We wrote an essay imitating the style of the one studied yesterday: "In The Trenches". A narrative essay is a story with an implied thesis.
IF YOU WERE ABSENT TODAY, YOU MUST ARRIVE WITH YOUR NARRATIVE ESSAY, HANDWRITTEN, DOUBLE SPACED. You choose the topic. You may wish to write about a memory of a time you were frightened.
Next, I read aloud the Joy Kogawa essay, "Grinning and Happy". We discussed the use of dissonance and the chicken coop motif.
Tonight, complete the following:
Thesis: implied or direct?
Write out the thesis in your own words
Add three facts which support the thesis. If you quote, cite properly.
Choose 1 literary device. Name it. Quote it. Explain how it supports the thesis.
Tomorrow we will be editing our narrative essays and learning about the four types of sentences in English:
1.simple
2. complex
3. compound
4. compound-complex
Lucky you.
We'll also be reading an essay entitled, "The Dirtiest Job" by Pierre Berton. Some of you may already have dirty jobs. We'll be writing about your worst job during Thursday's class.
To get ready for the holidays, we will be reading an essay on hockey called, "Man, You're A Great Player".
For each essay, complete the list above.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Writing 12: Postcard stories continue . . .
Today, we each wrote a postcard story from a title and a last line. We also listened to at least 7 stories. Which one was your favourite? Why?
Think about what you need to have in your story.
Type up a story for Friday. If you will be absent, you must email it to me or hand it in early. Thanks.
Wed: Emi and Mia present the short stories of Margaret Atwood. Lucky us.
IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED YOUR FICTION REPORT. GET IT IN.
Think about what you need to have in your story.
Type up a story for Friday. If you will be absent, you must email it to me or hand it in early. Thanks.
Wed: Emi and Mia present the short stories of Margaret Atwood. Lucky us.
IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED YOUR FICTION REPORT. GET IT IN.
English 10: Study all your notes and marked assignments . . .
Tomorrow's practice exam will be a great way to learn what you do not yet know, right?
Study tonight.
Make sure you know:
1. our vocabulary words
2. our literary must-have lists
3. where you need to improve your writing
4. how to integrate and cite quotations
5. how to use sentence variety and verbs for a formal effect
6. how to show and not tell
7. how to punctuate dialogue (for the story you have to write on the exam)
8. how to make your story interesting (details, description, short paragraphs, accurate word choice, good character development, symbols, put the symbol in the title, show but don't TELL your theme
9. reading on and between the lines
10. how to create a what/so what chart
11. how to infer
12. how to go beyond the obvious
13. how to write a literary paragraph
14. how to study for an exam!!!
We won't have USSR tomorrow but if you finish the exam early, you'll be able to read all of Thursday and Friday. YOU MUST FINISH THE NOVEL, ANIMAL FARM, BY JAN. 6TH. Be sure to post-it note
1. examples of rules
2. examples of breaking the rules
3. how to acquire power
4. Bonus: examples of satire: hyperbole, understatement, wit, sarcasm, and irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic).
La la la
You are learning soooo much!!!
I am loving your poems.
If you write poems over the holiday, I will edit them when you return.
Study tonight.
Make sure you know:
1. our vocabulary words
2. our literary must-have lists
3. where you need to improve your writing
4. how to integrate and cite quotations
5. how to use sentence variety and verbs for a formal effect
6. how to show and not tell
7. how to punctuate dialogue (for the story you have to write on the exam)
8. how to make your story interesting (details, description, short paragraphs, accurate word choice, good character development, symbols, put the symbol in the title, show but don't TELL your theme
9. reading on and between the lines
10. how to create a what/so what chart
11. how to infer
12. how to go beyond the obvious
13. how to write a literary paragraph
14. how to study for an exam!!!
We won't have USSR tomorrow but if you finish the exam early, you'll be able to read all of Thursday and Friday. YOU MUST FINISH THE NOVEL, ANIMAL FARM, BY JAN. 6TH. Be sure to post-it note
1. examples of rules
2. examples of breaking the rules
3. how to acquire power
4. Bonus: examples of satire: hyperbole, understatement, wit, sarcasm, and irony (verbal, situational, and dramatic).
La la la
You are learning soooo much!!!
I am loving your poems.
If you write poems over the holiday, I will edit them when you return.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Writing 12: Postcard Stories or Flash Fiction
I collected the stories today. If you were absent, be sure to email me the story TODAY. No stories accepted tomorrow unless accompanied by a note explaining how deathly ill you were today.
I also collected the Fiction REPORTS and the Bill Gaston responses.
We read our stories for 15 minutes. We wrote our Bill Gaston responses for 15 minutes. We started a new genre today: the postcard story!!
We wrote a short one today (250 words). If you were absent, stay in at lunch tomorrow to
make up the time. You need to read the two stories, read your USSR book, and write the postcard exercise.
We read Monika Lee's story, "Dizzy" and we discussed the elements of postcard stories. I also read the story, "The Boy with the Duck on His Head".
You have one postcard story due FRIDAY. If you will not be here, either submit it Thursday or email it to me Friday. It must be fewer than 750 words. It can be anywhere from 200 to 750 words. It must WORK. It has to feel as if something happened, some epiphany or shift occurs for the character or for the reader, be concise and precise in style, and be based on a FABULOUS idea.
Read through Claremont Reviews to see what great ideas you can steal. It's TRADITION.
Tonight: Think of an idea for a postcard story. This genre is also called Flash Fiction. Think of a photograph. A lot can be happening in a photograph but it's is captured in that one moment, somewhat like a scene but everything has to be finished, cleared up, by the end of the scene.
We will read some brilliant ones tomorrow and practice write.
Wed: Emi and Mia present.
Thurs: Time to write your postcard story which is due Friday.
Friday: Hand in the postcard story. Start thinking about the long story that will be due the second Thursday in January. Finish reading the book you have and sign out a new one for the holidays.
I also collected the Fiction REPORTS and the Bill Gaston responses.
We read our stories for 15 minutes. We wrote our Bill Gaston responses for 15 minutes. We started a new genre today: the postcard story!!
We wrote a short one today (250 words). If you were absent, stay in at lunch tomorrow to
make up the time. You need to read the two stories, read your USSR book, and write the postcard exercise.
We read Monika Lee's story, "Dizzy" and we discussed the elements of postcard stories. I also read the story, "The Boy with the Duck on His Head".
You have one postcard story due FRIDAY. If you will not be here, either submit it Thursday or email it to me Friday. It must be fewer than 750 words. It can be anywhere from 200 to 750 words. It must WORK. It has to feel as if something happened, some epiphany or shift occurs for the character or for the reader, be concise and precise in style, and be based on a FABULOUS idea.
Read through Claremont Reviews to see what great ideas you can steal. It's TRADITION.
Tonight: Think of an idea for a postcard story. This genre is also called Flash Fiction. Think of a photograph. A lot can be happening in a photograph but it's is captured in that one moment, somewhat like a scene but everything has to be finished, cleared up, by the end of the scene.
We will read some brilliant ones tomorrow and practice write.
Wed: Emi and Mia present.
Thurs: Time to write your postcard story which is due Friday.
Friday: Hand in the postcard story. Start thinking about the long story that will be due the second Thursday in January. Finish reading the book you have and sign out a new one for the holidays.
English 12: Personal Essay Unit begins . . .
Today I collected the Catcher essays, edited drafts, checklist and quote log. If you have not yet emailed me your essay due to your absence, you must do so today, or bring it tomorrow with a note explaining why you could not meet this deadline.
If you were absent, please go to the library as soon as you arrive at school tomorrow. Return your post-it note free Catcher and Inside Poetry. Sign out a book of essays entitled The Act of Writing.
Read the narrative essay entitled: "In the Trenches" on page 13. Write down the author, the title, the thesis (it is implied so you have to put it in your own words). Three details (paraphrases or quotations cited correctly with line numbers). Finally, write down one main literary technique. In this essay the following techniques dominated: simile, understatement, personification, motif of insanity, motif of bestiality and pathetic fallacy. Choose one. Write down the name of the technique. Write down your example and explain its effectiveness.
We read this essay aloud and discussed its merits. We predicted the thesis as we went along, looking for supportive details.
Tomorrow: YOU WILL WRITE A NARRATIVE ESSAY IMITATING THE STYLE OF ESSAYS IN THIS SECTION OF THE TEXT. YOUR TOPIC SHOULD BE SOMETHING PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL SUCH AS A FRIGHTENING MOMENT, AN UNRESOLVED DISPUTE WITH A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE OR FAMILY MEMBER, A TIME WHEN YOU FELT DISRESPECTED. Choose an event that you think would appeal to your readers.
Your job is to narrate the story and imply the thesis. You will have one hour to complete this task. Work on it tonight so you feel prepared. You can read other essays in that narrative section of the text. Re-read the essay we studied today. How does one scene move to the next? How well are the characters created? What details do you remember? Why? ETC
Once you have chosen your topic. Brainstorm several thesis statements that you could imply in through the use of description.
Eg: Fight with a sibling: Possible thesis statements
If you were absent, please go to the library as soon as you arrive at school tomorrow. Return your post-it note free Catcher and Inside Poetry. Sign out a book of essays entitled The Act of Writing.
Read the narrative essay entitled: "In the Trenches" on page 13. Write down the author, the title, the thesis (it is implied so you have to put it in your own words). Three details (paraphrases or quotations cited correctly with line numbers). Finally, write down one main literary technique. In this essay the following techniques dominated: simile, understatement, personification, motif of insanity, motif of bestiality and pathetic fallacy. Choose one. Write down the name of the technique. Write down your example and explain its effectiveness.
We read this essay aloud and discussed its merits. We predicted the thesis as we went along, looking for supportive details.
Tomorrow: YOU WILL WRITE A NARRATIVE ESSAY IMITATING THE STYLE OF ESSAYS IN THIS SECTION OF THE TEXT. YOUR TOPIC SHOULD BE SOMETHING PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL SUCH AS A FRIGHTENING MOMENT, AN UNRESOLVED DISPUTE WITH A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE OR FAMILY MEMBER, A TIME WHEN YOU FELT DISRESPECTED. Choose an event that you think would appeal to your readers.
Your job is to narrate the story and imply the thesis. You will have one hour to complete this task. Work on it tonight so you feel prepared. You can read other essays in that narrative section of the text. Re-read the essay we studied today. How does one scene move to the next? How well are the characters created? What details do you remember? Why? ETC
Once you have chosen your topic. Brainstorm several thesis statements that you could imply in through the use of description.
Eg: Fight with a sibling: Possible thesis statements
- Sibling rivalry must be accepted but a brother always forgives a brother.
- There is no such thing as sibling rivalry. Accepting it means accepting bullying in the home.
- Fighting with siblings is a direct result of parental mismanagement. Parents must treat siblings equally.
- Sibling rivalry occurs less often between siblings of the same gender because it is easy to compare two brothers' athletic abilities but less easy to compare the athletic skills of a sister to her brother.
- Sibling rivalry occurs for power. It is a direct reflection of society.
- Canadian families should not have more than one child.
- Only children create imaginative brothers and sisters so they can fight with them.
Are you getting the idea? You need to know what it is that you want your readers to take away when finished reading your essay. It's a little more directly created than a short story. It relies a lot on strong, descriptive details: the rat, the sounds of the artillery, the colours of the sky, mud in the mouth, the blood in the sock, praying to a God you don't even believe in etc.
English 10: The Child Who Walks Backwards
Make sure that your notes on Lorna Crozier's poem is up to date.
Be able to define theme.
Memorize this method of writing a poem.
1. Choose a topic that bugs you or an incident that you have not yet resolved: an argument, not getting a spot on the team, a divorce in the family and new step siblings, parents, someone ill in the family etc
2. Create at least 10 opinions about this topic: families should stay together, families are repressive and abusive, families always have one kid who doesn't quite fit, families are an economic invention of the 19th century to replicate serfdoms etc
3. Make a list of interesting nouns: seagull, slipper, canvas, midnight, egg, church steeple, the blue of prayer, silk socks, etc
Write the poem to reveal your THEME but without stating the opinion directly. Using action, concrete detail, sound, and narration, write a narrative, lyric (emotional) poem similar to Lorna Crozier's poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards". WE WILL WRITE THE POEM DURING CLASS TOMORROW.
Homework: Read and post-it note chapter four of Animal Farm.
Wed, Thurs, Fri: BC exam preparation
We will be writing the exam during class. If you are unable to be here, you will need to finish it at home but your parents must supervise you as you cannot use a dictionary or on-line help.
You must bring in a note to say that the exam was taken under supervision.
Thanks.
Be able to define theme.
Memorize this method of writing a poem.
1. Choose a topic that bugs you or an incident that you have not yet resolved: an argument, not getting a spot on the team, a divorce in the family and new step siblings, parents, someone ill in the family etc
2. Create at least 10 opinions about this topic: families should stay together, families are repressive and abusive, families always have one kid who doesn't quite fit, families are an economic invention of the 19th century to replicate serfdoms etc
3. Make a list of interesting nouns: seagull, slipper, canvas, midnight, egg, church steeple, the blue of prayer, silk socks, etc
Write the poem to reveal your THEME but without stating the opinion directly. Using action, concrete detail, sound, and narration, write a narrative, lyric (emotional) poem similar to Lorna Crozier's poem, "The Child Who Walks Backwards". WE WILL WRITE THE POEM DURING CLASS TOMORROW.
Homework: Read and post-it note chapter four of Animal Farm.
Wed, Thurs, Fri: BC exam preparation
We will be writing the exam during class. If you are unable to be here, you will need to finish it at home but your parents must supervise you as you cannot use a dictionary or on-line help.
You must bring in a note to say that the exam was taken under supervision.
Thanks.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
English 12: Bring a typed, double spaced copy of your essay to class . . .
Today: We wrote body three and the conclusion. I handed out a checklist for our body paragraphs and reminded the students present that a body para. is just like all the literary paragraphs we have written this year, except, be SURE to repeat your thesis or refer to your overall thesis in each body paragraph.
MAKE IT CLEAR THAT EACH BODY PARAGRAPH PROVES THE THESIS.
Tomorrow: You get a mark for arriving with a printed copy of your essay. If you need to print it, do so at lunch.
You also get marked on your peer editing so bring all the handouts.
You'll need the bodyparagraph checklist I gave you today and the package on how to write the essay. At the back of that package is an overall essay checklist. You must check off each point in order to do well on this essay.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE HAD ALL WEEK TO WRITE THE ESSAY, THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS. IF YOU ARE NOT HERE ON MONDAY, YOU MUST EMAIL ME THE ESSAY BY 3:30.
DueMonday: Good copy plus cover page, peer-edited copy, quotation log.
After the peer editing during Friday's class, you will have time to work on your essay.
At this stage, you will be revising awkward sentences, improving quote integration, ensuring each body topic sentence covers the topics in the paragraph, etc.
This is an essay at the grade 12 level. It needs to be the best thing you've written in four years.
HOW TO WRITE THE COVER PAGE IS EXPLAINED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BODY PARAGRAPH EDITING SHEET (THE YELLOW ONE)
ASK ANITA IF YOU ARE CONFUSED.
MAKE IT CLEAR THAT EACH BODY PARAGRAPH PROVES THE THESIS.
Tomorrow: You get a mark for arriving with a printed copy of your essay. If you need to print it, do so at lunch.
You also get marked on your peer editing so bring all the handouts.
You'll need the bodyparagraph checklist I gave you today and the package on how to write the essay. At the back of that package is an overall essay checklist. You must check off each point in order to do well on this essay.
