If you were absent Friday, you missed an important test on the novel.
Today: We will review and practice for section D.
Tonight: Write an original composition which uses unique detail to focus on ONE angle or ONE emotion throughout the piece. Marks awarded for engagement, (keep it interesting), mature style (know your audience) style (sentence variety, in medias res, showing and not telling, similes, symbols, metaphors, etc).
Choose one of the prompts below: (Your angle does not have to agree with the prompt).
1. Role models influence our lives.
2. Certain events change our impressions of life.
3. Experiences shape relationships.
4. Our views of the past change as we mature.
5. Challenging circumstances lead to positive actions.
Tomorrow: We will write a synthesis essay. Bring the sample synthesis essays that I handed out last week when we were reviewing the mock provincial.
Wed: Multiple choice practice. Let's find out how distractors actually work.
Thurs: one more poetry practice, literary term and vocabulary review.
YOUR FINAL EXAM IS MONDAY AT 9 A.M. IN THE GYM. DO NOT BE LATE. BRING TWO PENCILS AND TWO PENS. YOU WILL DO WELL IF YOU PREPARE. Focus this week. Focus on the exam. It's worth 40% of your hard-earned mark. Aim to score highly.
