You are absolutely amazing!!! Soon, you will be able to assess the mark of your paragraphs before handing them in!! For Thursday:
Homework:
Study for the literary must-haves quiz.
Re-write your paragraph (staple the new version to the older version) and hand in Thurs. If you need more time, email me your request (with an explanation) and a new date and I'll respond.
USSR forms--please do a thorough job of completing the forms so I learn what type of book you like and why.
Finish the corrections for your paragraph so that you can make NEW mistakes next time and not the same old comma error or floating quote error.
Enjoy reading tonight. Windy nights are best for a good book.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
English 10 A
Read Jay Ruzesky's poem, "A Slow Fuse". Create a detailed TICK chart to assess the poem's theme. Write a phrase or a sentence to synthesize the ideas you create in the chart. Make sure to include an aspect of each section of the chart in your theme; otherwise, you may miss some key parts.
Theme: What is the author revealing about the topic? A poet reveals the theme through tone, diction, structure, sound, title, etc. Have fun. It's an amazing poem with a sad and revelatory theme.
Define theme: _______________________________
Theme: What is the author revealing about the topic? A poet reveals the theme through tone, diction, structure, sound, title, etc. Have fun. It's an amazing poem with a sad and revelatory theme.
Define theme: _______________________________
Lit 12 Turning the Quote Log into an Introduction
Turning the Quote Log into an Introduction
Step 1: Divide the quotations into three categories. It's possible that you won't use all the quotes. You need three quotes to make a category.
Step 2: Name each colour. For ex. Lear's revelations, Lear's reluctance to admit mistakes, Lear's madness
Step 3: Turn each phrase into a strong topic sentence. These sentences will become the body paragraph topic sentences.
For example: Cordelia's steadfastness becomes:
Cordelia's steadfastness reflects her belief in the Renaissance philosophy called The Great Chain of Being--she never falters due to her faith in the cosmos; this faith teaches Lear to be a father.
or Lear's suffering becomes:
Lear's personal revelations are based equally on his daughters' kindnesses and rebukes because he must suffer in order to understand the depth of Cordelia's love.
Step 4: Now, synthesize these three sentences into their essence. Turn these three sentences into a THESIS. Include author and title in your sentence.
Step 5: Writing the introduction. Use these four sentences and add two more.
1. Hook (Choose a statement, a question, a quotation from the play, a quotation from a famous source, a definition, an anecdote, etc)
2. Thesis
3. First category colour statement
4. Second category colour statement
5. Third category colour statement
6. Re-state the thesis in a short, dramatic way. Make it emotional.
Once you have written your introduction, double space it, and email it to me so that I can revise it / give you feedback before we meet to write the body paragraphs in the lab on Thursday. Some of you will email me tonight, some tomorrow night, a few students (in the musical) can email me their paragraphs by Thurs. morn. 8 a.m.
Good luck. Don't worry too much about the syntax and diction at this point. You simply want to know what you are proving and how to proceed. I'll check for insight and assess the probability of your thesis statement's success.
Step 1: Divide the quotations into three categories. It's possible that you won't use all the quotes. You need three quotes to make a category.
Step 2: Name each colour. For ex. Lear's revelations, Lear's reluctance to admit mistakes, Lear's madness
Step 3: Turn each phrase into a strong topic sentence. These sentences will become the body paragraph topic sentences.
For example: Cordelia's steadfastness becomes:
Cordelia's steadfastness reflects her belief in the Renaissance philosophy called The Great Chain of Being--she never falters due to her faith in the cosmos; this faith teaches Lear to be a father.
or Lear's suffering becomes:
Lear's personal revelations are based equally on his daughters' kindnesses and rebukes because he must suffer in order to understand the depth of Cordelia's love.
Step 4: Now, synthesize these three sentences into their essence. Turn these three sentences into a THESIS. Include author and title in your sentence.
Step 5: Writing the introduction. Use these four sentences and add two more.
1. Hook (Choose a statement, a question, a quotation from the play, a quotation from a famous source, a definition, an anecdote, etc)
2. Thesis
3. First category colour statement
4. Second category colour statement
5. Third category colour statement
6. Re-state the thesis in a short, dramatic way. Make it emotional.
Once you have written your introduction, double space it, and email it to me so that I can revise it / give you feedback before we meet to write the body paragraphs in the lab on Thursday. Some of you will email me tonight, some tomorrow night, a few students (in the musical) can email me their paragraphs by Thurs. morn. 8 a.m.
Good luck. Don't worry too much about the syntax and diction at this point. You simply want to know what you are proving and how to proceed. I'll check for insight and assess the probability of your thesis statement's success.
Writing 12
I read Jackie's and Ariel's story beginnings today and they are absolutely brilliant. Ariel's is a time montage and Jackie's is a space montage and a time montage combined. She's got three characters on a plane for the space montage and then she goes back in time and creates scenes for each one. Absolutely scintillating and the writing is hilarious. You heard Ariel read her gas station scene to the class last week, remember? She's finished that story so I'm looking forward to reading it.
March 8--is your big deadline. NO EXTENSIONS, PLEASE! You need to hand a clean, double-spaced copy to each member of your workshop group. The group list is below. We will want to pass these out quickly at the beginning of class as Terence Young will be reading to us that day.
