September 7, 2010
Dear Parents / Guardians,
This semester, Mr. Racco's, ENG 2D1-01 and ENG 2D1-05 Grade 10 Academic English classes will participate in a class blog. The purpose of this activity is to promote cooperative learning in a virtual space. Students will post various creative writing tasks for the literary units. They will reflect, respond, and critique each other's writings.
The creative writing activities posted are culminating tasks that stem from the reading and discussion of various literary works, and the learning of narrative and non-narrative forms of writing. The students' responses will inform our understanding of the preconceptions of narrative and non-narrative forms and how these relate and affect our daily lives.
The aim is to create an awareness of various forms of writing in our daily lives, to identify with these forms, and to understand how both
narrative and non-narrative forms of writing relate to our existence.
Given the sensitive nature of this learning activity, please be aware of the following:
. both Grade 10 Academic classes will share one blog
. the blog will not be published on a public listing; this prevents anyone who has not been personally given the site's URL from accessing the blog
. since only my students will be given the web address for this blog, they are asked not to share it with anyone except their parents/guardians.
On the blog site, I have posted the "ground rules" - the parameters which will help to ensure a safe and enriched learning environment. Should there be a breach in these ground rules at any point, this activity will cease. Please feel free to visit the class blog at created4me.blogspot.com.
I encourage parents / guardians to enjoy my students' creative writing and reflective responses on this blog. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at the school.
Sincerely,
Mr. Racco, Department Head of English
Father Bressani Catholic School
YCDSB
