Today, we finished the film, Shakespeare in Love, clapped for our athletes during our Star Parade, worked in our book club groups for twenty minutes, got started on a paragraph AND I returned the tests. Phew. We did a lot today. Tuesdays are long days. If you were absent, find out what you missed and get it completed.
Tomorrow: we'll have time to work on the paragraph and we are going to study for our re-test. We'll do a multiple choice re-test during Thursday's class in order to strengthen our multiple-choice test-taking skills and the ways that we study.
Question on your novel: In a formal, literary essay of 300 to 500 words, choose a key setting in the novel and discuss how its descriptions represent your protagonist and the novel's emerging themes.
Find three really clear and juicy passages to analyse before you begin as you will need to discuss the author's use of diction, tone, sentence structure, and other key descriptive techniques.
Overdue sonnets: Tomorrow is the final day to submit these to Connor and Emi.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
AP Lit: Peer Editing tomorrow . . .
Bring in a draft of your poetry essay. Please double space. Essay is due on Friday and must include your edited draft.
English 11: Short Story Time!
Creative writing requires attention to detail. Look around your room tonight at all the unique things you have collected over the years. Each object tells a story. Bring in that background to your creative writing. Get your parents to tell you a story about their childhood tonight at dinner. Use people in your life for unique details. Focus on pop culture references, the snacks we eat, the shows we watch, the music we listen to, the headlines, the tweets, the likes on Facebook, etc to "show" i.e. to bring your character to life rather than to "tell" facts about a cardboard character that no one will believe. Think of the stories we have studied. The novel you read. The stories written by students and published in The Claremont Review that you read. What techniques do they use that you can use too?
Today, we corrected our essays and handed in a chart regarding strengths and skills to master. We read a number of essays by other students in order to see the strengths and weaknesses of the entire group. Any items that a lot of students have in common, I can turn into mini-lessons. For example, how to turn a plural noun into a possessive noun, etc.
Tonight: Create a character, a setting, a conflict, and three complications. Write them down! Also, write down which aspect of identity you plan on revealing in your story.
Today, we corrected our essays and handed in a chart regarding strengths and skills to master. We read a number of essays by other students in order to see the strengths and weaknesses of the entire group. Any items that a lot of students have in common, I can turn into mini-lessons. For example, how to turn a plural noun into a possessive noun, etc.
Tonight: Create a character, a setting, a conflict, and three complications. Write them down! Also, write down which aspect of identity you plan on revealing in your story.
Monday, March 4, 2013
English 11: Writing the Short Story
I collected the essays, cover pages, edited drafts, edited introductions and the checklists today as well as the quotation logs. Well done.
Today, I handed out the short story assignment. Maximum 1500 words if possible. The BCTELA contest has a word limit of 1500. If you need to write a longer story, you may do so.
The topic is identity.
Homework: Arrive on Wed. knowing what you wish to reveal about identity, know your character's name, the setting, the conflict and have two to three key incidents written down. An incident is simply something that happens which makes the character get closer to understanding his/her identity.
Today in class we read a number of short story selections from the anthology, Naming the Baby, the best of The Claremont Review issues 1 - 30.
If you were absent, please read the following stories/poems on pages 111 and 147.
Read any two of the following stories:
p. 29, 39, 176, 232 or 113.
As you read look for the ways the authors keep your interest. How they show but do not state directly what their ideas of identity are.
Be prepared to write a lot during class tomorrow.
Today, I handed out the short story assignment. Maximum 1500 words if possible. The BCTELA contest has a word limit of 1500. If you need to write a longer story, you may do so.
The topic is identity.
Homework: Arrive on Wed. knowing what you wish to reveal about identity, know your character's name, the setting, the conflict and have two to three key incidents written down. An incident is simply something that happens which makes the character get closer to understanding his/her identity.
Today in class we read a number of short story selections from the anthology, Naming the Baby, the best of The Claremont Review issues 1 - 30.
If you were absent, please read the following stories/poems on pages 111 and 147.
Read any two of the following stories:
p. 29, 39, 176, 232 or 113.
As you read look for the ways the authors keep your interest. How they show but do not state directly what their ideas of identity are.
Be prepared to write a lot during class tomorrow.
Lit 12: Shakespeare in Love
We'll finish watching the film tomorrow and then move right into book club discussion groups. Please be prepared to discuss by bringing questions, key passages to point out or to explain and start to zoom in on an essay topic.
I'll be returning the Unit tests tomorrow. If you wish to re-write, study.
Re-writes are Wed. after school or during a spare.
I'll be returning the Unit tests tomorrow. If you wish to re-write, study.
Re-writes are Wed. after school or during a spare.
English 11: Essay and Quote Log due today
If you need to print, please do so before period 4. You can print in the learning commons or pop by my room at lunch.
Due:
Essay cover page
Good copy
Edited draft
Editing checklist sheet with all the items checked off
/100
50 marks for style and 50 marks for content
Quotation Log / 100
Marks awarded for citing properly, best choice of quotations on your topic, interesting opinions and inferences (Demonstrate what you have learned about reading so far this year i.e. what? So what?).
We start creative writing today! Yay.
Due:
Essay cover page
Good copy
Edited draft
Editing checklist sheet with all the items checked off
/100
50 marks for style and 50 marks for content
Quotation Log / 100
Marks awarded for citing properly, best choice of quotations on your topic, interesting opinions and inferences (Demonstrate what you have learned about reading so far this year i.e. what? So what?).
We start creative writing today! Yay.
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