BECAUSE YOU HAVE HAD ALL WEEK TO WRITE THE ESSAY, THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS. IF YOU ARE NOT HERE ON MONDAY, YOU MUST EMAIL ME THE ESSAY BY 3:30.
DueMonday: Good copy plus cover page, peer-edited copy, quotation log.
After the peer editing during Friday's class, you will have time to work on your essay.
At this stage, you will be revising awkward sentences, improving quote integration, ensuring each body topic sentence covers the topics in the paragraph, etc.
This is an essay at the grade 12 level. It needs to be the best thing you've written in four years.
HOW TO WRITE THE COVER PAGE IS EXPLAINED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BODY PARAGRAPH EDITING SHEET (THE YELLOW ONE)
ASK ANITA IF YOU ARE CONFUSED.
Writing 12: Bill Gaston Tomorrow
If you have missed The Belfry Theatre trip, the Jeffrey Renn reading, or will miss Bill tomorrow, you have until Jan. 15th to go to events, write them up and submit the response.
I recommend seeing David Sedaris, Thurs. Jan. 19th at the library. (I'll find out which branch. Ask Bryn. He's currently reading a Sedaris book.
I recommend seeing David Sedaris, Thurs. Jan. 19th at the library. (I'll find out which branch. Ask Bryn. He's currently reading a Sedaris book.
English 10: Essay, two drafts, quote log is due....poetry ....
Follow the criteria list that we created during class:
- how unique it is, "In A Bar" for ex. God and Satan play pool
- Use your imagination
- Not predictable. Don't let the reader guess what is coming.
- Very descriptive
- Use images: pictures with words
- Write what is important to you
- Find a good rhythm
- Format. Think it through. Spaces, punctuation, Stanzas, etc
- Emotional
- Makes you think
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
English 12: Great work today on the essay!
I will return the introductions tomorrow. I'm editing for style but mostly for insight to ensure that your thesis statements will work for you.
Today we wrote two paragraphs during class.
Arrive tomorrow ready to be marked on your intro, first and second body paragraphs.
Tomorrow, we will write the third body paragraph and the conclusion.
Read through your package for samples and criteria.
Friday: Peer Editing. Arrive with a copy of your essay double spaced. I must see it so you get marks for being organized and on-time and for being able to participate in the peer editing.
If you do not get the conclusion finished during class Thursday, I won't penalize you
as I don't want to assign homework for Friday's class.
YOU CANNOT PRINT DURING CLASS FRIDAY. IF YOU NEED TO PRINT A COPY OF THE ESSAY, PLEASE DO SO AT LUNCH. MY ROOM WILL BE OPEN.
MARKS FOR PEER EDITING.
BE SHARP.
Monday: Essay, peer edited draft and the quote log are due.
No late work is accepted. If you are absent, you need to email me all the work Monday.
Monday we start our next unit: opinion writing.. Yay, Jack Knox.
Today we wrote two paragraphs during class.
Arrive tomorrow ready to be marked on your intro, first and second body paragraphs.
Tomorrow, we will write the third body paragraph and the conclusion.
Read through your package for samples and criteria.
Friday: Peer Editing. Arrive with a copy of your essay double spaced. I must see it so you get marks for being organized and on-time and for being able to participate in the peer editing.
If you do not get the conclusion finished during class Thursday, I won't penalize you
as I don't want to assign homework for Friday's class.
YOU CANNOT PRINT DURING CLASS FRIDAY. IF YOU NEED TO PRINT A COPY OF THE ESSAY, PLEASE DO SO AT LUNCH. MY ROOM WILL BE OPEN.
MARKS FOR PEER EDITING.
BE SHARP.
Monday: Essay, peer edited draft and the quote log are due.
No late work is accepted. If you are absent, you need to email me all the work Monday.
Monday we start our next unit: opinion writing.. Yay, Jack Knox.
Writing 12: Workshop Tomorrow: Arrive Prepared . . . .
Be able to discuss the following:
1. Point of View
2. Verb Tense
3. Character Development
4. Plot Structure
5. Effectiveness of the title
6. Descriptive elements, motif, and symbol
7. Effectiveness of the opening and the ending
8. How engaging the writing it
9. Sentence structure: rhythm, rhyme, repetition, sound devices
10. Punctuation and grammar
11. The vision of the story: what does this story offer the reader?
1. Point of View
2. Verb Tense
3. Character Development
4. Plot Structure
5. Effectiveness of the title
6. Descriptive elements, motif, and symbol
7. Effectiveness of the opening and the ending
8. How engaging the writing it
9. Sentence structure: rhythm, rhyme, repetition, sound devices
10. Punctuation and grammar
11. The vision of the story: what does this story offer the reader?
English 10: Essays due Friday . . . Plus . . .
Find a poem you LOVE in the Naming the Baby text (a collection of student writing) and copy it out. Include the author and title. Copying out a poem forces you to learn the shapes, the rhythms, the rhymes, the pauses that poets use as a part of their craft, similar to the way an artist chooses colour, texture, canvas type, pencil crayon, oil paints, or clay.
Also, finish reading Chapter 1 in Animal Farm.
Be able to define
allegory
satire
irony
wit
understatement
hyperbole
sarcasm
Be able to use 's and s' easily.
Try the examples below:
Society _____ problems
Societies____ problems
The boys___ washroom
The family__ boat
Several families____ boats
One woman___ coat
Two women___coats
Also, finish reading Chapter 1 in Animal Farm.
Be able to define
allegory
satire
irony
wit
understatement
hyperbole
sarcasm
Be able to use 's and s' easily.
Try the examples below:
Society _____ problems
Societies____ problems
The boys___ washroom
The family__ boat
Several families____ boats
One woman___ coat
Two women___coats
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
English 12: How To Write an Introduction . . .
Students arrived with half of their quotation logs and we worked in complete silence until 3:00 and ALL quotation logs were finished.
If you have not completed your quotation log, you will BE lost over the next few days as we write our essays.
The quotation log is the foundation for your essay. It shows you what you think.
Due tomorrow: The Introduction: a GRADE 12, PASSIONATE, ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION.
If you were absent today, I have several handouts for you.
ARRIVE TOMORROW WITH A TYPED INTRODUCTION THAT FOLLOWS THE CRITERIA BELOW.
If you have not completed your quotation log, you will BE lost over the next few days as we write our essays.
The quotation log is the foundation for your essay. It shows you what you think.
Due tomorrow: The Introduction: a GRADE 12, PASSIONATE, ILLUMINATING INTRODUCTION.
If you were absent today, I have several handouts for you.
ARRIVE TOMORROW WITH A TYPED INTRODUCTION THAT FOLLOWS THE CRITERIA BELOW.
WRITING
AN EFFECTIVE INTRODUCTION FOR A LITERARY ESSAY
Sample:
“Inspiration came to him” (96). Small-bodied and gentle-natured,
young Simon is the only one who understands but does not fear author
William Golding’s message that mankind has a dark and evil nature,
in the novel, Lord of the Flies. Simon does not give into “the
beast”, or the inner wickedness that has manifested in the other
boys and turned their island civilization into savagery. So it
happens that Simon is killed upon his spiritual awakening, when the
true meaning of the beast comes to him after his encounter with a
talking pig’s head. Simon’s character is society’s prophet,
bringing forth Golding’s philosophy on the dark side of human
nature. Simon is flesh and blood just like any other human, but has a
pure moral conscience that will not let evil take hold of his spirit.
Simon’s strength is a symbol of hope for all mankind—if we can
let that hope live.
Analysis of an Introduction
- The purpose of the first sentence in an introduction is _________________________________________________________________.
- The second sentence is the _______________ and includes the __________ and the ___________________ which is in ______________________.
- The third sentence is telling the readers what is to come. In fact, this sentence summarizes the thesis of ______________________________________.
- The forth sentence also tells the reader what to expect in the essay. This sentence summarizes the thesis of ____________________________________.
- The fifth sentence tells the reader what to expect. This sentence summarizes the thesis of _____________________________________.
- The final sentence rewords the __________________________ (or second sentence) but does not change the meaning. It is usually shorter and more ________________________________.
An introduction must also have style. What I notice about the
style of this sample is
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Checklist for my introduction
- _____ The first sentence catches the reader’s attention in an interesting way.
- _____ My thesis answers the question so what? It is my opinion. I can prove it with my research. It is thought-provoking and makes my reader think.
- _____ I have summarized each body paragraph in three separate sentences.
- _____ My verb choice stuns, enlivens and delights. I avoid is, does, makes etc.
- _____ My sentences are varied in length and in the way they begin.
- _____ My vocabulary is formal and appropriate. No contractions. Present verb tense.
- _____ I repeat my thesis at the end in a simple and straightforward way that appeals to the reader’s emotions and makes them want to read on or argue with me. My thesis is provocative and debatable.
- _____ My introduction is brief and to the point. 75 to 125 words should do it.
- _____ I believe that I can prove this thesis. I am passionate about my topic.
- _____ I have something to say that a reader can’t just get by reading the novel.
Writing 12: Three copies of the story due tomorrow.
You must have printed them before you arrive.
Thanks.
Thursday: Workshop
Friday: Bill Gaston will be here. Braeden and Brittany presented his works. We also read his story called "Under the Influence".
Please prepare questions so that you can ensure this presentation will benefit your writing.
Bill teaches fiction at the University of Victoria. For more information, google Bill Gaston. He is one of Canada's foremost novelists and short story writers and he has published poetry. His wife is the writer, Dede Gaston. We have her books in the library. I recommend her novel, Sympathy. Amazing. Dede used to be a professional ballerina and the protagonist is a dancer. His daughter is a writer. One son is a writer/artist/film maker. (Remember the film Shannon and Gillian talked about when they were here? That was Bill's son). He has four children in all.
Monday: Submit your story for marks.
Post Card Story Site
Geist Magazine's Post Card Story Winners
Canadian Post Card Story Site
Cool Author Post Card Site
2012 post card story winner Can. Writers' Union
For the love of blogs . . . look here
Thanks.
Thursday: Workshop
Friday: Bill Gaston will be here. Braeden and Brittany presented his works. We also read his story called "Under the Influence".
Please prepare questions so that you can ensure this presentation will benefit your writing.
Bill teaches fiction at the University of Victoria. For more information, google Bill Gaston. He is one of Canada's foremost novelists and short story writers and he has published poetry. His wife is the writer, Dede Gaston. We have her books in the library. I recommend her novel, Sympathy. Amazing. Dede used to be a professional ballerina and the protagonist is a dancer. His daughter is a writer. One son is a writer/artist/film maker. (Remember the film Shannon and Gillian talked about when they were here? That was Bill's son). He has four children in all.
Monday: Submit your story for marks.
Next week? The post card story. Here's a preview:
Post Card Story Site
Geist Magazine's Post Card Story Winners
Canadian Post Card Story Site
Cool Author Post Card Site
2012 post card story winner Can. Writers' Union
For the love of blogs . . . look here
English 10: Good Editing Today!
What is due Friday? See if you can catch everything on the list below before looking: don't peak.
1. Final Edited Copy
2. Copy you edited after you make the corrections from the peer-edited copy.
3. Peer-edited copy
4. Cover Page attached to the final copy.
5. Quotation Log. (Check all the criteria, especially the citing rules).
Tomorrow: WE START POETRY AND WE'LL READ ANIMAL FARM DURING USSR!!
You may finish your current USSR book at home.
1. Final Edited Copy
2. Copy you edited after you make the corrections from the peer-edited copy.
3. Peer-edited copy
4. Cover Page attached to the final copy.
5. Quotation Log. (Check all the criteria, especially the citing rules).
Tomorrow: WE START POETRY AND WE'LL READ ANIMAL FARM DURING USSR!!
You may finish your current USSR book at home.
Monday, December 9, 2013
English 12: Finish the Quotation Log
The quotation log (see criteria below) is your test on the novel and it is also the BEST way to create ideas and inferences based on re-reading key scenes from the novel that resonante with your topic.
Today we worked on writing our responses to the ten quotes you picked out over the weekend.
Tomorrow: Bring the quote log to class (printed out) and we will colour code the quotes into categories and write the introduction.
Don't worry yet about how to write the essay.
At this point, your job is to do add inferences and connections to each quotation. The quote log is DUE tomorrow as we need to use it to write the essay but you will submit the quote log next Monday when the essay is due.
Tonight: Finish the quote log. It doesn't have to be typed. This is the place where you think, infer, make discoveries etc
Quotation Log Sample and Criteria (Follow the sample below and you'll easily achieve 100 marks on you quote log)
Today we worked on writing our responses to the ten quotes you picked out over the weekend.
Tomorrow: Bring the quote log to class (printed out) and we will colour code the quotes into categories and write the introduction.
Don't worry yet about how to write the essay.
At this point, your job is to do add inferences and connections to each quotation. The quote log is DUE tomorrow as we need to use it to write the essay but you will submit the quote log next Monday when the essay is due.
Tonight: Finish the quote log. It doesn't have to be typed. This is the place where you think, infer, make discoveries etc
Quotation Log Sample and Criteria (Follow the sample below and you'll easily achieve 100 marks on you quote log)
Sample Quotation Log Entry for The Catcher in the Rye
Topic: Alienation
“’Life is a game, boy. Life is a
game that one plays according to the rules’
‘Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.’
‘Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.’
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where
all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right—I'll admit that.
But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots,
then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game” (8).
This quotation is from Holden's conversation with Spencer in
Chapter 2. His former teacher is needling him about his failures at
Pencey; at this point, he lectures Holden about the importance of
playing by the rules. Holden rejects these rules because they do not
treat people fairly. Consequently, we understand his silent contempt
for adults, which is evidenced by the silent ridiculing and cursing
of Spencer that Holden hides beneath his nodding, compliant veneer.
We also see how alienated he
feels. He clearly identifies with those on the "other
side" of the game, and he feels alone and victimized, as though
the world is against him, revealed in the first chapter with his
stance on top of Thompsen Hill. At this point in the novel, Holden's
sense of disadvantage and corresponding bitterness seem somewhat
strange, given his circumstances: he's clearly a bright boy from a
privileged New York family. As the book progresses, however, we learn
that Holden has built a cynical psychological armor around himself to
protect himself from the complexities of the world, in particulary
hypocrisy, phoniness and sexuality.
181 words
Quote Log Criteria:
- 12 to 15 quotations, cited correctly and numbered 1-15.
- insightful responses which discuss the tone, imagery, ideas, diction in the quote
- at least one connection is made to another scene in the novel
- it is clear that this quote contributes to your understanding of the topic
- 125-200 words per entry
- The quotation log replaces a test. DO NOT use ideas from the web or you will receive a 0 on your log for plagiarism.
- You know how to discuss text. Do so on your own. Show what you have learned.
Writing 12: Nothing to hand to me this week but be prepared for Workshop--Wednesday.
Today: We took out a new short story book from the library. Please return the one you have read and sign out a new one if you were absent today. Read. Read. Read. Writers read. Great writers read often.
I returned the first four pages of your stories today.
Tomorrow: Mia and Sam present their poems. Emma presents the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
Wednesday: Arrive with three copies of your story already printed. Come in early or during period 1 if you need to print. We will read and edit the stories Wednesday.
Thursday: Workshop. Be prepared to discuss the story clearly which means that you need to know all three stories intimately. You'll have time to read each story two or three times on Wednesday. You'll choose one story on which to complete a fiction report. The report will be due Thursday.
Editing takes work. It is not simply rejecting the work. You need to work with the writer to figure out what needs to be done in order to make the story function.
Stories due: Mon. Dec. 16th
Next week: Tues to Friday? Postcard stories. Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
I returned the first four pages of your stories today.
Tomorrow: Mia and Sam present their poems. Emma presents the works of Kurt Vonnegut.
