Daily Archives: March 2, 2021

Tuesday March 2nd, 2021

Good Afternoon,

Short Story Test: Thursday March 4th  (A-L)  and Friday March 5th (M-Z)

What to prepare:

Stories on Test:

1)Identities                              2)  Long Long After School

3) A Teachers’ Rewards         4) The Most Dangerous Game

5) The Waltz                             6) Borders

7) Dave Cooks a Turkey

-know your prose fiction terms  and how to apply terms to the short stories

-Short Answers including synthesis questions between the stories

-1 new story with multiple choice and a paragraph (so review the paragraph template).

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*”Dave Cooks a Turkey”: audio

https://soundcloud.com/search?q=dave%20cooks%20the%20turkey

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https://soundcloud.com/cbc-radio-one/vinyl-cafe-dave-cooks-the

In groups, look for devices and humour used in Stuart MacLean’s “Dave Cooks a Turkey”.  On office 365 or whatever you may choose, find examples of humour throughout the short story.  What techniques did Maclean use to create humour?

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/rudyk-stuart-mclean-helped-define-whats-great-about-being-canadian

 

*Short Story Mind Map:  a tool to help you  prepare for the test…

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Online Learners

*prepare for the short story test on Friday

*ensure your Wednesday Write is uploaded by tomorrow (Tuesday) Night.

*No Red Ink…

Tuesday March 2nd, 2021

Good Morning,

*Head’s Up:  If you have not yet handed in your Gatsby synthesis essay…you need to do so ASAP.

*Head’s Up;  Literature we have studied to prep for the test:

-Prose Fiction Terms

-Poem:  I Hear America Singing

-Poem:  I Too America Sing

-Song:  This is America 

-Poem:  Caged Bird 

-Short Story:  Borders

-Speech:  Martin Luther King Jr “I Have a Dream”

-Spoken Word:  Amanda Gorman

-Town Hall Discussion:  Justin Trudeau                             

-Poem:   Walking on Both Sides of an Invisible Border

-Critical Essay:  Through the One-Way Mirror

-Excerpt from a novel: The Jade Peony

-Poem: What do I Remember of the Evacuation

-Documentary: CBC:  Stolen Children

-Short Story: Queen of the North

-Short Story:  The Waltz

-Novella: Of Mice and Men

*The Role of Women in literature…..

*”Queen of the North”, Borders, Caged Bird, The Waltz …..Curly’s wife and Daisy…..

*Read aloud the short story “The Waltz”.

*Gender roles in The Victorian era:  google search…

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*We looked at gender roles…looking at gender roles in “The Waltz”.  What did you all learn about gender roles in the Victorian era? Discuss

“Two Women”:  Dialogue poem

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*Today, we will read  “Of Mice and Men” chapter 4.

*Isolation and Loneliness organizer…