English 11: Serious Reading, Batman!

We have 9 essays to read in our text. They range in length from two pages to 12 pages. Today, we read the essays and took notes. I handed out a copy of the Woody Allen essay which is not in your text. We read it aloud. Ask for a copy if you were absent today.

Your job is to create a page for each essay similar to the pages we have done so far on the Visser essay and on the two Jack Knox essays. You may do so now or when each group presents.

If you have been away, check with your group and read the presentation outline sheet.

Tuesday, Jan. 6th, you will have an open book test on all 9 essays. You need to know the thesis, and at least two techniques per essay and how they help to prove the thesis. You may plan ahead and write a page per essay in your notebook or post-it note the thesis and techniques and label the post-it.

Independent Novel: You will need to have 100 pages read by Jan. 8th. I will be checking to see that you have post-it noted at least 5 appearance and reality passages.

Look for deceptions, liars, different perspectives, characters who lie to themselves, characters who are trying to find the truth, what motivates a character to believe something, how are they pressured into following someone else's truth?

Have a fun, safe holiday. Ms. Moray is in tomorrow. Please respect her as our guest. 
Be sure that you can define and find an example of all our terms:
1. allusion
2. empathy / sympathy
3. flashback
4. imply / suggest / indirect presentation
5. diction
6. hyperbole
7. direct quote (interview)
8. irony
9. anecdote
10. higher authority
11. Detail / narrative (story) elements
12. parallelism
13. Tone
14. alliteration
15. pun
16. repetition
17. non sequiturs definition
18. understatement
19. frame tale definition
20. rhetorical questions
21. incongruity (noun) incongruous (adj) definition

Writing 12: The Post Card Story

If you were absent today, choose one of the first lines and titles below, you may mix and match and write a post card story. Length 100 to 750 words, depending on the style. I read several stories to the class today and we made a list of post card story attributes. If you are new to this genre, google John Gould. Google post card stories. John will be reading to us on Friday, Jan. 9th.

You have two stories due Thursday, Jan. 8th.

Tomorrow we will be writing another post card story.

Yay.

Have a great holiday and fun at Xmas grad (if you are in grade 12).

I'll see you in 2015. Ms. Moray is teaching you tomorrow.

English 10: YOU DID IT! YAY . . .

We wrote the essay on Animal Farm. I collected the quotation log on Animal Farm and I collected your poetry log. A few stragglers also submitted their BCTELA forms and/or The Claremont Review submissions. Last day for any overdue work on the poetry unit or the novel is tomorrow, unless you have asked for and been granted an extension.

Thanks.

Ms. Moray is in tomorrow. Please treat her with respect. She is a guest in our classroom. Follow her instructions. Bring your USSR book to class.

Class starts at 9:30 tomorrow, after the pancake breakfast. Merry Christmas.
I'll see you in 2015. We will be practising for the provincial exam, reading and studying Romeo and Juliet and reading lots of USSR books.

Writing 12: Terence Young responses due tomorrow . . .

We start post card stories tomorrow. Don't miss this class.

Friday's class will be important, too. Pancakes at 9. Our class Friday begins at 10:15 to 10:50. 

Thursday: We have a locker clean out 1/2 way through the class. Slightly varied time table tomorrow.

9 to 10:19

10:25 to 11:56

Period 4: 12:42 to 2:03

Period 5 2:09 to 3:28

English 10: In-class essay tomorrow . . .

Due: Poetry Log, Quote Log

If you were absent today, we colour-coded the quote log and created our thesis statements and introductions. We also read at least 15 pages of our USSR books and everyone has picked two books to take home to read over the holidays.

Tomorrow: We will all be handwriting the essay. You may use your quote log, your novel, and your notebooks to find the best quotations to use. You may arrive with your introduction completed.

I'm looking for insightful thesis statements.

Don't simply say: The demise of the utopian vision of Old Major is caused by Napoleon's insolent drive to power.

HMMM . . . .

There is more to it than that. How did he rise to power? What role did the animals play in letting him rise to power?

If you can create your thesis without reading the novel, it is NOT a thesis, right?

Good luck.

English 11: Read your assigned essay tonight and . . .

Selena, your essay is on page 95.

Your job will be to present the essay in an effective, ebullient, and entertaining way. To design a strong writing exercise for the class to practice. READ THE HANDOUT FOR ALL THE CRITERIA.

Tonight, create a page in your notebook for your essay:

Thesis
Two key techniques
Effectiveness
Favourite Passage
Why

ARRIVE TOMORROW READY TO WORK HARD. Xmas holidays start Dec. 20th. 
Don't start the holidays until Saturday. Your marks will reflect the loss.

English 11: Personal Essay Unit . . .

I collected the 5 quotations and responses based on the HEAD assignments.
We did two vocabulary quizzes. Know words 1- 60 well.
We re-read Visser's essay and did the quiz. We reviewed all the techniques.
Make sure your notes are up to date.
For each essay, record the following:

Title:
Author:
Thesis: (If the thesis is stated directly, quote and cite it) (If the thesis is indirect, paraphrase (in your own words) what the essay proves)
Best piece of evidence to prove the thesis:
Two techniques:
Why are they effective?
Favourite Passage?
Why?

Today, we read Jack Knox's descriptive essay, "My Dog, Spot" from the Times-Colonist paper. If you were absent, ask for a copy. Read it. Complete the notes above.

We also read 15 pages of our independent novels today. These must be read by Jan. 15th.