Wednesday: Arrive with three copies of your story already printed. Come in early or during period 1 if you need to print. We will read and edit the stories Wednesday.
Thursday: Workshop. Be prepared to discuss the story clearly which means that you need to know all three stories intimately. You'll have time to read each story two or three times on Wednesday. You'll choose one story on which to complete a fiction report. The report will be due Thursday.
Editing takes work. It is not simply rejecting the work. You need to work with the writer to figure out what needs to be done in order to make the story function.
Stories due: Mon. Dec. 16th
Next week: Tues to Friday? Postcard stories. Fun. Fun. Fun. Fun.
English 10: Superb work today!!
You really worked hard today. I mentioned that you need to focus on INSIGHT this time. I am going to assume you have mastered the essay format: intro, three body paragraphs, and the conclusion and that you have memorized your literary must-haves, that you are focusing on style (sentence variety, strong verbs, replacing repetitive words with synonyms, starting each sentence in a different way, using punctuation creatively, etc).
Insight: Is what I have to say exciting to me? Is what I have to say based on my close reading of the text or is what I am saying something I already know and I'm applying to the book? It must be the first option. Your opinions are based on research. Your quote log goes beyond the obvious, interprets the words, tone, symbols, and makes connections to other parts of the play.
Your essay makes me read the play now from your point of view.
I no longer see Romeo as a victim of circumstance because you have clearly proven that Romeo is a rash, love-struck teen who makes love as dangerous as hatred. WOW. I NEVER SAW THAT CONNECTION UNTIL I READ YOUR ESSAY.
That is what an essay is--from the French verb, to try: essayer.
Try out your ideas in the quote log. Make sure you can prove them. Make sure your writing is clear.
Voila!!
BRING AN EDITED COPY OF YOUR ESSAY (INCLUDING THE COVER PAGE) TO CLASS TOMORROW FOR PEER EDITING.
DUE FRIDAY, DEC. 13: Final copy, a peer-edited draft, a draft edited by you, a cover page and a quotation log.
WHO EVER SAID THAT WRITING AN ESSAY WAS HARD?
Insight: Is what I have to say exciting to me? Is what I have to say based on my close reading of the text or is what I am saying something I already know and I'm applying to the book? It must be the first option. Your opinions are based on research. Your quote log goes beyond the obvious, interprets the words, tone, symbols, and makes connections to other parts of the play.
Your essay makes me read the play now from your point of view.
I no longer see Romeo as a victim of circumstance because you have clearly proven that Romeo is a rash, love-struck teen who makes love as dangerous as hatred. WOW. I NEVER SAW THAT CONNECTION UNTIL I READ YOUR ESSAY.
That is what an essay is--from the French verb, to try: essayer.
Try out your ideas in the quote log. Make sure you can prove them. Make sure your writing is clear.
Voila!!
BRING AN EDITED COPY OF YOUR ESSAY (INCLUDING THE COVER PAGE) TO CLASS TOMORROW FOR PEER EDITING.
DUE FRIDAY, DEC. 13: Final copy, a peer-edited draft, a draft edited by you, a cover page and a quotation log.
WHO EVER SAID THAT WRITING AN ESSAY WAS HARD?
IT'S EASY IF YOU KNOW HOW.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Writing 12: Get that story finished!!
Please bring three typed, double spaced copies to class Wednesday for workshop. Yay.
We'll read and critique the stories during class on Wed. Workshop on Thursday.
No pages due this week.
Full story is due Mon. Dec. 16th.
We'll read and critique the stories during class on Wed. Workshop on Thursday.
No pages due this week.
Full story is due Mon. Dec. 16th.
English 12: Choose the essay topic and post-it note 10 to 15 quotes for Monday
See last Thursday's blog for essay ideas.
Friday, December 6, 2013
English 10: Finish the intro and first body paragraphs for Monday!
Today, we worked for the entire period to create a strong introduction and a first body paragraph.
Please complete the two paragraphs for Monday.
Intro: Follow the criteria for the Mockingbird essay. Re-read your corrected essay so that you can make NEW mistakes as you take NEW risks this time in your style, insight, and structure.
Body 1: Make sure your topic sentence is specific, yet broad enough to include all of the points you wish to discuss. For example, do not say in your topic sentence that this para. will be about the features of a yellow umbrella and then start talking about rubber boots in the paragraph. RIGHT?
Also. Please review the elements of a body paragraph and use your checklist to ensure your paragraph meets all criteria!!
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
Please complete the two paragraphs for Monday.
Intro: Follow the criteria for the Mockingbird essay. Re-read your corrected essay so that you can make NEW mistakes as you take NEW risks this time in your style, insight, and structure.
Body 1: Make sure your topic sentence is specific, yet broad enough to include all of the points you wish to discuss. For example, do not say in your topic sentence that this para. will be about the features of a yellow umbrella and then start talking about rubber boots in the paragraph. RIGHT?
Also. Please review the elements of a body paragraph and use your checklist to ensure your paragraph meets all criteria!!
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Writing 12: Preparing for your poetry recitations . . .
Be prepared to read your poem to class tomorrow.
Marks awarded for
Marks awarded for
- volume
- appropriate pauses, facial expressions, body language
- no distracting movements
- an introduction which offers a clear reason to listen to your poem
- eye contact
- slow, clear, enthusiastic reading
English 10: Finish the quotation log tonight . . .
You worked so well today. Great job.
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
Here is the schedule for next week:
Friday, Dec. 6: Colour code the quotation log and create an introduction
Sat / Sun Dec. 7-8 Write the first body paragraph
Monday Dec. 9 Write body paragraphs 2 and 3 during class
Monday night: Write the conclusion
Tuesday: Bring a typed, edited draft to class for peer editing.
Wed/ Thurs night: Edit and edit and revise the draft and print a good copy. Edit the good copy. Print a final copy.
Due Friday, Dec. 12: Final copy plus cover page. The quotation log. The peer edited draft. The self-edited good copy.
YOU KNOW THESE STEPS WELL BECAUSE THEY ARE EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE STEPS YOU WALKED DURING OUR NOVEL UNIT.
Your job this time is to improve.
Where will you focus?
Literary must-haves?
Style?
Insight?
Quoting?
Citing?
Sentence variety.
Diction (word choice)
Proving your thesis.
Enjoying the editing?
English 12: Chapter 20 . . .
This chapter is really significant as all the final chapters are.
Read chapters 20 to 25 closely.
Today, we reviewed the keys to effective literary paragraphs. I returned the chapter 17 paragraphs and we read one another's paragraphs and took notes regarding style, structure and insight. If you are not getting the marks you would like, focus on doing something new. Is it a structural problem? Insight? Where could you improve style?
Next, we read chapter 20 aloud in groups of two, stopping to make inferences and post-it note key quotes. If you were absent, read the chapter, post-it note the quotes below and write inferences for each one.
"I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch" (150).
It's almost one in the morning and he is still in the bar and he calls Sally. He's completely drunk.
Discuss the phone motif in the novel.
" ' No home to go to . . . ' " (152).
"When they're done combing their hair, they beat it on you" (153).
Read page 153 closely. The coat check girl ensures he puts on his red hunting hat. Significance?
Bottom of 153, he decides to go to the duck pond in Central Park.
He drops Phoebe's record, "Little Shirley Beans" and he breaks it. Discuss.
He keeps the pieces of the broken record in his pocket.
He can't find any ducks. The pond is partially frozen. page 154
He imagines he will get pneumonia and die. 154
"I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all" (154).
"Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody" (155).
He doesn't want to be buried in a cemetery surrounded by "dead guys". He wants to be thrown in a river. So, even in death, he wants to be alone. Why?
"It rained on [Allie's] tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove me crazy. . . . I couldn't stand it. I just wish her wasn't there" 155-156).
He hates leaving Allie in the cemetery all alone.
He starts skipping the few coins he has left across the pond. (156).
He decides to sneak home to see Phoebe. 156
Read chapters 21 and 22 tonight.
Play close attention to his interactions with Phoebe. Chapter 21 is quite short.
Phoebe makes him tell her what he actually enjoys.
Post-it note what Holden needs in order to be content.
Come to class prepared to discuss his dream of becoming a catcher in the rye.
Friday: We'll discuss chapter 22 and I'll put on the board the passages to read and analyze.
This weekend: Choose a topic for your essay. Post-it note 10 to 15 passages that you think will support your topic.
CHOOSING A TOPIC:
Read chapters 20 to 25 closely.
Today, we reviewed the keys to effective literary paragraphs. I returned the chapter 17 paragraphs and we read one another's paragraphs and took notes regarding style, structure and insight. If you are not getting the marks you would like, focus on doing something new. Is it a structural problem? Insight? Where could you improve style?
Next, we read chapter 20 aloud in groups of two, stopping to make inferences and post-it note key quotes. If you were absent, read the chapter, post-it note the quotes below and write inferences for each one.
"I was concealing the fact that I was a wounded sonuvabitch" (150).
It's almost one in the morning and he is still in the bar and he calls Sally. He's completely drunk.
Discuss the phone motif in the novel.
" ' No home to go to . . . ' " (152).
"When they're done combing their hair, they beat it on you" (153).
Read page 153 closely. The coat check girl ensures he puts on his red hunting hat. Significance?
Bottom of 153, he decides to go to the duck pond in Central Park.
He drops Phoebe's record, "Little Shirley Beans" and he breaks it. Discuss.
He keeps the pieces of the broken record in his pocket.
He can't find any ducks. The pond is partially frozen. page 154
He imagines he will get pneumonia and die. 154
"I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all" (154).
"Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody" (155).
He doesn't want to be buried in a cemetery surrounded by "dead guys". He wants to be thrown in a river. So, even in death, he wants to be alone. Why?
"It rained on [Allie's] tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove me crazy. . . . I couldn't stand it. I just wish her wasn't there" 155-156).
He hates leaving Allie in the cemetery all alone.
He starts skipping the few coins he has left across the pond. (156).
He decides to sneak home to see Phoebe. 156
Read chapters 21 and 22 tonight.
Play close attention to his interactions with Phoebe. Chapter 21 is quite short.
Phoebe makes him tell her what he actually enjoys.
Post-it note what Holden needs in order to be content.
Come to class prepared to discuss his dream of becoming a catcher in the rye.
Friday: We'll discuss chapter 22 and I'll put on the board the passages to read and analyze.
This weekend: Choose a topic for your essay. Post-it note 10 to 15 passages that you think will support your topic.
CHOOSING A TOPIC:
- I am interested in your interpretations of key scenes.
- Choose a topic based on a few memorable scenes. What were your favourite parts? The museum? The scene with the prostitue? The fight with Stradlater? The opening on Thomsen Hill? The scene with the nuns? The scene in chapter 17 when he yells at Sally? The scene with Phoebe on the carousel? The scenes in the park or in the cab or bar or hotel? The scenes with the catcher in the rye? The scene with Mr. Antolini? Mr. Spencer? Sally?
- Once you start re-visiting two or three key scenes, you'll notice themes arise. Choose a topic based on a theme (what the novel makes you ponder) (what the novel makes you think about)
- Holden's alienation.
- Holden's empathy and compassion
- The role of the adults in the novel.
- The role of children in the novel.
- Holden's refusal to grow up.
- Walden and Thoreau and the yearning for a simpler, more heroic life
- New York in the 50s.
- Criticisms of privilege and economic status
- Attitudes toward women and intimacy
- The use of stream of consciousness
- Holden as typical or atypical teen
- Lack of emotional availability (No one discusses feelings)
- Loneliness in the novel
- Loss of innocence
- The nature of childhood
- Search for perfection and redemption
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
English 10: Day Two, Notes on Presentations
Reaction to killing Paris:
Tone: accusatory, blaming others, ambivalent--he is conflicted, and critical, He is also blaming himself.
Imagery: dark, gloomy, at the door of the tomb, They are fighting over love in the dark.
Romeo is crazy! He is desperate. He did not want this to happen but THIS is his fault. He is annoyed. He is confusing love and hate.
Connection: Very similar to the Tybalt scene. He gets in the way of the sword and his anger. He kills Paris without knowing who he is.
Romeo is like an animal.
He takes the light to look at the victim's face and realizes that it is Paris and then he feels remorse.
He says that love has slaughtered Paris and Romeo and that love is their grave.
"I'll bury thee in a triumhant grave (5.3.83).
Romeo's final speech (88-119)
Tone: sad and depressing
Imagery: line 95 crimson lips are now black
She doesn't look dead. She is still beautiful. Dramatic irony. We know she is not dead.
Ideas about hate: Romeo cannot live without her. LIne 101 He looks at Tybalt and feels ashamed and compassion for him. Forshadows the end of the feud.
He can't imagine Juliet without him.
He is happy to be dying.
Connection: the balcony scene He says he would rather die than live without her love.
He is so rash and irrational that the scene evokes pity.
Friar trying to lure Juliet to a nunnery . . .
The tone changes because the Friar is afraid and does not understand what is going on. Plus, he does not understand love. He is responsible, in a way, for killing Romeo and Juliet.
A greater power than we can contradict has thwarted our intents
He says: COME, I'LL DISPOSE OF THEE . . .
He refers to her as garbage, baggage, a body, something that is already dead. Yikes.
What would her life be like in a convent.
Connections: The scene with the nurse who "advised" Juliet to forget about Romeo and marry Paris.
Connections: The scene where he married them. He married them to try and stop the feud and didn't take into account how young they were.
He wants to dispose of Juliet to hide his sins which is ironic because he's a priest. This entire society is corrupt. Reveals a negative attitude toward the church.
When the Friar tells Romeo to be a man and face the consequences, yet he can't face his problems.
He wants to cover his tracks.
The characters blame their problems on fate.
Juliet's final speech
Tone: Love and sadness, She called him kind names after he is dead
no "friendly drop" for poison
Imagery: She still loves him even though all the problems they have faced sprung from his mistakes--killing Tybalt, for example.
Importance: Juliet is representing her ability to be responsible for her own actions. We could blame the Friar and the Nurse but it is her actions she must account. She doesn't want to give up. She is dedicated to Romeo. She is fearless.
Connections: Romeo risked his life many times. Juliet was the practical one, aware of consequences. Romeo is responsibe for these deaths. He is impatient, too emotional.
Lord Montague's speech, Lady Montague is dead
Tone: Shocked that his son has died before he has
Setting: The tomb. His wife has just died due to her mourning over Romeo's
banishment.
Not a lot of imagery here. These deaths of the three young people has brought silence to all. They must see the errors in their ways and face real emotion.
The Friar recalls the entire story. He uses oxymorons
greatest able to do least
He feels he is to blame but he is a man of God so they will forgive him.
The prince is indifferent to Lord Montague's pain and does not offer consolation. He says to stop the mouth of outrage until we clear these ambiguities, let's figure out what has happened and stop being rash
Actions without thinking.
In reality, these are three teenagers all lying in this tomb (creepy) Two suicides, one death. This is a traumatic scene!! All are guilty. All must look closely at this tragedy and weigh its tragedy and learn from it.
The feud has caused it all.
Prince's final speech:
He confirms the Friar's story. Points out that hatred has caused the death of love!!
Love for hate is resolved by death. He has a haughty tone I told you so but he also feels responisible for letting the feud go on for so long. You can't ignore ignorance.
Connection: Romeo's love caused the death of Tybalt and Paris. That is so ironic.
Tone: pragmatic, regretful, sad, reflective,
Final last three speeches
End of the feud. They work out their problems.
Tone: joy, peaceful, that the feud is over. They feel fate has brought them together.
Imagery: I will raise their statues in pure gold. Gold is real so their love was genuine.
There never was a story of more woe.
The greatest love in all of history.
This love was fate. The chances of a Capulet and a Montague meeting was rare.
Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished.
The love and hate: the families are only equal when two people die
Connections: Mercutio and Tybalt died, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Tone: accusatory, blaming others, ambivalent--he is conflicted, and critical, He is also blaming himself.
Imagery: dark, gloomy, at the door of the tomb, They are fighting over love in the dark.
Romeo is crazy! He is desperate. He did not want this to happen but THIS is his fault. He is annoyed. He is confusing love and hate.
Connection: Very similar to the Tybalt scene. He gets in the way of the sword and his anger. He kills Paris without knowing who he is.
Romeo is like an animal.
He takes the light to look at the victim's face and realizes that it is Paris and then he feels remorse.
He says that love has slaughtered Paris and Romeo and that love is their grave.
"I'll bury thee in a triumhant grave (5.3.83).
Romeo's final speech (88-119)
Tone: sad and depressing
Imagery: line 95 crimson lips are now black
She doesn't look dead. She is still beautiful. Dramatic irony. We know she is not dead.
Ideas about hate: Romeo cannot live without her. LIne 101 He looks at Tybalt and feels ashamed and compassion for him. Forshadows the end of the feud.
He can't imagine Juliet without him.
He is happy to be dying.
Connection: the balcony scene He says he would rather die than live without her love.
He is so rash and irrational that the scene evokes pity.
Friar trying to lure Juliet to a nunnery . . .
The tone changes because the Friar is afraid and does not understand what is going on. Plus, he does not understand love. He is responsible, in a way, for killing Romeo and Juliet.
A greater power than we can contradict has thwarted our intents
He says: COME, I'LL DISPOSE OF THEE . . .
He refers to her as garbage, baggage, a body, something that is already dead. Yikes.
What would her life be like in a convent.
Connections: The scene with the nurse who "advised" Juliet to forget about Romeo and marry Paris.
Connections: The scene where he married them. He married them to try and stop the feud and didn't take into account how young they were.
He wants to dispose of Juliet to hide his sins which is ironic because he's a priest. This entire society is corrupt. Reveals a negative attitude toward the church.
When the Friar tells Romeo to be a man and face the consequences, yet he can't face his problems.
He wants to cover his tracks.
The characters blame their problems on fate.
Juliet's final speech
Tone: Love and sadness, She called him kind names after he is dead
no "friendly drop" for poison
Imagery: She still loves him even though all the problems they have faced sprung from his mistakes--killing Tybalt, for example.
Importance: Juliet is representing her ability to be responsible for her own actions. We could blame the Friar and the Nurse but it is her actions she must account. She doesn't want to give up. She is dedicated to Romeo. She is fearless.
Connections: Romeo risked his life many times. Juliet was the practical one, aware of consequences. Romeo is responsibe for these deaths. He is impatient, too emotional.
Lord Montague's speech, Lady Montague is dead
Tone: Shocked that his son has died before he has
Setting: The tomb. His wife has just died due to her mourning over Romeo's
banishment.
Not a lot of imagery here. These deaths of the three young people has brought silence to all. They must see the errors in their ways and face real emotion.
The Friar recalls the entire story. He uses oxymorons
greatest able to do least
He feels he is to blame but he is a man of God so they will forgive him.
The prince is indifferent to Lord Montague's pain and does not offer consolation. He says to stop the mouth of outrage until we clear these ambiguities, let's figure out what has happened and stop being rash
Actions without thinking.
In reality, these are three teenagers all lying in this tomb (creepy) Two suicides, one death. This is a traumatic scene!! All are guilty. All must look closely at this tragedy and weigh its tragedy and learn from it.
The feud has caused it all.
Prince's final speech:
He confirms the Friar's story. Points out that hatred has caused the death of love!!
Love for hate is resolved by death. He has a haughty tone I told you so but he also feels responisible for letting the feud go on for so long. You can't ignore ignorance.
Connection: Romeo's love caused the death of Tybalt and Paris. That is so ironic.
Tone: pragmatic, regretful, sad, reflective,
Final last three speeches
End of the feud. They work out their problems.
Tone: joy, peaceful, that the feud is over. They feel fate has brought them together.
Imagery: I will raise their statues in pure gold. Gold is real so their love was genuine.
There never was a story of more woe.
The greatest love in all of history.
This love was fate. The chances of a Capulet and a Montague meeting was rare.
Some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished.
The love and hate: the families are only equal when two people die
Connections: Mercutio and Tybalt died, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
English 12: YOU ARE AMAZING
AND NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE READING THIS BLOG.
I recognize your sincere attempts to improve and I appreciate that.
I can see the improvement, too.
If you found today's question hard to understand, know that Holden's rant was truly anti-American dream and pro-Walden and Rousseau. Who are Walden and Rousseau? I'm glad you asked.
Here is a link:
Chop wood and carry water. Sell the car.
Tonight, please read chapters, 18 and 19. They are not THAT significant so a quick read is fine. If you do find something pertinent, that I may have overlooked, post-it note it, and share it with the class tomorrow.
We will read chapter 20 closely tomorrow during class and then we only have four chapters to go.
We will finish those on Friday. This weekend, you will choose your essay topic, and pick 12 to 15 quotations to support that topic and next week, we will be writing until your wrists ache. Get in shape now!!
Our next unit is personal essays, one of my favourite units of the year.
Our final unit is the novel, The Outsider (The Stranger) by Albert Camus, translated from the French and set in North Africa during the 40s. It has been called the best book of the 20th century. It is short but compelling.
It involves making peace with the world from a jail cell.
How is that possible?
It asks us to ponder the meaning of life.
Camus has been called an absurdist. A philosophy that says that since we cannot prove the existence of God, there must be another way to understand the human predicament (that we are born as mortals who know they will die). What motive do we have to rise out of bed? To feed ourselves? To go to work?
The fact that there is no KNOWN purpose in the world, an absurdist would argue, means that we cannot FORCE meaning onto the world.
For example, you might say, well, I go to work to feed my family and to help students learn to read.
No! the absurdist yells.
Work has no meaning.
You go to work because you go to work.
HMMM. Think about that!!
Camus believed that going to work for the sake of going to work or living for the sake of living was heroic and that attempting to force meaning onto situations was unheroic.
A lot to discuss and a great way to end your high school English career.
I think you will (if you haven't already) realize that you need to keep reading and reading and reading and reading to examine the imaginations of great and not-so-great writers and thinkers so you have something to which you can compare your own ideas.
You are never alone in the universe with a good book.
The universe does not care about you, the absurdist says.
I recognize your sincere attempts to improve and I appreciate that.
I can see the improvement, too.
If you found today's question hard to understand, know that Holden's rant was truly anti-American dream and pro-Walden and Rousseau. Who are Walden and Rousseau? I'm glad you asked.
Here is a link:
Chop wood and carry water. Sell the car.
Tonight, please read chapters, 18 and 19. They are not THAT significant so a quick read is fine. If you do find something pertinent, that I may have overlooked, post-it note it, and share it with the class tomorrow.
We will read chapter 20 closely tomorrow during class and then we only have four chapters to go.
We will finish those on Friday. This weekend, you will choose your essay topic, and pick 12 to 15 quotations to support that topic and next week, we will be writing until your wrists ache. Get in shape now!!
Our next unit is personal essays, one of my favourite units of the year.
Our final unit is the novel, The Outsider (The Stranger) by Albert Camus, translated from the French and set in North Africa during the 40s. It has been called the best book of the 20th century. It is short but compelling.
It involves making peace with the world from a jail cell.
How is that possible?
It asks us to ponder the meaning of life.
Camus has been called an absurdist. A philosophy that says that since we cannot prove the existence of God, there must be another way to understand the human predicament (that we are born as mortals who know they will die). What motive do we have to rise out of bed? To feed ourselves? To go to work?
The fact that there is no KNOWN purpose in the world, an absurdist would argue, means that we cannot FORCE meaning onto the world.
For example, you might say, well, I go to work to feed my family and to help students learn to read.
No! the absurdist yells.
Work has no meaning.
You go to work because you go to work.
HMMM. Think about that!!
Camus believed that going to work for the sake of going to work or living for the sake of living was heroic and that attempting to force meaning onto situations was unheroic.
A lot to discuss and a great way to end your high school English career.
I think you will (if you haven't already) realize that you need to keep reading and reading and reading and reading to examine the imaginations of great and not-so-great writers and thinkers so you have something to which you can compare your own ideas.
You are never alone in the universe with a good book.
The universe does not care about you, the absurdist says.
Writing 12: Resources . . . Have a look!
Writing Resources for Student Writers
Have a look at the resources above for ideas and exercises.
Remember, the focus for tonight's assignment and each weekly assignment is to make you a better writer and that may mean taking risks, trying a new style, aiming for a new type of plot, showing and not telling, discussing topics close to your heart.
If the writing does not excite you, it's not ready to be submitted.
Find a topic you are interested in and enjoy the writing.
Two more pages of your story due Thursday. Two more next Thursday and then a good copy by Monday of our last week before Xmas break.
Tomorrow: Bring the poem you plan to read to the class so that we can practice and prepare for recitations, Friday. See last Friday's blog for all of the criteria. Think a combo of Gabe Lunn (UVic student), Carla Funk, and Jeffrey Renn. Take the best of these performers' attributes and apply it to your poem.
In the introduction to your poem, give the audience something to listen for.
For example,
The first poem I'd like to read today uncovers a topic close to my heart--my dad. I know it may not be cool to talk and write about your dad but I love this guy.
That's all you need. Don't talk down to the audience. Don't try to be cool. Don't try to be liked, accepted, respected, revered.
Don't try, Yoda, said. There is DO or DO NOT.
Just be yourself.
Pass the potatoes, please.
You do NOT need this audience's approval.
If you have prepared. If you love the poem. If you are enunciating, pausing, expressing your heart out, how could you err? So, the key to any successful performance, Mr. Plant, assures me, is PREPARATION.
la la la
To err is human, to forgive? Divine.
Have a look at the resources above for ideas and exercises.
Remember, the focus for tonight's assignment and each weekly assignment is to make you a better writer and that may mean taking risks, trying a new style, aiming for a new type of plot, showing and not telling, discussing topics close to your heart.
If the writing does not excite you, it's not ready to be submitted.
Find a topic you are interested in and enjoy the writing.
Two more pages of your story due Thursday. Two more next Thursday and then a good copy by Monday of our last week before Xmas break.
Tomorrow: Bring the poem you plan to read to the class so that we can practice and prepare for recitations, Friday. See last Friday's blog for all of the criteria. Think a combo of Gabe Lunn (UVic student), Carla Funk, and Jeffrey Renn. Take the best of these performers' attributes and apply it to your poem.
In the introduction to your poem, give the audience something to listen for.
For example,
The first poem I'd like to read today uncovers a topic close to my heart--my dad. I know it may not be cool to talk and write about your dad but I love this guy.
That's all you need. Don't talk down to the audience. Don't try to be cool. Don't try to be liked, accepted, respected, revered.
Don't try, Yoda, said. There is DO or DO NOT.
Just be yourself.
Pass the potatoes, please.
You do NOT need this audience's approval.
If you have prepared. If you love the poem. If you are enunciating, pausing, expressing your heart out, how could you err? So, the key to any successful performance, Mr. Plant, assures me, is PREPARATION.
la la la
To err is human, to forgive? Divine.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
ENGLISH 12: Chapter 16, The Catcher in the Rye . . .
Reading closely is a skill. Inferring is a skill. Practice.
Not to infer means not thinking. Someone who does not think loses their edge. Their humanity.
Homework: Read chapter 17, closely. When you get to page 131 (in the small version of the novel), the confrontation between Sally and Holden, post-it note that section and write your insights down on the post-it. Tomorrow, during class you will be writing a paragraph on that section, using the quotes, and ideas that you discover tonight.
If you missed today, you missed a lot!!
GET all the notes from a friend.
We reviewed what you need to do to succeed on the poetry section of the exam. Get those notes.
I passed out the two-page list of literary terms that could be on the provincial exam and we went over the ones which are usually on the exam. Make sure to get a copy of that sheet and to circle the key ones. Study the ones you don't know on quizlet.com. Create an account. Search for sstenson and copy my English 12 list onto your page. You can organize the terms by genre: poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and personal essays so they are easier to remember. All of the definitions are on my quizlet page.
We had two questions on the board that we answered with post-it notes as I read chapter 16 aloud so read chapter 16 and borrow a friend's book to post-it note the key passages. Discuss the significance of the museum, tying the girl's skate, and the child singing the hymn "when a body catch a body comin' through the rye".
We started reading chapter 17.
NOTE: Memorize quotes from the novel to use on your provincial exam. Imagine starting your synthesis essay with this hook: Holden Caulfield believes that nothing should change. Time must stop. However, the character, Hal, in the story, "Hal's Day Off" is the anti-thesis to the innocent boy from New York.
Good readers make connections. Good writers remember them. Great English 12 students do both because THEY read the blog.
Lucky you.
Not to infer means not thinking. Someone who does not think loses their edge. Their humanity.
Homework: Read chapter 17, closely. When you get to page 131 (in the small version of the novel), the confrontation between Sally and Holden, post-it note that section and write your insights down on the post-it. Tomorrow, during class you will be writing a paragraph on that section, using the quotes, and ideas that you discover tonight.
If you missed today, you missed a lot!!
GET all the notes from a friend.
We reviewed what you need to do to succeed on the poetry section of the exam. Get those notes.
I passed out the two-page list of literary terms that could be on the provincial exam and we went over the ones which are usually on the exam. Make sure to get a copy of that sheet and to circle the key ones. Study the ones you don't know on quizlet.com. Create an account. Search for sstenson and copy my English 12 list onto your page. You can organize the terms by genre: poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and personal essays so they are easier to remember. All of the definitions are on my quizlet page.
We had two questions on the board that we answered with post-it notes as I read chapter 16 aloud so read chapter 16 and borrow a friend's book to post-it note the key passages. Discuss the significance of the museum, tying the girl's skate, and the child singing the hymn "when a body catch a body comin' through the rye".
We started reading chapter 17.
NOTE: Memorize quotes from the novel to use on your provincial exam. Imagine starting your synthesis essay with this hook: Holden Caulfield believes that nothing should change. Time must stop. However, the character, Hal, in the story, "Hal's Day Off" is the anti-thesis to the innocent boy from New York.
Good readers make connections. Good writers remember them. Great English 12 students do both because THEY read the blog.
Lucky you.
Writing 12: Who is John Gardner? Who is Raymond Carver?
Graeme knows who John Gardner is. Do you? Graeme has peanut butter cups to prove it. Do you?
Tonight: Work on your next two pages which are due Thursday. Re-submit your first two pages so I can remember where I left off. Thanks.
THURSDAY: YOU WILL BE PRESENTING AN INTRO TO A POEM AND A POEM. I AM EXPECTING YOUR BEST. SEE LAST FRIDAY'S BLOG POST FOR THE CRITERIA. ARRIVE WITH YOUR POEM AND INTRODUCTION ALREADY CHOSEN. DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU CAN READ A POEM ALOUD AND ENGAGE AN AUDIENCE WITH YOUR RECITATION.
Thanks to Prasant for an engaging look at Carver's story, "The Viewfinder". If you were away today, ask to read it and to do the exercise.
I read a longer Carver story to the class called, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Think long and hard about that story. So, what do we talk about when we talk about love? Why so much exposition in that story? Does it work? Why are there so many descriptions of light and gin? What is the "make-up" / legend motif all about? Why does the narrator wish to walk off alone into the sunset? Why can't Laura understand that?
Look at the way the story uses anecdote--the story about Ed, the traffic accident, the vassals/vessels.
Look at the way it uses the cardiologist as the speaker in the story, yet, he is not the narrator.
