Writing 12 Friday, Dec. 3

Excellent work today. These stories will be amazing. I'm looking forward to reading them.

Literary Event: It's a Wonderful Life is now playing at the Ridge Theatre and Nolan and Hanna are in it! Go to see it. Get your response form in the next day. It plays tonight and Sat. and next Wed. to Sat. nights.

Good copy, double spaced, following the criteria is due Monday.
Thursday: Bill Gaston
Friday: Reading in the library If you haven't read yet, you are reading Friday.

Monday we start micro-fiction: postcards, prose poems and monologues.
It's going to be a great and busy two weeks.

English 9, Thurs. Dec. 2

Literacy Project Presentations  Wed. Dec. 15. See your group members for all of the criteria for the presentation as we wrote them on the board today and put them in our agenda books. I'm looking forward to hearing of your adventures in literacy.

I checked the homework. Show me that you have read chapter 13 and completed a journal entry.
We took notes on chapter 13. Be sure to copy them down from a friend.

Some students worked with their literacy project group members while other students used the time to get ahead on the reading homework. Please read and post-it note chapters 14, 15, and 16 tonight.

Always review your vocabulary when you get a chance.
I also sent around the updated marks list. Ask me to see your marks when you return.

English 11 E, Thurs. Dec. 2

Today is the penultimate class for working on your exciting novel projects. Yesterday, the room buzzed with action and I expect the same will occur today.

All projects due Tuesday. Put the contract on top with the name of each assignment filled in.

Monday: we start personal essays and opinion pieces. It's really fun!! You'll be a published author before you know it.

Writing 12, Thurs. Dec. 2

Bill Gaston will be coming next Thursday to read to us!
Next week the focus is on micro-fiction: the postcard, the prose poem, the monologue.

Good copy of your story due Monday. Please follow the criteria sheet to avoid disappointment. Also, please ensure all dialogue is punctuated properly and paragraphs are indented correctly.
Review the sheets you have on good dialogue tips and how to punctuate.

The key here is a story that works. It makes us feel, think, ponder about something that is important to the writer. It avoids sentimentalism, Hollywood and cliched language.

Attention is paid to imagery and sentence variety.

You vary your paragraph length. You ensure there are several scenes and the story is light on exposition. No room for dull journal entries here.

Today, we workshopped the stories. The following students will need to have their story workshopped before I accept it on Monday: Sara, Mitch, Emily, Eryn, Nolan, Hanna, Max and Nicole. Thank you. There will be consequences for late work (as you know).

English 9, Wed. Dec 1

We added two more words to our vocabulary list. We also did two quizzes on chapters 8, 9, 10 and 11. We read chapter 12 aloud. Chapter 13 is for homework. Keep post-it noting key passages.

At home tonight, add a journal entry. Be sure to follow the criteria.

English 11 E, Wed. Dec. 1

Excellent work on the novel projects today. Projects due Tuesday.
Keep reading your USSR books, too.

Writing 12, Wed. Dec. 1

Thanks to Adrian, Dawn and Alisa for their presentation on the fiction of Patick Lane. If you were away today, ask me to loan you one or two of his stories I have photocopied. His fiction is filled with imagery.

Tomorrow is workshop day. Please arrive with the requisite number of stories (double spaced) ready to go. No time to print during class.

Good copy is due Monday.

Please return you library books from Nov. and sign out new ones for Dec.