know where your student
  65. is that they should have this bookmark with them that
  66. shows the reading schedule but they'll be finishing up the
  67. all of the books this week but they'll still keep
  68. them for the next couple of weeks and um start
  69. and then we'll do a project to end out the
  70. year and then it'll be done.
  71. I can't believe the year is almost over.
  72. Um So just in closing I just I wanted to
  73. say how much I appreciate everyone in our school community
  74. this year.
  75. Like it it's been a rough year and it's it's
  76. where you can really see how helpful and supportive people
  77. can be.
  78. So just I wanted to say thank you to Mr
  79. Kristofferson and the other administrators as well as um the
  80. office staff is so helpful and wonderful at helping getting
  81. things done.
  82. And then I couldn't have survived without my student teacher
  83. this year.
  84. Mr Martin has been super wonderful.
  85. He's led, the class is a whole bunch of times.
  86. He's um and his teaching credential already got a job
  87. lined up for next year.
  88. Um Delana Miller was my long term substitute while I
  89. was out on leave for a couple of months in
  90. the winter.
  91. And so I really appreciate her as well.
  92. And then last but not least um if you're watching
  93. this right now like it it means that you really
  94. care about your kids education and you're you're showing them
  95. that you value it and I appreciate you parents just
  96. making sure that you're getting those kids up every day,
  97. getting them logged into zoom.
  98. We've all had to learn things this year that we
  99. didn't know before, so thank you so much for everything
  100. that you do.
  101. Um and I just really appreciate you and hope that
  102. next year is amazing in a boring way and just
  103. like the most normal boring school year ever, that's kind
  104. of what I'm hoping for next year, but hope that
  105. helps show what we've done and this year and um
  106. have a great night, have a fun night watching about
  107. what all the other classes are doing as well.
  108. Hi.