What is the point of view?
If you spend time, reviewing this story, you will become a better writer. No doubt about that.
Tonight: Work on your next two pages which are due Thursday. Re-submit your first two pages so I can remember where I left off. Thanks.
THURSDAY: YOU WILL BE PRESENTING AN INTRO TO A POEM AND A POEM. I AM EXPECTING YOUR BEST. SEE LAST FRIDAY'S BLOG POST FOR THE CRITERIA. ARRIVE WITH YOUR POEM AND INTRODUCTION ALREADY CHOSEN. DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU CAN READ A POEM ALOUD AND ENGAGE AN AUDIENCE WITH YOUR RECITATION.
Thanks to Prasant for an engaging look at Carver's story, "The Viewfinder". If you were away today, ask to read it and to do the exercise.
I read a longer Carver story to the class called, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Think long and hard about that story. So, what do we talk about when we talk about love? Why so much exposition in that story? Does it work? Why are there so many descriptions of light and gin? What is the "make-up" / legend motif all about? Why does the narrator wish to walk off alone into the sunset? Why can't Laura understand that?
Look at the way the story uses anecdote--the story about Ed, the traffic accident, the vassals/vessels.
Look at the way it uses the cardiologist as the speaker in the story, yet, he is not the narrator.
What is the point of view?
If you spend time, reviewing this story, you will become a better writer. No doubt about that.
English 10: Act 5 Presentation Notes
Tonight: Choose an essay topic. How does one choose? How did you choose a topic for the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird? You thought about three of your favourite scenes. You thought about the themes presented in those themes. You re-read those passages carefully, created a quote log, summarized the log into three sentences and created a thesis statement, which you then used formal language to prove!!
Choose a topic. (See last night's blog for ideas, too).
Find 9 to 15 passages or quotations that inform your topic.
Post-it note them. Number the post-its (in any order).
Bring them to class tomorrow. We will start our quotation logs. If you have a computer, bring it to class.
We will complete the presentations tomorrow. Copy and paste these notes into your books.
Lines 1-11 Romeo has a dream about love but he is questioning his dream as if Queen Mab has him and he's believing Mercutio's version because his love is far away and like a dream.
He dreams that Juliet found him dead--foreshadows his death. Dramatic irony as the audience knows she is dead.
Also, it is like he HAS died since she is so far away.
Tone: bittersweet, happy and sad, happy to love her but he may not see her again
Imagery: He wants to become Emporer because love lifts him above the ground. He is above society, above the grave,
Connections: in the same state as he was with Rosaline, so he could act rashly
How sweet is love possessed
He lives on the love of Juliet.
24-29
Tone: determined, not indecisive, wants to be with Juliet dead or alive
he is a man of his word
He thinks he knows what love is but he won't listen to anyone else. He can't LIVE on his own.
Balthasar doesn't understand Romeo's perspective of love so he can't talk him out of buying poison.
Same as when he was pining over Rosaline
Lines 34-52
Romeo's anger
He wants to kill himself.
Tone is dark. He wants to LIE with her tonight. He can't live without her.
The connection to earlier in the story--love is poison--the Friar's potion and the apothecary's poison
Imagery: stuffed skins, bladders, musty seeds, alligator, decrepit images,
Fate: Romeo will lie with her forecver
Lines 60-85
Tone: persuasive,
Apothecary is poor and hungry
Imagery: Famine in thy cheeks, starveth in thy eyes, full of wretchedness,
ironic that the apothecary is sick,
Romeo calls the poison a cordial (a refreshing drink) to convince himself that he must drink it and he has no choice.
Love takes away choice.
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
Coonection; when he went to the ball he had a prophecy that something bad was going to happen and here he has
Scene 2:
Tone: panic, Friar Laurence realizes Romeo didn't receive the letter. It could have been prevented by one letter. The theme that sometimes we try to help others but we are not helping at all. Fate intervened to show that there were too many complications in their relationship anyway. Hate gets in the way of love. Juliet was right to say that she thought their love was a spark that would burn out to quickly.
Unhappy fortune. Unhappy fate says Friar Laurence and he realizes there is danger now.
Scene 3:
Lines 1-20 Paris at the tomb
Tone: sad, his bride to be has just died, First time we really get to see his despair, he orders around his servant to try to make himself feel better, He is doing what Romeo did to Rosaline. He loved Juliet even though he didn't know her. LOve is just physical. People think that they are in love until they really find love and then LOVE EQUALS UNION. LOVE IS A COMPROMISE.
Lines 22-39
Romeo opening the tomb
Tone: Serious and determined
Do not interrupt me. He tells Balthasar not to disturb him.
Imagery: More fears ... far from empty tigers or the roaring sea--he'll fight the world to attend to Juliet. Frightens Balthasar.
He puts fate into his own hands.
He drinks the poison after seeing her face one last time very similar to the hasty marriage.
Lines 58-71 Romeo fights Paris
Tone: Hatred, misunderstanding
Ideas about love and hate: Romeo kills Paris and Paris wants to be right beside Juliet and Tybalt. More dramatic irony. Death unites rather than love.
It's important that Romeo kills Paris since Romeo's love is the more authentic and authorized by God. Paris must die.
Connection to earlier parts: The fight Roemo had with Tybalt. Romeo didn't want to fight with Tybalt. Dramatic irony.
Choose a topic. (See last night's blog for ideas, too).
Find 9 to 15 passages or quotations that inform your topic.
Post-it note them. Number the post-its (in any order).
Bring them to class tomorrow. We will start our quotation logs. If you have a computer, bring it to class.
We will complete the presentations tomorrow. Copy and paste these notes into your books.
Lines 1-11 Romeo has a dream about love but he is questioning his dream as if Queen Mab has him and he's believing Mercutio's version because his love is far away and like a dream.
He dreams that Juliet found him dead--foreshadows his death. Dramatic irony as the audience knows she is dead.
Also, it is like he HAS died since she is so far away.
Tone: bittersweet, happy and sad, happy to love her but he may not see her again
Imagery: He wants to become Emporer because love lifts him above the ground. He is above society, above the grave,
Connections: in the same state as he was with Rosaline, so he could act rashly
How sweet is love possessed
He lives on the love of Juliet.
24-29
Tone: determined, not indecisive, wants to be with Juliet dead or alive
he is a man of his word
He thinks he knows what love is but he won't listen to anyone else. He can't LIVE on his own.
Balthasar doesn't understand Romeo's perspective of love so he can't talk him out of buying poison.
Same as when he was pining over Rosaline
Lines 34-52
Romeo's anger
He wants to kill himself.
Tone is dark. He wants to LIE with her tonight. He can't live without her.
The connection to earlier in the story--love is poison--the Friar's potion and the apothecary's poison
Imagery: stuffed skins, bladders, musty seeds, alligator, decrepit images,
Fate: Romeo will lie with her forecver
Lines 60-85
Tone: persuasive,
Apothecary is poor and hungry
Imagery: Famine in thy cheeks, starveth in thy eyes, full of wretchedness,
ironic that the apothecary is sick,
Romeo calls the poison a cordial (a refreshing drink) to convince himself that he must drink it and he has no choice.
Love takes away choice.
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
Coonection; when he went to the ball he had a prophecy that something bad was going to happen and here he has
Scene 2:
Tone: panic, Friar Laurence realizes Romeo didn't receive the letter. It could have been prevented by one letter. The theme that sometimes we try to help others but we are not helping at all. Fate intervened to show that there were too many complications in their relationship anyway. Hate gets in the way of love. Juliet was right to say that she thought their love was a spark that would burn out to quickly.
Unhappy fortune. Unhappy fate says Friar Laurence and he realizes there is danger now.
Scene 3:
Lines 1-20 Paris at the tomb
Tone: sad, his bride to be has just died, First time we really get to see his despair, he orders around his servant to try to make himself feel better, He is doing what Romeo did to Rosaline. He loved Juliet even though he didn't know her. LOve is just physical. People think that they are in love until they really find love and then LOVE EQUALS UNION. LOVE IS A COMPROMISE.
Lines 22-39
Romeo opening the tomb
Tone: Serious and determined
Do not interrupt me. He tells Balthasar not to disturb him.
Imagery: More fears ... far from empty tigers or the roaring sea--he'll fight the world to attend to Juliet. Frightens Balthasar.
He puts fate into his own hands.
He drinks the poison after seeing her face one last time very similar to the hasty marriage.
Lines 58-71 Romeo fights Paris
Tone: Hatred, misunderstanding
Ideas about love and hate: Romeo kills Paris and Paris wants to be right beside Juliet and Tybalt. More dramatic irony. Death unites rather than love.
It's important that Romeo kills Paris since Romeo's love is the more authentic and authorized by God. Paris must die.
Connection to earlier parts: The fight Roemo had with Tybalt. Romeo didn't want to fight with Tybalt. Dramatic irony.
Monday, December 2, 2013
English 12: If you missed Friday, you write the test today . . . BUT
We are reading three chapters during class today and answering the following questions in paragraphs that are edited, use formal language, quotations, and add insight to the chapter. Do not discuss the obvious. Tell us something you have just figured out.
Ch. 13: Visit with the prostitute: Discuss the significance of the green dress in this chapter. (It is key to understanding Holden's view of the world). In your discussion of Holden and what the dress means to him, tie your ideas to at least one previous scene in order to support your opinions.
Ch. 14: Talks to his dead brother, Allie, rants about the Disciples in the Bible, confronts Maurice while he is in his pyjamas, cries, and wants to jump out the window but he doesn't WHY? Explain the connections between all these seemingly disconnected scenes in this chapter. What is the purpose for juxtaposing these events?
Ch. 15: Sally Hayes, nun, suitcases, economic status: Compare the tone (diction, sentence structure, rhythm,) in this chapter to the previous two.
Be sure to use examples from the chapter to support your opinions.
Last week, you read three chapters, created a chart and a thesis statement.
Many of your thesis statements were unclear. You did not answer the question.
If you were absent today, write this thesis into your notebook:
After reading chapters 10, 11, and 12, discuss Holden's attitude toward women, including his sister
Thesis:
Holden's role as big and loyal brother to Phoebe influences the respect he shows to women who seem less appreicated in society due to their appearance; however, in order to fit in and feel accdepted in a man's world, the confused teen feels pressured to have sex. Because he cannot separate sex and love, he can only think sexually about girls who he assumes have loose morals. This conflict between his sexual desires and his personal values confuses him and makes him doubt himself.
Be prepared to read chapter 16 during class tomorrow.
Ch. 13: Visit with the prostitute: Discuss the significance of the green dress in this chapter. (It is key to understanding Holden's view of the world). In your discussion of Holden and what the dress means to him, tie your ideas to at least one previous scene in order to support your opinions.
Ch. 14: Talks to his dead brother, Allie, rants about the Disciples in the Bible, confronts Maurice while he is in his pyjamas, cries, and wants to jump out the window but he doesn't WHY? Explain the connections between all these seemingly disconnected scenes in this chapter. What is the purpose for juxtaposing these events?
Ch. 15: Sally Hayes, nun, suitcases, economic status: Compare the tone (diction, sentence structure, rhythm,) in this chapter to the previous two.
Be sure to use examples from the chapter to support your opinions.
Last week, you read three chapters, created a chart and a thesis statement.
Many of your thesis statements were unclear. You did not answer the question.
If you were absent today, write this thesis into your notebook:
After reading chapters 10, 11, and 12, discuss Holden's attitude toward women, including his sister
Thesis:
Holden's role as big and loyal brother to Phoebe influences the respect he shows to women who seem less appreicated in society due to their appearance; however, in order to fit in and feel accdepted in a man's world, the confused teen feels pressured to have sex. Because he cannot separate sex and love, he can only think sexually about girls who he assumes have loose morals. This conflict between his sexual desires and his personal values confuses him and makes him doubt himself.
Be prepared to read chapter 16 during class tomorrow.
Read Act 5. Prepare for a quiz . . .
Although you have watched a film version of a play, a film is not THE PLAY. Consequently, it is imperative that you do the reading in order to feel prepared for tomorrow's lesson.
Read each scene slowly. Read all three columns in the text to ensure understanding.
Start thinking of essay topics:
1. The juxtaposition of love and hate
2. The roles of the Nurse and the Friar
3. Juliet risks all
4. Various views of love in the play
5. Love only comes out at night
6. Use of light and dark imagery
7. Romeo's changing relationship to love
8. The role of hatred in the film
9. How love is misunderstood in the play
10. Love and hatred as magical spells
11. The role of loyalty in the play
12. Write an essay on a particular scene and how it reveals key themes: the opening scene in Act 1, the balcony scene, Queen Mab speech, etc
13. The role of Mercutio in the play
14. The role of destiny
Read each scene slowly. Read all three columns in the text to ensure understanding.
Start thinking of essay topics:
1. The juxtaposition of love and hate
2. The roles of the Nurse and the Friar
3. Juliet risks all
4. Various views of love in the play
5. Love only comes out at night
6. Use of light and dark imagery
7. Romeo's changing relationship to love
8. The role of hatred in the film
9. How love is misunderstood in the play
10. Love and hatred as magical spells
11. The role of loyalty in the play
12. Write an essay on a particular scene and how it reveals key themes: the opening scene in Act 1, the balcony scene, Queen Mab speech, etc
13. The role of Mercutio in the play
14. The role of destiny
Writing 12: Books to put on the Xmas wish list . . .
Try ABE books for second hand copies or call Russell Books or they may be in our library.
A Passion for Narrative (Jack Hodgins) Canadian, used to teach at UVic in the Writing dept.
On Writing (Stephen King) He's got some great ideas.
The Art of Fiction (John Gardner) spouting off at a UVic party that you've read this book will make you sound and look important even if you do have a blob of guacamole on your shirt
Today: We wrote two scenes. One as a warm up to review the elements of a scene:
conflict
thought
action
speech
description
conflict (worse than what started the scene)
Between scenes you can have exposition (details the reader has to know (explanations, "tell" us straight out) Keep these parts short and they won't work.
Descriptive Passages (motivated)
If you were absent today, be sure to get the notes from a friend regarding the various plot structures you will need to attend to.
Next,
We wrote the next scene in our stories.
Thursday: The next two pages of your story are due. Hand in today's original two plus two more.
Good luck.
A Passion for Narrative (Jack Hodgins) Canadian, used to teach at UVic in the Writing dept.
On Writing (Stephen King) He's got some great ideas.
The Art of Fiction (John Gardner) spouting off at a UVic party that you've read this book will make you sound and look important even if you do have a blob of guacamole on your shirt
Today: We wrote two scenes. One as a warm up to review the elements of a scene:
conflict
thought
action
speech
description
conflict (worse than what started the scene)
Between scenes you can have exposition (details the reader has to know (explanations, "tell" us straight out) Keep these parts short and they won't work.
Descriptive Passages (motivated)
If you were absent today, be sure to get the notes from a friend regarding the various plot structures you will need to attend to.
Next,
We wrote the next scene in our stories.
Thursday: The next two pages of your story are due. Hand in today's original two plus two more.
Good luck.
Friday, November 29, 2013
Writing 12: Two responses due Monday and practice reciting your poems . ..
Jeffrey Renn showed us today what is possible when it comes to reciting poetry.
You can google authors aloud, recitation ideas, etc to really improve the way you read your poems.
Try taping yourself doing the reading you are planning for the English classes, including the introductions. Talk about poetry. About listening. About what is going on in the poem. What you were trying to accomplish etc
Listen to the tape. Are the ends of your sentences hard to hear, do you end too quickly and start into the next poem too quickly, etc.
Thursday, I'll have you each present one poem to the class and I will be marking you.