Workshop groups: Bring a copy of the story for each member of the group. If you are having trouble printing it, do so in the computer lab as it's fast and easy. Make sure that your story has been edited well (spelling, grammar, scenes, language, sentence variety) and that it meets the criteria. Be sure to read and re-read the criteria.
Jack has finished reading Mean Boy. As I look around, most of you have hardly scratched its surface.
I want you to read, read, read. If you are not reading that, what literary fiction are you reading? I want to know. Reading great, literary fiction is a writer's best friend.
Jackie, Liam and Karen
Jack. Alexis and Harrison
Ariel, Kaylaa, Isabella and Adam (Adam, no pressure--but if you want to join us for editing, please do, even if you don't have a story ready, you may read your group's stories and respond)
Gave, Sena and Sophia
We meet in the lab next class and will continue to do so until March 8th. If you need some editing assistance, let me know.
March 8--is your big deadline. NO EXTENSIONS, PLEASE! You need to hand a clean, double-spaced copy to each member of your workshop group. The group list is below. We will want to pass these out quickly at the beginning of class as Terence Young will be reading to us that day.
Workshop groups: Bring a copy of the story for each member of the group. If you are having trouble printing it, do so in the computer lab as it's fast and easy. Make sure that your story has been edited well (spelling, grammar, scenes, language, sentence variety) and that it meets the criteria. Be sure to read and re-read the criteria.
Jack has finished reading Mean Boy. As I look around, most of you have hardly scratched its surface.
I want you to read, read, read. If you are not reading that, what literary fiction are you reading? I want to know. Reading great, literary fiction is a writer's best friend.
Jackie, Liam and Karen
Jack. Alexis and Harrison
Ariel, Kaylaa, Isabella and Adam (Adam, no pressure--but if you want to join us for editing, please do, even if you don't have a story ready, you may read your group's stories and respond)
Gave, Sena and Sophia
We meet in the lab next class and will continue to do so until March 8th. If you need some editing assistance, let me know.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Ap Lit
We started Albert Camus' novel, The Outsider, today. I did a short intro to the concept of absurdity and how Camus defines, uses that concept in the novel. If you were absent, get the notes from a friend. I also assigned the ABSURDIST JOURNAL. Due 2 weeks from today. Get the criteria from a friend. Completing the journal is the best way to internalize these absurdist concepts.
A good source to read is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus.
I read a comical article written by Susan Musgrave, called "The Art of Small Talk," which exemplifies some of the scripts that exist in Canadian society.
We started reading, discussing, taking notes on the novel. You can pick up a copy on Wed. if you were away today.
Homework: Prepare for the free-response essay on Joyce. You'll write it on Wednesday.
A good source to read is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus.
I read a comical article written by Susan Musgrave, called "The Art of Small Talk," which exemplifies some of the scripts that exist in Canadian society.
We started reading, discussing, taking notes on the novel. You can pick up a copy on Wed. if you were away today.
Homework: Prepare for the free-response essay on Joyce. You'll write it on Wednesday.
Friday, February 24, 2012
English 10A
Sheri-d Wilson's website is www.sheridwilson.com You can email her from there as well to thank her for her presentation or to ask her questions or YOU COULD WRITE A SKETCH POEM (based on the Jack Kerouac tradition she spoke about) which reveals your impressions of Sheri-D, the class today, spoken word, New York, Airplane Paula, Google, you pick. Could be fun. She would love it!!
Homework: Please write and edit your best ever literary paragraph. See previous blogposts for the questions.
Criteria: You can discuss the effectiveness of the literary technique, i.e. how it emphasizes the poem's attitude toward its topic. In Owen's case--war. In Crozier's case--child abuse.
Keep writing poetry. We'll be doing more writing in class next week.
I liked Sheri-d's adage: to write poetry, DON'T WRITE POETRY. INSTEAD, TELL THE TRUTH.
But remember, the details do not have to be factual, you just have to make the reader believe them. You have to believe them. She suggested that one way to edit is to have your editor ask: what is the poem about? what is the poem about? What is the poem about? Until you get your AH-HA!!
Good luck.
No poem due on Tuesday. There will be one due on Thursday, though.
Homework: Please write and edit your best ever literary paragraph. See previous blogposts for the questions.
Criteria: You can discuss the effectiveness of the literary technique, i.e. how it emphasizes the poem's attitude toward its topic. In Owen's case--war. In Crozier's case--child abuse.
Keep writing poetry. We'll be doing more writing in class next week.
I liked Sheri-d's adage: to write poetry, DON'T WRITE POETRY. INSTEAD, TELL THE TRUTH.
But remember, the details do not have to be factual, you just have to make the reader believe them. You have to believe them. She suggested that one way to edit is to have your editor ask: what is the poem about? what is the poem about? What is the poem about? Until you get your AH-HA!!
Good luck.
No poem due on Tuesday. There will be one due on Thursday, though.
Lit 12
Superb work in the computer lab today. I heard a few pins drop!! Thank you for respecting the time I give you to get your work done. You should be pretty close to finishing the quotation log. Bring all the quotes plus your insightful responses to class on TUES. for the most-important class of the YEAR!
HOMEWORK: FINISH THE QUOTE LOG!!
HOMEWORK: FINISH THE QUOTE LOG!!
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