If you were absent today, plan to spend Thursday, April 12 at lunch writing today's paragraph. It is great practice for your test. Check SDS. It's the second Friday after spring break.
USSR-Spring break is a wonderful opportunity to get books read. Just be sure to jot down the titles so you can fill in the sheets and the SMUS reads forms when you return.
A great place to store all the books you have read is on an electronic bookshelf. Checkout, Shelfari.com and open an account and store all your books there. You can show me the list at the end of the year!
Great work so far. Your literary paragraph writing is getting soooooooooooo good. Also, your ability to infer, cite, and synthesize. Fantastic.
Have a great break.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
English 10 A
Great readings today during our poetry cafe! Those who were absent today, be prepared to read your poems aloud on the first or second day back after the break.
Be sure to get as many books read this spring break as possible as reading is the best prep for your provinical ten exam and it never feels like work if you find a book you love.
After the break, we'll send your poems out to a BC contest.
If you would like to try two American magazines, you will need to send them before April 15.
You can do so from home as they are both electronic entries: google, Aerie International and follow their submission guidelines. Next, google Polyphony HS and submit.
I can book computer lab time when you return but if you get it done sooner, great.
Have a restful break.
Be sure to get as many books read this spring break as possible as reading is the best prep for your provinical ten exam and it never feels like work if you find a book you love.
After the break, we'll send your poems out to a BC contest.
If you would like to try two American magazines, you will need to send them before April 15.
You can do so from home as they are both electronic entries: google, Aerie International and follow their submission guidelines. Next, google Polyphony HS and submit.
I can book computer lab time when you return but if you get it done sooner, great.
Have a restful break.
Lit 12
We sent our poems to Polyphony HS, BCTELA and Aerie International. If you were absent today, please google Polyphony and Aerie submissions and submit. The deadline is April 15!!
You can give me your BCTELA entry when you return.
Take your novels home with you. Pick a theme (check Sparknotes for ideas). Post it note key passages which reflect that theme. Return with the novel all post-it noted. Thank you.
You can give me your BCTELA entry when you return.
Take your novels home with you. Pick a theme (check Sparknotes for ideas). Post it note key passages which reflect that theme. Return with the novel all post-it noted. Thank you.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Lit 12
Today: Unit 2 test, plus I collected the good copy and draft of the Lear essay and the quote log.
Thursday: Hand in your Lear notes. No need to type them but organize them with headings and sub-headings by act and scene. Marks awarded for insight and completeness.
Thursday: Bring the edited copies of the poems you wrote when the Writing 12 students were here.
Take your name off of the poems as the BCTELA contest is judged blindly. I'll have you fill in a cover sheet so bring your address, city, postal code, phone number and email address.
Also, have the two poems on your email as we'll be going to the computer lab during the second half of the class to send them off to magazines in the States. You will need an electronic copy of a picture of yourself for one of the magazines. You will also need a bio. 1 to 2 sentences about yourself.
Finally: If you wish to enter The Claremont Review contest, bring 2 hard copies of the poems (no name on the poems) and a cheque or cash ($20.00) made out to The Claremont Review. (I can also charge your account). The money supports student writing. You get a subscription for your fee and a chance to win 1,000 in prizes!! Many SMUS students have won in the past.
Or . . . . If you would like to submit to The Claremont Review (no contest $) visit www.theclaremontreview.ca and read their submission guidelines. You can hand me the poems, the letter, the SASE, Thursday (or when you get back if you are away Thursday) and I'll put it all into an envelope and mail it for you.
Lots to do on Thursday. Please be prompt and organized.
If you are away Thursday, you can do the BCTELA when you return and your Lear notes. You can do the two American magazines from home though.
Google Aerie International and hit submit.
Google Polyphony HS and hit submit.
Send in your poems.
Good luck.
You may also submit to The Claremont Review but you will have missed the contest deadline. Submitting means you could be published in the fall issue. It pays $10.00 per page and $50.00 for cover art.
Independent Novel:
Make sure that you take your novel home with you (especially if you want to get ahead). We'll be reading a chapter a night (sometimes more) when you return so if you can get ahead of the game, yay!
You'll be writing an essay on your novel. You may want to visit spark notes before you start to see what the key themes, motifs, and characters are. You can choose a topic and post-it key quotes as you read. You will be discussing your novel in class with your peers, creating a quotation log and then writing an in-class essay. You'll be able to bring in your introduction (and have me edit the intro) and you may bring in your key quotations, but that is all.
Deadline: May 30 or 31 (depending on when we have Lit).