Criteria:
1. Strong introduction
2. Pacing, eye contact, awareness of audience, voice modulations, articulations
3. Poem choice. Choose poems that will entertain or keep the audience's attention.
4. Body language, breathing, audibility, enthusiasm
5. The poem is read for meaning. Your voice makes sense with what the poem is saying. You don't rise up at the end of lines for no reason at all other than nerves.
FEEL YOUR NERVES. TAKE TIME TO CALM YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
You can google authors aloud, recitation ideas, etc to really improve the way you read your poems.
Try taping yourself doing the reading you are planning for the English classes, including the introductions. Talk about poetry. About listening. About what is going on in the poem. What you were trying to accomplish etc
Listen to the tape. Are the ends of your sentences hard to hear, do you end too quickly and start into the next poem too quickly, etc.
Thursday, I'll have you each present one poem to the class and I will be marking you.
Criteria:
1. Strong introduction
2. Pacing, eye contact, awareness of audience, voice modulations, articulations
3. Poem choice. Choose poems that will entertain or keep the audience's attention.
4. Body language, breathing, audibility, enthusiasm
5. The poem is read for meaning. Your voice makes sense with what the poem is saying. You don't rise up at the end of lines for no reason at all other than nerves.
FEEL YOUR NERVES. TAKE TIME TO CALM YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
English 10: Study for your vocabulary test . . .
Use the words in sentences. Look them up on google to see how they are used.
Figure out some images to connect to the words.
For example:
contention (sounds like the word tension) When we have an "argument" there is stress (tension) so a contention is a problem. A contentious issue is an issue about a problem. For example, those kids who do not like the hat rule have a contention to discuss with the principal.
ominous (has the word omen in it)
complacent (has the word place in it... people who don't want to change their ideas, don't want to "Move" or change places. They are satisfied with their "place" in the world.
Be creative. Have fun.
We will read Act 5 after the test.
This weekend is a great time to get a lot of reading done for USSR. You only need three books for an A. Let's get reading. Antonia and Abby gave you a lot of suggestions. Put books on your Xmas gift wish lists!!
Figure out some images to connect to the words.
For example:
contention (sounds like the word tension) When we have an "argument" there is stress (tension) so a contention is a problem. A contentious issue is an issue about a problem. For example, those kids who do not like the hat rule have a contention to discuss with the principal.
ominous (has the word omen in it)
complacent (has the word place in it... people who don't want to change their ideas, don't want to "Move" or change places. They are satisfied with their "place" in the world.
Be creative. Have fun.
We will read Act 5 after the test.
This weekend is a great time to get a lot of reading done for USSR. You only need three books for an A. Let's get reading. Antonia and Abby gave you a lot of suggestions. Put books on your Xmas gift wish lists!!
Thursday, November 28, 2013
English 12: Prepare for Friday's poetry re-test . . .
For the multiple choice section, be sure to know the following words and literary devices:
arduous
consonance
alliteration
onomatopoiea
paradox
allusion
hyperbole
metaphor
indifferent
ballad
sonnet
free verse
blank verse
To prepare for the paragraph section: Review.
1. Literary para. must-haves.
2. The template for a literary paragraph.
3. Re-read previous paragraphs. Where do you consistently lose marks?
4. Study your vocabulary list. Use accurate vocabulary and sentence variety. Use strong verbs.
5. Re-read the how-to-integrate quotes sheet. Make sure you use a lot of short quotations and integrate them well into the text. Change verb tenses in the original text to fit with your present tense paragraph.
6. Re-read all the work we did DURING the poetry unit. How do you read a poem? What is literal? What is figurative (metaphorical). What words are repeated. Where are the line breaks? What does the title imply? Etc.
7. It's grade 12. It's an exam. The literal answer will be in the poem somewhere. Find it!!
PREPARE SO YOU KNOW YOU ARE DOING YOUR BEST!
arduous
consonance
alliteration
onomatopoiea
paradox
allusion
hyperbole
metaphor
indifferent
ballad
sonnet
free verse
blank verse
To prepare for the paragraph section: Review.
1. Literary para. must-haves.
2. The template for a literary paragraph.
3. Re-read previous paragraphs. Where do you consistently lose marks?
4. Study your vocabulary list. Use accurate vocabulary and sentence variety. Use strong verbs.
5. Re-read the how-to-integrate quotes sheet. Make sure you use a lot of short quotations and integrate them well into the text. Change verb tenses in the original text to fit with your present tense paragraph.
6. Re-read all the work we did DURING the poetry unit. How do you read a poem? What is literal? What is figurative (metaphorical). What words are repeated. Where are the line breaks? What does the title imply? Etc.
7. It's grade 12. It's an exam. The literal answer will be in the poem somewhere. Find it!!
PREPARE SO YOU KNOW YOU ARE DOING YOUR BEST!
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
English 12: Miss Moyes is here Thursday . . . Don't miss class!!
Today: Read yesterday's blog so that you understand why we practice and how to benefit from feedback.
I read aloud Hanna's and Brandon's re-writes of the poetry section of the exam, the paragraph on the poem, "Ordinary Day".
We discussed what you need to have in the paragraph to succeed:
1. a strong thesis which answers the question and is repeated throughout
2. formal, accurate diction (word choice)
3. insightful use of quotations that flow well in the paragraph
On an English 12 exam, FIRST look for literal examples to answer the question (The poem states that the day was "an unexpected gift") but some of you missed that line and misinterpreted the poem. Consequently, you cannot pass the section. Look for repeated words. She repeats murmur and grace. She repeats light. Look for who is speaking and where they are--a mother, at home, in the "dead of winter".
Because a poem is so short, read it several times.
Practice what you have been taught. Start with who, what, where, when, why. If you can answer these questions first, you will be able to understand the poem at the literal level and THEN you can look for other clues such as repeated words, similes, juxtapositions, or irony, etc.
Today: We read three short chapters (only 20 pages) Chapters 10, 11, and 12.
As you read them, post-it note Holden's attitudes toward girls and his experiences with girls.
Next, create a what / so what chart with your best three quotations. YOU MUST HAVE A QUOTE FROM EACH CHAPTER. Add at least 9 points under the so what column.
Finally, turn the chart into a fantastic, insightful thesis statement such as
Holden's attitude toward women reveal that he respects women; however, he is torn between his sexual drives and the way other men treat women as he hates to see women objectified because he does not want to see himself as someone who uses women for his own sexual gratification.
I read aloud Hanna's and Brandon's re-writes of the poetry section of the exam, the paragraph on the poem, "Ordinary Day".
We discussed what you need to have in the paragraph to succeed:
1. a strong thesis which answers the question and is repeated throughout
2. formal, accurate diction (word choice)
3. insightful use of quotations that flow well in the paragraph
On an English 12 exam, FIRST look for literal examples to answer the question (The poem states that the day was "an unexpected gift") but some of you missed that line and misinterpreted the poem. Consequently, you cannot pass the section. Look for repeated words. She repeats murmur and grace. She repeats light. Look for who is speaking and where they are--a mother, at home, in the "dead of winter".
Because a poem is so short, read it several times.
Practice what you have been taught. Start with who, what, where, when, why. If you can answer these questions first, you will be able to understand the poem at the literal level and THEN you can look for other clues such as repeated words, similes, juxtapositions, or irony, etc.
Today: We read three short chapters (only 20 pages) Chapters 10, 11, and 12.
As you read them, post-it note Holden's attitudes toward girls and his experiences with girls.
Next, create a what / so what chart with your best three quotations. YOU MUST HAVE A QUOTE FROM EACH CHAPTER. Add at least 9 points under the so what column.
Finally, turn the chart into a fantastic, insightful thesis statement such as
Holden's attitude toward women reveal that he respects women; however, he is torn between his sexual drives and the way other men treat women as he hates to see women objectified because he does not want to see himself as someone who uses women for his own sexual gratification.
Writing 12: Belfry Tomorrow and Oral Reading: Bring two poems
MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE CONTACTED THE TEACHER TO WHOM YOU WILL PRESENT AND THAT YOU AND YOUR PARTNERS ARE WELL PREPARED. We have all sat through disaster presentations and slept with our eyes open. Don't be THE disaster. Preparation is your ally.
Tomorrow we will prepare.
Due Thursday: The first two pages (edited judiciously) of the story you plan to submit, Monday, Dec. 16th!!
Review your criteria sheet. Know what I'm looking for!!
Belfry Theatre:
Belfry Theatre Trip Tomorrow: Be downstairs in front of the office by 12:05. Find me to check in BEFORE boarding the bus. Do not bring a hat, cell phone or pack into the theatre. They do have a snackbar there so you can buy a cookie or gummies or tea or juice. NO talking during the performance. You may eat lunch on the bus but DO NOT leave a mess. You can leave your belongings on the bus while we are in the theatre.
We will be back by 3:28 to catch your rides home.
You should dress up a little to go to the theatre.
Be on your best SPARTAN behaviour please. Respect our volunteers.
Tomorrow we will prepare.
Due Thursday: The first two pages (edited judiciously) of the story you plan to submit, Monday, Dec. 16th!!
Review your criteria sheet. Know what I'm looking for!!
Belfry Theatre:
Belfry Theatre Trip Tomorrow: Be downstairs in front of the office by 12:05. Find me to check in BEFORE boarding the bus. Do not bring a hat, cell phone or pack into the theatre. They do have a snackbar there so you can buy a cookie or gummies or tea or juice. NO talking during the performance. You may eat lunch on the bus but DO NOT leave a mess. You can leave your belongings on the bus while we are in the theatre.
We will be back by 3:28 to catch your rides home.
You should dress up a little to go to the theatre.
Be on your best SPARTAN behaviour please. Respect our volunteers.
English 10: Love Letter from Juliet to Romeo . . .
If you were absent today, we added two new vocabulary words to our list: oblique and tedious.
Belfry Theatre Trip Tomorrow: Be downstairs in front of the office by 12:05. Find me to check in BEFORE boarding the bus. Do not bring a hat, cell phone or pack into the theatre. They do have a snackbar there so you can buy a cookie or gummies or tea or juice. NO talking during the performance. You may eat lunch on the bus but DO NOT leave a mess. You can leave your belongings on the bus while we are in the theatre.
We will be back by 3:28 to catch your rides home.
You should dress up a little to go to the theatre.
Be on your best SPARTAN behaviour please. Respect our volunteers.
There is no intermission for this play. Please use the restroom before the play begins.
We read Act 4, Scenes 1, 2, and 3 today.
Assignment: Write a love letter from Juliet to Romeo that he would receive if the Friar's potion happened to KILL her!!
This letter needs to proclaim her love for Romeo.
Marks awarded for:
Belfry Theatre Trip Tomorrow: Be downstairs in front of the office by 12:05. Find me to check in BEFORE boarding the bus. Do not bring a hat, cell phone or pack into the theatre. They do have a snackbar there so you can buy a cookie or gummies or tea or juice. NO talking during the performance. You may eat lunch on the bus but DO NOT leave a mess. You can leave your belongings on the bus while we are in the theatre.
We will be back by 3:28 to catch your rides home.
You should dress up a little to go to the theatre.
Be on your best SPARTAN behaviour please. Respect our volunteers.
There is no intermission for this play. Please use the restroom before the play begins.
We read Act 4, Scenes 1, 2, and 3 today.
Assignment: Write a love letter from Juliet to Romeo that he would receive if the Friar's potion happened to KILL her!!
This letter needs to proclaim her love for Romeo.
Marks awarded for:
- insight into Juliet's ideas of love
- Use three quotes from the play (no need to cite). Be sure to integrate these words as Juliet's words in your letter.
- Make it lovey-dovey!! This is Juliet after all.
- Make sure we learn something about love from your letter.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
English 12: Catching up on missed work and . . . .
Learning from Practice:
When an athlete has a bad game, he or she, doesn't simply try to pretend it never happened. They analyze tapes. They hire specific coaches for each task:
putting, driving, short game, mental game etc.
Those who keep making the same mistakes but keep expecting to do well, are the definition of INSANITY!!
Those who look closely at their errors, figure out what skill they need to learn, find the person or the resources and the time to practice that skill, improve.
That is the definition of success. We learn by trying new things.
We learn by putting in effort.
What are you waiting for?
Tonight, look over all of your previous pieces of writing. What do you need to learn? How will you learn it? The exam is two months away.
You have eight weeks. You will have three hours to earn 40% of your mark. If you go into the exam with 64% or less and you fail the exam, you fail the course.
I repeat: YOU FAIL THE COURSE.
You will have to repeat the entire course, which may be the appropriate response. If you have been doing very little in English classes for four years, you will never improve your skills. You won't know what you are reading, what your doctor is telling you, how to help your child with homework, how to create a solution to problems not yet imagined.
THE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS. PICK IT UP. MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
When an athlete has a bad game, he or she, doesn't simply try to pretend it never happened. They analyze tapes. They hire specific coaches for each task:
putting, driving, short game, mental game etc.
Those who keep making the same mistakes but keep expecting to do well, are the definition of INSANITY!!
Those who look closely at their errors, figure out what skill they need to learn, find the person or the resources and the time to practice that skill, improve.
That is the definition of success. We learn by trying new things.
We learn by putting in effort.
What are you waiting for?
Tonight, look over all of your previous pieces of writing. What do you need to learn? How will you learn it? The exam is two months away.
You have eight weeks. You will have three hours to earn 40% of your mark. If you go into the exam with 64% or less and you fail the exam, you fail the course.
I repeat: YOU FAIL THE COURSE.
You will have to repeat the entire course, which may be the appropriate response. If you have been doing very little in English classes for four years, you will never improve your skills. You won't know what you are reading, what your doctor is telling you, how to help your child with homework, how to create a solution to problems not yet imagined.
THE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS. PICK IT UP. MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Writing 12: Richard Wagamese responses due tomorrow . . .
We had a presentation on Bill Stenson's work today and we had time to work on our stories.
Due this Thursday: The first two pages of the story you plan to hand in Dec. 16th. YOU MUST EDIT THESE PAGES SO THAT NOT ONE COMMA IS OUT OF PLACE.
I liked Richard's advice: Say what you mean and mean what you say.
Keep applying all you learned from poetry, plus add in point of view, suspense, detail that has a purpose and dialogue that reveals character or adds rhythm or sets up conflict. End each scene with something worse than what you started with.
For example, the one about the girl coming down to breakfast and sees her mother crying. She stops, ties her shoe and says, Where's my poached egg?
HOOOOO!!
Loving the fiction.
BELFRY THEATRE FRIDAY: MEET OUT FRONT AFTER PERIOD 2. DRESS UP A LITTLE. LEAVE CELLS PHONES IN YOUR BAG ON THE BUS. BRING A LUNCH THAT IS EASY TO EAT ON THE BUS.
Due this Thursday: The first two pages of the story you plan to hand in Dec. 16th. YOU MUST EDIT THESE PAGES SO THAT NOT ONE COMMA IS OUT OF PLACE.
I liked Richard's advice: Say what you mean and mean what you say.
Keep applying all you learned from poetry, plus add in point of view, suspense, detail that has a purpose and dialogue that reveals character or adds rhythm or sets up conflict. End each scene with something worse than what you started with.
For example, the one about the girl coming down to breakfast and sees her mother crying. She stops, ties her shoe and says, Where's my poached egg?
HOOOOO!!
Loving the fiction.
BELFRY THEATRE FRIDAY: MEET OUT FRONT AFTER PERIOD 2. DRESS UP A LITTLE. LEAVE CELLS PHONES IN YOUR BAG ON THE BUS. BRING A LUNCH THAT IS EASY TO EAT ON THE BUS.
English 10: Study your vocabulary . . .
Tomorrow we will read Act 4, Scene 1. If you were absent today, read all of Act 3. We watched part of it on film and made notes. Be sure to get the notes from a friend. We also reviewed words 1 to 46.
