Lit 12

We reviewed terms and author/titles today. Looks like the class needs to review the authors and titles. Wednesday, we'll have a quiz on the Paradise Lost vocabulary. You can get the list from the previous blog or it is on the board in our room. We'll finish off Paradise Lost tomorrow, which means we have just two more works and we'll be finished the Renaissance so prepare for a test on unit 2 in January. We'll use Wednesday and Friday classes to review for your Dec. 13th exam.

Study daily as there is simply too much content to leave it all the the day before.
Excellent work on Paradise Lost today. Read over the section we did today and I bet it will seem so much easier to read now. Look for the sympathetic way that Milton treats Eve. Why is that? How is Satan and hell portrayed? What question about God is he attempting to answer? Why? Why does he invoke the muse, Urania?
Don't get overwhelmed by the periodic sentences. Figure out what is the subject of each one and then you'll see how the extra details are their to add to the epic tone and create this amazingly visual masterpiece.
It's like a film on paper, isn't it?

Now, what is the difference between blank verse and free verse? Found any epic similes yet?

English 10A Alyson Rowe's talk

Thank you for your rapt attention, the feedback, and the respect you showed our guest today. What an amazing experience. I'd like you to think about how this talk has impacted you and write a response. Bring your response to class Wednesday.

You can visit warchild on facebook. You can read Alyson's tweets @alysonrowe
You can vist warchild's site: www.warchild.ca and you can sign up for their monthly newsletter.

In your response you can discuss any of the topics that Alyson raised:

• social media
• social media and new ways you now know to promote your literacy project
• You can talk about your literacy project
• You can talk about the mockumentary films she showed us
• You can talk about warchild
• You can talk about service and student leadership
• You can talk about fundraising (what you've done, plan to do, re-thinking it etc)
• You can talk about Alyson's approach, her talk, her life,
• You can talk about what you enjoyed about the presentation, what questions you have
• You can talk about other sites you visited
• You can talk about whether you would like to learn to tweet in this class
• You can discuss Dr. Nutt's plans, approach, her book
• You can go hear her speak tomorrow night at 7 p.m. in the lecture theatre--you must register. See your email

Marks award for an enthusiastic, informed response, which offers concrete examples from the talk, your life, your readings, sites you've visited etc.
Length: 300 to 500 words. Double space. Focus on your writing style as well. This type of writing is good practice for section C of the provincial exam which I will be explaining to you on Wednesday.

English 10A Special Presentation on social media: Monday morning

Please arrive on time as we have a special presentation, which I feel will be beneficial to promoting your literacy projects. How to reach people with your message is a big part of your literacy campaigns so we're fortunate to have Samantha Nutt's publicist Alyson Rowe, visit us Monday. Please ensure that you are on time. 
For an article on Samantha Nutt, author of 

'Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid visit: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/23/f-vp-stewart.html This book would be a great one for us to read as a class since, like To Kill a Mockingbird, it deals with topical issues key to our lives today. 

To learn about War Child before Alyson's visit, click on this link: War Child, a world where no child knows war . . .

Alyson's presentation to our class, Monday morning, period 1, will address the following: 

Social Media Presentations

Using Social Media for Social Change

Overview

As part of War Child’s “Blogging Challenge” held in 2010, War Child would like to host an information session at St. Michael’s University School on Monday, December 5^th.

This presentation will use the “Blogging Challenge” as an example of how charities and not for profit organizations can raise awareness about social justice using social media.

Presentation Outline

This presentation will use the “Blogging Project” as an outline to show how you can use social media and will outline what the different social media tools are.

The presentation will focus on the following three questions:

1 – What is social media and why is it important for youth?

2 – How is social media shaping how we learn about world issues?

3 – How can you use social media to share information about world issues?

Alyson Rowe, War Child Canada’s Senior Manager of Community Development will be facilitating these presentations. Alyson is responsible for building a loyal supporter base for War Child that is both engaged and responsive. This is achieved through strategic outreach, both online and in real life. Alyson is more than an ambassador for War Child, she is the organizations voice, particularly online. As such, she is responsible for articulating War Child's often complex message in a compelling way that draws supporters into the discussion as participants, rather than mere listeners. Alyson plays a key role in developing War Child's overall marketing and communications strategy and the platforms that she is responsible for are increasingly the focus of War Child's advertising and advocacy.

Event Details

This presentation will run for approximately one hour. This presentation has been generously funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.

AP Lit

Thanks for your articulate and observant presentations today. I was transfixed. Please read Act 2 carefully, post-noting or taking notes. Pay particular attention to the motifs and characters that we focused on today.

We'll watch the film on Monday. Have a good weekend.

Writing 12 - Friday, Dec. 2

Two fabulous poems are due Tuesday. You have all weekend to revise and tweek. Follow the editing rules and your heart and you'll be fine.