Thursday: Hand in your Lear notes. No need to type them but organize them with headings and sub-headings by act and scene. Marks awarded for insight and completeness.
Thursday: Bring the edited copies of the poems you wrote when the Writing 12 students were here.
Take your name off of the poems as the BCTELA contest is judged blindly. I'll have you fill in a cover sheet so bring your address, city, postal code, phone number and email address.
Also, have the two poems on your email as we'll be going to the computer lab during the second half of the class to send them off to magazines in the States. You will need an electronic copy of a picture of yourself for one of the magazines. You will also need a bio. 1 to 2 sentences about yourself.
Finally: If you wish to enter The Claremont Review contest, bring 2 hard copies of the poems (no name on the poems) and a cheque or cash ($20.00) made out to The Claremont Review. (I can also charge your account). The money supports student writing. You get a subscription for your fee and a chance to win 1,000 in prizes!! Many SMUS students have won in the past.
Or . . . . If you would like to submit to The Claremont Review (no contest $) visit www.theclaremontreview.ca and read their submission guidelines. You can hand me the poems, the letter, the SASE, Thursday (or when you get back if you are away Thursday) and I'll put it all into an envelope and mail it for you.
Lots to do on Thursday. Please be prompt and organized.
If you are away Thursday, you can do the BCTELA when you return and your Lear notes. You can do the two American magazines from home though.
Google Aerie International and hit submit.
Google Polyphony HS and hit submit.
Send in your poems.
Good luck.
You may also submit to The Claremont Review but you will have missed the contest deadline. Submitting means you could be published in the fall issue. It pays $10.00 per page and $50.00 for cover art.
Independent Novel:
Make sure that you take your novel home with you (especially if you want to get ahead). We'll be reading a chapter a night (sometimes more) when you return so if you can get ahead of the game, yay!
You'll be writing an essay on your novel. You may want to visit spark notes before you start to see what the key themes, motifs, and characters are. You can choose a topic and post-it key quotes as you read. You will be discussing your novel in class with your peers, creating a quotation log and then writing an in-class essay. You'll be able to bring in your introduction (and have me edit the intro) and you may bring in your key quotations, but that is all.
Deadline: May 30 or 31 (depending on when we have Lit).
English 9
Excellent work today!!
For those of you who were absent today, please contact your homework buddy for more detailed explanations and/or see me at lunch Wednesday.
Also, anyone who wants extra help with paragraph writing, see me at lunch Wednesday. There may be treats!
Today: USSR, finished reading "The Veldt". Worked with a partner to create a what/so what chart on the following: Find the three best passages to describe the Hadley family. Students worked together with a partner to elaborate and to add insight. You need three passages and 9 insights all together.
Next, I passed out two sample student paragraphs. We read them and created a list of the qualities of good literary writing. We noticed attributes such as insight, diction, transitions, strong verbs and superb quote integration. Ask me for the handout. Use these paragraphs as models for future paragraph review.
Next, I returned the Penny in the Dust paragraphs which you submitted on Friday.
If you would like to improve your mark, re-write the paragraph. Attach the new copy to the previous copy. Talk to your editor if they missed several key errors.
Homework: Review the three stories we have studied. Choose one that you like the best.
Thursday: Timed paragraph writing. I will give you three questions. One on each story. Choose one question and write a paragraph. You will need to work from memory here. How well do you know the literary must-haves? How well can you write under a time constraint.
Marks awarded for style, content, and format. Make sure that you know what all three words mean.
Review your notes, your drafts, your comments and your goals for literary writing.
Good luck.
The short story test for this unit is in SDS. It will be the second Friday back after spring break, April 20. You will be reading a short short story and writing a paragraph during class.
For those of you who were absent today, please contact your homework buddy for more detailed explanations and/or see me at lunch Wednesday.
Also, anyone who wants extra help with paragraph writing, see me at lunch Wednesday. There may be treats!
Today: USSR, finished reading "The Veldt". Worked with a partner to create a what/so what chart on the following: Find the three best passages to describe the Hadley family. Students worked together with a partner to elaborate and to add insight. You need three passages and 9 insights all together.
Next, I passed out two sample student paragraphs. We read them and created a list of the qualities of good literary writing. We noticed attributes such as insight, diction, transitions, strong verbs and superb quote integration. Ask me for the handout. Use these paragraphs as models for future paragraph review.
Next, I returned the Penny in the Dust paragraphs which you submitted on Friday.
If you would like to improve your mark, re-write the paragraph. Attach the new copy to the previous copy. Talk to your editor if they missed several key errors.
