When you have something to say...

Then say it! Please do comment, but please also tell me who you are! You don't need to use your full name. Here are some examples:

George S2
Jemima 4.6
X. Smith 1D
PR 3.2 (if you are certain that your initials aren't the same as someone else's in the class).

Letting me know who you are, and which class you're in, helps me to respond more effectively to your comments and queries.

Thanks, everyone!

Higher Homework

Your homework has been posted on the Higher page. Notes included below the questions.
Due 31st January (Monday).

S2 Homework

S2: please check the S2 page for your homework!

S4 Homework up

Hello S4,
Your homework task, due tomorrow morning, is up in a fancy embedded post on your class page. Looking forward to some well-described dragons!

A few layout changes...

Hi everyone,

Still playing around with the layout of the site... hope you are beginning to find it useful. In particular, S1, S3 and Advanced Higher should be referring to their class pages for a reminder of what they should be doing right now. I have included the tasks (most of them!) that you are engaged with at the moment on these pages.

You will see a bar of 'tabs' above this post. Click on your class/level and you'll be taken to your page. Better than scrolling down.

Please do let me know what you think--if there's anything else you'd like to see added to the page, if it's easy/not easy to use/understand... etc.

Mr Green

S1 Captured Task

S1, your Captured task is on your class page. Check it out!

Neil Gunn Writing Competition (closing date 11 March!)

 

2010-2011 Neil Gunn writing competition

This biennial competition is organised by The Highland Council and The Neil Gunn Trust; the 2010-2011 competition, the eleventh, is now open and entries are invited. The lead judge is Scottish author Andrew Greig.

Theme for 2010-2011 : 'A Wrong Turning'

"Our river took a wrong turning somewhere! But we haven't forgotten the source."

Highland River, Neil M Gunn

Writers are invited to interpret this theme in any way they wish.  The piece of writing does not have to be set in Scotland; any international setting is welcome.

Sections

There are 4 separate sections of the competition.

• Adult prose (Narrative form)
• Adult poetry
• Secondary school (S3-6) poetry or prose
• Primary school (P5-7) poetry or prose

Each writer may submit only one entry per section. The adult sections are open to all writers worldwide. The schools competition is for Highland Council schools or schools abroad with direct links to Highland Council schools. School entrants must be in the named year group at the closing date.

Entry forms, rules and full information

The entry forms can be found at the link below, together with everything you need to know to enter this competition. Entry forms are also available from any Highland library.

Closing date and Prizegiving

The closing date for all sections of the competition is Friday 11 March 2011.  Winners will be notified as soon as possible and the award ceremony will be held in Inverness on 14 June 2011.

Entry fee

The entry fee for adults is £5 per entry; entry is free for school pupils.

Previous prize winning entries

The winning entries from the 2009 competition can be viewed (and in some cases heard being read by the authors) by visiting http://www.ambaile.org.uk/ and entering 'Neil Gunn competition' in the search box.

Contact

If you are a Dingwall Academy student, and you are interested in competing, contact your English teacher.

For further information please contact Charlotte MacArthur, Area Libraries Officer, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch Strathspey and Lochaber. Email charlotte.macarthur@highland.gov.uk or phone 01463 663828.

Link to the competition

Congratulations Shannon and Danielle for being the first Stars!

Well done to Shannon and Danielle, who navigated technospace to become the first followers of @greensgalaxy on twitter. This means they'll get instant updates when the site is updated.

Well done, S5/6!

You're all stars! Congratulations on getting through your Prelim. Feedback as soon as humanly possible. We are marking the Close Reading as a department, and the Critical Essays are marked by each class's teacher (that's 42 Higher and 4 Advanced Higher essays for me!).

Looking forward to seeing how well you were able to apply your learning to the questions.

Ideas!

As I mentioned earlier today, I'm really interested in hearing your ideas for this blog/space. Please leave a post below if you have such an idea, no matter how small it may seem!

Twitter, sorted.

You can find me on twitter now, as greensgalaxy. We'll see if this becomes a useful tool. At the moment, my email remains as: mrgreen@live.co.uk

Remember, post a comment with your ideas!

S1-Advanced Higher pages

You will find information on these pages about what units we're doing at the moment, what assessments are included, and often, links to helpful parts of the web. Just click on the year group/course you are in.

S1 Page now up!

Click here: http://greensgalaxy.blogspot.com/p/s1.html or on 'S1' above the fish tank.

Okay, what else can a Galaxy be?

Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_(disambiguation)

What is a galaxy?

Noun

• S: (n) galaxy (a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people))
• S: (n) galax, galaxy, wandflower, beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata (tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall)
• S: (n) galaxy, extragalactic nebula ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust) "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'"

Source: http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=galaxy