REMEMBER: Poet Carla Funk will be reading to us on Tuesday. Please be on time. Bring questions you have about your writing and Carla will attempt to answer them. Take notes. The response to Carla will be due Thurs. Dec. 8th. Follow the criteria on the Larissa Horlor sample.

Here is a link to some of Carla's work:

Discover Carla Funk

English 10A: Homework extended until Wed. Dec. 8

Be sure to take your novel home for the weekend as you need to read and post-it note to the end of chapter 17 (page 178). If you think you'll be busy next week, please read ahead.

Next week we will go through the grade 10 provincial exam so that you will be able to get all your questions asked. If you would like to practice, there are several exams on line. Visit: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/searchResults.php and search through the samples.

One great idea is to copy down any words from the mulitiple choice section that you do not understand. Words that describe tone can sometimes be confusing. For example: nostalgic, wistful, genial, etc. These words are often repeated. Make sure that your vocabulary is up to date.

Here are the examinable terms:
Examinable Terms and Devices in Literature
A
Alliteration
Allusion
Antagonist
Aside
Atmosphere
Audience
B
Ballad
Bias
Blank verse
C
Character
Chronological order
Cliché
Climax
Colloquial
Comedy
Compare
Conflict (internal, external)
Connotation
Contrast
D
Denotation
Description
Dialogue
Direct presentation
Drama
Dynamic character
E
Exposition; expository
F
Falling action
Figurative language
First person point of view
Flashback
Flat character
Foil
Foreshadowing
Free verse
G
Genre
H
Hyperbole
I
Image
Imagery
Indirect presentation
Irony
J
Jargon
L
Limited omniscient
point of view
Lyric
M
Metaphor
Mood
N
Narration
Narrative
Narrator
O
Objective point of view
Omniscient point of view
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
P
Paradox
Personification
Persuasion; persuasive
Plot
Point of view
Propaganda
Protagonist
R
Refrain
Resolution
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm
Rising action
Round character
S
Sarcasm
Satire
Setting
Simile
Slang
Sonnet
Speaker
Stanza
Static character
Stereotyped character
Style
Suspense
Symbol; symbolism
T
Theme
Tone
Tragedy
U
Understatement

Lit 12

Today we created Fact / React charts to get us more involved in the readings and to ensure that more people get an opportunity to talk during class. I'll mark the charts and return them to you, Monday.

Review today's terms:
Puritan
blank verse
periodic sentence
in medias res
epic poem
epic similes
invocation
heavenly muse
classical influences of Homer's The Ilyiad and The Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.
justify the ways of God to man
divine right of kings
A Poet of God
John Milton's life
individual relationship with God

Make sure that you read Paradise Lost. Use Spark notes or a similar site to assist you. It will be a challenge but it will be worth your while because if you know what is happening, you are much more able to infer, to make connections, and to analyse the text when you arrive for class on Monday. There could be a surprise quiz on Monday, right? There could be cookies for those who made notes, right? There could be any number of wonderful things happening in the universe knowing that the Lit 12 students have integrity and do their homework in a timely fashion, right?

Vocabulary is needed to help you. Copy the following words into your Paradise Lost notes. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Monday and you may use your notes. You have to actually copy out the words into your notes. As you copy, make sure you are able to use the word in a sentence. If you are not sure, bring sentences with you to class. We'll be creating sentences on Monday.

guile (noun) cunningness, slyness
Leviathan (noun) a giant sea creature found in the Bible
perdition (noun) hell or eternal damnation
to vanquish (verb) to defeat in battle
oracle (noun) source of wisdom or prophecy (foretelling the future)
impetuous (adjective) impulsive
to transgress (verb) to sin, to break the law
transgression (noun) the act of making a mistake, sinning, going off track
ethereal (adjective) not of the earth, spiritual
deluge (noun) a great flood, a lot of water
to deify (verb) to make god-like
deity (noun) a god
to extort (verb) to steal or to obtain money via intimidation, extortion is the noun
dubious (adjective) doubtful
wrath (noun) anger, usually associated with violence, the wrath of God is a common phrase
ignominy (noun) ignominous is the adjective, the state of feeling ashamed or disgraced, shameful,
apostate (noun or adjective) Satan is an apostate or hell is an apostate setting, it means a person who renounces one's faith, a renegade or defector, or it can mean abandonment of a previous loyalty--the act of committing apostasy, can be religious or political in meaning
providence (noun) God's grace or protection
sufferance (noun) putting up with something, suffering through but not enough to do anything about it ie God's sufferance of Satan, another definition is patient endurance

This list of words can be found in Paradise Lost; however, these words will be applicable to several poems we study this year so memorize away!!