Vocab. Test is Monday!! Study the parts of speech. Use the words over and over again in a sentence.
Vocab. Test is Monday!! Study the parts of speech. Use the words over and over again in a sentence.
Monday, November 25, 2013
English 10: Read Act 3, Scenes 3 and 4 . . .
Read slowly and accurately. Stop as often as I stop while we read in class so that you can digest the significance of the speech.
What is Romeo's state in the first scene? How do you know?
Post-it note at least three of your favourite lines to support your opinions.
How does the Friar attempt to console Romeo?
Scene 4: The Marriage to Paris . . . . What? Oh no. Spoiler Alert. Read and enjoy.
In this scene decide why Lord Capulet is consenting to this marriage now since in Act 1 he was adamant that Juliet was too young to marry. Why does he change his mind?
We will be having a quiz on vocabulary words 1 - 50 soon. Are you prepared? Spend a few minutes each night learning the words that seem to escape your memory by writing it in a sentence on your practice quiz page or writing a story using all 50 words. If you write such a story, bring it in for bonus marks!!
What is Romeo's state in the first scene? How do you know?
Post-it note at least three of your favourite lines to support your opinions.
How does the Friar attempt to console Romeo?
Scene 4: The Marriage to Paris . . . . What? Oh no. Spoiler Alert. Read and enjoy.
In this scene decide why Lord Capulet is consenting to this marriage now since in Act 1 he was adamant that Juliet was too young to marry. Why does he change his mind?
We will be having a quiz on vocabulary words 1 - 50 soon. Are you prepared? Spend a few minutes each night learning the words that seem to escape your memory by writing it in a sentence on your practice quiz page or writing a story using all 50 words. If you write such a story, bring it in for bonus marks!!
English 12: Catcher in the Rye Test Chapters 1-8
If you were absent today, you missed the test below. You will need to stay an hour after school to write it. You will have a different set of questions.
You have two choices for the test:
1. Following your knowledge of the literary paragraph and your best written style, and using you knowledge of the first 8 chapters, create a 4 to 5 paragraph composition which proves the thesis below:
Holden's loneliness is completely understandable.
or
2. For each of the quotations below, write a literary paragraph of 150 words to discuss the quotation's tone, symbolic content, and what it reveals about Holden. Be sure to state who is speaking and what is happening when the quotation is said.
1. " ' What'd you do?' I said. 'Give her the time in Ed Banky's car?' My mouth was shaking something awful" (43).
2. "The snow was very good for packing. I didn't throw it at anything, though. I started to throw it. At a car . . .at a hydrant , but that looked too nice and white, too. Finally I didn't throw it at anything" (36).
3. " ' This is a people shooting hat,' I said. ' I shoot people in this hat" (22).
4. " I saw it in the window of this sports store when we got ouf of the subway, just after I noticed I'd los al the goddam foils" (17).
5. " . . . I was sort of thinking of something else while I shot the bull. ...I was thinking about the lagoon in Cdental Park . . . I was wondering if t would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go" (13).
You have two choices for the test:
1. Following your knowledge of the literary paragraph and your best written style, and using you knowledge of the first 8 chapters, create a 4 to 5 paragraph composition which proves the thesis below:
Holden's loneliness is completely understandable.
or
2. For each of the quotations below, write a literary paragraph of 150 words to discuss the quotation's tone, symbolic content, and what it reveals about Holden. Be sure to state who is speaking and what is happening when the quotation is said.
1. " ' What'd you do?' I said. 'Give her the time in Ed Banky's car?' My mouth was shaking something awful" (43).
2. "The snow was very good for packing. I didn't throw it at anything, though. I started to throw it. At a car . . .at a hydrant , but that looked too nice and white, too. Finally I didn't throw it at anything" (36).
3. " ' This is a people shooting hat,' I said. ' I shoot people in this hat" (22).
4. " I saw it in the window of this sports store when we got ouf of the subway, just after I noticed I'd los al the goddam foils" (17).
5. " . . . I was sort of thinking of something else while I shot the bull. ...I was thinking about the lagoon in Cdental Park . . . I was wondering if t would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go" (13).
Friday, November 22, 2013
English 10: Finish reading Act 3, Scene 1 . . .
Read slowly to ensure that you understand what is happening but also read the way you have been taught:
Look for the following:
Write down your favourite quote from the scene and cite it properly.
BE SURE TO READ YOUR USSR BOOK THIS WEEKEND. HAVE YOU FINISHED A NOVEL YET? YOU SHOULD BE HALFWAY THROUGH YOUR SECOND NOVEL. THE SHEETS ARE DUE DEC. 20.
Look for the following:
- shifts in tone
- short versus long passages
- prose versus iambic pentametre
- dramatic changes in action (People dying, getting married, acting on impulse, etc)
- images for love (lightning, fireworks, spiritual, god-like etc)
Write down your favourite quote from the scene and cite it properly.
BE SURE TO READ YOUR USSR BOOK THIS WEEKEND. HAVE YOU FINISHED A NOVEL YET? YOU SHOULD BE HALFWAY THROUGH YOUR SECOND NOVEL. THE SHEETS ARE DUE DEC. 20.
Writing 12: First half of your short story due Thursday . . .
A complete story, following the criteria, proofread, is due Monday, Dec. 16th.
No lates accepted so stay on track this week.
Tuesday: We are in the library to hear Richard Wagamese read from his novel Indian Horse which won last year's Canada Reads competition. It's a beautiful novel. Get yourself a copy and read it.
Thursday: Belfry Theatre. Please meet out front at noon. The bus leaves by 12:05. Please tell your teachers you will be absent on the 28th and do your best to make up the work so that teachers will support future visits to the Belfry. Thanks.
Monday: You will have time to write and also on Wednesday.
USSR: YOU MUST BRING YOUR BOOKS TO CLASS. YOU MUST READ LIKE A WRITER. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AND KEEP ASKING HOW IS SHE OR HE DOING THIS? How does the scene start? Where does it end? How does the writer keep my attention. What length are the sentences? Why? Do they change? Why?
Reading for fifteen minutes during class and a half an hour at home makes you a great writer. Not reading won't produce much more than a superficial plot with a cliched theme and uninteresting characters, right?
I hope you agree.
To encourage more interest in USSR, you will be marked on how promptly you begin, your commitment to read for the entire fifteen minutes, how you talk about the book you are reading, how your writing improves.
No lates accepted so stay on track this week.
Tuesday: We are in the library to hear Richard Wagamese read from his novel Indian Horse which won last year's Canada Reads competition. It's a beautiful novel. Get yourself a copy and read it.
Thursday: Belfry Theatre. Please meet out front at noon. The bus leaves by 12:05. Please tell your teachers you will be absent on the 28th and do your best to make up the work so that teachers will support future visits to the Belfry. Thanks.
Monday: You will have time to write and also on Wednesday.
USSR: YOU MUST BRING YOUR BOOKS TO CLASS. YOU MUST READ LIKE A WRITER. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AND KEEP ASKING HOW IS SHE OR HE DOING THIS? How does the scene start? Where does it end? How does the writer keep my attention. What length are the sentences? Why? Do they change? Why?
Reading for fifteen minutes during class and a half an hour at home makes you a great writer. Not reading won't produce much more than a superficial plot with a cliched theme and uninteresting characters, right?
I hope you agree.
To encourage more interest in USSR, you will be marked on how promptly you begin, your commitment to read for the entire fifteen minutes, how you talk about the book you are reading, how your writing improves.
English 12: Test on the first 8 chapters of Catcher . . .
A few of you are really behind with Ms. Moyes' exam prep.
The following people MUST stay behind Monday after school:
Jonathan
Ben
Helen
Monty
Hayley
Ryan
See Wednesday's post regarding Monday's quiz as you must
arrive with several passages post-it noted.
The following people MUST stay behind Monday after school:
Jonathan
Ben
Helen
Monty
Hayley
Ryan
See Wednesday's post regarding Monday's quiz as you must
arrive with several passages post-it noted.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Writing 12: It's fun to be read to . . .
If you were absent today, you missed three things. Nope, four.
1. USSR
2. Reading the story "So I Guess You Know What I Told Him"
3. Taking notes on the story.
4. I collected the scenes.
Tonight: Take a walk by yourself. Or this afternoon! It's a beautiful day. To write a long story, you need a lot of room in your head to imagine, characters, settings, themes and conflicts.
Enjoy.
We start the story tomorrow.
1. USSR
2. Reading the story "So I Guess You Know What I Told Him"
3. Taking notes on the story.
4. I collected the scenes.
Tonight: Take a walk by yourself. Or this afternoon! It's a beautiful day. To write a long story, you need a lot of room in your head to imagine, characters, settings, themes and conflicts.
Enjoy.
We start the story tomorrow.
English 10: Act 2, Romeo and Juliet
If you were absent, be sure to read Scene 1, the balcony scene. Get the notes from a partner. We read scene 2. Be sure to answer the following questions:
Describe Romeo's relationship with the Friar.
Why does the Friar know so much about herbs and flowers?
Does he agree to marry them? Why?
Read to the end of Act 2 (all three short scenes). Remember that Act 2 is the "rising action" adding more complications (problems) to the original conflicts set in Act 1.
As you read, find the problems which Romeo and Juliet will have to overcome.
Write them down in your notebook in point forma and you can post-it note them in your text.
Describe Romeo's relationship with the Friar.
Why does the Friar know so much about herbs and flowers?
Does he agree to marry them? Why?
Read to the end of Act 2 (all three short scenes). Remember that Act 2 is the "rising action" adding more complications (problems) to the original conflicts set in Act 1.
As you read, find the problems which Romeo and Juliet will have to overcome.
Write them down in your notebook in point forma and you can post-it note them in your text.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
English 12: We did a test today on poetry as exam prep!
Tomorrow: Ms. Moyes will be here to work on Section D of the exam.
We are on a revised schedule tomorrow.
Block 4 starts at 1:21. Please be on time.
Friday: We will be working on the novel so please bring the novel to class.
Monday: Test on the first 8 chapters. Be ready. Read and post-it note.
It will be a test on quotations. You will need to say who is speaking, what was happening and why it is important to theme or character development etc
If you have the exact quote post-it noted in your book before the test begins, you get an extra 10%.
Post-it quotes that reveal Holden's views of the world, the people he likes, the people he dislikes, how he changes, any over reactions, his attitude to love, death, society, etc Look for symbols:
red hunting hat, the ducks, the baseball glove, the suitcase, the nuns, etc
I CAN ONLY ACCEPT LATE WORK FOR WHICH YOU ASKED FOR AN EXTENSION. I COLLECTED THE WAR POEM COMPOSITION TODAY. IF YOU DID NOT HAND IT IN, YOU DO NOT GET THE MARKS.
Thanks to those students who hand in their work on time or ask for extensions well in advance.
You are all working well during class. Good to see as that effort will pay off.
We are on a revised schedule tomorrow.
Block 4 starts at 1:21. Please be on time.
Friday: We will be working on the novel so please bring the novel to class.
Monday: Test on the first 8 chapters. Be ready. Read and post-it note.
It will be a test on quotations. You will need to say who is speaking, what was happening and why it is important to theme or character development etc
If you have the exact quote post-it noted in your book before the test begins, you get an extra 10%.
Post-it quotes that reveal Holden's views of the world, the people he likes, the people he dislikes, how he changes, any over reactions, his attitude to love, death, society, etc Look for symbols:
red hunting hat, the ducks, the baseball glove, the suitcase, the nuns, etc
I CAN ONLY ACCEPT LATE WORK FOR WHICH YOU ASKED FOR AN EXTENSION. I COLLECTED THE WAR POEM COMPOSITION TODAY. IF YOU DID NOT HAND IT IN, YOU DO NOT GET THE MARKS.
Thanks to those students who hand in their work on time or ask for extensions well in advance.
You are all working well during class. Good to see as that effort will pay off.
Writing 12: Your preciously edited scene is due Thursday
See yesterday's blog for the criteria.
Edit it. Get someone else to edit it. Edit it again.
Use the Purdue site to help with punctuation and grammatical rules.
Edit it. Get someone else to edit it. Edit it again.
Use the Purdue site to help with punctuation and grammatical rules.
English 10: Talking about love . . . Interview someone tonight.
Choose a couple you know well--parents, step-parents, grandparents etc.
Ask: What is it like to be in love?
As you listen, write down the key phrases. Do they speak of love in a manner similar to Romeo or to Juliet? To Mercutio? To Paris? To Samson or Gregory?
Is love described as a spiritual bond? A business deal? Lust and sex?
Why is it awkward to talk about love?
What is love?
Be prepared for a lively discussion tomorrow.
Bring good information.
When they answer your first question, ask more questions such as . . .
Why do people fall out of love?
Is love a spell? Did you lose your mind when you fell in love?
What did you have to risk for love?
What part of falling in love was scary?
Next Thursday, Nov. 28th, we will be going to the Belfry Theatre's production of A Tender Thing. You can google the play title or the Belfry for more information.
If you haven't paid yet, now is the time.
Thanks.
Ask: What is it like to be in love?
As you listen, write down the key phrases. Do they speak of love in a manner similar to Romeo or to Juliet? To Mercutio? To Paris? To Samson or Gregory?
Is love described as a spiritual bond? A business deal? Lust and sex?
Why is it awkward to talk about love?
What is love?
Be prepared for a lively discussion tomorrow.
Bring good information.
When they answer your first question, ask more questions such as . . .
Why do people fall out of love?
Is love a spell? Did you lose your mind when you fell in love?
What did you have to risk for love?
What part of falling in love was scary?
Next Thursday, Nov. 28th, we will be going to the Belfry Theatre's production of A Tender Thing. You can google the play title or the Belfry for more information.
If you haven't paid yet, now is the time.
Thanks.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
English 12: Complete the composition on the two war poems
We read 15 pages of Catcher in the Rye so please read to page 45 for tomorrow.
We spent the remainder of the class working on our compositions so I am expecting them to be edited tonight and handed in tomorrow.
I collected the poetry anthologies today.
We spent the remainder of the class working on our compositions so I am expecting them to be edited tonight and handed in tomorrow.
I collected the poetry anthologies today.
Writing 12: One scene due Thursday
Criteria for the scene:
Ten Punctuation Tips
Great Site for Writers
Sentence Types: Looking for Variety, Rhythm, Class?
Enjoy!!
If you were absent today, ask me for a copy of the story, "Orientation" and ask Brittany or Braeden about Bill Gaston and their assignment.
- Maximum length one page to 1 1/2
- Include some dialogue
- Start with a conflict
- End with a conflict that is more intense than the first
- Use descriptive details as needed to reveal the character, the tension between them, to foreshadow etc (As we have practiced)
- Use sentence variety--sound devices, short and long sentences, short and long paragraphs, complex, simple, compound-complex sentences. Think of the rhythm of your prose. Read a passage aloud tonight and hear the rhythm. Is it hip hop or a walze? Is it monotonous or sea-swept?
- SUBMIT WORK THAT HAS BEEN CAREFULLY EDITED. I will return work that has grammatical, punctuation or spelling errors. If you are a writer, learn the rules. I'll give you a handout regarding punctuating speech.
Ten Punctuation Tips
Great Site for Writers
Sentence Types: Looking for Variety, Rhythm, Class?
Enjoy!!
If you were absent today, ask me for a copy of the story, "Orientation" and ask Brittany or Braeden about Bill Gaston and their assignment.
IF YOU HAVE NOT YET PAID FOR OUR BELFRY TRIP, YOU CAN PAY NOW.
THANKS.
English 10: Read Act 1, Scene 5
Copy down the key images that Romeo uses when he describes his first impressions of Juliet.