Homework: Review the three stories we have studied. Choose one that you like the best.
Thursday: Timed paragraph writing. I will give you three questions. One on each story. Choose one question and write a paragraph. You will need to work from memory here. How well do you know the literary must-haves? How well can you write under a time constraint.
Marks awarded for style, content, and format. Make sure that you know what all three words mean.
Review your notes, your drafts, your comments and your goals for literary writing.
Good luck.
The short story test for this unit is in SDS. It will be the second Friday back after spring break, April 20. You will be reading a short short story and writing a paragraph during class.
English 10 A
Thursday: Remember to bring your goodies for our poetry cafe.
Choose 2 to 3 poems from your anthology to read to the class.
Hand in your portfolio after your reading. Include at least 4 good copies and all your drafts so I can
give you a mark for the finished product as well as for your creative process.
Cover page: Give it a title. No need to decorate it.
Example:
Singing in the Rain
Poems by Leona Gom
If you forgot to staple your "How has poetry affected me?" response to your test, please email it to me today.
See you all Thursday.
Choose 2 to 3 poems from your anthology to read to the class.
Hand in your portfolio after your reading. Include at least 4 good copies and all your drafts so I can
give you a mark for the finished product as well as for your creative process.
Cover page: Give it a title. No need to decorate it.
Example:
Singing in the Rain
Poems by Leona Gom
If you forgot to staple your "How has poetry affected me?" response to your test, please email it to me today.
See you all Thursday.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Writing 12
Tuesday: Writers' Workshop: Bring the stories that you edited to class. Be ready to say what you discovered. Be prepared to discuss what is working and why and what is not working and why. Be sure to have your fiction criteria sheet handy so that you are not suggesting something is great that doesn't match our criteria, such as science fiction or romance writing.
Wednesday: Terence Young responses
Final entries due for The Claremont Review contest
Check to make sure that you have entered your poems on the Aerie International site and on the Polyphony HS site.
I need all the evaluation forms from your readings to English 9-11 classes by Thursday.
I need responses from Liam, Gabe, Jackie,
PS: If you feel your story is "ready" (and compared to the kinds of stories we receive your stories even at this early stage are probably pretty good) you may enter your story on Wed March 14. Entering now won't interfere with June submissions or next year's contest.
All you need to do is print off
a good, double spaced copy, and fill in a new contest entry form and attach it with a paperclip and hand it to me.
Spring break: Finish reading the novel. Choose an author from the list below, sign out his/her books, and search on-line, read, read, read. Find a partner and we'll start presenting when you return. You may have to ask Mrs. Tweedie to order in the book you need (so do so this week) or check out the local library here or at home.
Raymond Carver
Terence Young
Patricia Young
Bill Gaston
John Gould
M.A.C. Farrant
Alice Munro
Margaret Atwood
Richard Ford
Tobias Wolff
Leon Rooke
Bill Stenson
James Marshall
Eudora Welty
Timothy Findley
W.P.Kinsella
W.D. Valgardson
Jane Urquhart
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Sinclair Ross
Zsuzsi Gartner
Steven Galloway
Lorna Jackson
Sandra Birdsell
Wednesday: Terence Young responses
Final entries due for The Claremont Review contest
Check to make sure that you have entered your poems on the Aerie International site and on the Polyphony HS site.
I need all the evaluation forms from your readings to English 9-11 classes by Thursday.
I need responses from Liam, Gabe, Jackie,
PS: If you feel your story is "ready" (and compared to the kinds of stories we receive your stories even at this early stage are probably pretty good) you may enter your story on Wed March 14. Entering now won't interfere with June submissions or next year's contest.
All you need to do is print off
a good, double spaced copy, and fill in a new contest entry form and attach it with a paperclip and hand it to me.
Spring break: Finish reading the novel. Choose an author from the list below, sign out his/her books, and search on-line, read, read, read. Find a partner and we'll start presenting when you return. You may have to ask Mrs. Tweedie to order in the book you need (so do so this week) or check out the local library here or at home.
Raymond Carver
Terence Young
Patricia Young
Bill Gaston
John Gould
M.A.C. Farrant
Alice Munro
Margaret Atwood
Richard Ford
Tobias Wolff
Leon Rooke
Bill Stenson
James Marshall
Eudora Welty
Timothy Findley
W.P.Kinsella
W.D. Valgardson
Jane Urquhart
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Sinclair Ross
Zsuzsi Gartner
Steven Galloway
Lorna Jackson
Sandra Birdsell
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