English 9: Welcome . . .

Tonight: Review classroom expectations. Arrive to class Monday at least one minute before the bell. Bring all of your materials.

USSR: If you are currently in the middle of a book, bring it to class. If not, have a book in mind that you can sign out from our library on Monday.

THE YELLOW SHEET: Read all of the possible books. Choose your three favourite titles. Circle them on your sheet.

Monday: We will have time to go to the library to pick out a book.

Homework: Circle three books on the yellow sheet that interest you. Finish your Lollipop Moment Paragraph.

Film Link: Leading with Lollipops


 Ideas: Leading with Lollipops   ______ ________ Jan. 31, 2014

Describe in 100 to 150+ words someone or something or a book or film that influenced you. Describe who it was or what happened and how you feel it has affected you. Or, describe something that you did that influenced someone else. You may write about an actual event or imagine an event.

Good writing: Use details: people, places, things, colours, comparisons

Make a good first impression!! Edit the English.

AP Literature and Composition

Welcome:

To preview a copy of the AP Lit exam, please go to the link below:

Exam Outline and sample questions

Mark the exam date on your calendar:

Thursday, May 8, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Starting Wed. Feb. 5th, you have an AP Lit class after school in order to write practice exam sections. Arrange for a ride home or plan to take the bus.

USSR: You will write an in-class essay on each book. One book per month is mandatory but you are welcome to read widely. See the AP book list. You need to read these books thoroughly and post-it note key scenes. If you can, buy the books so that you can write in them.

Feb: The Great Gatsby Focus: Setting, theme, The American Dream
March: 19th century novel: Choose Jane Eyre (social realism, bildungsroman, Victorian),  Frankenstein (Gothic (horror and Romanticism), Great Expectations or David Copperfield(social realism, Victorian, bildungsroman), Tess of the d'Ubervilles,(Modernism, feminist, fate)
April:Drama: Othello, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, etc
May: Canadian novel or play
June: Memoir or poetry

You need to know a comedy well. Review The Importance of Being Earnest or Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night's Dream. 

Review from English Lit:

Know the themes and writers of each era studied. 
Know all of the literary terms from last year. 

Literary Terms from English Literature 12 
English Lit 12 Reading List 

English 12: Work due if you missed today!

In 300 words or more, choose one BIG idea from your USSR book and explain (using at least three quotes) how the idea is unveiled in the book. For example, in The Outsider, one of the ideas is that we are condemned to be free and that idea is illustrated by Meursault's imprisonment, his epiphany, the newspaper article, the extra four shots, the gun just "giving way" etc. We are also going to be watching a video called leadership with lollipops and I bought lollipops for everyone.

Here is the link Leading with Lollipops

Using this video as a guide, write a short 300 word composition in Section D style on the following: 

Being yourself makes a difference. 

Your synthesis essays were FANTASTIC!! Way to go. 

I'll be here tomorrow. If you want any help, do pop in. 

Exam: Monday. Arrive by 8:45. Be sure to have eaten breakfast, with protein. Bring water. Two pens. Two pencils. Dress in layers. You do not want to be cold. 

Return any extra books to the gym on test day. 

All the best. 

Keep reading. 

Ms. Stenson 

English 12: STUDY! Finish reading your USSR book tonight.

Today: We read over the poem and story from yesterday and focused on reading closely by paying attention to diction and any changes in tone. We made a gigantic and wonderful list of tone words. If you were absent get the list from a friend. I collected the synthesis essays and all text books. Please bring any texts from home to school tomorrow and HAND to me.

Thank you.

Tomorrow: We will complete a response to your USSR novel and work on section D: the original composition.

Writing 12: Last Day . . . Tie Up All Loose Ends!

1. Have you submitted your manuscript and emailed me a copy?
2. Have you submitted work to the BCTELA contest, Polyphony, Aerie, Claremont Review contest and the Claremont Review spring issue submission?
3. Have you returned all books to the library and any books you may have borrowed from my room such as Naming the Baby or books off of my shelves?
4. Have you got a copy of your manuscripts in safe places--at Uncle George's house, on your harddrive, stored on icloud, etc?
5. Have you made a list of what you have sent where so that you DO NOT publish something twice. Magazines will be really upset if you neglect to respect their rights to publish you first!! Be honest.
6. Have you thanked your classmates for listening and editing your work all year? For letting you whine or shine?

Good. Then we are ready for our reading tomorrow.

Thanks to all the students who signed up to bring goodies and juice and cups etc

Please prepare a 3 minute reading. Any combination of fiction and poetry is wonderful. Introduce the work. Own the podium! You have done what very few people ever attempt. You've written down your ideas. 

English 10: Poetry Cafe, Vocab Test, USSR sheets due

Today: If you were absent today, ask for the package I handed out on preparing you for writing the original composition. Important to prepare for this section well in advance by re-reading all the notes from the short story unit, your story, and your poems.

Tomorrow: Vocabulary Test 1-75

Poetry Cafe: Each student will read a poem aloud to the class. Please remember to bring the item that you said you would bring: snacks, fruit, juice, veggies, cups, serviettes or plates.

Thanks!!

Overdue Work: Hand in any outstanding projects tomorrow.

USSR form for January: You must have read at least one book this month. Please submit your form tomorrow. 

Writing 12: Big Day Tomorrow!!

Remember:

Bring a hard copy of your manuscript. Email me a copy as well. Send it to aurora@shaw.ca Put your name in the subject line.

Make sure you have a cover page for your manuscript.

Also, bring a copy of THE story you plan on submitting to The Claremont Review contest. Make sure you do NOT have your name on this one.


Bring the remaining stories or one story or postcard story to submit to the Claremont Review's spring issue.

For this one you need:

A double spaced, impeccably edited copy of the story with your name on it.
A cover letter. See their website for guidelines or use the one you sent them in October. Submission Guidelines The Claremont Review

AND YOU NEED A STAMP. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A STAMP, BRING 85 CENTS. IF YOU BRING A DOLLAR, IT WILL COST YOU A DOLLAR AS THE OFFICE DOES NOT HAVE CHANGE. (HA HA) As I re-read these bolded statements I laughed as they reminded me of the story, "Orientation" that we read. I'm still laughing (just not as well as Prasant).

I will provide the envelopes you need.

Today: We sent a story to Polyphony H.S. and one to Aerie electronically. I will need to see your "sent" files by Thursday, please.

Wed: Sending all our work to The Claremont Review, catching up on marks, etc. BCTELA, Aerie, Polyphony etc

Thurs: Reading: Prepare a piece to read to the class. You will have 3 minutes each so it can be a couple of poems, a post card, an excerpt or scene from a story and a poem, etc. Think about what you will read.

We can bring in refreshments to share. Sign up during class tomorrow.