Good Morning,

*Friday Writes:

1) The pursuit of freedom involves change.

2)  A good life does not have to be complex.

3)  Create your own topic and surprise me!

*Synthesis Essay: Due last night!

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*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

a)  Find a ‘school appropriate’ song.

b) Copy/paste the lyrics to your song to a Word Doc.

c) Go through your song following ‘Analyzing Poetry’ resource.

d) If you see a poetic device, highlight and label on your lyrics.

e) watch the music video; is there anything that this adds/detracts from the meaning of your song?

Poetic devices Practice:  here is a worksheet to work on to practice identifying some of our devices.

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I am hoping to be here with you on Wednesday to start these poems…if you still have time, start to read the poem “What do I Remember of the Evacuation”

* “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation”

http://www.joykogawa.ca/what-do-you-remember-of-the-evacuation.html

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*After knowing more about that Japanese internment and the author, what meaning does this add to the poem itself?

*Go through the analyzing poetry resource for “What do I Remember of the Evacuation.”

*After knowing more about that Japanese internment and the author, what meaning does this add to the poem itself?

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/09/22/history-sept-22-1988-apology-to-japanese-canadians-of-wwii/

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rare-views-of-japanese-canadian-internment-19-images-remembering-one-of-canadas-darkest-hours

https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ePubFaShRacRedJap.pdf

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/walking-both-sides-invisible-border

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*What did we learn about Residential Schools?

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*Analyzing Poems:  In groups, you will be going through the analyzing poetry resource and applying it to the three poems we studied:  “Walking on two Sides of the Border”, “What do I remember of the Evacuation”, and “Caged Bird”.  We will do this on larger paper so we can post/gallery walk

Good Morning

*Synthesis Essay:  Due Thursday October 10th, 2024

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*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

a)  Find a ‘school appropriate’ song.

b) Copy/paste the lyrics to your song to a Word Doc.

c) Go through your song following ‘Analyzing Poetry’ resource.

d) If you see a poetic device, highlight and label on your lyrics.

e) watch the music video; is there anything that this adds/detracts from the meaning of your song?

Poetic devices Practice:  here is a worksheet to work on to practice identifying some of our devices.

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I am hoping to be here with you on Wednesday to start these poems…if you still have time, start to read the poem “What do I Remember of the Evacuation”

* “What Do I Remember of the Evacuation”

http://www.joykogawa.ca/what-do-you-remember-of-the-evacuation.html

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*After knowing more about that Japanese internment and the author, what meaning does this add to the poem itself?

*Go through the analyzing poetry resource for “What do I Remember of the Evacuation.”

*After knowing more about that Japanese internment and the author, what meaning does this add to the poem itself?

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/09/22/history-sept-22-1988-apology-to-japanese-canadians-of-wwii/

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/rare-views-of-japanese-canadian-internment-19-images-remembering-one-of-canadas-darkest-hours

https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ePubFaShRacRedJap.pdf

https://www.poetryinvoice.com/poems/walking-both-sides-invisible-border

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*What did we learn about Residential Schools?

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*Analyzing Poems:  In groups, you will be going through the analyzing poetry resource and applying it to the three poems we studied:  “Walking on two Sides of the Border”, “What do I remember of the Evacuation”, and “Caged Bird”.  We will do this on larger paper so we can post/gallery walk

Good Morning!

*Head’s Up:  Emergency Drill at 10am

*No Red Ink: Parallel Structure and Paraphrasing

*Synthesis Essay:  Due Thursday October 10th, 2024

Kahoot!

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*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

a)  Find a ‘school appropriate’ song.

b) Copy/paste the lyrics to your song to a Word Doc.

c) Go through your song following ‘Analyzing Poetry’ resource.

d) If you see a poetic device, highlight and label on your lyrics.

e) watch the music video; is there anything that this adds/detracts from the meaning of your song?

Good Morning!

*Synthesis Essay Drafts:  Due Tuesday end of class

*Synthesis Essay:  Due Thursday October 10th, 2024

Kahoot!

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*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

a)  Find a ‘school appropriate’ song.

b) Copy/paste the lyrics to your song to a Word Doc.

c) Go through your song following ‘Analyzing Poetry’ resource.

d) If you see a poetic device, highlight and label on your lyrics.

e) watch the music video; is there anything that this adds/detracts from the meaning of your song?

Good Afternoon

*Synthesis Essay Outlines:  Due Today

I will be coming around to take a look at your progress….

*Synthesis Essay Drafts:  Due Tuesday

*Synthesis Essay:  Due Thursday October 10th, 2024

Kahoot!

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*Analyzing Poetry:  Choose an appropriate song –one that you connect with.  You will analyze your song following the steps in the “Analyzing Poetry” resource.

a)  Find a ‘school appropriate’ song.

b) Copy/paste the lyrics to your song to a Word Doc.

c) Go through your song following ‘Analyzing Poetry’ resource.

d) If you see a poetic device, highlight and label on your lyrics.

e) watch the music video; is there anything that this adds/detracts from the meaning of your song?

Good Morning!

*Friday Writes

1.  Dreams
2. We are influenced by Social Media
3. Adapting to new situations in life is essential

*Synthesis Essay:  How are we making out?!

Good Morning!

*Reminder:  Short Story Test Thursday October 3rd

*No Red Ink:  Colons and semicolons; dangling and misplaced modifiers

*Synthesis Essays:  Time to work on these.  You should now be transforming your venn diagram and using the essay outline….

*Friday Writes

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*The biggest challenge you have overcome

or

*Surprises can make life interesting

*Head’s Up:  next week there will be a test on the short stories, prose fiction terms (application of terms to stories) (Thursday) and you will have a “sight story” one you have never read before.(Tuesday)

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?

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*Synthesis Essays:  You have time to work on these…

Good Morning!

*Head’s Up:  we are almost done our short story unit…next week there will be a test on the short stories, prose fiction terms (application of terms to stories) and you will have a “sight story” one you have never read before.

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?

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*Synthesis Essays:  You have time to work on these…

Good Morning!

*No Red Ink: In-text Citations

*Head’s Up:  we are almost done our short story unit…next week there will be a test on the short stories, prose fiction terms (application of terms to stories) and you will have a “sight story” one you have never read before.

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*”Dave Cooks a Turkey”: audio

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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://youtu.be/doKRZM_Uvko

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

*Synthesis Essays:  You have time to work on these…