Notice that their first conversation is in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Why might that be important?
Contrast this new view of love with the views of love we have seen in the play so far.
Keep reading your USSR books.
For an A, you need three book summaries. Books read during November and December. You may use To Kill a Mockingbird as one of your entries but you must have at least one more.
If you were absent today, read and take notes on scenes 3, 4, and 5.
Act 2 begins with Romeo separating himself from his friends.
Why is this action important to the change in his character?
A few students still need to bring in their money for our field trip.
Please do so tomorrow. Thanks.
Notice that their first conversation is in the form of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Why might that be important?
Contrast this new view of love with the views of love we have seen in the play so far.
Keep reading your USSR books.
For an A, you need three book summaries. Books read during November and December. You may use To Kill a Mockingbird as one of your entries but you must have at least one more.
If you were absent today, read and take notes on scenes 3, 4, and 5.
Act 2 begins with Romeo separating himself from his friends.
Why is this action important to the change in his character?
A few students still need to bring in their money for our field trip.
Please do so tomorrow. Thanks.
Monday, November 18, 2013
English 12: Last day for overdue work--Tuesday . . . . Poetry Anthology due tomorro
I passed around a new set of marks today so be sure to check it.
If you are missing your memoir, your Crozier and/or Owen poem, you have twenty-four hours to get them in!
Today, we read two poems, page 39 and 40, one by Prevert and one by Layton.
Read and make notes on the poems (if you were away today). What does each one say about war?
Composition: Due Wed. In a 400 to 600 word composition, which of the two poems is the most effective in promoting its anti-war theme?Why?
Always start with a similarity and then move to your most profound difference.
Example:
Both the Prevert poem and the Owen poem deomonstrate a clear repugnance of war; however, the empathic depiction of Owen's soldiers and his use of apostrophe exclaim to the heavens that war must end.
Notice that a thesis must offer an opinion!!
It must answer the question.
This synthesis section of the exam is worth 30%. Think of it as similar to any kind of analysis that we do except that for this section, you have two pieces of writing in which to find examples, rather than one.
Create a chart. Compare the poems in terms of imagery, literary devices, tone, theme etc.
Be sure to have an introduction and a conclusion. Each of these can be one to three sentences.
Be sure to have at least two body paragraphs. You may have as many body paragraphs as you wish.
If you are missing your memoir, your Crozier and/or Owen poem, you have twenty-four hours to get them in!
Today, we read two poems, page 39 and 40, one by Prevert and one by Layton.
Read and make notes on the poems (if you were away today). What does each one say about war?
Composition: Due Wed. In a 400 to 600 word composition, which of the two poems is the most effective in promoting its anti-war theme?Why?
Always start with a similarity and then move to your most profound difference.
Example:
Both the Prevert poem and the Owen poem deomonstrate a clear repugnance of war; however, the empathic depiction of Owen's soldiers and his use of apostrophe exclaim to the heavens that war must end.
Notice that a thesis must offer an opinion!!
It must answer the question.
This synthesis section of the exam is worth 30%. Think of it as similar to any kind of analysis that we do except that for this section, you have two pieces of writing in which to find examples, rather than one.
Create a chart. Compare the poems in terms of imagery, literary devices, tone, theme etc.
Be sure to have an introduction and a conclusion. Each of these can be one to three sentences.
Be sure to have at least two body paragraphs. You may have as many body paragraphs as you wish.
The key here is to demonstrate that you have read and understood the poems (in this case) and that you can discuss them with style: strong verbs, sentence variety, insight, logical development and with very few or no errors.
Writing 12: Well, that was something . . .
You are sooo wonderful. I love that you appreciate literature. I can see it in your eyes and I can see it in your smiles.
If you were absent today, you must find a copy of Naming the Baby and read the story "The Girls". It is a story written by a student so it offers us a sample on which we can model our stories.
Your job before the Xmas holidays is to submit a story similar in style and length to the ones studied during class.
I'm looking for the same attention to detail that you mastered during the poetry unit, plus attention to point of view, character development and conflict.
You must keep that glass full without spilling it, says author Audrey Thomas. If you have not yet read Audrey's books, ask me for a recommendation. She is a contemporary of Alice Munro and she lives in Victoria and on Galiano Island.
You must keep that tension.
You must use detail to reveal, forshadow. Patrick Lane calls it detail as motive.
Tonight: Write one scene for a story. It could be an intor, an ending or a flashback. Use the stories we have studied, plus your collection of stories as your guides.
Know what a scene is. Know what to include.
Know your point of view choice and your verb tense and you are off.
Write for half an hour. Bring in your creation to class tomorrow to read to a partner.
If you were absent today, you must find a copy of Naming the Baby and read the story "The Girls". It is a story written by a student so it offers us a sample on which we can model our stories.
Your job before the Xmas holidays is to submit a story similar in style and length to the ones studied during class.
I'm looking for the same attention to detail that you mastered during the poetry unit, plus attention to point of view, character development and conflict.
You must keep that glass full without spilling it, says author Audrey Thomas. If you have not yet read Audrey's books, ask me for a recommendation. She is a contemporary of Alice Munro and she lives in Victoria and on Galiano Island.
You must keep that tension.
You must use detail to reveal, forshadow. Patrick Lane calls it detail as motive.
Tonight: Write one scene for a story. It could be an intor, an ending or a flashback. Use the stories we have studied, plus your collection of stories as your guides.
Know what a scene is. Know what to include.
Know your point of view choice and your verb tense and you are off.
Write for half an hour. Bring in your creation to class tomorrow to read to a partner.
English 10: Read Act 1, Scene 3
First thing to do tonight is to visit your favourite book website such as goodreads.com or shelfari or amazon.ca or 49thshelf etc
to read more about your top three books which you chose from the list that Antonia and Abby prepared for you.
Next.
Write down the titles and authors and write a short paragraph to explain why you are looking forward to each book. Choose your top three.
Once that is complete, read scene 3. A short scene between Juliet, the nurse and Lady Capulet.
We haven't yet seen Juliet on stage and count the number of lines she gets. Why does Shakespeare do so? What do we learn about her in this scene?
Compare and contrast the nurse to her mother. Who is closer to Juliet, why?
The nurse is lower class, how can you tell?
Who speaks in iambic pentametre in this scene? Who does not?
If you find it hard to read, google No Fear Shakespeare and it will translate it for you. You can also read the side notes on the left and the footnotes on the right side.
Enjoy. It's funny. We'll watch it tomorrow but if you have read it you will be prepared for our SURPRISE quiz. OOps. Did I say that outloud?
Darn.
to read more about your top three books which you chose from the list that Antonia and Abby prepared for you.
Next.
Write down the titles and authors and write a short paragraph to explain why you are looking forward to each book. Choose your top three.
Once that is complete, read scene 3. A short scene between Juliet, the nurse and Lady Capulet.
We haven't yet seen Juliet on stage and count the number of lines she gets. Why does Shakespeare do so? What do we learn about her in this scene?
Compare and contrast the nurse to her mother. Who is closer to Juliet, why?
The nurse is lower class, how can you tell?
Who speaks in iambic pentametre in this scene? Who does not?
If you find it hard to read, google No Fear Shakespeare and it will translate it for you. You can also read the side notes on the left and the footnotes on the right side.
Enjoy. It's funny. We'll watch it tomorrow but if you have read it you will be prepared for our SURPRISE quiz. OOps. Did I say that outloud?
Darn.
Friday, November 15, 2013
English 12: Miss Moyes' paragraph is due Monday.
English 12: the dialogue paragraph and/or 150 to 200 word essay titled " Older generations have a positive effect on younger ones" is due Monday, Nov. 18th. Late assignments and missing work will not be accepted after this date. Please hand in to Mrs. Stenson.
Poetry anthology is due Tuesday, November 19th.
Poetry anthology is due Tuesday, November 19th.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
English 12: Check with Ms. Moyes. Are you missing anything?
Today: English 12 exam prep and report card pick up.
Tomorrow: USSR (Read at least 30 pages for Monday).
Computer Lab: Time to get that anthology completed. If you were absent yesterday, be SURE to get the notes on MLA style bibliography. It is worth 25% of the project.
Anthology is due Tuesday.
Tomorrow: USSR (Read at least 30 pages for Monday).
Computer Lab: Time to get that anthology completed. If you were absent yesterday, be SURE to get the notes on MLA style bibliography. It is worth 25% of the project.
Anthology is due Tuesday.
Writing 12: Read a story from your new book!
Think about all the things we learned today: sound, scene writing, motif usage, verb tense, showing and not telling, comparing two things in a subtle way in the story, how to reveal character through action.
Great.
You'll love tomorrow's class. Please treat Ms. Moyes respectfully. You will be reading a story by Bill Gaston.
Great.
You'll love tomorrow's class. Please treat Ms. Moyes respectfully. You will be reading a story by Bill Gaston.
English 10: Read ACT 1, SC 1
Write a para. describing what you think of Romeo so far. Why do you think he is introduced to us in this manner? Why does he use so many oxymorons? Who is Rosaline?
AHHH, so muchest fun.
Use your literary must-haves list and three quotes and you can refer to earlier parts in the scene or to the prologue to add insight to your description. 250 words.
AHHH, so muchest fun.
Use your literary must-haves list and three quotes and you can refer to earlier parts in the scene or to the prologue to add insight to your description. 250 words.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
English 10: Act 1, Scene 1: Tone . . .
So, you sit down in the theatre awaiting your lovely romantic drama called Romeo and Juliet and suddenly you have two Capulets on stage talking about very macho things.
Why? ? ?
Read to line 100 of the scene. Write a stellar, literary paragraph that uses at least three good examples from the scene and cite them properly to answer the question below:
Write a paragraph explaining the tone of the dramatic opening. Attempt to predict why (and you can include the Prologue in your understanding) Shakespeare starts the play in this manner.
Also:
Review
Why? ? ?
Read to line 100 of the scene. Write a stellar, literary paragraph that uses at least three good examples from the scene and cite them properly to answer the question below:
Write a paragraph explaining the tone of the dramatic opening. Attempt to predict why (and you can include the Prologue in your understanding) Shakespeare starts the play in this manner.
Also:
Review
- Renaissance era
- the sonnet
- iambic pentametre
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
English 12: Read the Crozier poem on page 7 and complete the paragraph
We had a test on 12 literary terms used in Owen's poem. Be sure you know the terms we have accomplished so far.
Today, we read "The Child Who Walks Backwards". We added several new terms to our list: enjambement, juxtaposition, personification, metaphor, and oxymoron.
Borrow the notes from a friend as we covered three boards full.
Question: In a formal, literary paragraph of 250 to 350 words, demonstrate how Crozier uses poetic devices (choose three) to reveal her attitude toward child abuse.
Be sure to state what the attitude toward child abuse is in your thesis.
Focus on correcting whatever error was most dominant in your "Dulce et Decorum Est" paragraph.
Homework: Using your textbook only, find all of the poems needed for your anthology project.
Today, we read "The Child Who Walks Backwards". We added several new terms to our list: enjambement, juxtaposition, personification, metaphor, and oxymoron.
Borrow the notes from a friend as we covered three boards full.
Question: In a formal, literary paragraph of 250 to 350 words, demonstrate how Crozier uses poetic devices (choose three) to reveal her attitude toward child abuse.
Be sure to state what the attitude toward child abuse is in your thesis.
Focus on correcting whatever error was most dominant in your "Dulce et Decorum Est" paragraph.
Homework: Using your textbook only, find all of the poems needed for your anthology project.
Writing 12: Introduction to Fiction
Due Thursday:
Turn yesterday's scene with the crying mother / daughter or son into the following
One copy that uses FIRST PERSON AND PRESENT TENSE
Second copy uses SECOND PERSON AND PAST TENST
Third copy uses THIRD PERSON (HE OR SHE) AND FUTURE TENSE
Try not to change the details too much. Just change the verb tenses and the speaker.
Today, we wrote the scene through action, thought, dialogue and description. Our focus for the description was to reveal.
Know what it is you want to SHOW
Power of Action
We rarely say what we think in Canada! Your characters will reflect this culture. If they do not, ensure that their motivation is clear and let us know that they are acting in an extraordinary manner and ensure there are consequences!!
Three pages due tomorrow.
Turn yesterday's scene with the crying mother / daughter or son into the following
One copy that uses FIRST PERSON AND PRESENT TENSE
Second copy uses SECOND PERSON AND PAST TENST
Third copy uses THIRD PERSON (HE OR SHE) AND FUTURE TENSE
Try not to change the details too much. Just change the verb tenses and the speaker.
Today, we wrote the scene through action, thought, dialogue and description. Our focus for the description was to reveal.
Know what it is you want to SHOW
- a character's state of mind
- relationships
- secrets
- tensions
- adding a motif
- flashbacks
Power of Action
- relays relationships
- keeps the reader involved
- makes the characters real
- use it sparingly
- tells the reader something they need to know (it's efficient)
- BE CAREFUL HERE. YOU CAN'T TELL THE READER SOMETHING THE CHARACTER ALREADY KNOWS. For example, you don't wake up in the morning and say, I'm 17. I live in a bungalow. I go to Claremont. People would think you were demented! So, don't let your characters appear demented either.
We rarely say what we think in Canada! Your characters will reflect this culture. If they do not, ensure that their motivation is clear and let us know that they are acting in an extraordinary manner and ensure there are consequences!!
- reveals the character (grammatically incorrect, fragments, one-word answers, etc, not answering what has been asked)
- shows that the actions do not necessarily jive with the actions or thoughts (shows betrayal or shallowness)
Three pages due tomorrow.
English 10: Introduction to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
For each category below, brainstorm everything you already know:
1. William Shakespeare
1. William Shakespeare
- married in 1557
- lived in a town called Stratford in England and then he moved to London
- the most well known writer in the English language
- wrote poems, comedies, tragedies, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello
- both characters kill themselves but before they die, they must learn something about themselves
- the story is set in Italy in a town called Verona
- Romeo and Juliet's families are in a feud so they cannot be involved
- They fall in love
- Similarities between love and hate (both obsessions, both are powerful emotions, both consume energy, can love turn to hate?/ fond of hate,
- a re-birth of culture (art, science, inventions, literature, architecture, religion)
- a time of great change
- Queen Elizabeth -- she became queen at 25, she never married,
- it's a poem with a lot of RULES
- has to be 14 lines long
- it has to have a specific rhyme scheme
- idealize the woman (she was beautiful, perfect, the man longed for her but could never have her)
- written in iambic pentametre ( a very specific form of rhythm)
- iambic is an adj: iamb is two syllables and the second syllable is stressed (when you have two syllables, it's called a FOOT)
- pentametre (five feet) 5 X 2 (feet)
Friday, November 8, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
English 10: Essay, Quote Log, Peer Edited Draft all due Tues. Nov. 12th
Use all the planning sheets to create a fantastic good copy with a cover page!!
Do not simply print it out and hand it, why?
Too many errors get through from screen editing. Print, edit. Edit on screen.
Print a good copy. Edit again.
Hand in the good copy with title page, the quotation log (follow the criteria) and the peer edited draft.
Can't wait to read them!!
Also: USSR for November. We have 23 days!! You must read at least two books for an A this month and one book for a B.
Read to page 30 for Tuesday. More if you can!
Do not simply print it out and hand it, why?
Too many errors get through from screen editing. Print, edit. Edit on screen.
Print a good copy. Edit again.
Hand in the good copy with title page, the quotation log (follow the criteria) and the peer edited draft.
Can't wait to read them!!
Also: USSR for November. We have 23 days!! You must read at least two books for an A this month and one book for a B.
Read to page 30 for Tuesday. More if you can!
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